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nateboz said:
The accurate way to diagnose a ACL tear is by a MRI. He hasn't had an MRI yet. I've torn my ACL and it took me 3 months to recover. I played with a brace with no ill effects. I don't really get why it takes a professional a year to recover.
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Is it possible it was MCL? MCL's recovery time is more around 2-3 months.
 
nateboz said:
The accurate way to diagnose a ACL tear is by a MRI. He hasn't had an MRI yet. I've torn my ACL and it took me 3 months to recover. I played with a brace with no ill effects. I don't really get why it takes a professional a year to recover.
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No way in hell you tore your ACL and had surgery (I'm assuming) and were playing on it full speed in 3 months with just a brace.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
The natural inclination is to compare Dante to Trey for obvious reasons, but because Trey hurts the team on both offense and defense, it's an easy victory for Dante and ultimately it was for Snyder because Dante started. Hence the comparison to Neto - somebody more similar to Dante, who will play solid D, who won't shoot the team out of games, but who might be a better playmaker.
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Exum was really drafted on what he might become in 3-4 years. There's no way he should have been starting last year, even with the way the latter half of the season went. Might even be a positive long term that he really has to fight back and actually earn a starting spot rather than having it given to him by default when he wasn't even close to being ready.
 
nateboz said:
The accurate way to diagnose a ACL tear is by a MRI. He hasn't had an MRI yet. I've torn my ACL and it took me 3 months to recover. I played with a brace with no ill effects. I don't really get why it takes a professional a year to recover.
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You can fairly accurately know if someone tore their ACL on examination of the knee. The problem is, when you hurt your knee, you tighten up the muscles and it makes it tough to see if the knee is loose, making a lot of false negatives. The False positive rate is actually fairly low. They will get an MRI to confirm, but if they think its torn based off of exam, then there is a 90 percent chance they are right. As far as recovering in 3 months. LMAO. You obviously didn't have surgery, therefore your ACL isn't healed (or wasn't torn in the first place). They do not heal on their own, and it takes time to recover from the surgery. If you did have surgery, then you are an idiot for playing after only 3 months, even if your knee felt OK.
 
stitches said:
Is it possible it was MCL? MCL's recovery time is more around 2-3 months.
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Nope. I tore it playing football in August as a Freshman in High School. I was playing Basketball the first part of December.
My surgeon was a former Jazz doctor by the name on Dr. Weiner. He told me that I would never have the flexibility I formerly had but I would have strength as long as I used a brace.
The only thing I can think is that the teams must be trying to get flexibility back to near 100% before they clear them to play.
 
The season(purely basketball-wise and results-wise) we are losing Exum for is not the biggest problem with that injury. We will do OK either way. The much bigger problem is we lose a year of Dante's development, a year of evaluation and quite possibly it might effect his willingness to be aggressive in the future.
 
stitches said:
The season(purely basketball-wise and results-wise) we are losing Exum for is not the biggest problem with that injury. We will do OK either way. The much bigger problem is we lose a year of Dante's development, a year of evaluation and quite possibly it might effect his willingness to be aggressive in the future.
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Would you add flexibility and explosiveness to that list as well? I don't think Rubio was ever the same after the injury/surgery...
 
stitches said:
The season(purely basketball-wise and results-wise) we are losing Exum for is not the biggest problem with that injury. We will do OK either way. The much bigger problem is we lose a year of Dante's development, a year of evaluation and quite possibly it might effect his willingness to be aggressive in the future.
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But it also gives him time to work on his game and strength without the pressure to perform. He's very young.
 
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