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


Dame gonna suit up on this road trip at this rate lolol. Wish he would’ve done this in the summer though. Oh well, he probably wants Chet too!
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
so you’re saying we should be terrified about his return to health?
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i was genuinely struggling to figure out where dame got his surgery because there are so few of these core specialists and i couldn't find anyone associated with UPenn. their website looks legit, though... but a lot of this reads like simply marketing.

https://vincerainstitute.com/why-vincera/kyle-lowry

i'm sure the team did its due diligence.
 
illmatic99 said:
i was genuinely struggling to figure out where dame got his surgery because there are so few of these core specialists and i couldn't find anyone associated with UPenn. their website looks legit, though... but a lot of this reads like simply marketing.

https://vincerainstitute.com/why-vincera/kyle-lowry

i'm sure the team did its due diligence.
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You think the Doctor who performed his surgery wore a mask? You know since they don't work and all.
 
https://www.nba.com/blazers/forward...ain-lillard-swallows-his-pride-play-long-game
“And then the COVID situation kicked in and we was missing eight, nine players or whatever it was. We just out there battling but we was just a beat up team. I was in pain, unhealthy, we’re not winning, most of our team is in COVID protocols, just a tough situation and I was like ‘This just seems like a sign. This seems like the time this is supposed to happen.’”

Coming to the realization that having surgery would severely limit Portland’s chances of extending their playoff streak, a badge of honor for Lillard, didn’t hurt as much as the injury nor the injection he took in an attempt to keep playing, but it was perhaps the last mental hurdle he had to clear in order to accept the surgical option. And de didn’t want to leave his teammates or coaches in the lurch, though he eventually came to realize continuing to play was doing them few favors as well, in both the short and long term.

“I know (surgery) is ultimately going to be what’s best for the team, too,” said Lillard. “I’d rather be selfish for the team, what I see for our organization and where I want it to go. It makes no sense to keep doing it the way we was doing it. It’s like, alright, take a step back to take how many steps forward. It’s just what had to happen.”

“Ant is like my protege, he’s been under my wing,” said Lillard of Simons, who has been one of the best players in the NBA since moving into the starting lineup in Lillard’s stead. “We train together in the summer, I’m always talking to him, I’m always in his ear, we always texting and stuff like that because I’ve always believed in him to the highest power. It’s been four years now of that so to see him playing well and to start to put it together, for one, I love to see that for him and two, I love that for our team, just the development and growth of him and Nas is like, I’m looking at it like a chess game now. These are two young, super talented, super athletic guys that will now get the opportunity to grow and to get more confidence, get more comfortable doing things where they can really help the team be at that level.”

“It was a situation where it’s been a tough season, I’m not healthy,” said Lillard. “What is the return on me beating myself up for another year? And then end of the year, what is that going to look like? And now I’ve got to the end of the season and we’re trying to do this at the end of the season and now I’ve got to go through the rehab, the recovery, get in shape, train and all that stuff and then the season is here again and there’s not really been a physical or mental break. So why not take that opportunity now, just swallow my pride and play the long game? Maybe add two years to my career instead of taking two off.”
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Got the receipts locked and ready to go for all the ingrates that slandered him and said he was washed, etc.
 
its very simple, team will be in the play-in spot when dame gets healthy and if we want to push for playoffs, they will agree to bring dame back

you cant tank with nurk & ant in contract seasons, little whos emerging, those guys play hard and then you have cj mccollum & powell who like to get buckets

id say they will bring dame back as i dont think tanking is realistic scenario
 
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