Blazers To Decide On Sitting Lillard, Surgery Soon?

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Should Lillard

  • Sit out games for an extended period to see if his ab heals

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Get the damn surgery

    Votes: 33 89.2%

  • Continue taking a few games off here and there and playing

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Play through it and get surgery in the offseason

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    37
Just as long as they don't draft a project in the lotto, that would be a very blazer thing to do.
 
SlyPokerCat said:
They acquired CP3 after drafting Booker and Ayton. They already were becoming good players without him.

I doubt Dame wants to stick around for a rookie to progress. Furthermore, if we draft someone that sucks, we are only continuing to kill Dame's trade value the older he gets.

We aren't getting a star for CJ, Nurk and whatever pieces you are talking about.
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CJ is maybe the 35th best player. Booker is maybe 25. If we can't find the right deals to acquire a player better than CJ using Nurk/Roco/future picks/rookies, then Cronin is not the guy for the job.
 
illmatic99 said:
CJ is maybe the 35th best player. Booker is maybe 25. If we can't find the right deals to acquire a player better than CJ using Nurk/Roco/future picks/rookies, then Cronin is not the guy for the job.
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Or you are overvaluing the value of Nurk/Roco. We have to lift the protections on our pick with Chicago if you want to include FRPs. Our rookies suck.
 
SlyPokerCat said:
Or you are overvaluing the value of Nurk/Roco. We have to lift the protections on our pick with Chicago if you want to include FRPs. Our rookies suck.
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we have gone over this ad nauseum. you still don't seem to understand this
 
illmatic99 said:
we have gone over this ad nauseum. you still don't seem to understand this
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They aren't going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts. It is easy for you to say it will happen before it does.
 
SlyPokerCat said:
They acquired CP3 after drafting Booker and Ayton. They already were becoming good players without him.

I doubt Dame wants to stick around for a rookie to progress. Furthermore, if we draft someone that sucks, we are only continuing to kill Dame's trade value the older he gets.

We aren't getting a star for CJ, Nurk and whatever pieces you are talking about.
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How many times does Dame have to tell you he wants to stick around for his entire career before you stop doubting his words? It's you that's projecting this stuff...not him ..Dame's trade value to Portland is that he doesn't ever want to be traded.....that's value. It's why I love Tim Duncan and what he means to the Spurs....and why I lost all respect for Kawhi, Lebron and AD......I like loyalty and reward it with trust and fandom
 
riverman said:
How many times does Dame have to tell you he wants to stick around for his entire career before you stop doubting his words? It's you that's projecting this stuff...not him ..Dame's trade value to Portland is that he doesn't ever want to be traded.....that's value.
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If he wants to stick around for a rebuild that's fine. I think he wants to actually contend though.
 
illmatic99 said:
And it's hilarious how people think Dame is washed after ONE major injury. This dude is still 31. He dropped 55 in a playoff game 30 games ago.

This ain't David Robinson in 99.
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Who thinks he is washed?
 
riverman said:
A couple of posters have said that the last few days around here...
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I don't think he is washed. There are three things that could be affecting him as Quick pointed out. Adjusting to Billups coaching. Injury. Age.

I think everyone knows his injury is affecting him (even if Dame says it isn't), a new coach is probably taking some adjusting to. Is it Age too? Probably not. But, father time is undefeated. It will happen soon enough.
 
Whelp, looks like the ab injury won't heal with rest and rehab at home...his wife's IG story ( https://instagram.com/kayla.lillard ) shows him exerting and contorting his abs in all sorts of funky directions while play VR goggle boxing :dunno:
 
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Why all the veiled accusations that dame has a drinking problem? Seems to come up now and again.
 
Haakzilla said:
Whelp, looks like the ab injury won't heal with rest and rehab at home...his wife IG story ( https://instagram.com/kayla.lillard ) shows him exerting and contortions his abs in all sorts of funky directions while play VR goggle boxing :dunno:
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I like it when someone pretends to know what's better for a guy's own body than he does, especially a guy who has been meticulous in the way he's taken care of himself physically over his career.
 
Cugel said:
Why all the veiled accusations that dame has a drinking problem? Seems to come up now and again.
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...I always thought this originated from local "firsthand" account of witnessing Lillard in Portland nightlife/party scene during his early days in the league :dunno:
 
Haakzilla said:
...I always thought this originated from local "firsthand" account of witnessing Lillard in Portland nightlife/party scene during his early days in the league :dunno:
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I'm too lazy to research but I thought it was BGD (or BigGameGreg at the time) that first posted that Lillard was rumored to drink like a fish. (forgive me BGD if this is wrong)
 
HomerLovesKoolAid said:
I'm too lazy to research but I thought it was BGD (or BigGameGreg at the time) that first posted that Lillard was rumored to drink like a fish. (forgive me BGD if this is wrong)
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...that could be, but I just thought it was based on something like my above memory. Somebody should chime in shortly to set us straight
 
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Chris Craig said:
“I think what we’re gonna do is just kind of meet, put all our heads together here soon and then talk through some of those things,” Billups said
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What, already? How was this not done a month ago?
 
Regarding the poll question, if there is a damn surgery to get he should just get it now and I think having tried rest and treatment just to see it stop working after a couple of weeks, that decision should be obvious.

There is the possibility that a surgery to fix this problem is not an option. If there is no tear to the tendon (after having done a lot of research on tendinopathy and treatment for it) I'm pretty sure at that point surgery wouldn't be an option and he should probably sit for quite some time doing PT and possibly PRP to try and get this thing to heal permanently. There is always the possibility that there is a procedure out there that is new and wouldn't show up to the general public in research but that might be needlessly risky if there aren't a lot of long term results that show success. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
 
It just seems unlikely one can drink like a fish but be in world class physical condition, sans ab injury.
 
Is there a player in the draft that could be an instant game changer?

Like.... could this be our David Robinson/Tim Duncan scenario?
 
e_blazer said:
Regression? Let’s just be really clear that the fall-off in his numbers relates to his injury and, perhaps early on, to getting acclimated to Billups’ new system. His 32 points per game in the 7 games after his return from the injection and before the Laker game say that there is zero reason to believe that a Dame who is fully recovered from this injury is going to be anything less than his All-NBA self.
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No one indicated or specified a reason for the regression, just that statistically, there has been one.

wizenheimer said:
there are posters here who have been getting louder and louder in trashing Dame and calling for him to be traded. It's essential that they can argue he has "regressed' and is over the hill in order to justify that position. They will say it over and over and over until and unless Dame returns to form
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Hopefully Dame does return to form. I want him to win a title here. But so far in 10 years, it hasn't been close to even being a contender. What can happen in the next 6 months to realistically change that? Not saying it can't be done, but what is a legitimate pathway to that goal?
 
So one example? It’s a bullshit rumor about Dame with no real evidence for it.
 
When I looked up Dames injury they said the recommended treatment for the inflammation was rest and strengthening of muscles around the tissue.....there's no surgery to fix that unless it's torn...last time Dame came back from it it wasn't torn but inflamed and only if there's a tear is there surgery required....no one has said they found a tear yet as far as I know so it could just be a condition that requires calming down the inflamed area and working on strengthening the abs around it. If it's torn that's a much more serious condition
 
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