How' Boat?

[CTBasketball]

Too many threads about this - anyone know how Boat is?

 

[Gurleyman]

The deep thigh bruise injury is the same one that gave Rip problems for a couple weeks back in 1999. He had to miss the Syracuse and Stanford games that year and didn't have the right lift on his shot for a little while after he came back. Granted he had a different body type and no two injuries are exactly the same, but I'll give an uneducated guess that Boat won't play against Florida and may take a few games to really get back to 100 percent, especially shooting the ball.

He may try to gut it out at Florida, but the trouble is that it's the type of nagging injury where if he gets hit in the same spot again, it's back to square one. You can try to put a small pad there, but it'll only do so much.

 

[mauconnfan]

Deep thigh bruise is more than likely not going to be a go for Saturday in Gainesville. At least according to history I've seen on the injury - I guess the question is how deep?

 

[CTBasketball]

Deep thigh bruise is more than likely not going to be a go for Saturday in Gainesville. At least according to history I've seen on the injury - I guess the question is how deep?

Just the tip hopefully

 

[Doheny]

He should be on crutches today, and out at least a week, and more likely two.
Means missing three games. If he comes back too soon he risks screwing up his career ( and the rest of the season). You can read about thigh contusions here:
http://www.sportsmd.com/Articles/id/33/n/quadriceps_contusion.aspx#sthash.X6sbpWpE.dpbs

 

[mauconnfan]

Don't plan your day around 2pm on Saturday if this is true, that's all I will say.

 

[huskiesnyc]

Don't plan your day around 2pm on Saturday if this is true, that's all I will say.

Come on Mau you know you're going to watch, just don't expect a win and maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised. Personally I'll be happy if we manage to cut the unforced errors in half even in a loss. Time to just play loose, improve and of course stop choking and bricklaying

 

[HungryHuskies]

All I know is that Boat is a warrior and is going to try whatever it takes to get on the court. I'd be very surprised if he doesn't at least give it a shot on Saturday. A little optimism won't hurt anybody.

 

[mauconnfan]

The optimism will come as soon as I hear it wasn't a "deep" thigh bruise. But the facts remain the guy who looked like he was some serious pain yesterday has little chance to be playing this weekend without a miracle, or unless it was misdiagnosed.

 

[James]

From what I hear boat is out for the game.

 

[upstater]

The optimism will come as soon as I hear it wasn't a "deep" thigh bruise. But the facts remain the guy who looked like he was some serious pain yesterday has little chance to be playing this weekend without a miracle, or unless it was misdiagnosed.

And what the hell were the refs doing allowing Temple to club him like that with impunity?

 

[David 76]

I have the feeling that the team will rise to the occasion without Boat. Probably a hard-fought loss.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Look for them to press us. I would.
Since we don't make free throws they can come hard at us.
We also have suspect ball handles

This will be TS 's baptism of Fire.

 

[BoatShow]

Florida isn't great right now

 

[gtcam]

Florida isn't great right now

Ditto for UConn

 

[David 76]

Both teams will be desperate. We are w/o our best player.

Should we start Calhoun at shooting guard? Jim or Omar?

 

[dsturdy5]

This game could be to this year's team what the IU game was to the 08 team.

 

[Gurleyman]

This game could be to this year's team what the IU game was to the 08 team.

Funny - I was thinking Kansas ''97 with a Hamilton playing a lot of point guard. Of course we lost and went to the NIT that year, so I like yours better. Maybe at Stanford without Rip but there were experienced veterans on that team to step up. Without Boat, our entire starting 5 is different from last year.

 

[pnow15]

Cold laser therapy did a lot for my knee, Ultra sound. But he has an NBA career if he can stay healthy. So Boat ignore all of us
and get healthy so that you can get paid.