Coach K: Tre Jones to return soonish

[JasonEvans]

K says Tre will be back sooner than feared... I'm getting more details. One moment!

[Owen Meany]

Coach K in The Athletic- Tre Jones' injury is "not going to be long-term".

[JasonEvans]

K says Tre will be back sooner than feared... I'm getting more details. One moment!

From The Athletic:

Duke initially announced that
Jones, diagnosed with an AC sprain, would be out indefinitely, but
Krzyzewski said the timeline isn’t nearly as ominous as it sounds. “I
don’t know if it’s for this game or the next game, but it’s not going
to be long term, where it’s a month or something,’’ said Krzyzewski,
who termed the AC sprain slightly worse than a grade one. “He’s going
to be back.’’ Krzyzewski didn’t rule out Jones for Saturday, but he
believes it’s unlikely he’ll play.

[HereBeforeCoachK]

From The Athletic:

ALRIGHT....can put away the vodka now, and chill with some wine...

[kAzE]

LET'S GOOOOOO!!!

That's the best news we could possibly hope for!

HUGE sigh of relief.

[scottdude8]

So now that there is some firm evidence about the injury does this vigil cease to become a vigil? Haha.

In all seriousness, this is obviously great news, but it's something I think we should all learn from: initial pain doesn't always correlate with the severity of an injury! People have torn their ACLs and continued walking around/playing on them before realizing the severity of the injury... meanwhile, cramps can be the most painful thing in the world and make you think a player's career is done, only for them to return in a few minutes. When it comes to this type of stuff, as fun as it is to catastrophize on an online message board, we all need to learn to breathe until we get some concrete facts.

Who am I kidding, that'll never happen, haha. Onto the vigil for the next vigil!

[DU82]

I can hear this coming from down the road eight miles:

So once again, indefinite at Duke means one game. (Possibly zero this time.)

[scottdude8]

I can hear this coming from down the road eight miles:

So once again, indefinite at Duke means one game. (Possibly zero this time.)

Those 8 miles down the road must not own any dictionaries (not too surprising, haha):
in·def·i·nite
/ˌinˈdef(ə)nət/
adjective
lasting for an unknown or unstated length of time.

We didn't know how long Tre would be out for. Now we do. Word used correctly! Honestly, if you're going to be coy about injuries there's no reason not to say that all the time, haha.

[flyingdutchdevil]

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!

I was worried Tre would be gone until March.

It's only been ~35 min of play but I already miss Tre's defense.

[kAzE]

If we beat Virginia this weekend, the ACC regular season championship seems well within reach. You guys can stop diminishing the worth of the regular season title now

[Billy Dat]

Great news!!!!!!!

[scottdude8]

New theory: severity of injury is inversely proportional to severity of the initial reaction.

Think of our two most recent, important PG injuries... Kyrie stubs his toe, plays through it, but is out the rest of the year basically. Tre hurts his shoulder, seems to be in horrible pain, and misses the remainder of the game, but may be back within a week.

Basketball fandom is not for the faint-hearted

[rdearth15]

This is the literally the best news any of us could have hoped for after seeing Tre go down like that.

I am still excited and intrigued to see what K has planned for Virginia, with Tre (presumably) out, and nearly a full week to practice.

Let's make some noise this weekend with or without Tre!!!!!



As Quinn Cook so eloquently put it... "Duke is never the underdog"

[BeachBlueDevil]

From The Athletic:

Misses only a few games, get some other guys some run, and build some confidence in them. This injury might actually end up being beneficial in some weird way to the team.

[hallcity]

I wonder. What are the rules or ethical practices on giving a player a shot of cortisone and a numbing agent and sticking him in a game? Obviously, you don't do that if it risks making the injury worse but otherwise is it acceptable? Would it be against NCAA rules or accepted training practices?

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Misses only a few games, get some other guys some run, and build some confidence in them. This injury might actually end up being beneficial in some weird way to the team.

I wouldn't say that situation is weird....i'd say it's rather common for the reasons you mentioned. Duke benefitted from Boozer's injury in 2001 IMO....as they worked him back in, they became a better team. That was due to other players getting some run, and Boozer seeming to have noticed some things from the sidelines that helped him become better.

[billy]

I wonder. What are the rules or ethical practices on giving a player a shot of cortisone and a numbing agent and sticking him in a game? Obviously, you don't do that if it risks making the injury worse but otherwise is it acceptable? Would it be against NCAA rules or accepted training practices?

With no comment about the ethics of doing so, it happens all the time. Ty Lawson comes to mind mentioning injections getting him by at UNC years ago. Here’s a link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dai...story,amp.html Hopefully they’re used only in situations where there is limited risk of further injury from doing so.

[Acymetric]

From The Athletic:

Duke initially announced that
Jones, diagnosed with an AC sprain, would be out indefinitely, but
Krzyzewski said the timeline isn’t nearly as ominous as it sounds. “I
don’t know if it’s for this game or the next game, but it’s not going
to be long term, where it’s a month or something,’’ said Krzyzewski,
who termed the AC sprain slightly worse than a grade one. “He’s going
to be back.’’ Krzyzewski didn’t rule out Jones for Saturday, but he
believes it’s unlikely he’ll play.

Maybe this should be its own thread, or at least edited into the OP for the thread? Even with the "announcement" added to the title, it took a bit of searching, and since it was posted as a quote it doesn't even show up when people quote JE (unless, like me, you go and deliberately copy paste the announcement back into the quote). Kind of hard to find, and will get harder as more posts come in.

[OldPhiKap]

K says Tre will be back sooner than feared... I'm getting more details. One moment!

Thanks to you, or whichever Mod, changed the title of the thread to indicate an update. Very helpful.

[bbosbbos]

Great news.