Markelle Fultz Discussion III: For Fultz and going forward (see 2017 draft thread for trade discussion)

[Lou_23]

So he could play with the injury in October, but now that he is healthy he cant play in 3 weeks (at least). LOL what a joke

[LongLiveHinkie]

"This is a young team. We aren't winning anything this year anyway. We still have a bright future."

This is a topic where that advice is actually useful compared to playing like crap against bad teams. He's ready when he's ready, I don't get the rush. You waited 2 years for Embiid, a year for Simmons. You can wait 3 months for Fultz.

[XtremeDunkz]

Imbalance is gone, Soreness is gone, yet at least another 3 weeks? That just does not make any sense at all.

[LongLiveHinkie]

Conditioning, breaking the bad habits he formed when he adjusted his shot to compensate for soreness. The guy hasn't shot a basketball in weeks. You don't just jump back onto a basketball court.

[Kobblehead]

Imbalance is gone, Soreness is gone, yet at least another 3 weeks? That just does not make any sense at all.

It never did make sense. Professional athletes aren't sidelined for multiple months for muscle imbalance. They do extra stretching drills and literally don't miss a beat.

[Onmyway19]

Damn.... this has to be a joke. I wasnt on the mental problem bus but at this point what else could it be? I could see if they said okay he's fine and needs a week to get back to conditioning. 3 weeks c'mon man this is preposterous. I wouldnt be surprised to see him shut down after the 3rd 3 week evaluation what a freakin joke

[bryanwithawhy]

If you guys don't realize there is a mental component I don't know what to tell you. Seemed obvious a month ago and now it is nearly certain.

[Onmyway19]

Read on Twitter

/photo/1. we're a f#ckin laughing stock right now with this BS.

[LongLiveHinkie]

Of course there's a mental aspect. There's a mental aspect to every injury with every player who gets hurt. When you hurt your knee you have to trust running on it again. Same thing here with the shoulder, he needs to trust it to be able to shoot effectively. Needs to get comfortable being in a competitive environment. Aside from a few games, he really hasn't played basketball since early this year. We're coming up on almost a full year now of true competitive basketball. It takes time.

Don't get all the confusion, it's like people have never watched a guy come back from an injury before.

[Skates]

I always expected this to be a return during the Disney on Ice road trip injury, even before Hinkie that was a Sixers tradition to return an injured player or start playing a young player on that road trip, getting their feet under them before playing in front of the home crowd, and this fits that timeline.

[CoreyGallagher]

we're a **** laughing stock right now with this BS.

Who cares? Is this Unbreakable's burner?

Also, those are odd players to use in that image.

[cksdayoff]

we're a **** laughing stock right now with this BS.

Who cares? Is this Unbreakable's burner?

Also, those are odd players to use in that image.

LMAO, i thought it was unbreakable as well. besides that tweet has 7 likes OMFG WE'RE A JOKE TO "EVERYONE"

[PLO]

we're a **** laughing stock right now with this BS.

Who cares? Is this Unbreakable's burner?

Also, those are odd players to use in that image.

Unbreakable's burner.

[LongLiveHinkie]

I figured people would have been conditioned to this organization's awful injury optics by now when we let a dude with a broken navicular bone do under the leg circus dunks in shootaround and then have to get another surgery on it after.

[Ericb5]

I don’t understand why you complainers would even WANT him to play until he fixed his shot.

He didn’t stop playing because he had shoulder pain. He stopped because should Pain broke his shot, and he hasn’t been shooting. Now he has to fix his shot to get back on the court.

The Fultz situation is the new Okafor Noel debate.


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[BigSleep333]

I don’t understand why you complainers would even WANT him to play until he fixed his shot.

He didn’t stop playing because he had shoulder pain. He stopped because should Pain broke his shot, and he hasn’t been shooting. Now he has to fix his shot to get back on the court.

The Fultz situation is the new Okafor Noel debate.


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who wants jacob pullen playing over an one-armed fultz or even bayless as the primary ballhandler when simmons sits? i dont care if his shot is still **** up. he can fix it in practice AND games.

[LloydFree]

I don’t understand why you complainers would even WANT him to play until he fixed his shot.

He didn’t stop playing because he had shoulder pain. He stopped because should Pain broke his shot, and he hasn’t been shooting. Now he has to fix his shot to get back on the court.

The Fultz situation is the new Okafor Noel debate.


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who wants jacob pullen playing over an one-armed fultz or even bayless as the primary ballhandler when simmons sits? i dont care if his shot is still **** up. he can fix it in practice AND games.

Don't you understand? If he practices then Fultz has to speak to the media. If he plays and looks like dookie, then Colangelo looks likes Danny Ainge's "B". They gotta delay the inevitable as long as possible.

[eyeatoma]

Of course there's a mental aspect. There's a mental aspect to every injury with every player who gets hurt. When you hurt your knee you have to trust running on it again. Same thing here with the shoulder, he needs to trust it to be able to shoot effectively. Needs to get comfortable being in a competitive environment. Aside from a few games, he really hasn't played basketball since early this year. We're coming up on almost a full year now of true competitive basketball. It takes time.

Don't get all the confusion, it's like people have never watched a guy come back from an injury before.

This!

Why are people so shocked it's gonna taking him a while to get back up to speed? Sounds pretty normal to me. Sounds like we don't want him back out there until he looks like UW Fultz. That's a GOOD thing. Jessica Camerato tweeted this:

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On top of that, I'm sure they're looking for him to get his original shot back. Although he probably hasn't forgotten how to shoot, his confidence might not be there.

Let's see what happens in 3 weeks. If by 3 weeks they say he's not ready, but we've seen clips of his shot either looking horrible, or great, then that'll be the determining factor of whether the Sixers organization is a recipient of my ire. Until then, you gotta have some patience.

[KrazySixersD]

I swear if this team came out and said fultz is refusing to play because hes afraid of being boo'd.. many of you would still spin it against anyone who spoke negatively of the situation

Fact is fultz and this team are a joke

[MosesMalone83]

Soooooo

When did he get injured?

I don't recall hearing anything about him getting injured.

I smell something rotten.