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Post by ucchamp on Apr 29, 2024 9:54:07 GMT -5
It's amazing how fans can come up with minutes for players based on past injuries without knowing their injury recovery status. I do it too, but I tend to lean towards optimism. I've said it before. Until I hear differenly I believe all the injured players will be back in time to have no restrictions when the season starts and minutes will be at the whim of the coach. Here is what I have heard. Caroline is getting better every day and plans on being 100% when the season starts. Azzi is actually a little ahead of schedule. Her surgery was first week of December 2023. ACL recovery is 9-12 months. If it's on the low end that would be ready to go 100% first week of September. Aubrey had surgery end of January 2024. At best she will be 100% in December. Too early to say if she is on schedule. Ayanna had Patella tendonitis surgery in mid-december 2023. Recovery is 6-12 months. I haven't heard an update on her recovery status. So she could be ready for the season, and at worst November. Jana had her Surgery in July 2023. She already did some limited practice at the end of the season and will be ready for summer pickup games. If anyone has more information, I'd love to hear it. I don't believe it until I see it. Is that worng? And I'm offering an opinion that Gneo will be cautious with Azzi. It's just an opinion. Not a statement of fact. We make predictions here all the time.
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Post by doggydaddy on Apr 29, 2024 10:02:24 GMT -5
It's amazing how fans can come up with minutes for players based on past injuries without knowing their injury recovery status. I do it too, but I tend to lean towards optimism. I've said it before. Until I hear differenly I believe all the injured players will be back in time to have no restrictions when the season starts and minutes will be at the whim of the coach. Here is what I have heard. Caroline is getting better every day and plans on being 100% when the season starts. Azzi is actually a little ahead of schedule. Her surgery was first week of December 2023. ACL recovery is 9-12 months. If it's on the low end that would be ready to go 100% first week of September. Aubrey had surgery end of January 2024. At best she will be 100% in December. Too early to say if she is on schedule. Ayanna had Patella tendonitis surgery in mid-december 2023. Recovery is 6-12 months. I haven't heard an update on her recovery status. So she could be ready for the season, and at worst November. Jana had her Surgery in July 2023. She already did some limited practice at the end of the season and will be ready for summer pickup games. If anyone has more information, I'd love to hear it. I don't believe it until I see it. Is that worng? And I'm offering an opinion that Gneo will be cautious with Azzi. It's just an opinion. Not a statement of fact. We make predictions here all the time. Opinions are great. We all have them. And we all have a$ssholes too. A just like those, some opinions stink more than others. Not saying yours stinks.
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Post by ursusminor on May 2, 2024 16:55:44 GMT -5
I have this impression on my brain of the stereotypical ACL injury story, that seemed so common in the last 30 years of women's college basketball.
Player gets injured. Player returns the next season, 6-12 months after injury, and plays pretty well. The following season, fully 18-24 months after injury, player comes out hot like fire, and either she or the coach says something to the effect of "Yeah, she's finally 100% healthy!" Feels like every top ten team had a story like that sometime in the 2000s.
Then I look at Paige, who took more than a year to come back, even though all accounts suggested that her recovery and rehab went smoothly. But, she came back very strong.
Players on the caliber of Paige and Azzi may be active in the WNBA until they're almost 40 if they can stay healthy. It's a big "if". We will never know if Paige sitting out last summer has any effect on her pro career longevity, but I doubt it hurt her.
In conclusion, I think that if Geno has 10+ players who can give some minutes (what a freaking luxury that would be!), those returning from injury will (and perhaps should) play a few minutes less than they might otherwise, at least through the early season.
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Post by ucchamp on May 4, 2024 15:12:37 GMT -5
IMO with Paige and Sarah as the constant-- any player at any position within reason works extremely well. Any players works well with Paige and because Sarah supposedly has guard-like offensive skills but is also a terrfic rebounder, anybody can play with them and their game will benefit.
For example Morgan Cheli can be put at the High Post on Offense with Sarah and Paige and any other guard you want on the perimeter with Jana or Ice or Ayanna down in the paint. uOt you cna put Jana at the high post and have AUbrey down in the paint unless the defense is going to put someone small on Jana if she were to take outside shots or drive? On Defense in these scenarios you can have either Aubrey or Morgan guard teh quicker 3 while Sarah stays inside to guard the 4 as a highly vauled rebounder.
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