Injury Updates?

[AUhawksfan]

I've never been so interested in injuries before.  It has been such a revolving door all season.  Our "all injury" squad right now is a decent team itself  Dunn, Cam, Hunter, Snell, and Gallo. 

Bruno could be 6th man too.....oh wait, that's just a bunch of DNP-CDs.

[Sothron]

Can you imagine this team fully healthy for the playoffs? 

[JayBirdHawk]

7 minutes ago, Sothron said:

Can you imagine this team fully healthy for the playoffs? 

I imagine EVERY single game, particularly the close losses.

[JayBirdHawk]

I can't wait until I see 'Dunn - Doubtful'

 

 

[RedDawg#8]

23 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

I can't wait until I see 'Dunn - Doubtful'

 

 

The way I see it, we need Gallo back and realistically at least one of Snell or Dre to be competitive in the playoffs.

If we can get all three back, we win a series and push our 2nd round series to the limit.

If we can get EVERYONE back and contributing on some level, we can realistically win 2 series this year.

We need Gallo's experience, size and firepower. We need Snell's length, consistency and floor spacing. We need anything Dre can give us at this point. But especially his ability to matchup on both ends of the floor at the 3 and get buckets and defend a variety of positions. He may not round back in to his pre injury form so anything he can give us would be gravy at this point. If he IS able to get back to his pre injury level, watch out. No starting 5 we will face can defend us at thar point. Yes I said it.

We can survive without Cam and Dunn, but if we can have them available too as another option to defend or provide a spark for us, that would really put us over the top if you ask me. They are the cherry on top. 

 

 

[JayBirdHawk]

 

 

 

 

[RedDawg#8]

11 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

 

 

Can someone with Twitter ask her about Gallo?

Ya'll bout to make me rejoin Twitter after like 10 years off.

[bleachkit]

2 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

 

 

They probably want to wait until close to end of the season for Deandre. That way to give him xtra time, and so we know what our post season will probably look like.

[MarylandHawk]

4 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

I can't wait until I see 'Dunn - Doubtful'

 

 

If he is anywhere close to his all defensive self, it will be an interesting playoff run. 

[JTB]

So Dunn had surgery again ????

[bleachkit]

13 minutes ago, JTB said:

So Dunn had surgery again ????

No, it's the same one he had at the beginning if the year.

[Spud2nique]

Trae secretly has a Dunn voodoo doll and keeps poking at it nightly. That has to be it. It’s the only thing that makes sense.  

[Atlantaholic]

The worst thing is we have been hyping up Dunn's return so much when he does return he'll be such a major dissapointment. Dude is not even that good lol. Can't hit a shot to save his life. 

[sturt]

Some strikingly similar numbers b/t Dunn and Rondo since 2019... and a few, not so much.

 

[macdaddy]

44 minutes ago, sturt said:

Some strikingly similar numbers b/t Dunn and Rondo since 2019... and a few, not so much.

 

Adjust for abilities of teammates.

[bleachkit]

3 hours ago, Atlantaholic said:

The worst thing is we have been hyping up Dunn's return so much when he does return he'll be such a major dissapointment. Dude is not even that good lol. Can't hit a shot to save his life. 

His value is his defense. And the thing is with his knees, you need to be healthy to play defense like that. It's a lot of reacting, shadowing, and sudden movements. Cant really play defense at half-speed.

[JayBirdHawk]

TS has been off on most of his projections so take it for what it's worth (and when was Dunn ever in uniform, lol):

 

 

 

 

 

Good to know, hopefully as the injured guys get back - we have no more injuries:

 

 

[bleachkit]

3 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

TS has been off on most of his projections so take it for what it's worth (and when was Dunn ever in uniform, lol):

 

 

 

 

 

Good to know, hopefully as the injured guys get back - we have no more injuries:

 

 

Yes that's true. He has been overly bullish about guys coming back perviously. It's not his call of course, the medical staff, along with how the players is feeling, determines when they return.

[macdaddy]

I want Gallo, Hunter, Snell back in that order and ready for the post season.   They will plug right back in but they need to be in shape.   Dunn and Cam I can live without this season.  Cam's D would be great but he also has the potential to mess up some of our offensive flow through bad shots and turnovers since he's been out for so long. 

[bleachkit]

3 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

I want Gallo, Hunter, Snell back in that order and ready for the post season.   They will plug right back in but they need to be in shape.   Dunn and Cam I can live without this season.  Cam's D would be great but he also has the potential to mess up some of our offensive flow through bad shots and turnovers since he's been out for so long. 

Even if Cam gets healthy enough to play, you have to wonder if he even would play once the playoffs start, because like you said, he has to be playing smart on offense. You generally only go 8 maybe 9 deep in the playoffs. Trae, Bogi, Capela, JC appear to be our big 4. Heurter, Gallo will also get major minutes as well. You would think Deandre and Snell will get the SF minutes. Solo is kinda the swiss army knife guy. I could see how Nate might prefer to play guys like Snell and Solo in the playoffs, despite being less talented than Cam. If Cam could just hit open threes, he could possibly garner minutes over Snell and Solo.