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Blake Griffin's "Injury"
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Posted: 2/22/2009 12:04 AM
Blake Griffin's "Injury"
Ok, so we have one of the toughest basketball players I have ever seen, who has been cheap shotted all year, even smacked in the ballz, but he has never been pulled out for injury. Yet tonight, "they" say he has a concussion and a bloody nose when I never saw any footage that showed him getting hit in the head or any blood on his nose? Griffin looked like he had been drugged more than anything else. Yes, I know a concussion can give you that look, but I do not see how Blake got a concussion. There's no real contact on the replay they kept showing. The replays showed this fat backup texas center go up and graze the arm of Griffin. Oddly, the kid had a double wrist band on the arm that came down near Griffin's face. No other kids had that. Is it possible that some sort of drug could be put on a wrist band and transferred by grazing the face of an opponent? |
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Posted: 2/22/2009 12:13 AM
Re: Blake Griffin's "Injury"
I suppose anything is possible but I would say this is pretty much crazy talk.
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Posted: 2/22/2009 12:50 AM
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killcasualfan wrote: Griffin looked like he had been drugged more than anything else. Yes, I know a concussion can give you that look, but I do not see how Blake got a concussion. There's no real contact on the replay they kept showing. Well, I know this may sound strange coming from a Longhorn, but it did seem extremely weird that he got a concussion from that hit. Moreover, he looked completelty out of it and was simply grazed. I don't know what happened to Blake, but that was really odd. By the way, I think he is a hell of player and there is no way in hell we could of beaten OU with him in the game. |
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Posted: 2/22/2009 9:24 AM
Re: Blake Griffin's "Injury"
WellEndowedUT wrote:
killcasualfan wrote:
By the way, I think he is a hell of player and there is no way in hell we could of beaten OU with him in the game. Classy of you to admit that. I will give you guys this...Dexter Pittman defends Griffin as well or better than anybody he's gone against the past two seasons. What also sucked is that OU's second best player, Willie Warren (who single-handedly kept the Sooners in it after Griffin went out) turned his ankle on that 3-pointer with a few minutes left & was ineffective after that. It just wasn't OU's night. But a tip of the cap to Abrams for hitting the big shots down the stretch. And the beauty of basketball is that no "BCS" rankings were affected last night. The tournament will tell all about both of these teams when March rolls around. |
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Posted: 2/22/2009 2:03 PM
RE: Blake Griffin's "Injury"
I didn't understand Capel's strategy against Abrams. After he hit 3 or 4 3-point shots in a row, my high school coach would have double teamed him...not just to keep him from shooting, but more importantly, to prevent his teammates from feeding him the ball. I know that would leave another player open, but I'd rather see someone else take the shot and keep the ball out of the hands of the hottest shooter on the court.
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Posted: 2/22/2009 2:10 PM
RE: Blake Griffin's "Injury"
I personally thought OU was overrated all season. We had several close games at home against weak teams. It took a loss to convince me that the Sooners may well be as good as their record indicates. They are indeed looking like a final four team. They would have obviously won against UT by 10 or more with Griffen in the line up and darn near pulled it off without him.
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Posted: 2/22/2009 4:49 PM
RE: Blake Griffin's "Injury"
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I personally thought OU was overrated all season. We had several close games at home against weak teams. It took a loss to convince me that the Sooners may well be as good as their record indicates. They are indeed looking like a final four team. They would have obviously won against UT by 10 or more with Griffen in the line up and darn near pulled it off without him.
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To be fair, Griffin had 2 or 4 points, had just been rejected by Pittman, and OU was losing by 7 when Griffin got hurt. After he left the game OU went on a 14-2 run.
I honestly think OU still loses, and by more points if Griffin doesn't get hurt. The Sooners had to completely change their game and to lean on their guards to carry them... which worked quite effectively against Texas.
Looking forward to Monday!
“Oh my God!” Lyons said in anticipation. “People thought they sawsomething when Baylor was there. This means more than the nationalchampionship to us.”
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Posted: 2/22/2009 4:55 PM
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Ok..... This makes more sense, if indeed the Balbay shot caused the concussion.....
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From the DO...
Blake Griffin’s status for a Big Monday showdown with Kansas remains uncertain, but the Oklahoma star’s condition is improving, according to his parents.
Griffin suffered a concussion in the first half of Saturday night’s 73-68 loss at Texas and played just 11 minutes – none in the second half.
Results of a routine MRI performed early Sunday morning returned clear. But Griffin still faced more follow-up diagnosis today before any decision could be made concerning his availability for the game against Kansas.
The Big 12’s leading scorer and the nation’s top rebounder, Griffin was limited to two points and three rebounds at Texas.
The cause of the concussion still isn’t clear and might have been a culmination of two different shots Griffin to took to his face – one by 6-foot-10, 300-pound Texas center Dexter Pittman and another by Longhorns point guard Dogus Balbay.
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Posted: 2/22/2009 7:26 PM
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killcasualfan wrote: Ok, so we have one of the toughest basketball players I have ever seen, who has been cheap shotted all year, even smacked in the ballz, but he has never been pulled out for injury. Yet tonight, "they" say he has a concussion and a bloody nose when I never saw any footage that showed him getting hit in the head or any blood on his nose? Griffin looked like he had been drugged more than anything else. Yes, I know a concussion can give you that look, but I do not see how Blake got a concussion. There's no real contact on the replay they kept showing. The replays showed this fat backup texas center go up and graze the arm of Griffin. Oddly, the kid had a double wrist band on the arm that came down near Griffin's face. No other kids had that. Is it possible that some sort of drug could be put on a wrist band and transferred by grazing the face of an opponent? with all due respect, this sounds like something the horns would accuse the OU "cheaters" of doing. lets leave whining to the horns. they are much better at it.  |
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Posted: 2/22/2009 8:09 PM
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Talk about crazy conspiracy theorists. This might be the craziest I've ever seen.
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Posted: 2/23/2009 12:25 PM
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Hawk4TheChalk wrote:
----12233 wrote: ---------------
I personally thought OU was overrated all season. We had several close games at home against weak teams. It took a loss to convince me that the Sooners may well be as good as their record indicates. They are indeed looking like a final four team. They would have obviously won against UT by 10 or more with Griffen in the line up and darn near pulled it off without him.
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To be fair, Griffin had 2 or 4 points, had just been rejected by Pittman, and OU was losing by 7 when Griffin got hurt. After he left the game OU went on a 14-2 run.
I honestly think OU still loses, and by more points if Griffin doesn't get hurt. The Sooners had to completely change their game and to lean on their guards to carry them... which worked quite effectively against Texas.
Looking forward to Monday! Let's see...you think OU was better off with the Big XII's top scorer; the best rebounder in the nation; the likely college player of the year and the NBA's number one draft choice on the bench. I don't think you've seen Griffen play much or otherwise you would never make a statement like that. It's not just his points and rebounds we lost. He draws double and triple coverage which opens things up for the rest of the team. He draws double digit fouls in almost every game. He's a great defensive player. He's the team's heart and soul. This is not the first time OU has been behind early in a game, and it's not unusual for Griffen to start slowly and finish with 20-25 points and 12-15 rebounds, Anyone who knows anything about BB would agree that the Sooners would have more than likely won the game with Grffen in the line up. We led the nation at 25-1 with Griffen playing nearly 40 minutes in every game. He is vastly superior to any player on the Texas roster. So why in the world would you say that OU was better off with him on the bench? |
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Posted: 2/23/2009 2:30 PM
RE: Blake Griffin's "Injury"
There is no telling what would have happened if Griffin had been able to play. If he stays in the game then Warren probably doesn't go off for as many as he did as Griffin would have been getting the touches. It's all speculation on how things would have played out. I just hope the kids okay and makes it back to the court soon. |
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Posted: 2/23/2009 11:39 PM
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Well it has to be speculation, but so was your statement that OU was better off without Griffen. We played Texas earlier in the season and beat them by 15 with Griffen playing nearly the whole game. Perhaps that will give a little substance to my speculation.
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Posted: 2/24/2009 6:40 AM
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you missed your calling bro......you would've made one helluva fiction writer.
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Posted: 2/24/2009 6:44 AM
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lol, that's some foolishness right there. Yeah, Blake started off the game a bit "off"....but you REALLY think that translates into "oh, OU was better off without him"!???!!!! Get real. Hell, even IF he doesn't have a big scoring night...he STILL would've given OU some inside defense and a helluva lot more rebounds. Pull your head out. I'm willing to bet that the Miami Heat probably still want to keep Dwayne Wade in the lineup....EVEN if he misses a couple of early shots. Call me crazy. |
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Posted: 2/24/2009 8:43 AM
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lol, that's some foolishness right there. Yeah, Blake started off the game a bit "off"....but you REALLY think that translates into "oh, OU was better off without him"!???!!!! Get real. Hell, even IF he doesn't have a big scoring night...he STILL would've given OU some inside defense and a helluva lot more rebounds. Pull your head out.
I'm willing to bet that the Miami Heat probably still want to keep Dwayne Wade in the lineup....EVEN if he misses a couple of early shots. Call me crazy.
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Thank you GratefulRed!
Heck for that matter, Abrams started poorly too ... would UT have been better off without him?
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Posted: 2/24/2009 4:37 PM
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Good lord you sooners are dumb as a bag of hammers. No wonder we gave away that part of the Rebublic of Texas... drugging opponents? LOL
Thanks for the ammo in my "sooners are ignorant" gun.
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Posted: 2/24/2009 5:39 PM
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bigtravatx wrote: Good lord you sooners are dumb as a bag of hammers. No wonder we gave away that part of the Rebublic of Texas... drugging opponents? LOL
Thanks for the ammo in my "sooners are ignorant" gun. Read (or can you?) the thread. Initially, based upon the only video highlight (at most a grazing of the nose) that I saw, one is limited in the conclusions they could make.
Organized crimes influence and drugging in sports to gain an advantage (whether its shooting up with steroids or poisoning the opponents food, etc.) has been around forever. 
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Posted: 3/1/2009 8:15 AM
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I will say this, Pittman does have an odd looking wrapped up wrist...so what is that all about anyway? It does make one think about how that bulky band was able to cause a concussion if it's only just tape and sweatband....
anyway, they got away with a lot of little "incidental" hits on Blake. The refs by now should be on the look out for that nonsense.
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Posted: 3/1/2009 11:57 AM
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12233 wrote: Well it has to be speculation, but so was your statement that OU was better off without Griffen. We played Texas earlier in the season and beat them by 15 with Griffen playing nearly the whole game. Perhaps that will give a little substance to my speculation.
No way they are better off without him. He is the single most valuable player in the country
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