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Just scope the damn knee! Lord he goes out after 10 days reinjures it again.....gone the rest of the season! Is that smart?
I truly hope mods don't allow that type of talk on a board!
I don't tell other posters to shut the fuck up..... that's not exceptable!
Just seems to me to all but kill discussion when attacks like that are permitted. I don't mind cursing but attacking a poster you'll never meet seems very young in education.
Just seems to me to all but kill discussion when attacks like that are permitted. I don't mind cursing but attacking a poster you'll never meet seems very young in education.
"Lighten up Francis!"

yo beeyotch, don't mess with the clique! big Ds in yo mouf are bad 4 your health!

There is no clique. Except the (imaginary) clique, perhaps, that so many people think they're not a part of.
Ed O.
Actually Ed there IS a posse' on here, and you aren't part of it! Take that! Yeah, and quit playing doctor on here yard monkey, you know nothing!
So, anybody can speculate that Oden *doesn't* need surgery, but only someone with an MD can speculate that he *does*?
I may not know medicine, but I do have a grasp of simple math. Scope the knee: player misses 4-6 weeks. Scope the knee after stalling and stonewalling for a month: player misses 8-10 weeks.
Do I know for a FACT that he will need the knee scoped? No. OTOH, every day that passes without the knee getting better increases the odds that he will.
In my 'expert' opinion Greg should just amputate right above the kneecap. Problem solved.
When considering surgery, it is better to err on the side of caution than to start cutting when it may not be necessary. Besides, it's not speculation that he won't have surgery, it is the decision of Oden, the team and his doctors - you know the guys with actual medical degrees who have examined him and seen his MRI results.
There is an error in your simple math. You assume he could have had surgery immediately. That's not the case. Even if they would have determined he needed surgery, they wouldn't have performed it until the swelling went down. You don't go cutting into someone's knee when the soft tissue is abnormally swollen. So, add at least a week (possibly more) to you "simple math".
Now, try this one - rush to surgery when it isn't needed: one week (at least) for sweeling to subside, 4 - 6 weeks for recovery, player misses 5 - 7 weeks and risks infection and other post surgical complications. Wait for swelling to go down and pain to subside player misses 4 weeks.
Or, it could also increase the odds that the bone chip will disolve and be absorbed. The point is we don't know. The doctors that have examined him have chosen this course of treatment over surgery. Since they are trained to make these decisions, and have actually examined him, I'm inclined to agree with their opinion over anonymous, non-medical personel that have never even met Greg Oden, but are recommending he have surgery immediately on an internet forum. It's not as much fun as playing internet doctor, but it seems the more sensible approach to the issue.
BNM

Rizz, what's the word on Bynum? When is he due back?
