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This isn't a knee injury guys..... stop treating it like one.
 
Peer pressure is a bitch. Look at it this way... you got Dame and CJ playing their guts out. Everybody is giving their all. How do you not go for it? Larry Bird said that McHale had a crack in his foot when they played the Lakers. He saw the X-Rays and that McHale is still paying for it. It's hard to turn down when so much is riding on you. We can talk all we want but we aren't in Nurkic''s place.
 
There are a few notable milestones in injury recovery:

1. The injury is still healing and further use of the body part risks further damage --No competent/ethical team should ever allow a player to play at this point

2. The injury is still healing and further use of the body part risks a set-back but not further damage --This is a complicated situation that the doctors, coach and player should all be involved in and if any party feels uncomfortable, the player should probably not play. The only circumstance that this should even be a consideration should be something like late rounds of the playoffs, where a set-back is no worse than the player simply not playing

3. The injury is still healing and further use of the body part carries no heightened risk of re-injury or further damage but will involve discomfort --Still a complicated situation that all three of the above parties should be involved in and, again, all three should all feel positively about it. At this point, though, the player is really the main decision-maker because all players battle through minor things at times and only the player knows how much discomfort he's in. If the discomfort is high, he should be aware that he's risking different injuries due to subconsciously (or consciously) adjusting his motion to alleviate the pain.

4. The injury is fully healed --Hooray!

Nurkic seems to be at #3 from everything that's been reported. Either decision to play or not to play is defensible, the only indefensible position is that either choice is certainly right. It sounds like the process was reasonable--Nurkic felt sufficiently low discomfort to play, so he did. The pain began to increase, so he stopped playing and will shut it down. Nothing about that seems at all alarming or lacking sense.
 
The Ducks had a lineman suffer an injury this weekend. Insiders said he tore his ACL so all the fan boys shit a brick. Turns out he just pulled it. Good thing we don't have any "insiders" to the Blazers medical staff. Everybody here would be lighting their hair on fire. (The ones who still had any.)
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Please, he had both stories ready to go, one where he praises Nurk for inspiring the team to victory, and one where Nurk playing was a sign the team is about to move to Seattle. He just needed to know if we won or lost the game.
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That was my exact thought when I skimmed through his column. He has basically two concepts in his columns: 1. The heroic underdog overcoming all obstacles; or 2. The evil/incompetent Blazers management are screwing someone again. This issue had the ability to go either way depending on the outcome.
 
e_blazer said:
That was my exact thought when I skimmed through his column. He has basically two concepts in his columns: 1. The heroic underdog overcoming all obstacles; or 2. The evil/incompetent Blazers management are screwing someone again. This issue had the ability to go either way depending on the outcome.
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He probably had the articles written before game 1.
 
e_blazer said:
That was my exact thought when I skimmed through his column. He has basically two concepts in his columns: 1. The heroic underdog overcoming all obstacles; or 2. The evil/incompetent Blazers management are screwing someone again. This issue had the ability to go either way depending on the outcome.
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1. Pro piece.
2. Con piece
3. Hit piece
4. Repeat
 
He tried it in small spurt in the game and he found out it to painful to continue in the rest of the series. So what the argument it up to the player in this case.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
5. Exploitive "Life is more than sports" Cancer Kid piece
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It's like the shit that William Randolph Hurst would allow his hacks to write. I just don't get it. Next he's going to tell us about grieving war widow who sold all her hair to buy a Blazer ticket for her retarded kid. But this IS the Oregonian we are talking about.
 
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ripcityboy said:
It's like the shit that William Randolph Hurst would allow his hacks to write. I just don't get it. Next he's going to tell us about grieving war widow who sold all her hair to a buy Blazer ticket for her retarded kid. But this IS the Oregonian we are talking about.
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I've never seen a newspaper hate its reader base more.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
5. Exploitive "Life is more than sports" Cancer Kid piece
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That's the shit that really burns me up.

"I realize that a lot of people like to use sports as an escape to get away from their real life problems..... so here is an article about how cancer is more important than sports. Just to make you all feel like a piece of shit for being passionate about a silly game."
 
Natebishop3 said:
That's the shit that really burns me up.

"I realize that a lot of people like to use sports as an escape to get away from their real life problems..... so here is an article about how cancer is more important than sports. Just to make you all feel like a piece of shit for being passionate about a silly game."
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*stops screaming at barista* "It really makes you think..."
 
BlazerCaravan said:
*stops screaming at barista* "It really makes you think..."
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You know, it would be one thing if it was coming from a truly inspirational writer, but Canzano is a chode. He's doesn't give a rats ass about that cancer kid. He does it for the exposure. He does it for the awards. He writes those articles for the same reason that he trolls Trail Blazer fans and Duck fans with his antagonistic contrarian viewpoints. It's all about exposure and money.
 
Natebishop3 said:
You know, it would be one thing if it was coming from a truly inspirational writer, but Canzano is a chode. He's doesn't give a rats ass about that cancer kid. He does it for the exposure. He does it for the awards. He writes those articles for the same reason that he trolls Trail Blazer fans and Duck fans with his antagonistic contrarian viewpoints. It's all about exposure and money.
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You know exactly where his priorities are when his first response to direct criticism is to invite you to his office to "compare paychecks" (this is an actual thing he did when I roasted him on Twitter a couple of years ago)
 
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BlazerCaravan said:
You know exactly where his priorities are when his first response to direct criticism is to invite you to his office to "compare paychecks" (this is an actual thing he did when I roasted him on Twitter a couple of years ago)
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It's interesting because I watched him for three seasons in the locker room. The guy really is an egomaniac. He's the guy that ruined it for the rest of us with Rasheed. He would walk up to Sheed after a loss and ask him, "Hey Sheed, did both teams play hard?" What other reason would someone have to ask that question other than to create a scene? Quick wasn't perfect, but at least he was an actual journalist. Not some shock jock columnist that doesn't seem to really know that much about sports. Just enough to get by.
 
Natebishop3 said:
It's interesting because I watched him for three seasons in the locker room. The guy really is an egomaniac. He's the guy that ruined it for the rest of us with Rasheed. He would walk up to Sheed after a loss and ask him, "Hey Sheed, did both teams play hard?" What other reason would someone have to ask that question other than to create a scene? Quick wasn't perfect, but at least he was an actual journalist. Not some shock jock columnist that doesn't seem to really know that much about sports. Just enough to get by.
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You know the stories then (I heard them from my friend when he was a producer for the local sports radio station). The best conversations always came in line for the catered meal. :ghoti:
 
I don't live in Oregon, so I'm not as exposed, so I'll ask you guys instead; who's worse, Clownzano or Jaynes?
 
Canzano is an ass, but he's a much better writer than Jaynes.
 
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