Mullins out 6 weeks with ankle injury

[Hunt for 7]

There is no positive in this. I feel bad for Mullins was really looking forward to seeing him to start the season. Hopefully timeline is good and he is rounding into form right around Christmas time.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Bruh you’ve got to be kidding me. Furphy going to get some minutes??

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Back by 11/28 against the Illini would be helpful. 5 weeks out.

 

[TheChamps990411]

Been pretty brutal so far with the injuries.

So was `24. Worked out pretty well. lets hope for a repeat of that.

 

[husky429]

Stewart, Ross and Malachi get ready

 

[husky429]

We had a long discussion on here about this last season after McNeeley's injury. Let's not do that again. Lol

The better debate is taping ankles or not.

 

[Scottobot]

According to Rothstein tweet.....he suffered an ankle injury in practice this week and will miss approx 6 weeks.......that stinks!!!
Heal up quick Braylon!!!

I see this as opening the door for Malachi Smith to be a starter and have a monster season.

 

[NJHusky]

Even if he comes back on timeline will probably be worked back slowly without having had any time to build up in live action.

Exactly…it’s his first year in the system. Big difference if it was an upperclassman coming back. He’s loosing valuable learning time

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Bruh you’ve got to be kidding me. Furphy going to get some minutes??

Can’t believe it took 4 pages to get a Furphy mention.

How about Paunovic’s time to shine?

 

[Hunt for 7]

So is anyone going to bring it up? Is it a high ankle sprain? The timeline suggests that it is. Common variety roll your ankle even with some tissue damage in about three weeks you are usually good to go.

 

[PAHusky]

1. Can’t help but feel like this is Liam all over again. Brutal injury for a freshman as it puts him way behind the curve.

2. Calling for Ross to start over Stewart is insanity. Stewart is inconsistent but has shown real flashes and had actual contributions in meaningful games. Ross has not. I know Ross fans love long discourses on how he’s secretly Gary Payton on D etc but it’s a no-brainer Stewart should start now and needs to step up

 

[HooperScooper]

So is anyone going to bring it up? Is it a high ankle sprain? The timeline suggests that it is. Common variety roll your ankle even with some tissue damage in about three weeks you are usually good to go.

Wasn't the original timeline 4 weeks for McNeeley's high ankle sprain last season? 6 weeks original prognosis sounds worse than a high ankle sprain. And FWIW McNeeley took over 5 weeks to get back into game action.

 

[Deepster]

Can’t believe there hasn’t been a single mention of Karaban yet. This is why he’s back. To be the rock that we count on thru the rough times.

The AK from the last two seasons will not cut it if we want to really make a serious run. And now more than ever he needs to be that guy.

 

[Ricker]

Mullins gets off the floor significantly when he takes 3's. A weak ankle has to impact his whole shot mechanics. It would suck to have this cause him to lose time and then lose effectiveness for a while to boot when he returns.

Injuries piss me off. You always want teams to be playing at full strength in marquee games. With Reed, Mullins, and other guys nursing issues the early games put tournament seeding at risk. Poorer seeding hurts the ability to advance deep. Truly sucks.

 

[Nameless]

This sucks, there is no way around it. I know we talked about how deep we were last year and the opposite ended up being the case. However I do think we actually have the depth to withstand this. There are a lot of different lineups we can throw out.

If Smith is indeed the one who steps into the starting lineup, I wonder if that will actually open up a few more minutes for Millender as a ball handler off the bench while Mullins is out. Probably depends on how he and others perform against the cupcakes.
Even if he doesn't it is nice to have another veteran option on the bench.

 

[superjohn]

Mullins gets off the floor significantly when he takes 3's. A weak ankle has to impact his whole shot mechanics. It would suck to have this cause him to lose time and then lose effectiveness for a while to boot when he returns.

Injuries piss me off. You always want teams to be playing at full strength in marquee games. With Reed, Mullins, and other guys nursing issues the early games put tournament seeding at risk. Poorer seeding hurts the ability to advance deep. Truly sucks.

This injury sucks big time.

 

[RuffRuff]

This injury sucks big time.

Totally sucks. Was going to be fun to see him go up against his peer group of top frosh/lottery picks in guys like Dysbantsa/Peat/Burries/Pedersen. Now we miss that in his likely only season. I feel like any loss we have over one in the OOC could drop us a seed line. We go 3-3, probably starting our seeding potential at around a 3 unless we totally wipe the floor of the BE/StJ. These OOC games are really big for this team with the BE so meh. I'm not a believer in Stew at the 3 for many reasons. I will be curious to see how much more Silas/Smith play together in this stretch.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Totally sucks. Was going to be fun to see him go up against his peer group of top frosh/lottery picks in guys like Dysbantsa/Peat/Burries/Pedersen. Now we miss that in his likely only season. I feel like any loss we have over one in the OOC could drop us a seed line. We go 3-3, probably starting our seeding potential at around a 3 unless we totally wipe the floor of the BE/StJ. These OOC games are really big for this team with the BE so meh. I'm not a believer in Stew at the 3 for many reasons. I will be curious to see how much more Silas/Smith play together in this stretch.

I think this injury greatly increased the odds he’ll come back next year.

 

[RuffRuff]

I think this injury greatly increased the odds he’ll come back next year.

Maybe - hopefully he kills it when he's back and is off.

 

[navery12]

I think this injury greatly increased the odds he’ll come back next year.

I doubt it. It sound like he's gonna miss 5 games and 3 of those are meaningless

 

[HooperScooper]

I think this injury greatly increased the odds he’ll come back next year.

You mean like McNeeley last year?

Way too early to even mention that.

 

[ec33]

Well Castle and Clingan having early season injuries worked out okay. Hopefully Mullins and Reed struggles lead to similar end results.

 

[uconn_jack]

McNeeley is from Texas

Ah yes, my bad. He decommited from Indiana.

 

[Slick]

This is a nothing sandwich, SO LONG AS BIG BEAR IS BACK. He is the one guy we can’t lose. Silas, Malachi and Solo will give us plenty of scoring. Stewart and Ross? It’s time boys. This is opportunity knocking. You don’t step up now and I will stop believing you have it in you. This is two years in a row that injuries open the door for them. Lastly, I think the Aussie will be heard from too. We are fine boys and girls.

We have no replacement for Mullins. Thats why he is predicted to be 1 and done. Tremendous shooter, quick athleticism. Unfortunately we Jayden or Jalin not close to the same ability.

 

[superjohn]

Totally sucks. Was going to be fun to see him go up against his peer group of top frosh/lottery picks in guys like Dysbantsa/Peat/Burries/Pedersen. Now we miss that in his likely only season. I feel like any loss we have over one in the OOC could drop us a seed line. We go 3-3, probably starting our seeding potential at around a 3 unless we totally wipe the floor of the BE/StJ. These OOC games are really big for this team with the BE so meh. I'm not a believer in Stew at the 3 for many reasons. I will be curious to see how much more Silas/Smith play together in this stretch.

This is a heavily stacked out of conference schedule that is set up perfectly outside of outside of the Kansas game. I was thinking possibly run the table, two losses at the worst. Mullins is a huge part of this and there's a major drop off without him. Depth is nice but Jaylin and Jayden aren't nearly as good as him. Now I just want to get through the gauntlet.

I want to hear that Tarris is 100% and ready to go.