Marc Stein: Kyle Kuzma out indefinitely with stress reaction in foot

[ThatBoyNick]

Damn this sucks. Hopefully, "reaction" doesn't mean a whole lot, and medicine has gotten better ...because the combination of stress and foot scares the **** out of me as a Rocket fan who watched Yao go down.

[The_Hater]

If liz misses significant time, Lakers won't make the POs.
Will be interesting to see at what point the Lakers tank and trade both LBJ and AD for pieces/picks

I think you meant Kuz not Liz.

Kuz being healthy should have no bearing on the Lakers making the playoffs when they have 2 or the top 6-7 players in the league. He’s their 3rd best PF and probably their 5th or 6th most important player. They don’t need him to create offense this season and he’s not a very good 3 point shooter or defender.

‘Will the tank now’? I guess you meant that as a joke?

[nzahir]

He has already been out 1 month

Seems like best case will be right at season opener, but I bet he misses some time

Already a **** start to lakers season, jesus christ

Can he even practice shooting for now?

[Pharmcat]

Lakers need Carmelo to save their season

[Crives]

If liz misses significant time, Lakers won't make the POs.
Will be interesting to see at what point the Lakers tank and trade both LBJ and AD for pieces/picks

I think you meant Kuz not Liz.

Kuz being healthy should have no bearing on the Lakers making the playoffs when they have 2 or the top 6-7 players in the league. He’s their 3rd best PF and probably their 5th or 6th most important player. They don’t need him to create offense this season and he’s not a very good 3 point shooter or defender.

‘Will the tank now’? I guess you meant that as a joke?

It’s really important when one of those players will be 35 coming off a major injury and the other has a very injury prone history. Decent chance at least one will miss some time.... depth is critical.

[OkcSinceSGA]

He has already been out 1 month

Seems like best case will be right at season opener, but I bet he misses some time

Already a **** start to lakers season, jesus christ

Can he even practice shooting for now?

I really doubt he's supposed to be shooting. Jumping would cause stress to his foot

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[TheNewEra]

If liz misses significant time, Lakers won't make the POs.
Will be interesting to see at what point the Lakers tank and trade both LBJ and AD for pieces/picks

I think you meant Kuz not Liz.

Kuz being healthy should have no bearing on the Lakers making the playoffs when they have 2 or the top 6-7 players in the league. He’s their 3rd best PF and probably their 5th or 6th most important player. They don’t need him to create offense this season and he’s not a very good 3 point shooter or defender.

‘Will the tank now’? I guess you meant that as a joke?

Who is more important than Kuzma after Brown/AD/Green ?

[The_Hater]

If liz misses significant time, Lakers won't make the POs.
Will be interesting to see at what point the Lakers tank and trade both LBJ and AD for pieces/picks

I think you meant Kuz not Liz.

Kuz being healthy should have no bearing on the Lakers making the playoffs when they have 2 or the top 6-7 players in the league. He’s their 3rd best PF and probably their 5th or 6th most important player. They don’t need him to create offense this season and he’s not a very good 3 point shooter or defender.

‘Will the tank now’? I guess you meant that as a joke?

It’s really important when one of those players will be 35 coming off a major injury and the other has a very injury prone history. Decent chance at least one will miss some time.... depth is critical.

Depth is important, but not so critical that losing Kuz for a few weeks is going to cause them to bottom out and miss the playoffs. That was a ridiculous take.

[IgorK]

This one stings. Hopefully he heals fully before coming back. Not a lot of natural scorers on this team outside of the superstar duo.

[urgal]

Not a doctor but if I'm not mistaken stress reactions can actually take a very long time to heal in the worst case.

I remember Seth Curry going from day-to-day to missing a whole year with a stress reaction (in his leg though) a while back.

Think it's hard to put a timetable on it since you can't really do much than wait to see if it gets better.

From Google

“Depending on the severity of the fracture or stress reaction, the doctor will typically prescribe 6-12 weeks of rest. This means no running whatsoever. It's very important that runners listen to this advice.”

Well like I and some others in this thread have already said it's hard to put a timetable on those kinda injuries.

Also your quote addresses the situation of runners, not up and down jumping and running 6'10 200 some pounds athletes.
Totally different kind of sports and way more impact on your body.

[ProcessDoctor]

If handled correctly, this isn't too scary for the Lakers. He'll probably be back around Thanksgiving.

[MoochieNorris]

Melo time
let's gooooooo

[TheNewEra]

Not a doctor but if I'm not mistaken stress reactions can actually take a very long time to heal in the worst case.

I remember Seth Curry going from day-to-day to missing a whole year with a stress reaction (in his leg though) a while back.

Think it's hard to put a timetable on it since you can't really do much than wait to see if it gets better.

From Google

“Depending on the severity of the fracture or stress reaction, the doctor will typically prescribe 6-12 weeks of rest. This means no running whatsoever. It's very important that runners listen to this advice.”

Well like I and some others in this thread have already said it's hard to put a timetable on those kinda injuries.

Also your quote addresses the situation of runners, not up and down jumping and running 6'10 200 some pounds athletes.
Totally different kind of sports and way more impact on your body.

True.

Waiting game but he was suppose to be the super LAL sixth man to balance the bench.

Caurso
Rondo
KCP
Dudley
Dwight

You damn near have to run everything through Dwight to hope to get consistent buckets from the bench

[phanman]

Melo should be the option! He'd be playing with the second unit anyways, and Rondo would definitely be able to put him in high percentage situations. Vogel is a defensive minded coach as well so he should be able to mitigate his weakness on that end of the floor. I am sure that playing alongside Bron would be both motivating and encouraging for somebody with a big ego as Melo.

[nikster]

If liz misses significant time, Lakers won't make the POs.
Will be interesting to see at what point the Lakers tank and trade both LBJ and AD for pieces/picks

I think you meant Kuz not Liz.

Kuz being healthy should have no bearing on the Lakers making the playoffs when they have 2 or the top 6-7 players in the league. He’s their 3rd best PF and probably their 5th or 6th most important player. They don’t need him to create offense this season and he’s not a very good 3 point shooter or defender.

‘Will the tank now’? I guess you meant that as a joke?

It’s really important when one of those players will be 35 coming off a major injury and the other has a very injury prone history. Decent chance at least one will miss some time.... depth is critical.

Yup, if Lebron or AD miss any games before Kuznas back they are gonna be fielding some ugly lineups.

[GoCeltics123]

He’d be a nice scoring option for them for sure with Kuzma out.

Players who make shots are always nice scoring options, but not those with a TS% hovering around 50.0.

Melo is washed but I think it’s possible he can give them 12-15 PPG off the bench with a 43-44 FG%. Nothing special but better than Jared Dudley.

If the Melo tenure in Houston is any indication, he's not close to as good as Dudley

[infinite11285]

Sounds precautionary—he’s already been out a month.

If Melo gets signed, it’s more serious than I assume it to be.

[infinite11285]

He has already been out 1 month

Seems like best case will be right at season opener, but I bet he misses some time

Already a **** start to lakers season, jesus christ

Can he even practice shooting for now?

I really doubt he's supposed to be shooting. Jumping would cause stress to his foot

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Team doctors will still allow him to shoot. They’ll just instruct him to shoot flat-footed.

[3toheadmelo]

Players who make shots are always nice scoring options, but not those with a TS% hovering around 50.0.

Melo is washed but I think it’s possible he can give them 12-15 PPG off the bench with a 43-44 FG%. Nothing special but better than Jared Dudley.

If the Melo tenure in Houston is any indication, he's not close to as good as Dudley

Is this a joke? Dudley averaged 3 ppg on 27% FG in the playoffs. Yeah I’ll take Melo over him. Lol

[The_Hater]

Players who make shots are always nice scoring options, but not those with a TS% hovering around 50.0.

Melo is washed but I think it’s possible he can give them 12-15 PPG off the bench with a 43-44 FG%. Nothing special but better than Jared Dudley.

If the Melo tenure in Houston is any indication, he's not close to as good as Dudley

Dudley can pass, defend, actually takes quality shots and great in the locker room. 4 things Neither Melo nor Melo supporters understand the importance of.