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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 5236873, member: 3834"] Total speculation as to what caused the injury! It looked to me (also total speculation) that the knee went on the step [B]before [/B] the final, awful looking one. If true, it happened before any contact. If you watch the video from front and back, it looks as though she (JuJu) (front) picks the ball up and has a pained face before she actually made that awful looking last step and began to fall. From the back, it looks (to me) that something happened on the final right foot plant before the one where her knee splays out to the side. I believe that is when the knee went! I’m convinced the combination of the weakened ankle (injured in the previous game) and the relentless minutes in pursuit of points, plus the clearly coach sanctioned reluctance to play [B]team[/B] ball. She would not pass off to the wide open teammate streaking (all by herself) to the basket and was constantly playing iso, one on one basketball, driving to the basket instead of passing to teammates, knowing she would usually get foul shots. Now this is not neccessarily always bad. Drawing fouls is a good thing. I’m also not saying that she [B]never [/B]passed the ball! However, JuJu would drive when it was clear the lane was not really there and was routinely involved in physical collisions under the basket. Again, not always bad. But she would choose this over wide open teammates just as she attempted to do on the injury play! I believe all of this, the minutes, the bad ankle, the lack of fundamental team play (passing off to the open teammate) were all contributors to her injury. As for your last snarky sentence, I came to my conclusion because I have eyes and watched the whole thing happen both in real time and on multiple replays! Imo, this injury was the almost inevitable result of multiple, cumulative bad decisions that [B]must[/B] be laid primarily at the feet of the head coach. She simply did not make the choices that she, as the head coach [B]should[/B] have made in order to both protect her player and to teach her team basketball concepts! These choices, taken singly, may not have ended with this horrendous result but cumulatively, they were simply too much! [/QUOTE]

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