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myrtle
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Posted: 12/11/21 11:04 pm ::: |
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I hope they do whatever is best for her longterm career. My stepson had a pin put in his to hold it together while it healed and that worked out well longterm...but it took him a long time to get back to full strength.
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FrozenLVFan
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Posted: 12/11/21 11:25 pm ::: |
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Queenie wrote: |
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UConn star Paige Bueckers considering surgery for leg injury
I certainly hope Paige Bueckers is getting second and third opinions from nationally recognized orthopedic knee surgeons, such as at NYC's Hospital for Special Surgery, instead of just relying on Drs. Joyce, Arciero, et al. at the UConn Health Center—who, in my harsh opinion, did not distinguish themselves with the knees of Shea Ralph, Brittany Hunter, Caroline Doty, or Morgan Tuck. |
If she and/or UConn aren't seeking multiple opinions, they're collectively idiots. HSS isn't far, and isn't the Yale-New Haven system also well respected? As soon as surgery is on the table, you measure at least twice before you cut once. |
The Bone and Joint Institute in Hartford and Mass General are both about an hour away from Storrs. She has plenty of options.
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linkster
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Posted: 12/12/21 12:00 am ::: |
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summertime blues wrote: |
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Let this be a lesson to you, Geno...USE YOUR BENCH! Use it when you should, not when you just have to. |
Just an excuse for you to have something not nice to say about Gano.
Her injury is always the result of a blow or a series of blows over timeand has nothing to do with muscle fatigue. So it could have occurred walking to the locker room after the game, at Practice the next day or March 15th.
UConn has an enviable record with ACL's which are fatigue related. The facts speak for themselves. When STB finds the last UConn player to have an ACL tear at UConn she'll realize how silly her comment sounds. [/u] |
I have said almost nothing about Geno for months, so this is just an excuse for you to be nasty. I believe a coach should always use their bench and that Geno has a bad habit of using his players like some owners use their prize racehorses, running them until they drop. Then he has a bench that isn't ready. End of what I have to say about it. That isn't "nasty", it's just an opinion. You really need to get over being so hyper-defensive and thinking anything remotely critical is an "attack". |
You only post in any UConn thread when you have something critical to say. Now that is OK. It's an open board. But don't try and play the victim. You are the 1st one to tell a UConn fan in a Tenn game thread to get lost because they don't belong.
Just to show how you talk without knowing anything, prized race horses are NEVER raced until they drop.
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GlennMacGrady
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Posted: 12/14/21 11:07 am ::: |
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A doctor reviews Bueckers' hypertension and explains tibial plateau fractures.
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huskiemaniac
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Posted: 12/14/21 11:40 am ::: |
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Thanks, Glen.
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huskiemaniac
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Posted: 12/14/21 11:41 am ::: |
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linkster wrote: |
summertime blues wrote: |
linkster wrote: |
summertime blues wrote: |
Let this be a lesson to you, Geno...USE YOUR BENCH! Use it when you should, not when you just have to. |
Just an excuse for you to have something not nice to say about Gano.
Her injury is always the result of a blow or a series of blows over timeand has nothing to do with muscle fatigue. So it could have occurred walking to the locker room after the game, at Practice the next day or March 15th.
UConn has an enviable record with ACL's which are fatigue related. The facts speak for themselves. When STB finds the last UConn player to have an ACL tear at UConn she'll realize how silly her comment sounds. [/u] |
I have said almost nothing about Geno for months, so this is just an excuse for you to be nasty. I believe a coach should always use their bench and that Geno has a bad habit of using his players like some owners use their prize racehorses, running them until they drop. Then he has a bench that isn't ready. End of what I have to say about it. That isn't "nasty", it's just an opinion. You really need to get over being so hyper-defensive and thinking anything remotely critical is an "attack". |
You only post in any UConn thread when you have something critical to say. Now that is OK. It's an open board. But don't try and play the victim. You are the 1st one to tell a UConn fan in a Tenn game thread to get lost because they don't belong.
Just to show how you talk without knowing anything, prized race horses are NEVER raced until they drop. |
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huskiemaniac
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Posted: 12/14/21 2:28 pm ::: |
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Bueckers had successful surgery yesterday to repair the plateau fracture as well as a hitherto unknown (to the public) lateral meniscus tear.
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Fighting Artichoke
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Posted: 12/14/21 2:42 pm ::: |
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Great news. Glad to hear it.
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Queenie
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Posted: 12/14/21 5:15 pm ::: |
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Yeah, I'm gonna go with "hilariously optimistic" on that 6-8 week timeframe.
_________________ Ardent believer in the separation of church and stadium.
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SPD
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snlMINAJ
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Posted: 12/17/21 5:47 am ::: |
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what is with the absolute venom toward UConn & Media lately... its crazy, its like the 'me-too' movement. all other 300+ D1 programs are like "me too" - per Brenda Frese & others.
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Howee
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summertime blues
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Howee
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Coyotes
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Posted: 12/17/21 2:08 pm ::: |
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I think that Brenda does have a point -- and I'm not sure how you go about dispersing the media more fairly.
I'm understanding that UConn gets coverage mainly because stories generate clicks -- but if you also shared stories going on around the country more consistently, I'm imagining you'd get a consistent audience. Sure, maybe do 1-2 features on UConn -- but 4/7 seems excessive.
It'd be nice to see coverage for teams like Oklahoma, BYU, Arizona etc. who are all having nice seasons so far.
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pilight
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snlMINAJ
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summertime blues
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Posted: 12/17/21 4:53 pm ::: |
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Well, Brenda is frequently rather venomous, so UConn shouldn't take any particular umbrage or give itself airs on that. She's been just as nasty towards other schools.
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linkster
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ucbart
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Posted: 12/18/21 11:12 am ::: |
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Ya know what's crazy about this-UCONN gets a lot of clicks digitally, but I think the actual announcers and WBB personalities tend to downplay UCONN. Like last year, for instance. Paige had a historic freshman season and Debbie Antonelli was almost begging the audience to believe that Dana Evans should be NPOY. Like, Evans had a nice college career, but her being NPOY is laughable. This year during one broadcast, maybe 3 games into the season, Holly Rowe already proclaimed that Alliyah Boston was her NPOY(Nikki Fargas did the same during halftime of the UCLA/UCONN game) Last year ESPN hardly bothered with UCONN/Paige until the tournament, when they could use us/her for ratings. I mean, I watched several broadcasts where NFOY was brought up and they talked only about Clark and that's just one instance. Why would they build up a player they could rarely showcase? I get it.
Yes, UCONN gets a lot of coverage because it gets clicks, but ESPN the channel and its personalities heavily favor the SEC and Dawn Staley. Dawn is almost god-like to these people, which is whatever, but it certainly is the case. I mean, I get it as a UCONN fan that doesn't like Dawn or SC-the channel makes most of it's money off of the SEC and Dawn being a black woman and having a KiLLER program is surely to get the most coverage from a network like ESPN that leads with race, a lot.
Now-do all of you have a problem with all the SC/Boston love by ESPN programming? Did you hate it with Sabrina? Did you dislike it when they did it with Griner, Parker, or the 3 Meeks in 1998? I have a feeling that the ire of this coverage has a lot to do with the fact that everyone's favorite team is their team, and anyone who beats UCONN.
PS-I bet you Brenda, if she watched broadcasts, which she surely doesn't, would be more about the amount of coverage SC gets programming wise than UCONN does digitally.
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Davis4632
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Posted: 12/18/21 2:29 pm ::: |
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ucbart wrote: |
Ya know what's crazy about this-UCONN gets a lot of clicks digitally, but I think the actual announcers and WBB personalities tend to downplay UCONN. Like last year, for instance. Paige had a historic freshman season and Debbie Antonelli was almost begging the audience to believe that Dana Evans should be NPOY. Like, Evans had a nice college career, but her being NPOY is laughable. This year during one broadcast, maybe 3 games into the season, Holly Rowe already proclaimed that Alliyah Boston was her NPOY(Nikki Fargas did the same during halftime of the UCLA/UCONN game) Last year ESPN hardly bothered with UCONN/Paige until the tournament, when they could use us/her for ratings. I mean, I watched several broadcasts where NFOY was brought up and they talked only about Clark and that's just one instance. Why would they build up a player they could rarely showcase? I get it.
Yes, UCONN gets a lot of coverage because it gets clicks, but ESPN the channel and its personalities heavily favor the SEC and Dawn Staley. Dawn is almost god-like to these people, which is whatever, but it certainly is the case. I mean, I get it as a UCONN fan that doesn't like Dawn or SC-the channel makes most of it's money off of the SEC and Dawn being a black woman and having a KiLLER program is surely to get the most coverage from a network like ESPN that leads with race, a lot.
Now-do all of you have a problem with all the SC/Boston love by ESPN programming? Did you hate it with Sabrina? Did you dislike it when they did it with Griner, Parker, or the 3 Meeks in 1998? I have a feeling that the ire of this coverage has a lot to do with the fact that everyone's favorite team is their team, and anyone who beats UCONN.
PS-I bet you Brenda, if she watched broadcasts, which she surely doesn't, would be more about the amount of coverage SC gets programming wise than UCONN does digitally. |
Define hardly brought up. I remember plenty of instances in which Bueckers and UConn was mentioned and they weren't even playing. Clark certainly didn't have much national
hype surrounding her for NFOY. The ACC and SEC networks has a tendency to hype up and make cases for why their best players should be considered for NPOY awards.
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Coyotes
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Posted: 12/19/21 8:09 am ::: |
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I mean, the fact that there’s not a single article about a Top 10 matchup between Stanford and Tennessee showing on the home page should speak volumes to the bias that exists.
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Iluvacc
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Posted: 12/19/21 1:57 pm ::: |
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Never underestimate ESPNS’s ability to run a particular narrative in the ground in an attempt to generate more interest/publicity for the sport, while simultaneously ignoring/neglecting other deserving players and storylines.
It’s nothing new just depends on which team you’re rooting for. The three to see, UConn’s run during the Stewie years, Arike’s buzzer beater, Sabrina’s senior year, last year with Paige and Caitlin Clark. ESPN blew their collective wad with their sweet 16 matchup, never mind Christyn Williams ended up being the best player on the floor during that game.
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GlennMacGrady
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Posted: 12/19/21 2:46 pm ::: |
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So, Paige Bueckers' surgery "was successful." What does that mean? Not much, in my long experience reading media reports about sports injuries. Surgeons and PR departments for athletes always say that the next day.
To me, all it means is that the surgeon opened up an incision the way he wanted, sewed or screwed together or cut out what he wanted (according to his subjective preferences), closed the surgical incision, and the patient woke up alive. All of that says nothing about how, for any given patient, the post-surgery recovery will go, how long it will take, or whether any number of post-surgical complications will develop.
Relevant to Bueckers' surgery is the very recent research paper published in April, 2021, in the journal Orthopaedic Surgery, entitled "Surgical Strategy for Anterior Tibial Plateau Fractures in Hyperextension Knee Injuries". This is exactly the kind of injury and surgery Bueckers had.
The conclusion says that the results of all the surgeries were "satisfactory", but doesn't indicate whether that conclusion would be valid for an elite athlete.
To me, the more interesting aspects of the article are some of facts the article reports about this kind of surgery. Here are some:
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Hyperextension tibial plateau fractures are rare, but the injury is serious. |
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At present, the fracture characteristics of anterior tibial fractures caused by knee hyperextension injuries are unclear. There is no consensus on the ideal choice of approach and fixation methods for anterior tibial plateau fractures. |
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Determining how to reduce and fix the fracture of the anterior tibial plateau caused by the hyperextension injury is still a clinical problem that needs to be resolved. |
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All cases in this group were followed up for 15.7 months (range: 12–24 months). All fractures achieved bone union, and the fracture healing time was 3.3 months (range: 3–6 months). There was no difference in fracture healing time for different fracture types. |
The article indicates that many of the patients also had soft tissue injuries that had to be repaired. So did Bueckers, who needed torn meniscus repair. Depending on what part of the meniscus was damaged and how extensively, recovery from just the meniscus surgery can also be very variable.
My conclusion: Don't bet the farm on seeing Bueckers on the court eight weeks from the surgery. |
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