-Jragon- wrote:emunney wrote:-Jragon- wrote:
Let's remember even more. How many of those games were on a minutes restriction? How many of those games did he just not look like his regular self yet -- just trying to get back? How many of those games did he look completely healthy and 100% on offense and on defense? I'll wait.
No need to wait. I think he looked great this year with his normal amount of stinkers. I think the minutes restriction was lifted after 18 games or so.
By the way, this is actually remembering less, not more. You're now only referring to this year. So yes, he's historically injured a lot, if you consider 'history' to be 'the current season'.
My question was referring to the last 8 years. Even though he played 60+ games those years.. half probably were on minutes restrictions or he looked like he wasn't able to go full speed.. hobbled from something. I rarely remember a full speed Middleton since b4 2016. Maybe in the 2021 playoffs they gave him a really good cortisone shot and he looked great physically in many of those games. Last year he had good stretches early but maybe the shot wore off by the 4th quarter or something.
Eight years ago he missed most of the season with the hamstring, so probably most if not all of the games he played that season, he was on a minutes restriction. After that, he led the team in minutes 3 of the next five seasons and was within 50-60 minutes the other two. So I do think your memory is bad.