No training camp or pre-season injury for Rob! He'll work his way back and by Game 15 or so he'll be Rob - with 67 games left. Shortened season on the front end. Meanwhile Brad will get something done to bolster the bench.
That's the spirit!
So Roy, I take it you believe Wyc is now going to open the wallet? The season hasn't even started and 2 players are injured. One is out for the year and the other can't seem to stay healthy. Other than Brogdon, the bench is still pretty awful. Does that strike you as a team that is heading towards a chip?
Well, at this point I think (or hope) that we're going to replace a dumpster dive camp invitee with a better candidate for the roster. But, that has nothing to do with opening the wallet. We'd just be replacing one non-guaranteed minimum deal with likely another one.
This is the part that is baffling to me. We have substantial evidence that howard, whiteside and cousins, even at this stage of their careers, are better players than kornet. But it feels like brad or someone else is hell bent on jamming kornet into the rotation.
I guess one explanation could be that the team really isn't concerned about Rob's surgery, and doesn't feel the need to bring in someone who will get cranky if he starts getting DNPs in early November.
If the team isn't, they should be. With Timelord and Gallo out, and Horford not playing back to backs, it's setting the team up for failures (losses) not to bring in capable players.
If I'm a player on that team, I think I'd feel a bit betrayed.
Would you? Kornet's teammates seem to like him.
That said, I've been of the opinion since July that our most likely action is to acquire a big (or two) who is either bought out or traded on the cheap due to a roster crunch, so I'm waiting for that to not occur until I get terribly frustrated. Derrick Favors, Xavier Tillman, Stanley Johnson (who was rejuvenated as a small 5 last year), and Paul Reed (given the acquisition of Harrell) are all names I've got my eye on for the next 3-4 weeks. I might also add Boban and Kenyon Martin Jr. to that list.
Yeah, I would. If I thought the front office was half-assing it, leading to losses, I'd be p---ed.
Kornet's teammates like him as a towel waver and as a good dude.
My point is that players tend to like their teammates. Sometimes that doesn’t happen, of course, but for the most part they aren’t rooting for them to get replaced. They like Kornet, and they trust him on the court. Same thing with Hauser. Similarly, they’re generally optimistic about injuries that aren’t of the obvious season-ending type, because they have to be optimistic about their own such injuries. Rob’s out for a couple of weeks, and the mentality is to collectively step up and not freak out about it.
I think they’re disappointed for Rob, but not worrying about getting a vet center at this minute, especially if the names we banter around on this board are ones that don’t have the greatest locker room rep around the league.
Topic: Surgery for Rob (out 8-12 weeks) (Read 15683 times)