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jimsumner
01-20-2019, 01:15 PM
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AZLA
01-20-2019, 01:20 PM
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Hate to see people get injuries, especially young athletes, hope her recovery goes well.

Steven43
01-20-2019, 01:25 PM
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Sad to see this. And it’s her second ACL tear, no less. It’s going to take every bit of determination she has, as well as a bit of luck, to physically and mentally recover fully from this. Such a shame. Wishing Mikayla all the best.

Phredd3
01-20-2019, 01:26 PM
That is truly horrible news. Not so much for the team, which was likely to miss the tournament either way, but for her, personally. She's already a hardship redshirt freshman. It must be so discouraging to be sidelined again, having hurt the other knee. "Snakebit" is just too mild. That is mind-boggingly harsh news. I am so sad for her.

chrishoke
01-20-2019, 01:44 PM
Terrible news. I feel so badly for Mikayla and the team. How does a team lose both their point guards for the year?

HereBeforeCoachK
01-20-2019, 01:45 PM
Terrible news. I feel so badly for Mikayla and the team. How does a team lose both their point guards for the year?

.....must've been hanging around the football team's defense too much......

OldPhiKap
01-20-2019, 02:06 PM
Sad to hear, good luck with the recovery!

jimsumner
01-20-2019, 02:15 PM
Sad to see this. And it’s her second ACL tear, no less. It’s going to take every bit of determination she has, as well as a bit of luck, to physically and mentally recover fully from this. Such a shame. Wishing Mikayla all the best.

It's actually more than two. She missed much of her high-school career with multiple left-knee ACL injuries.

So, at least she knows how to rehab. :)

Macabre humor. But what are you gonna do?

uh_no
01-20-2019, 02:15 PM
Terrible news. I feel so badly for Mikayla and the team. How does a team lose both their point guards for the year?

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Kedsy
01-20-2019, 02:42 PM
Terrible news. I feel so badly for Mikayla and the team.

It really seems like there's been someone out there with a Voodoo doll of Duke women's basketball and they've been sticking pins in it for the last eight years.


How does a team lose both their point guards for the year?

And not for the first time. Both Kyra and Mikayla had season-ending injuries last season as well, right?

But even worse was 2013-14, when Duke lost four PGs and a promising SG: Chelsea Gray (for the second straight season) and Alexis Jones both had season-ending injuries, Chloe Wells got herself kicked off the team, Kianna Holland missed the first semester with an injury and then transferred, and Rebecca Greenwell got injured in the pre-season and missed the entire year. That team was 21-1 before the injuries, etc., caught up and derailed the season.

jimsumner
01-20-2019, 02:54 PM
It really seems like there's been someone out there with a Voodoo doll of Duke women's basketball and they've been sticking pins in it for the last eight years.



And not for the first time. Both Kyra and Mikayla had season-ending injuries last season as well, right?

But even worse was 2013-14, when Duke lost four PGs and a promising SG: Chelsea Gray (for the second straight season) and Alexis Jones both had season-ending injuries, Chloe Wells got herself kicked off the team, Kianna Holland missed the first semester with an injury and then transferred, and Rebecca Greenwell got injured in the pre-season and missed the entire year. That team was 21-1 before the injuries, etc., caught up and derailed the season.

Kyra Lambert suffered an ACL injury during the 2017 NCAA Tournament. She missed all of last season but was expected to return this season before suffering another injury in the preseason.

Women athletes are prone to ACL injuries. NC State has lost two of its top three players for the season. Go to any women's college-basketball or soccer game and it seems like half the players are wearing knee braces.

It is possible to come back from ACL surgery and play at a high level. Rebecca Greenwell did. Stephanie Watts at UNC is playing at a high level.

But for every Greenwell, we have an Amber Henson or a Lynne Belton, prep All-Americans whose college careers were torpedoed by numerous ACL surgeries.

It's pretty cruel to do all the painful and laborious rehab work and suffer the same injury and have to do it all over again, with no assurance that it's going to work out. Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill.