Minnesota’s Zach LaVine out for season with torn ACL in left knee
A disappointing season in Minnesota just got worse.
Timberwolves wing Zach LaVine is done for the season after suffering a torn ACL in his left knee, the team announced Saturday. He suffered the injury against the Pistons on a drive to the basket, he only played 37 seconds in the fourth quarter Friday night with what was at the time called a contusion. The team gave him an MRI Saturday that found the tear.
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LaVine will have surgery soon but is out for the season.
LaVine had taken a step forward with his game this season, averaging 18.9 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 3 assists in 37.2 minutes per game. He was given more responsibility by coach Tom Thibodeau and handled it fairly well, showing a more diverse game than in seasons past. Hopefully, LaVine will not lose too much of his trademark expansiveness once he has rehabbed the injury.
Minnesota likely will give more run to Brandon Rush and Shabazz Muhammad with LaVine out.
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Just got home from the gym, popped on NBA TV, and saw this. Super sucks. He's quite young and so I'm hoping he can make a complete recovery. _________________ #IStillBelieveTaurean
Hard to say, but I'm betting on yes. Jabari's pretty athletic and he picked up where he left off. _________________ Austin Reaves
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Minnesota’s Zach LaVine out for season with torn ACL in left knee
A disappointing season in Minnesota just got worse.
Timberwolves wing Zach LaVine is done for the season after suffering a torn ACL in his left knee, the team announced Saturday. He suffered the injury against the Pistons on a drive to the basket, he only played 37 seconds in the fourth quarter Friday night with what was at the time called a contusion. The team gave him an MRI Saturday that found the tear.
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Zach LaVine's knee injury occurred on this play
LaVine will have surgery soon but is out for the season.
LaVine had taken a step forward with his game this season, averaging 18.9 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 3 assists in 37.2 minutes per game. He was given more responsibility by coach Tom Thibodeau and handled it fairly well, showing a more diverse game than in seasons past. Hopefully, LaVine will not lose too much of his trademark expansiveness once he has rehabbed the injury.
Minnesota likely will give more run to Brandon Rush and Shabazz Muhammad with LaVine out.
Thibs running a 21 year old kid into the ground 37 mins a game.
4th quarter had just started and he'd already played 32 minutes
And the last 4 games before the tear he'd been run 42, 37, 43 and 37 minutes.
This is precisely what I was worried about when the T'Wolves handed over a YOUNG team to Tom Thibodeau...
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 10:16 pm Post subject:
KeepItRealOrElse wrote:
justsomelakerfan wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
Wow. Will he ever be the same?
Hard to say, but I'm betting on yes. Jabari's pretty athletic and he picked up where he left off.
Yea Jabari is even more athletic now.. Just like how Rose said he gained 4" on his vert after surgery
But yea, Thibs is looking shaky in the light on this one. Leading the league in minutes?
Did he really? Why was Rose never the same player after coming back then? Are you saying it was all mental and not actually based on a physical decline? _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
Hard to say, but I'm betting on yes. Jabari's pretty athletic and he picked up where he left off.
Yea Jabari is even more athletic now.. Just like how Rose said he gained 4" on his vert after surgery
But yea, Thibs is looking shaky in the light on this one. Leading the league in minutes?
Did he really? Why was Rose never the same player after coming back then? Are you saying it was all mental and not actually based on a physical decline?
It's a mixture. Every time Rose would go full bore for a stretch of games after his 1st injury, he would get another injury or tweak. He immediately came back and tore his MCL.
I vividly remember seeing him revving it up after both injuries and saying - wow this is the fastest player I've ever seen, still. But then he'd pull his hammy, or have knee soreness, and slow his pace.
At this point, he's an old 28, he's probably legit lost speed from injury and wear/tear. Plus he's less confident to play fast.
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:12 pm Post subject:
lakersken80 wrote:
justsomelakerfan wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
Wow. Will he ever be the same?
Hard to say, but I'm betting on yes. Jabari's pretty athletic and he picked up where he left off.
Or worst case scenario he'll be like Kobe and lose his hops and never be the same pre-injury....
A lot depends on the construction of the knee. My son stretched a couple of ligaments in his knee and didn't tear anything, but due to the construction of his knee and the lack of a lateral muscle, he couldn't play football again. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023.
For the record, those that also criticize the T'Wolves running their kids into the ground, or those that don't think they're being excessive, from Thibs perspective...
There's only 9 PLAYERS in all of the NBA that play over 36 Mins a game.
Yet the Timberwolves have 3 of them.
The other 6 are LeBron James, Kyle Lowry, Jimmy Butler, James Harden, John Wall, and Anthony Davis. Average Age: 27.5 and all are superstars, not 2nd year kids trying to get their footing and still adjusting to the league.
And there's only 4 PLAYERS in all of the NBA that play over 37 Mins a game
Yet the Timberwolves have 2 of them!
This should have been the worry when they brought Thibs on. Great assistant, but as the main guy in charge of another player's well-being? Let alone a young player? Never.
He plays them a lot of minutes, but just imagine how much he has them on their feet in practices. _________________ From 2-10 to the Western Conference Finals
He plays them a lot of minutes, but just imagine how much he has them on their feet in practices.
I think it's the practices that are the primary culprit if they're the equivalent of game time that really did them in. They probably spent multiples of hours more in the practice gym burning candles at both ends relative to the games. Finally caught up to one of them.
Sports are finally starting to catch on but rest and recovery in training is so monumentally important and so many of these old school guys (such as Byron/Thibs) think running more is the answer to more conditioning. It's not. At a point there are massive consequences if the body isn't allowed to recupe. _________________ KOBE
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:14 pm Post subject:
Plus the benefits athletes are finding from cross training. Playing one sport year round can make one more susceptible to injuries compared to athletes who exercise other muscles in the offseason. Be it swimming, golf, soccer or whatever, let some muscles rest while using others. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023.
I'm not sold that minutes played correlates to knee injuries, in the sense that playing 37 minutes per game poses a dramatically greater risk than playing 34 minutes. I can buy the argument for muscle injuries, but I don't see a logical reason why playing an extra 3-4 minutes per game would make an ACL injury more likely. Otherwise, Wilt should have had a couple ACL injuries per year.
I'm not sold that minutes played correlates to knee injuries, in the sense that playing 37 minutes per game poses a dramatically greater risk than playing 34 minutes. I can buy the argument for muscle injuries, but I don't see a logical reason why playing an extra 3-4 minutes per game would make an ACL injury more likely. Otherwise, Wilt should have had a couple ACL injuries per year.
The risk of injury isn't linear, it's exponential with respect to minutes played. An accumulation of 3-4 mpg can make the difference between being tired and being fatigued. When a player is fatigued, the risk of injury skyrockets.
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