Domas to miss remainder of season for left knee meniscus repair surgery
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Tetsujin
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Nah, Domas legitimately hurt that meniscus earlier in the year and it’s an actual knee issue that we’ve seen end/alter careers including that of probably the most important player in Sacramento Kings history.
QWERTYLICIOUS
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#EmbracingTheTank
If Domas ripped Utah for 30-15 and then all of a sudden needed season ending surgery 12 hours later sure, after playing healthy the whole year... sure you got it.
I dont think Domas played a fully healthy game all year.
SLAB
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Domas ripped Memphis for 24 & 15 in 24 minutes before being shut down.
I don't really care to engage with you on this because you want to do the little contrarian thing you always do. If you can't see the difference between Domas getting shut down vs JJJ, I don't have an answer for you, nor do I care to explain it further.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Yeah but then his knee immediately got sore again and he missed a bunch of games
Joshyjosh31
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Sabonis has been in a do it the lineup he didn’t put up 20 back to back games sitting 4th quarters then get surgery out of the blue
Sabonis hasn't looked right since he got hurt last season. This was overdue.
iowamcnabb
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bummer but we should have a pretty good feel for what Max/Dylan can be by years end and can make the best decision on the center position in the offseason.
sactowndog
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I’m sure JJJ’s injury is similar. Kings had to have him try to play through it so the rehab time would take him through the end of the season. lol.
So different.
Domas: Misses 27 straight games rehabbing knee injury. Returns for limited minutes for three games, has to sit a game. Returns for four games with diminishing numbers, has to sit two games. Returns for one more game with good numbers, has to sit. Rehab didn't work, team & Domas decide on surgery.
JJJ: After missing two games in November (illness? Dunno.) plays in 33 of 34 games he was suited up for (excluding only the trade-travel game), averaging 31 minutes a game. Gets traded to a tanker, plays three games (two tightly contested) where he is inexplicably benched for the entire fourth quarter. Then has sudden mystery surgery on a knee that was not apparently bothering him for an issue that presumably should have been seen in his trade physical.
What would we do without you?
I'm not really sure, but I do know I'd get a lot more work done without y'all
Caccia
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Yeah, I was questioning whether he should get surgery instead of risking further injury--as we know he would do, just to play--in a lost season.
I do my share of BBR and spotrac fact checking when I know something is off point, but damn, I really have to tip my hat (twice) for that performance.
Well, if it weren't for BBR's game log page, I wouldn't have even considered it. To be honest, outside of the game log page for each player, I only had to click through (two clicks each) and verify that JJJ sat the 4th for all 3 Utah games. Everything else was right there on the page.
Insomniacal Fan
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Pun intended?
Section 101
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Going a different direction. He was going to work the rehab till the trade deadline. Traded he keeps going with a new team, not traded has the proceedure.
I think the direction he was going was well established. Here's the games played trendline.
Perhaps. But I suspect that he was limited in his recovery based on the rest schedule once he came back.
If we go with the premise that he was seeking a trade to a contender, then the last thing he would want would be to take a game off after his first stint of three "spring training" appearances, and then take two games off after four games of 29 MPG (and play no back-to-backs in either) in the run-up to the deadline, not if he didn't have to. That would seem to indicate that his knee wasn't fully healed to teams trying to acquire him. In other words, I think if he wanted to get moved and was really good to go, he would have been going.
Seems to me he was gutting it out but wasn't really good to go. That might also explain why there were rumblings that the Kings couldn't get the value they wanted for him in trade. Perhaps nobody really thought he was playing in the playoffs this year anyways.
Frankly I'd like to see him with an impact PF or "big wing" to pair with Keegan. Or even at full strength with Maxime and Cardswell. And if he is not the answer hopefully when at full strength and a year less on his contract we'll get better offers than we did this year when he was being shopped.