This is Rob’s NBA injury history:
DATE DESCRIPTION
03/31/2021 Illness
02/11/2021 Left Hip
01/07/2021 Health And Safety Protocols
12/25/2020 Illness
03/09/2020 Back
12/08/2019 Hip
11/16/2019 Right Ankle Soreness
11/13/2019 Ankle
11/01/2019 Left Hip
03/23/2019 Lower Back Contusion
03/17/2019 Illness
02/13/2019 Illness
02/12/2019 Back
02/03/2019 Lower Back Soreness
12/27/2018 Groin
About Rob's injury history:
The main thing that he's missed time for is a pair of medical conditions, which might be related. I haven't heard updates on his Popliteal Artery Syndrome since his rookie year. If I understand what's known about the condition, it appears to be something that you can grow out of. If he's still dealing with it it would affect his stamina and therefore his minutes.
The Transient Osteoporosis has not been updated publicly since he missed substantial time last year for it. That one is a fairly rare condition, and poorly understood; the case studies I've seen included middle-aged men, so he
might have a recurrence at some point.
He has the chance to be something really special - or to wind up a footnote in NBA history because of his peculiar physiology.
Romeo has displayed the potential to have the floor of a top 100 player. Unlike Dante Exum and other players that have had their careers derailed prematurely due to injury, his injuries have been minor.
Once Langford gets his legs and sustains a healthy run, he’s going to get consistent minutes, we’re going to see the development, and within the next 2 years the posts will be about if he can be the centerpiece to a KAT trade.
I believe in his future, like you. Your point about his injuries is a good one, too - they're not much of a long-term issue. The notion that players can be injury-prone has some truth to it, but it's mainly due to long-term issues - a knee injury, for instance, can become tendinitis on the other leg because of favoring the injured/healing knee, etc. etc. So Romeo is probably not 'injury-prone'.
It would help his case if he could find more ways to put the ball in the basket. He had the lowest assist% on the team last season (though his main competition Nesmith's is even lower this year). He can get himself to the foul line, looks like, even though defenders can play him for the drive, and he's not careless with the ball.
Already getting refs' respect to draw charges; springy, uses his length and has good anticipation, so gets deflections and blocks shots; plays physical and gets in his man's airspace.
Fournier will get rotation minutes; Brown and Smart are core players; Nesmith is obviously worthy of court time; and beyond those players, Pritchard is usually paired with a ballhandler, and he's in the rotation, too - so the question for Romeo is: how does he get in an NBA game?
As I say, I believe in his future. But I doubt that it's in Boston.
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