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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Kyrie out indefinitely. Shocking that he would miss more games than he would play during the season KD is out 🙄
This has been my only real beef with KI --- teacher friends have complained to me (multiple teachers, in very different geographies) that they've seen an uptick in kids talking about the earth being flat. Like, from zero 5 years ago to several kids in a class. Plenty of reasons for this (looking at you, internet) but Kyrie has been cited a few times, too. I believe he was confronted by a teacher about it and it did affect him...so, that's good.
Can you explain the trend? It seems like this season is the one where he is missing a ton of games, but he has never been consistently healthy. He has played 51, 59, 71, 75, 53, 72, 60, and 67 games in previous seasons. Seems like he usually gets hurt once or twice a season and misses some time, and this has been consistent throughout his career. This year has been an exceptionally poor season in terms of health. I don't think 1 example is enough to call it a trend, especially in light of the actual injury. Shoulder impingement is not something with an obvious timeline. As someone who has dealt with hip impingement, it eventually required surgery and a long rehab process but was still the end of my competitive running career because I tried to run through it for too long before surgery. I have no idea how real Kyrie's injury is, but he seems like a very competitive guy. I have no reason to believe that there is anything more to the injury than the injury itself.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Here's a quote from ESPN story:
Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving is considering treatment options on his right shoulder impingement, including the possibility of surgery, league sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and Malika Andrews. Irving is expected to reach a decision in the next few days, per sources.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Fivethirtyeight column on Jayson Tatum, and how some changes to his game have improved his productivity:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...became-a-star/
Great read. Thanks for posting!
The closing paragraph here is a kicker:
When Tatum was drafted, a buddy of mine, a big Celtics fan, asked me about him. I told him at the time that he was as impressive a player that has come through Duke as I could have remembered (this was pre-Bagley and Zion, mind you). There were a lot of other options for scoring on the team - Allen, Kennard, Jefferson, etc. Man, how did that team not reach at least the Final Four? At any rate, I am excited to see Tatum continue to grow and blossom into a full-on superstar. Ever since his days as a high school recruit, he has had this look of being a future stud. It's really fun to see it happen.Tatum’s strides as a defender, rebounder and playmaker have allowed him to contribute at a high level even in the odd game when his shot isn’t falling. This type of all-around growth is what takes a player from promising young talent to All-Star. Continuing that growth and also building consistency on a night-to-night basis takes that same player from All-Star to superstar. Tatum has conquered the first part of that process, and he may be on his way to achieving the second.