smackeddog wrote:

IronWillGiroud wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

IronWillGiroud wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

IronWillGiroud wrote:Really don't understand how he is 80% right now,

They're telling us first Christmas, then New Year's then this and that and this and that, it never ends

In my mind, if you tell me you're 80% right now, that tells me you're not coming back until sometime in February, this is unreal

The standard recover for this knee op is 6-8 weeks, at which point a player can play but won't be at full strength due to conditioning issues, rust, weakness in the knee and aching. Look at Dirk, he had his op a little bit before Amar'e and still has a ways to go. Amar'e has been out 8 weeks- he's right where he should be.

My grip isn't that it's taking a while for him to return, it's that they're yanking us left and right promising first Christmas, then New Year's, and so on.

Late January is when I really expect him to play, but now I am hearing SI said he will play tonight, so who knows.

They're not though- they genuinely don't know- we're at the stage now where it all just depends on how his knee and body responds, before he can move on to the next step. It was the media who made up the Xmas day thing, then guessed new year.

Yea I hear you,

That's what my gripe is, with the media, they're jerking me around like I'm a shelter dog.

The whole thing is that we're hearing for weeks that he's right around the corner then he comes out and says 80%, I don't understand how he is 80% if he's been around the corner,

Thing is that there is a wide gap there and it just threw me for some loops,

Yeah, I share your frustration in that I want him to be 100% right now! I'm also annoyed that Felton got injured just as Amar'e is about to return- now we have to wait another month to see what this team really looks like.

I've given up on waiting to see what this team really looks like,

I think at this point it will just be a sort of rolling arrangement where we have some nebulous blob of a team and it will always shift around between some flexible boundaries, we'll always have the gist of the team but we will never have a concrete team,

I think we were designed to roll with the punches if you consider our roster make-up, and that's one of our biggest strengths,

I think we'll always surprise teams and we are difficult to prepare for because you never know which team you're getting so it's sort of a blessing in disguise,

Melo will kill you one month, then it'll be JR SWagnuts, then Amar'e, then Kidd, and you just don't know who will kill you,

We're built to roll with the punches

if thats the case then good news!

There is no more 100 percent in him