FWIW Paige on sidelines without brace

[hoopsfan22]

Paige already participates in pregame shootaround and has for at least a few weeks.

 

[Stymie]

The real question is;
Next season, when beating the bejesus out of Gonzaga, say up by 25 with 5 minutes to go, will Geno still keep Paige on the court?
Or has he learned a (his) lesson?

 

[hoopsfan22]

The real question is;
Next season, when beating the bejesus out of Gonzaga, say up by 25 with 5 minutes to go, will Geno still keep Paige on the court?
Or has he learned a (his) lesson?

I don't think there was a lesson to learn. Geno has said that the injury didn't occur at that moment in the ND game that it must have happened at some other point.

 

[Carnac]

While recovery from the type of knee injury Paige had runs the gamut from 8 weeks to career ending, One positive example was Yao Ming, who was back on the court just 9 weeks after fracturing his patella. Paige is younger and considerably smaller than Yao. If she can adhere to a similar timeline Paige could be back on the court for the game at Xavier on Feb 18.

That would give Paige four regular season games to get the rust off and build up her minutes. Hopefully she would be 100% by the BE tournament with UConn firing on all cylinders heading into the Big Dance.

If in fact Paige could return to play on or about that date, that would be the best news we've had this season. That would give her 4 games (Xavier, Georgetown, St. Johns and Providence, and more if they reschedule the games that were postponed) to get back in sync and get her legs back.

This year has been an anomaly, in that we have just about run the gamut of injuries, a player being lost for the entire season, COVID-19 virus infections, player defections, being diverted to alternative airports (Bradley International was closed Wednesday night due to inclement weather when the team returned from their latest road trip to Creighton, so they had to divert and land in Albany, then bus it back to campus. Where do you find a 55 passenger bus at 3am?

Geno said the team got back to Storrs at 7:00 am the next morning. THAT'S a road trip.) The years that UConn won championships, they were relatively injury free the entire year. Up to this point, this has clearly not been our year. If Paige can come back at or near 100%, I like our chances against anybody. It would be like old times: nobody will want to be in our bracket come tournament time.

 

[UConnCat]