http://www.nba.com/hornets/news/eric...-injury-update
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http://www.nba.com/hornets/news/eric...-injury-update
Well that was quick.
The New Orleans Hornets announced today that Hornets guard Eric Gordon will have limited participation in training camp due to soreness in his right knee. Eric experienced soreness in his right knee while participating in voluntary workouts with the team at the end of the summer. Gordon underwent arthroscopic surgery last season on his right knee and returned to full strength at the end of the season and during the Olympic try-outs.
“The team is taking a cautious approach with Eric to give him the best chance to be ready for the season," General Manager Dell Demps said.
Seriously?? Is he made of glass??
Oy vey :idoh:
Doesn't seem that big of a deal.. he will probably be 100% by the start of the season so..
Why couldn't he leave his knee in Phoenix.
So, who will be driving the tank this season??
Wow.....and this is why you draft Rivers. I honestly think if Gordon keeps milking this injury card he will be traded by the deadline. To me it seems like every bump he gets he'll sit out...can't/or won't play though pain at all. How is he supposed to get a chemistry with his teammates if he's limited the entire training camp? Franchise players play through "soreness" EG...u still have a lot to prove...
Ahhhh whatever. Let him rest and get 100% for the regular season. And if he doesn't play then o well we won't be as good as we originally thought. But we will not be one of the worst teams in the league and shouldnt tank. If anything a lot of Hornets fans will be satisfied because Rivers would play the 2 heavily.
Well...
I guess what worries me is that he's had months of "rest" prior to this soreness, and that it was just a workout that re-aggravated it.
So it seems like no matter how much rest it gets, it will always have a propensity for getting worse with activity.
That doesn't sound good to me.
RIVERS!!!!!!
He may have a degenerative knee condition or a low pain thresh hold...
Not worried, probably just don't want to show to much when Real Training Camp come on NBA tv
Joe Gerrity @GerrityJoe
Eric gordon just said he expects to play a lot more pg this year.
I see a lot of "not worried" in this thread.
My question simply is: When will you worry?
Blazers fans lied to themselves for years, claiming that they weren't worried and every couple of months a new story came out about how Oden will come back bigger and stronger than ever.
If you are not worried now, what will make you worry?
I know a lot of Saints fans make the Drew Brees comparison, but I can't imagine another injury plagued season can keep that comparison relevant. What will it take? I am just curious. Thanks in advance
On the chat they just said they'll have official pics later today or tomorrow morning. They seem to be lacking with this compared to past seasons.
I will be worried when he is out for the season.
Okay, then let me reframe my question:
At what point would you be willing to accept the Hornets moving on and taking back lesser talent, but talent that actually plays? Obviously Eric Gordon is superior to Danny Granger and Rudy Gay, with a more friendly contract, but how many more injuries would have to occur before you would be okay with the Hornets moving him for a player like that?
Going back to the Oden situatuion- he was a player with far more upside and a more reasonable contract than Emeka Okafor's, but who would you have rather had from 08 through 2011?
I'll worry when he starts missing actual games.
I do think Hornets med staff should get it checked out cause remember the initial problem started off as "soreness"...turned out he needed surgery. Perhaps it wasnt fully "cleaned up"?
Speaking of Medical Staff.... Can we get a new one?
Whenever the org feels they need to do that, then I'll have no choice but to go with it. I'm certainly not going to sit here and mope about it.
And if people want to hold out hope for him then that's their choice. I'm not going to sit here and try to make them feel stupid or tear them down for doing so.
Well that doesn't sound too bad. No swelling is a good sign. (i aint no doctor mind you)
I just really hope he aint pulling a B.D. on us...
I would worry about it if I were you guys.. I am worried.
I have watched EJ since he was a rookie and his biggest flaw by FAR is that he can't play through any pain whatsoever. He is literally like the exact opposite of Kobe Bryant in that way. And the thing is as you get older, you just get more and more pain. Trying to play without pain in the NBA sounds like a bit of a joke actually. So I don't know if he will ever man up or what, but it is going to be rough on us fans. I'm just hoping he plays 60+ games this season.
This is a FULL 82 game season. There is no need to rush anything.
Like the articles state, it will limit him early in camp. Both EJ and Monty have stated they aren't worried. EJ explained that the soreness is from building up the strength in the knee by getting in shape during his own workouts and the voluntary workouts with the team over the last few months.
For anyone that has played sports outside of a junior varsity team, there is always a period when your body hurts from the first few weeks of conditioning and workouts.
How worried are you about Chris Paul taking it easy in training camp because of the surgery he had on his thumb?
If you wanna worry, fine, but....
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If this was Madden, Eric Gordon would have the Toughness rating of 1.
But it's not, it's real life.
I'm concerned about Gordon's knee. He's a big part of the team and his scoring can't be replaced.
Sometimes i wonder... :hihi:
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It's not about overreacting or underreacting. In 10 years, we will know the truth of whether or not he will (was) forever an injury prone player. Nobody here knows that for fact now, but I am just curious as to what needs to occur for those of you who are on the "I'm not worried, he will be fine by regular season and his past injuries are random, not reoccuring" to shift to the "Okay, this guy will go through this every year for the rest of his career; time to move on." mindset.
Obviously I am in the latter, so I will go first. For me to shift to the former, it would take 70+ games played for 3 out of the next 4 seasons for me to shift and want him back after this contract is up. I just dont believe he can stay healthy and when a team has a star player in and out of the lineup, it just messes up any chance a team has of building chemistry. So I would trade him for an inferior player who could stay healthy personally, but I will change my mind if he plays 70+
First I strongly disagree about Gordon being superior to Rudy Gay.
Second I agree with you and we should have shipped him sooner. You just can't give a guy that kind of money with all the questions he had at the time. Poor decision that hopefully doesn't cost us to have to completely destroy this teams future.
Gordon's a more efficient scorer than Gay. Gay isn't really that good. He takes a ton of shots, but doesn't score efficiently.
Every incident worries me more, esp since we ust signed him to a max contract... For it to not raise one's brows (get it?) everytime you hear about it is questionable. I kind of expect 60 games per year from him, and if he produces at a 23ish ppg rate I can deal with it.
Not worried, annoyed is more like it.
Don't get me wrong. I think Eric is a great player and we do "know what we are getting" with him. It would just be nice to see him be healthy from the start after an unhealthy season last year. Eric's health is my primary worry about him, actually. Once he's on the court, he's terrific.