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Re: Report: Deron Williams has surgery on both ankles
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2014, 11:15:46 AM »

Offline BballTim

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Sounds similar to when Ray had those double ankle surgery and came back fine.  Williams is a limitless younger when Ray had it done so maybe he will come out of this ok.

Even fully healthy at the top of his game, Deron Williams was never 3/4s the player that Ray Allen was.

That's a hard one -- different play styles, different systems, even as ball dominant guards. Ray was never the passer Williams was, and arguably never possessed his handles, either.

  I've never been a Deron fan, but he was pretty solid on those Utah teams, better than 3/4 what Ray was in any case.


Eh. It makes for a good debate. I could see multiple sides to the argument.  I, for one, always thought Deron was overrated, even in Utah.

  I always thought the same about Ray, who's always been relatively one-dimensional.

Re: Report: Deron Williams has surgery on both ankles
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2014, 11:25:08 AM »

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Sounds similar to when Ray had those double ankle surgery and came back fine.  Williams is a limitless younger when Ray had it done so maybe he will come out of this ok.

Even fully healthy at the top of his game, Deron Williams was never 3/4s the player that Ray Allen was.

That's a hard one -- different play styles, different systems, even as ball dominant guards. Ray was never the passer Williams was, and arguably never possessed his handles, either.

  I've never been a Deron fan, but he was pretty solid on those Utah teams, better than 3/4 what Ray was in any case.


Eh. It makes for a good debate. I could see multiple sides to the argument.  I, for one, always thought Deron was overrated, even in Utah.

  I always thought the same about Ray, who's always been relatively one-dimensional.

Thats fair enough.  But Ray was always the very best at that one thing, heck, one of the best in league history at that one thing, and consistently for a sustained period of time.  DWill was never the best at anything and his peak years lasted a very short period of time, actually, and specifically, under the tutelage of Jerry Sloan.

Re: Report: Deron Williams has surgery on both ankles
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2014, 11:32:52 AM »

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Good player , I think he may have finally grown up and come down to earth ,  I figured he was getting the cortisone shots.  All of a sudden when players are "healed" it is due to this treatment.

Within minutes what had hurt is like new .  But they are not good to take more than three a year.

Wade lives off these things I'm sure.

DWill sad oesn't take punishment well.....hard hits usually ends bad for him when he hits the floor or has a major collision .  He always seems to get the worst of a crash on court.

He is sorta fragile for a big strong looking fellow.