Wizards' Health

[nate33]

I just wanted to point out that the Wizards were remarkably injury free this season. Despite the compressed schedule, John Wall missed 0 games. Singleton missed 0 games. Seraphin missed 0 games due to injury (though he had a handful of DNP-CD's). McGee missed 0 games. Young missed just the first game due to the contract dispute. Mack missed just 2 games (and I think they were DNP-CD's). Crawford missed just the last 2 and he probably could have played if needed.

Our only real injures were to Booker, Nene, Mo Evans, Blatche and Lewis. And only Booker and Nene actually mattered.

When people constantly criticize the Wizards' medical staff, perhaps they should also consider these facts as well.

[Wizards2Lottery]

So I guess we're due next season.

[MJG]

You say fewer injuries, I say greater number of misdiagnoses.

[hands11]

Not having Caron on the team has make them look a better.

"Our only real injures were to Booker, Nene, Mo Evans, Blatche and Lewis. And only Booker and Nene actually mattered."

You left out Mason and Ronny.

Thats 7 injured players. Injuries actually affected the season in a huge way but they wanted to tank so..so what.

Mo Evans, Mason, Lewis and Ronny were the vet leadership that they team later gained when Mason and Mo plus James Singleton, Martin and ultimately Nene were added to the line up.

[dangermouse]

I dont think Nene was 100% when he arrived, was he?

Wall not missing a single game in this condensed schedule, with his style of play, is very encouraging.

[jimij]

I'd agree the medical staff certainly wasn't an issue for us this year, of the guys who actually did miss games for the most part its hard to fault the Wiz med staff:

Nene - pre-existing issue that he brought with him from Denver I thought

Mo Evans- was he actually injured or just completely out of shape due to his prominent role in the lockout?

Lewis - his knee has been an issue for years and I'm not convinced that he couldn't of played but that he was also shut down by the front office just like Blatche but not as publicly

Turiaf - he had surgery last summer for the broken hand before he was traded here and it just never healed

Blatche - lazy out of shape fat @ss

All things considered, Booker and Mason were really the only guys who was injured here and missed significant time.