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[QUOTE="Rich, post: 4686188, member: 9018"]
"I think it's going to be when she feels mentally ready, not physically ready, mentally," he said. "Physically, [she's] 90%, she said 90%. If we were in the Final Four this coming week, you think she'd play? Hell yeah, but this isn't April."

BINGO.  This is the key.  ACL injuries are notorious for the psychological component because of all the cutting and start/stop accelerating athletes need to do, especially in basketball.  She might be physically healed 100% but it's going to take her at LEAST half a season to get to the point where she trusts her knee and her movements on the court.  There's just no way around that.  If everything goes well I'd expect we start to see some semblance of her 'old' self maybe halfway through the conference schedule.

These injuries are 18-24 month propositions, all told.  It's actually somewhat similar to UCL replacement surgery ('Tommy John') for pitchers.  Usually don't get their stuff back for a year after the graft heals because of the lack of certainty about cutting their arm speed loose.
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