Nerlens Noel torn ACL

[Oxford Bob]

out for the year. For his sake hopefully it won't hurt his draft status too much.

 

[caw]

Jeez, well if Toronto misses the playoffs and isn't top 4 he could end up in OKC. That would be unfair.

 

[Scot-e]

Please post OT before Uk threads. This is not the Lville board. I wish him well but since we are never-ever going to face him on a college basketball court I fail to see why we should care at all?

 

[aceboon]

Please post OT before Uk threads. This is not the Lville board. I wish him well but since we are never-ever going to face him on a college basketball court I fail to see why we should care at all?

then continue not caring and don't enter the thread. college basketball is discussed on this board all the time outside of UConn, this is no different. when did dumba**ery take over this board? It's been rampant lately...

 

[Scot-e]

I don't think it's dumb to ask people to post OT before a uK thread- this is a UCONN board after all.
I also think the fact that I care very little (except that he gets better) is very interesting and needs to be shared with everyone.

 

[nomar]

I think you only need to say "OT" when it's not 100% clear that the post will be OT.

I clicked on this with a high level of confidence that it had to do with Nerlens Noel's injury and not anything to do with UConn.

 

[caw]

It did seem pretty clear what the topic was about here. Mine probably could have used an OT.

 

[tzznandrew]

As for the OT. I sort of get your point--but it does say Nerlens Noel. I mean, I usually read more than the first two letters before I clicked on a thread. Any reasonable person knew this wasn't about UConn.

I have a couple of thoughts. This is the first high profile kid who would have been in the NBA to get seriously hurt in college. There will be lots of people bemoaning the NBA age limit.

I feel really bad for the kid, but I don't particularly think this changes the calculus.

NCAA football players get hurt all the time, and they have to wait until they are 21 (or three years out of high school) to play in the NFL--and no one complains. If there was a 20 year age limit (or three years out of high school), this wouldn't be something people complained about. The era of one-and-dones sucks--really should be more like baseball.

(I know I'm a bit all over the place at the end there).

 

[TXHuskyFan]

Other threads on this page that should have OT

1. Jim Boeheim "Fantasy Camp"
2. Syracuse vs. Georgetown...
3. Man I hate UK
4. Monopoly money
5. This Michigan pretty much says it

Thats 6 total, including this one out of 30. Of which at least 1 is completely unrelated to NCAA BBall and 3 have nothing to do with the BE and all 6 have nothing to with the BE in another month and a half..

 

[Bryan Lord]

I saw this happen yesterday. The announcers at first said he banged it into the padded hoop but clear he just landed wrong. I figured it was torn the way he was screaming in pain.

 

[Scot-e]

It might just be the fact Uk gives me a gag reflex and I like the degree of separation.

 

[Huskies4ever]

out for the year. For his sake hopefully it won't hurt his draft status too much.

That sucks. Wish the kid the best.

 

[Huskies4ever]

I figured it was torn the way he was screaming in pain.

That's a good indication. Unless you're Rajon Rondo, and you keep playing. Although, they are now saying that RR did not suffer a complete tear.

 

[Gurleyman]

ACL tears are funny in how they produce varied reactions. If you don't do anything else, in the way of also damaging cartilage, tendons, multiple ligaments, etc. you can sometimes play through it on adrenaline, or walk off on your own power and have people saying it doesn't look that bad. You can also pretty much move in a straight line with little discomfort (the inability to move laterally or make cuts makes it impossible to continue playing after the adrenaline stops - at least without an enormous knee brace). However, if you do multiple things to your knee at once, the result is often agony. The ACL tear is just the longest recovery time by far, so if someone does that, the other cartilage or tendon damage is pretty much non-newsworthy.

Of course, there's also pain threshold differences, plus the potential of a guy like Noel freaking out emotionally because he fears his career could be derailed. Then you panic and feel the pain even more.

 

[UCONNfan1]

What does posting "OT" before a thread do? In my opinion, anything college hoops related is NOT OT. Whether we are talking about UCONN, ND, Syracuse, duke, Butler, or Alcorn State. It's all college hoops and none of it is OT.

OT threads are when we talk about football or other sports, politics, and crap like that. Not sure what the big deal is, but anything MCBB related is most definitely NOT OT.

As for Noel, tough luck for him. Never like seeing a kid injured, even if I can't stand the school he chose to go to.

 

[nomar]

I think OT needs to go before vaguely titled posts, like "Need advice" (which could be about getting UConn tickets or about buying a new Galaxy) or "ESPN sucks" (which again could be about a UConn-related article or just your basic rant about how ESPN sucks).

Basically, I want OT in front of any post that I might possibly think has to do with UConn basketball but in fact does not. People are free to put it in front of anything that doesn't directly relate to UConn, even if the title makes clear the post doesn't so relate, but I don't see the need to strictly enforce it. My $0.02 on the matter.

As a Celtics fan who's just seen 2 guards go down with ACLs, I feel really bad for Noel (if not UK fans).

 

[Huskybass]

Love me some Nerlens. Wishing him a full and speedy recovery.

 

[Gurleyman]

Also, if you start a thread about a game that doesn't involve UConn which goes into overtime, you have to have "OT OT" in the subject line. Or, if you are starting a thread to let us know that you need to have your occupational therapy session run late, you have to go with "OT OT OT"

It is only common courtesy.

 

[huskyharry]

Rough news!

Chance for Cauley, Poytress and Goodwin to prove that they really deserve to be lottery picks...I haven't seen it so far

 

[tzznandrew]

That's the thing--they got lucky by having two freshmen who were really good (Davis, MKG) and a returning player like Terrence Jones who would have been one of the top picks. If they were missing any of those three, they don't win. And it's too difficult to win many titles with Freshmen-Sophomores. I think they'll have more years like this one, and 2011, than like last year.

 

[Dove]

I gotta question.

Squid posted a tweet and in it was this nugget...

The good news is he is insured, so he would have been fine even if the injury would have been worse.

So, with an insurance premium on the kid is he about to cash in in a big way?

 

[uconnbill]

I root against UK no matter who they play but I hope Noel is okay in the long run and has a good pro career