JO puts off wrist surgery

[PseudoElite]

Quote from frontpage article:
"he's putting off surgery on his broken wrist until after next season) he'll give it another shot next year."

Does anyone else find this troubling? Sounds a lot like him putting off the knee surgery and then coming back at the very end of the season without much playtime.

Why not do the wrist surgery now with a lockout looming, sigh.

[Evantime34]

Quote from frontpage article:
"he's putting off surgery on his broken wrist until after next season) he'll give it another shot next year."

Does anyone else find this troubling? Sounds a lot like him putting off the knee surgery and then coming back at the very end of the season without much playtime.

Why not do the wrist surgery now with a lockout looming, sigh.

Yeah I think he should potentially have knee and wrist surgery right away.

[Marcus13]

Same way he got into trouble this season.

Dude must really fear going under the knife

[Lucky17]

What's the surgery for? What's the recovery time?

[droopdog7]

Don't bones often heal without surgery?  I think this may be no big deal.

[Change]

Don't bones often heal without surgery?  I think this may be no big deal.

shhhhh 

[PseudoElite]

Don't bones often heal without surgery?  I think this may be no big deal.

Yeah but takes a long time, especially at 32 (or was it 33?).

[BballTim]

Don't bones often heal without surgery?  I think this may be no big deal.

Yeah but takes a long time, especially at 32 (or was it 33?).

  If a 32 year old at my office had a broken bone I don't think I'd expect his healing time to be dramatically drawn out because of his advanced age.

[mgent]

Imagine our record last year if JO was smart and had the knee surgery immediately after his 0 for 200 playoff series.

Not only would we have automatically had home-court advantage but he would have been starting from the beginning of the year so Shaq with less minutes probably wouldn't have gotten hurt, Baby wouldn't have turned into Jamal Crawford, Perk wouldn't have gotten traded, the possibilities are endless.

Stupid JO.

[BballTim]

Imagine our record last year if JO was smart and had the knee surgery immediately after his 0 for 200 playoff series.

Not only would we have automatically had home-court advantage but he would have been starting from the beginning of the year so Shaq with less minutes probably wouldn't have gotten hurt, Baby wouldn't have turned into Jamal Crawford, Perk wouldn't have gotten traded, the possibilities are endless.

Stupid JO.

  Look what happened to Raef after he had knee surgery that he felt he didn't need at the time. It's a crapshoot either way you go.

[PseudoElite]

Imagine our record last year if JO was smart and had the knee surgery immediately after his 0 for 200 playoff series.

Not only would we have automatically had home-court advantage but he would have been starting from the beginning of the year so Shaq with less minutes probably wouldn't have gotten hurt, Baby wouldn't have turned into Jamal Crawford, Perk wouldn't have gotten traded, the possibilities are endless.

Stupid JO.

  Look what happened to Raef after he had knee surgery that he felt he didn't need at the time. It's a crapshoot either way you go.

True that.

I can't help but feel that no matter what option JO takes, unless the Celtics get a young+talented+healthy center that it's gonna be a lot like last season, JO always being gimped because of injuries of some sort (last season alone: knees, wrist, back spasms).

[17wasEZ]

Imagine our record last year if JO was smart and had the knee surgery immediately after his 0 for 200 playoff series.

Not only would we have automatically had home-court advantage but he would have been starting from the beginning of the year so Shaq with less minutes probably wouldn't have gotten hurt, Baby wouldn't have turned into Jamal Crawford, Perk wouldn't have gotten traded, the possibilities are endless.

Stupid JO.

  Look what happened to Raef after he had knee surgery that he felt he didn't need at the time. It's a crapshoot either way you go.

True that.

I can't help but feel that no matter what option JO takes, unless the Celtics get a young+talented+healthy center that it's gonna be a lot like last season, JO always being gimped because of injuries of some sort (last season alone: knees, wrist, back spasms).

Just wondering how the Celtics are gonna get a young+talented+healthy center with their limited resources.  Seems nearly every team wants one of those or has one they won't let go of.

[PseudoElite]

Just wondering how the Celtics are gonna get a young+talented+healthy center with their limited resources.  Seems nearly every team wants one of those or has one they won't let go of.

Ding ding ding ding, we have a winner.
That's the biggest problem (pun intended), especially with Shaq officially retired now.

 Kristic starting center? lol

[nickagneta]

If it needs surgery get it done. If it doesn't then why would there be a need to put it off a year?

O'Neal's putting off surgery is just another move on his part to play another half season and get paid for a whole season. He's been doing this for 8 years.

2004-05 - 44 games
2005-06 - 51 games
2006-07 - 69 games
2007-08 - 42 games
2008-09 - 68 games
2009-10 - 70 games
2010-11 - 24 games

Dude has played in 64% of the available games over the last 7 years. I fully expect him to have a problem with the wrist in training camp, be in trouble with it to start the season. Play 10-15 games. Go out with the wrist injury. Decide to have the surgery before the All-Star break and come back late in the season and be ineffective. Total games played, less than 35.

[Finkelskyhook]

If it needs surgery get it done. If it doesn't then why would there be a need to put it off a year?

O'Neal's putting off surgery is just another move on his part to play another half season and get paid for a whole season. He's been doing this for 8 years.

2004-05 - 44 games
2005-06 - 51 games
2006-07 - 69 games
2007-08 - 42 games
2008-09 - 68 games
2009-10 - 70 games
2010-11 - 24 games

Dude has played in 64% of the available games over the last 7 years. I fully expect him to have a problem with the wrist in training camp, be in trouble with it to start the season. Play 10-15 games. Go out with the wrist injury. Decide to have the surgery before the All-Star break and come back late in the season and be ineffective. Total games played, less than 35.

I was actually surprised that it was 64%.

O'Neal will clearly tank next year like the previous one.

This was so predictable that I can't understand Danny, who knows the player a lot better than I do, couldn't see through it.