Did not watch the game as I don't pay for Peacock. Any word on Malik? I do not see any other threads started on it.
Reneau Hurt / Out?
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He popped up pretty good after the initial injury. But then immediately went back to the locker room. Came back out to the bench later with an ice pack on the inside of his knee. Just making some assumptions based off what you normally see...usually if someone is feared to have a major injury, they don't come back out to the bench still in uniform. Its usually in some sort of big mobilization brace and crutches. So hopefully that's a sign they don't think its something major???
We won't know anything until right before the game Sunday. They usually never say a thing.
Gotta think if they thought there was even a possibility of something major/season ending...1)he probably wouldn't have come back out to the bench 2)As you said he would have had crutches...but also would have had the entire knee in a big brace immobilizing it.
Doesn't mean he'll be back any time soon. But basically has to mean the medical staff wasn't worried about something major.
He didn't come out till the second half with the team. The ice bag came off about halfway into the half (I had a good vantage point). He never got up, but he was smiling and chatting with Gabe.
Did he walk out? Even him not sitting at the end with his leg propped up, is a good sign.
Basically zero chance the medical staff would allow him to walk if they had any concerns it might be a major injury. IU isn't "boot U" for no reason.
More or less said 0% chance its serious. In theory I guess he hold him out but I took that as there is a very good chance he plays
"He popped up pretty good"?...he was on the floor for 3-4 minutes...almost fell on the way back to the locker room. It's either an mcl sprain, or torn meniscus.
Serious, as in out long term. Missing a game or two because of a deep bone bruise (hopefully that's the case but I'm not a doctor) isn't serious.
Kent Sterling said the offense actually flowed better after he went out.
The team played well and the shots dropped but IU cannot afford to play many BIG games with one starter and one rotational player out.
This program has been snakebit with injuries for a decade.
This would be pretty serious. I have torn my meniscus and had surgery to repair. If that's what happened, it will be at least 6 weeks for him to be out depending upon severity and recovery. I walked for months and played golf with the tear before finally getting it surgically repaired. If he did in fact fall while walking, that's not a good sign.
It sure feels that way but are our injuries really out of line with any other major program? As RMK said, "we’re not teaching kids how to play canasta. This is a game where kids get bloody noses and get hurt."
My ears bleed when I see shit like this. He’s our best and most efficient offensive player by far.
I think that has more to do with playing only one big. Will see what happens going forward, but playing one big at a time seems to work.
He got that good of a read off of 30 seconds into a game! Jesus Christ
If he could just understand when to pass to the perimeter, he'd be even better because you couldn't collapse on him. Imagine what he could do then.
I get the offense looks better comments. I think every made 3 last night came from a paint touch. That doesn't usually happen when he's on the floor, or at least not as often.
This team played 1 big exactly 5 days ago against Winthrop and resulted in arguably the worst shooting performance in program history. Do we not forget IU shot 1-20 from 3 literally less than a week ago?
The offense looked better because shots fell, not because Reneau got hurt. IU’s gotten the looks it had last night all year, the team simply shot uncharacteristically well. Woodson didn’t run anything different.
I never made any claim the offense looked better because Reneau was hurt. It sucks when anyone gets sidelined by an injury and I hope he's back against Penn State.
I simply made an observation. If you can't see that last night's shots came from a different means than those during the Winthrop game, I can't help you.
I understand where this opinion is rooted but we are short on bigs and we need him badly in the BIG.
Ballo's quality minutes are limited and our current backup is marginal.
But every 3 didn’t come off a paint touch. Two of them came on out of bounds plays under the basket, two off offensive rebound kickouts, at least two against a 2-3 zone with simple ball reversal, and then of course Leal’s heave at the end of the first half.
No he wasn’t. 1-2 minutes. Tops. And when he stood up, he literally “popped up”.
And then later on he walked out to the bench under his own power.
You don’t have to argue everything. It’s a good thing it isn’t an ACL or something like that.
Deep bone bruise can be worse than either of the things you mention. And it could be either of those things too. But none of those things are as bad as it could have been with Goode crashing in to him like that.
We’ll find out soon. My only point is the staff didn’t think it was tears of ACL, MCL, dislocated knee cap, etc… the season ending type things. Zero chance they’d have let him walk out and sit on bench without a brace if they thought it could be those things.
Technically none of us know what it is. Maybe I should have said 1% chance??
It could be MCL sprain or Meniscus. For what it’s worth, I finished the last 2 months of my college senior season with those injuries. It sucked. I wasn’t as explosive as I was pre injury. It took about 3 weeks until I felt in any way effective. But I played about 10 days after the injury. With a big knee brace on, and a very tight K-tape job. Hindsight, I wish I had gotten the surgery to clean the meniscus up. I would have been out a little longer, but when I came back, I would have felt a lot better.
Stop moving the goalposts. Address your shitbird comment that claimed I said the offense was better because MR got hurt.
Even Leal's heave came after a paint touch. Just because the assist came from someone outside the paint, doesn't mean it was wasn't a paint touch that led to the bucket.
When you make the defense rotate and force them to make decisions, good things happen. You see teams do it to us all the time, so it shouldn't be a foreign concept.
My daughter bruised the soft tissue behind her kneecap during basketball season from banging her knee on the floor and later taking a direct hit from a basketball to the knee. It bothered her the rest of the season and had to have a special tape job to keep her kneecap from moving around. It got better after the season when the inflammation had gone away and she had no pain.
If Malik had a similar issue, he could play with some level of pain without causing any damage. Access to constant treatment and the best medical treatment may allow him to play.
If Malik had a similar issue, he could play with some level of pain without causing any damage. Access to constant treatment and the best medical treatment may allow him to play.
