Dame injury tracker thread (1 Viewer)

[Fairly-Hard]

Read up a little on Calf muscle strains. These strains at this level take anywhere from a week to 6 weeks to fully recover from. I would not be surprised in the least that they hold him out 2-3 weeks at this point?
Now for my opinion. I agree this is the perfect time to hold him out and get him healthy. Perfect time to give some minutes to Sharp. Possibly get Payton back and find some minutes for him as well.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I won't be surprised if Dame is out until the first of the year. Which just makes the Payton situation even more aggravating.

 

[julius]

I won't be surprised if Dame is out until the first of the year. Which just makes the Payton situation even more aggravating.

Yeah, damn that Payton! they should've signed someone else who...wouldn't be a guard and not really helpful if your best player is out?

 

[Chris Craig]

Read up a little on Calf muscle strains. These strains at this level take anywhere from a week to 6 weeks to fully recover from. I would not be surprised in the least that they hold him out 2-3 weeks at this point?
Now for my opinion. I agree this is the perfect time to hold him out and get him healthy. Perfect time to give some minutes to Sharp. Possibly get Payton back and find some minutes for him as well.

Yeah, they need to let him heal all the way this time. I mean I know it's a different part of his calf this time, but maybe not letting the other part completely heal compromised the rest of his calf.

Sharpe definitely going to get minutes. Payton will be back before Dame gets back probably. But, he's still out a couple weeks himself because of intermittent soreness.

These multiple calf injuries point something out to me. Opponents are allowed to defend him far to aggressively where he's getting stepped on or he doesn't have the space to properly move his feet or land and is suffering injury because of it.

 

[RR7]

Nah, I bet he was faking that injury too.

 

[Chris Craig]

Nah, I bet he was faking that injury too.

Good one.

 

[Natebishop3]

Dame was an iron man when he was younger. I think he played through a lot of pain and injuries. But he's getting older and he can't ignore his body like he could when he was younger. That's just part of getting older.

 

[julius]

Dame was an iron man when he was younger. I think he played through a lot of pain and injuries. But he's getting older and he can't ignore his body like he could when he was younger. That's just part of getting older.

Could also be that the team used to over rely on him and milked the hell out of him, and now they won't.

 

[Natebishop3]

Could also be that the team used to over rely on him and milked the hell out of him, and now they won't.

Gotta maintain that trade value

 

[oldmangrouch]

Yeah, damn that Payton! they should've signed someone else who...wouldn't be a guard and not really helpful if your best player is out?

SMH Just imagine! If we had signed a real SF and used Hart at Guard we would be so much worse off than having Hart playing out-of-position and 2 injured guards.

 

[Chris Craig]

SMH Just imagine! If we had signed a real SF and used Hart at Guard we would be so much worse off than having Hart playing out-of-position and 2 injured guards.

Dame and Payton will be back soon enough and we will be fine.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

SMH Just imagine! If we had signed a real SF and used Hart at Guard we would be so much worse off than having Hart playing out-of-position and 2 injured guards.

Which opens this all up to become another trade thread. Who should they have signed or who could they get as a SF instead of Payton.

 

[andalusian]

SMH Just imagine! If we had signed a real SF and used Hart at Guard we would be so much worse off than having Hart playing out-of-position and 2 injured guards.

Which SF was available for $8m and under that was worth it?

Here is the list of SFs signed for the 2022-23 year at $8m and less that are not rookies (some of them might have been RFA, which means that even if you sign them, there is a good chance you will not get them):

Tyrese Martin,
Matt Ryan,
Kessler Edwards,
San Hauser,
Juan Toscano-Anderson,
Josh Okogie,
Troy Brown Jr,
Yuta Watanabe,
KZ Okpala,
Justin Jackson
Vlatko Cancar
TJ Warren,
Andre Igoudala (never going to sign here)
Simone Fontecchio
Derrick Jones Jr (been there, done that)
Danuel House JR
AJ Griffin
Ochai Agbaji
Ousnabe Dieng
Otto Porter Jr
Joe Ingles (Been there, just as injured)
Caleb Martin
Jae'Sean Tate
Cody Martin

Of this list, which ones are worth taking a flyer on? Caleb Martin, maybe, but I think he was a RFA, Yuta Watanabe maybe and OPJ if you are willing to risk the chance that it's a new RoCo situation.

GP2 is a much higher upside to change the trajectory of this team than probably any of these...

 

[oldmangrouch]

OK, I will yield to the consensus - having Payton out is a wonderful thing. Henceforth, we should never draft or sign a player who can pass a physical.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Which SF was available for $8m and under that was worth it?

Here is the list of SFs signed for the 2022-23 year at $8m and less that are not rookies (some of them might have been RFA, which means that even if you sign them, there is a good chance you will not get them):

Tyrese Martin,
Matt Ryan,
Kessler Edwards,
San Hauser,
Juan Toscano-Anderson,
Josh Okogie,
Troy Brown Jr,
Yuta Watanabe,
KZ Okpala,
Justin Jackson
Vlatko Cancar
TJ Warren,
Andre Igoudala (never going to sign here)
Simone Fontecchio
Derrick Jones Jr (been there, done that)
Danuel House JR
AJ Griffin
Ochai Agbaji
Ousnabe Dieng
Otto Porter Jr
Joe Ingles (Been there, just as injured)
Caleb Martin
Jae'Sean Tate
Cody Martin

Of this list, which ones are worth taking a flyer on? Caleb Martin, maybe, but I think he was a RFA, Yuta Watanabe maybe and OPJ if you are willing to risk the chance that it's a new RoCo situation.

GP2 is a much higher upside to change the trajectory of this team than probably any of these...

I knew it would turn into a trade thread.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

OK, I will yield to the consensus - having Payton out is a wonderful thing. Henceforth, we should never draft or sign a player who can pass a physical.

Don't.

 

[Chris Craig]

I knew it would turn into a trade thread.

You don't trade Dame unless he asks to be traded. I think he is pretty happy with things right now.

 

[Chris Craig]

OK, I will yield to the consensus - having Payton out is a wonderful thing. Henceforth, we should never draft or sign a player who can pass a physical.

Dude he will be back soon and the Blazers will look good headed down the stretch.

 

[RR7]

Which SF was available for $8m and under that was worth it?

Here is the list of SFs signed for the 2022-23 year at $8m and less that are not rookies (some of them might have been RFA, which means that even if you sign them, there is a good chance you will not get them):

Tyrese Martin,
Matt Ryan,
Kessler Edwards,
San Hauser,
Juan Toscano-Anderson,
Josh Okogie,
Troy Brown Jr,
Yuta Watanabe,
KZ Okpala,
Justin Jackson
Vlatko Cancar
TJ Warren,
Andre Igoudala (never going to sign here)
Simone Fontecchio
Derrick Jones Jr (been there, done that)
Danuel House JR
AJ Griffin
Ochai Agbaji
Ousnabe Dieng
Otto Porter Jr
Joe Ingles (Been there, just as injured)
Caleb Martin
Jae'Sean Tate
Cody Martin

Of this list, which ones are worth taking a flyer on? Caleb Martin, maybe, but I think he was a RFA, Yuta Watanabe maybe and OPJ if you are willing to risk the chance that it's a new RoCo situation.

GP2 is a much higher upside to change the trajectory of this team than probably any of these...

I believe you are correct about Martin being a RFA. There's nobody on that list that is worth signing in general, but worth it that would somehow alter our path currently. It's easy to sit back and say this is what we should have done. Seeing the list of available players alters that quite a bit, however.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

You don't trade Dame unless he asks to be traded. I think he is pretty happy with things right now.

The comment was more directed at the original statement that they should have got a SF instead of an injured Gary Payton. Nothing really to do with Dame.

 

[julius]

SMH Just imagine! If we had signed a real SF and used Hart at Guard we would be so much worse off than having Hart playing out-of-position and 2 injured guards.

So...we can't just now move him to guard since Damian is hurt?

You're not really making sense.

 

[BassPlaya]

The only time Dame and trade should be used in the same sentence, is when you own one of these, and want to trade it.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

So...we can't just now move him to guard since Damian is hurt?

You're not really making sense.

Good question. I imagine all 96 guard minutes will go to Ant/Hart/Sharpe tonight. Maybe Nas when Billups inexplicably pulls Sharpe in the 2nd half because of some infraction that the rest of us are too ignorant to understand.

 

[oldmangrouch]

So...we can't just now move him to guard since Damian is hurt?

You're not really making sense.

No, no, no....I'm now on your side! Hard-capping the team by signing injured players is genius! I can't comprehend why everyone doean't do it!

 

[Chris Craig]

The comment was more directed at the original statement that they should have got a SF instead of an injured Gary Payton. Nothing really to do with Dame.

Just saying.

I think Payton was a really good get. We will see that when he finally gets to play for us. GS really regrets letting him go.

 

[Chris Craig]

Good question. I imagine all 96 guard minutes will go to Ant/Hart/Sharpe tonight. Maybe Nas when Billups inexplicably pulls Sharpe in the 2nd half because of some infraction that the rest of us are too ignorant to understand.

We might even see Winslow play some guard.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

We might even see Winslow play some guard.

Yes he will definitely be running the offense at times, but I would be highly surprised to see Winslow out there with 3 other frontcourt players.

 

[julius]

No, no, no....I'm now on your side! Hard-capping the team by signing injured players is genius! I can't comprehend why everyone doean't do it!

good thing the season is over and you were 100% right to be this much of a whiner about things.

 

[SIeepwalker]

I knew it would turn into a trade thread.

That's... not a post talking about trades ?

 

[Fairly-Hard]

That's... not a post talking about trades ?

Exactly.