Anthony Davis Injury (Video)

Lets roll him out to play the moment he is cleared to play. He has so much more to improve on before the season ends.:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

Yeah well, we are still looking at an injured AD, so there's that.

Sometimes it sucks being right.

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You aren't right, that is just a stupid thought process. I think we should just never play AD again for the rest of his career because he might get injured if so. The rookie year is one of the most important in a player's development and you think we should have just benched him for the last few weeks of the season?

I am so happy you have 0 say in the development.

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Originally Posted by RaisingTheBar

No one expected to or wanted to win the game. Those are the times coaches get to do their jobs. Hindsight is 20/20, if he would have played the rest of the game (and we still lost), never got injured and scored 20 points and grabbed 15 rebounds you wouldnt have said **** about he shouldnt have been playing at the end of the game. I have been hating on Monty for dumb decisions he has made throughout the season, this one isn't his fault.

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Yes it is. He is even admitting that he should have pulled Greivis with bad ankles. I was complaining that he had any starters in the game when we were down 30. It was just plain stupid. However, alot of times it appears Monty zones out during games and talks about what he should have done after the game.

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Originally Posted by PELICANSFAN

Yes, but chances increase with additional playing time. Why play him in garbage time at the end of a lost season in the second game of a back to back? You think most teams pull their starters when well ahead or behind just for the fun of it? They do so because having their valuable starters out there is unnecessary and the backups can get some playing time.

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If this is the correct thought process AD, Roberts, and Gordon shouldn't have played a minimum of the last month of the season.

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Originally Posted by RaisingTheBar

If this is the correct thought process AD, Roberts, and Gordon shouldn't have played a minimum of the last month of the season.

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Your comment makes no sense. Take the time to read what you are quoting.

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Originally Posted by PELICANSFAN

Yes, but chances increase with additional playing time. Why play him in garbage time at the end of a lost season in the second game of a back to back? You think most teams pull their starters when well ahead or behind just for the fun of it? They do so because having their valuable starters out there is unnecessary and the backups can get some playing time.

Monty played Harris, Mason and Thomas a combined 4 minutes in the 2 back to back games (Amundson and Miller had 24 total). So he was basically going with nearly an 8 man rotation, which is fine if we were getting ready for the playoffs.

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This. Why play him (after the season he has had) this long in these meaningless games. The idea that this builds the players for next year is a farce. I remember Ike Diogu lighting us up for 30 pts (he was playing for the kings come to think of it) in these garbage games, and our front office signed him the next year thinking that they had signed this great prospect...dude never scored 30 pts in his entire stay here in NO. These end of the season games are a joke unless you are in the playoff hunt.

This falls on stupid stupid stupid coaching.

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Originally Posted by RaisingTheBar

You aren't right, that is just a stupid thought process. I think we should just never play AD again for the rest of his career because he might get injured if so. The rookie year is one of the most important in a player's development and you think we should have just benched him for the last few weeks of the season?

I am so happy you have 0 say in the development.

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Remember when AD got injured because he was playing trivial minuets in a trivial game.

I do.

They're all trivial minutes in trivial games for us people. It doesn't matter when Monty decided to get AD his trivial minutes. To him, these are all practice minutes. To blame the wear and tear leading to that injury is nonsense. Fatigue didn't cause that injury. Marcus Thornton landing on both of AD's legs caused that injury. I pretty much spent the entire month of March yelling at Monty but I won't here.

I just don't see why people are so upset without even knowing the diagnosis. It makes no sense. What if it's a sprain and he misses the next 4 games, but he's healthy in 2 weeks?

Obviously if it's serious there is room to be angry, but I'd stand by the fact, that that game wasn't over at the time of the injury.

Hind sight is 20-20. If Monty would have pulled AD with 6 minutes to go, everyone would be complaining that AD doesn't get enough minutes. So Monty leaves him in to get experience (every minute counts), and people still complain. Hilarious :hihi:

Injuries happen. Davis needs as much game time as possible. I disagree with everyone calling Monty an idiot for this. It's one thing if we were going to the playoffs in 2 or 3 weeks, it's another if this is the last chance to learn in gametime situations until next seasons.

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Originally Posted by nolaslim213

Hind sight is 20-20. If Monty would have pulled AD with 6 minutes to go, everyone would be complaining that AD doesn't get enough minutes. So Monty leaves him in to get experience (every minute counts), and people still complain. Hilarious :hihi:

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70 minutes in back to back games is not enough? People keep going back to that. However, the complaints about him not getting enough minutes were earlier in the season when there was a stretch of him getting 12-22 minutes in games. He has been getting plenty of minutes since then. I think the main complaint was him being on the bench when we were actually in games.

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Originally Posted by PELICANSFAN

70 minutes in back to back games is not enough? People keep going back to that. However, the complaints about him not getting enough minutes were earlier in the season when there was a stretch of him getting 12-22 minutes in games. He has been getting plenty of minutes since then. I think the main complaint was him being on the bench when we were actually in games.

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Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a TKO argument.

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

Remember when AD got injured because he was playing trivial minuets in a trivial game.

I do.

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This whole season was trivial. I guess the right coaching decision would have been to just forfeit all 82 games. We definitely wouldn't have had as many injuries then.

Not expecting anything terrible to come out of this. This is a meniscus tear at worst. I saw people on Twitter overreacting saying this might be an ACL tear. If that was the case, dude would be screaming in pain and wouldn't be able to walk almost perfectly.

It's nothing to be worried about.

Davis walked off on his own power and put weight on his left leg. I doubt he needs more than 2-3 weeks to get back, and that was the plan anyway. Season ends. He goes home for 2 weeks, and then comes back ready to work with Monty.

Plus, this allows everyone here the privilege of not wanting Davis to play the rest of the season, so he doesn't risk a more serious injury.

When I read this title on the frontpage my stomach sank by the way. Not a great way to start my morning.

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Originally Posted by NOLa.

When I read this title on the frontpage my stomach sank by the way. Not a great way to start my morning.

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same here i fell asleep during the 3rd quarter and got on here to check the gameday thread and saw this one... immediately thought...Ooooooohhhh noooooooooooooooooooooooo! you have got to be kidding me....
Doesnt seem too bad though.
I mean think about it, if some dude landed on your leg which was on top of a wooden floor...probably wouldnt feel too good.
Hopefully its not an Eric Gordon type of bruise...i hear they linger.

On a side note, the argument over whether or not he shoulda been in the game is one of the silliest i've seen on this forum. Keep up the good work. Entertaining stuff.

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

Fair enough.

He is still injured.

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So is Ginobli, and he'll miss the first round of the playoffs. Injuries happen. The only way to prevent them is not play your players, and even then it doesn't protect them.

Ask Bynum and Gordon. Both reinjured in offseason.

I remember there was a Saints player who injured his knee getting into his car. This argument is silly.

This injury (let's hope it is minor) is the result of bad luck, not a bad coaching decision. Basketball is a contact sport and people get injured. Like someone else said, this injury didn't result from fatigue, it resulted b/c he got landed on by another player. I really don't think it was a bad call to have him in there. There are several games left in his rookie season and he was getting good minutes in.

I hate that it happened and hope it is not serious, but even if it is serious I don't think Monty should be "blamed" for this. Hopefully he will be fine and next season no one will even remember this happened.

Yup, still injured. And yup, this was still a meaningless game.

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

Yup, still injured. And yup, this was still a meaningless game.

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yup still meaningless post :2thumb2::2thumb2::2thumb2::2thumb2:

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

Yup, still injured. And yup, this was still a meaningless game.

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All 82 games this year were meaningless by your standards.

Let's just say after the draft this was a wasted year and call it a day.