All Eyes On Me

Weltman was asked if JI would play today and said something along the lines of him only being cleared for ‘light court work’. They were intentionally deceptive in the phrasing of what his injury was when it happened and now fans are reasonably frustrated that he hasn’t healed from a “sprain” in 6 and a half months. In terms of our player who tested for Covid, I thought it was really strange to see a photo of DJ, Vuc, AG, JI and Coach Cliff with no Fournier or T-Ross. My guess is it’s one of those 2. Could be Mo, could be Ennis. Don’t really matter, just hope they take it seriously and get well soon. *edit: just watched a video of guys getting off the bus at Disney and Evan and Terrence are clearly there. So, it’s either Mo or Ennis if it’s a rotation player

I don’t envy free agents this year. Does Evan opt in for one year at 17 or does he try to sign like a 4/40 because nobody knows the long term ramifications of Covid on the cap?? There’s no short term pressure from him, but man it’s a gamble long term.

Vague and diplomatic answer, but at least they’re showing up and working with the team. so weird... today’s supposed to be the first day of free agency!

Only ones I’m aware of are Avery Bradley from the Lakers, Willie Cauley-Stein from the Mavericks and Davis Bertans from the Wizards

I’m excited to put politics aside and have some basketball to talk about! Not an easy 8 games, glad we get the Nets twice

You’re not wrong. Especially down in Florida. Flirting with 5,000 new cases a day, it’s become the new epicenter of the virus here in the States. I’m thoroughly embarrassed by the response, or lack there of, that we took initially and are continuing to take now toward virus control.

Yeah, especially since every player is gonna be coming off of 4 1/2 months off by the time we start back up, and it’ll be 7 months since Isaac’s knee sprain.

Well, the injury wasn’t misreported, per se, but they definitely chose their words carefully so people wouldn’t think it was as serious as it is. I think if you’ve been watching sports long enough, when his injury happened there was no way there wasn’t at least some sort of partial tear. But, he’s so young and full of potential and he’s had such an injury prone start to his career, that I think the team was kind of afraid to publicly call it a tear. Don’t play him at all when we tip back off, hopefully he comes back at 100% around Christmas time when the 20-21 season is expected to start.

Man.. his knee injury happened on New Years Day, didn’t it?! 2020 has sucked from the very beginning

Yeah, I just don’t know anymore with all the uncertainty of the CBA going forward and everything who’s going to be willing to make any moves this offseason. Now it’s a near certainty that Evan opts in to his last year at $17 million. The free agent market was gonna suck this offseason anyway. I just fear if the CBA gets hit as hard as it could that the Vucevic and Aminu contracts from last year are even worse, and even more untradeable.

I sure hope so. It’s crazy. The first round of the playoffs usually ends beginning of May, the preseason starts beginning of October. So that’s 5 months. If we do actually get a return of the sport, it probably won’t happen until early to mid July, meaning teams have had a 4 month hiatus, pretty much an offseason, that occurred 80% of the way in to the regular season. There’s no way an NBA champ wouldn’t have a huge asterisk next to it if play does resume. side note: JI has to be healthy enough to return if we do get to play again, right?

Just a heads up for next time, embedding the tweet is super easy. All you have to do is copy the link for the specific tweet and paste it in the text box on the message board and it’ll automatically embed it for you. Good to see Mo putting in the work and using the time off to get bigger and better!

@JohnDenton555 is John’s twitter handle, so this one’s not true. Funny though!

good blend of vets and young fellas contributing to the fund, proud of this team. glad the staff are being compensated and I hope all of y’all are hangin in there. Scary times