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2013 NBA Draft

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If the Cavs get the second pick, who should they choose?

  • Ben McLemore

    Votes: 19 8.9%

  • Otto Porter

    Votes: 129 60.6%

  • Anthony Bennett

    Votes: 9 4.2%

  • Victor Oladipo

    Votes: 24 11.3%

  • Alex Len

    Votes: 30 14.1%

  • Other---

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Total voters
    213
  • Poll closed .
If gobert shows athleticism and a smooth jumper, he should go high. Essentially a healthy Noel with a jumper..
 
I think you guys have to take Porter. If you luck into Parker or Wiggins next year, you probably take a slight loss having to trade him, but other than that a SF prospect of his caliber won't come again.
 
Yeah, I think Gobert has surpassed Len, but Steven Adams is 19 and has the best body. I think he's the best big man prospect. The guys 19, and 254 lbs. of chiseled muscle. The guy could easily be 280 in his prime. He's going to be huge.
 
jwalker1399 said:
Only two words needed for a reason why to stay away from Len: Stress fracture
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Which was caused due to an injury that he proceeded to play on and had preemptive surgery to prevent it from being a serious and recurring issue...

I'm not concerned about the injury at all.
 
Revenged25 said:
Which was caused due to an injury that he proceeded to play on and had preemptive surgery to prevent it from being a serious and recurring issue...

I'm not concerned about the injury at all.
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Are you sure?
 
Anytime I hear stress fracture, especially from a big man, it throws up a red flag in my book.
 
oasis05 said:
Are you sure?
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Considering he had no stress fracture during the season and was moving around just fine, then he hurt his ankle badly in January and continued to play on it for 2 months against top competition at a high level, including several dominating performances, which I can tell you right now that doing physical activity with a rolled ankle will give you regular stress fractures/shin splints, then yes I'm pretty sure. Also if you read all the reports the injury would've healed on it's own, but by doing the surgery now they were pushing up the recovery timeline and lower the chances of the injury becoming a constant problem.
 
Well I hope your right. I'd hate to think this could be a recurring problem for Len.
 
Revenged25 said:
Considering he had no stress fracture during the season and was moving around just fine, then he hurt his ankle badly in January and continued to play on it for 2 months against top competition at a high level, including several dominating performances, which I can tell you right now that doing physical activity with a rolled ankle will give you regular stress fractures/shin splints, then yes I'm pretty sure. Also if you read all the reports the injury would've healed on it's own, but by doing the surgery now they were pushing up the recovery timeline and lower the chances of the injury becoming a constant problem.
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Exactly. Bob Anderson who did the surgery isn't concerned, so I'm not. Noel's leg went 90 degrees sideways...that's a bigger concern for me. Reinforcing a partial stress fracture from an ankle sprain that never had adequate time to heal does not.
 
Revenged25 said:
Which was caused due to an injury that he proceeded to play on and had preemptive surgery to prevent it from being a serious and recurring issue...

I'm not concerned about the injury at all.
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A stress fracture is an overuse injury. I'm not a doctor but I don't think a stress fracture comes thru physical contact or physical injury, as you say; a stress fracture is caused when muscles become tired and cannot brace for impact and passes the impact or stress onto the bone, which then cracks.

I love the guy as a prospect. Just saying this issue could morph into a chronic problem.....
 
jwalker1399 said:
A stress fracture is an overuse injury. I'm not a doctor but I don't think a stress fracture comes thru physical contact or physical injury, as you say; a stress fracture is caused when muscles become tired and cannot brace for impact and passes the impact or stress onto the bone, which then cracks.

I love the guy as a prospect. Just saying this issue could morph into a chronic problem.....
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I don't know the specifics of Len's injury, but stress fractures can also come from repeated motion in an unstable position. If he did have a badly sprained ankle, he was likely compensating for it by putting his body in a compromised position. Continually playing in this state can lead to a stress fracture. Something as petty as a blister on a runner's foot can lead to a substantial enough change in gait to cause upstream problems from the primary injury.
 
jwalker1399 said:
A stress fracture is an overuse injury. I'm not a doctor but I don't think a stress fracture comes thru physical contact or physical injury, as you say; a stress fracture is caused when muscles become tired and cannot brace for impact and passes the impact or stress onto the bone, which then cracks.

I love the guy as a prospect. Just saying this issue could morph into a chronic problem.....
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As faughta said. An instability of the ankle would cause the body to compensate, I got two bulged discs from being forced to start running, mostly hills at that, too soon after ACL Reconstruction and the instability of my knee still compounded with the stress already put on the lower back from the type of running we were doing, messed me up even further. An injury changes the way your body works and doing so puts extra stress on other parts of your body. If your ankle is sprained then your body has to compensate even more to give you stability as you are running/jumping etc.
 
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