Originally Posted by
DU82
Yep, let's bash Coach P again. Everything is her fault, and she is evil incarnate.
After playing for a little bit after going down (I didn't see what happened on the play) Chelsea signaled to the bench that she needed to come out, and went immediately under the stands near the opponent's locker room. The trainer went with her, and underneath (but still visible from my section) two other staff members met there as well. (I didn't recognize them; I'm not implying they were medical personnel.). She talked to the trainer and then went to the old locker room area. At some point, Dr. Toth talked to assistant coach Jackson during a timeout, who reported eventually to Coach P. Given what was said during the broadcast, i assume that she was told it was a thigh bruise. I also saw the trainer return to her medical kit, pull out what looked like tape, and returned to wherever Chelsea was being treated. (You pull out tape for minor injuries that you can play through, not for "career ending injuries.)
A few minutes later, she returned, walked past the bench and checked back in the game. She played a few minutes, clearly gimpy, and went off the court before half, assumably to the locker room.
As I reported in the game thread, she wasn't out right at the start of the second half, but came in quickly when Tricia picked up her third foul. She played well, and when the game was in hand, sat out the rest of the game. While on the bench, she had what looked like a big pillow on her leg, which we assumed was a heating pad, the kind of treatment you do for a thigh bruise.
Do you really think the doctors would have let her back in if they thought AT THE TIME it was what it was. They thought it was a minor injury, CHELSEA wanted to go back in the game! and Coach P, managing the game, heard from her medical staff that it was a minor injury that she, while gimpy, could play.
But from all of this, you conclude that Coach P has no concern for her players. Wow. I guess she's supposed to be a medical expert, and immediately know things that doctors and trainers didn't know.
(BTW, it's not a "career ending injury" it is a season ending injury that happens to coincide with the end of her eligibility to play at Duke. There's no indication that she won't be able to play in the WNBA or overseas after recovery and rehab.)
(The blouse wasn't quite dark enough to be BC maroon, but I agree it looked a bit odd, and wasn't very flattering. But of course, your conclusion was that she wore that because she doesn't care about her players. I guess you must have thought that the time when Coach K wore a yellow tie when we played Georgia Tech.)