Idk I have a few ideas but I don’t want be a flat earthed r on here LOL. I could see knee discomfort and it just got mental and freaked him out or a suspension and they didn’t want to embarrass him so they said injury.
Get well Cam!!
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Idk I have a few ideas but I don’t want be a flat earthed r on here LOL. I could see knee discomfort and it just got mental and freaked him out or a suspension and they didn’t want to embarrass him so they said injury.
I don't know if he was jumping around earlier, Beer, but in this gif I made of the alley oop to Zion you can see the bench all jump up and down, but Cam just stands up (and it's not in the gif, but in the video of the dunk) you can see that he continues to just stand as others go crazy. And in other parts of the game he's supportive and claps hard for good plays, but he doesn't jump around.
But yeah, none of us knows what's going on yet, and probably never will.
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Look buddy the earth is flat. I have prof.
I don't know if he was jumping around earlier, Beer, but in this gif I made of the alley oop to Zion you can see the bench all jump up and down, but Cam just stands up (and it's not in the gif, but in the video of the dunk) you can see that he continues to just stand as others go crazy. And in other parts of the game he's supportive and claps hard for good plays, but he doesn't jump around.
But yeah, none of us knows what's going on yet, and probably never will.
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I mean that’s solid, he clearly wasn’t jumping.
This is what I was referring to
That’s what confuses me and... Yep, in your example he’s not doing all that. I’m just ready for an official statement of some sort. I’m just digging around at ideas pointlessly
Yeah, he's moving around there for sure. I don't know. But I will say, I can move around for a short period of time like Cam does in that video, but I can't jump (really jump) without suffering tremendously (3 serious back operations). I just don't know, and what's also important is I don't know his pain tolerance.
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I think Cam deserves the benefit of the doubt. None of us know anything. When none of us know anything we start making up and drawing conclusions in our heads.
Unusual, we may never really know....Hmmm..
https://syndication.bleacherreport....dishs-knee-injury-after-sweet-16-win.amp.html
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https://syndication.bleacherreport....dishs-knee-injury-after-sweet-16-win.amp.html
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Absolutely, DJ.
Perhaps people are just aggravated that Duke hasn't beaten our opponents silly so far, and are just looking for stuff to take their frustrations out on. It's time to band together, instead of pointing fingers imo.
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Not sure how old you are, but I know personally being less years away from being in the OFC than I am away from them, if I hurt something, and I want to test it out, against better judgement I’ll jump or run or something stupid (not saying what Cam did was even stupid).
Of course anything is speculation. I’m guessing he was trying to move as much as he could to see if he could go. Maybe when he told K it was bothering him, the decision was made not to start him, but he wanted to prove he could go. There’s so many parallels we could explore with this thing. The main thing is, he didn’t go, and in walkthroughs for MSU, he will be an afterthought for the time being until proven otherwise.
I can’t help but be a little puzzled about Cam’s injury considering there were literally no signs of an injury up until game time. What really got me puzzled, was when Coach K said he was shocked that Cam was not going to be able to play. That’s what ultimately made me a bit skeptical.
No OAD, it’s not like that with me or anything. I just think the timing of it all was a bit strange. We were all thinking Cam was going to play, but out of nowhere he’s a no go.
You’re right. I just hate being in the dark, I like making sense of things. I never meant to discredit him as a person or player, it’s all just very vague. What I meant just sorta got pulled out of context, probably poor wording.
I don’t think we ever will.
I’d encourage people to watch the presser. Reading the quotes and not hearing them in context, make it sound different than it came across, IMO. Neither K or the players seemed let down or disappointed with Cam at all.
Yeah, it does seem strange, DukeRules, but strange doesn't necessarily mean nefarious.
Life comes at you fast, and it doesn't always make sense.
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Didn’t someone post a picture or video of Cam at practice Thursday wearing a knee brace?
That’s true! U are right about that!Yeah, it does seem strange, DukeRules, but strange doesn't necessarily mean nefarious.
Life comes at you fast, and it doesn't always make sense.
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27 — Thankfully I haven’t hit the aches and pain stage associated with age stage of my life yet. I’m good with taking your word and keeping that as far into the future as possible. I get what you mean though. Everything is purely speculation, agreed. We can come up with 50 different ideas that could make sense, all pointlessly hypothetical.
Probably unlikely but ultimately I’m just hoping he’s ready to go on Sunday. We really missed his defensive presence last night.
Sorry, but this smells. K was surprised by Cam’s own decision. He prepared all week for him to be starting. That doesn’t sound like a guy limping around as late as Thursday.
These things happen. Duke is not excluded to a little drama. Plenty of folks thought and posted about the belief of chemistry issues last season, yet they were told how wrong they were. Yet we heard the rumblings from the program after the season. Then those folks said “see we said so.” They were then told “the seasons over, move on.”
Cam not playing, in my opinion, is why we had the first half we did.
I like Cam, and have loved his effort all season. I’m only going off of the announcement before the game, and the Bleacher Report article.
These things happen. Duke is not excluded to a little drama. Plenty of folks thought and posted about the belief of chemistry issues last season, yet they were told how wrong they were. Yet we heard the rumblings from the program after the season. Then those folks said “see we said so.” They were then told “the seasons over, move on.”
Cam not playing, in my opinion, is why we had the first half we did.
I like Cam, and have loved his effort all season. I’m only going off of the announcement before the game, and the Bleacher Report article.
I don't have anything to go on, but I seem to remember Cam going to the basket hard against UCF(?) and coming up limping. I don't think he ran into anyone under the basket, but he definitely came back onto the floor limping. He did finish the game, and it is possible that there was an injury to his leg. Add that to practice in preparation for the game this week, and something could have tightened or flared up in his leg?
Not making an excuse for him, and if it was bothering him at all this week, he should have said something to the trainer, so he could have gotten treatment.
Sometimes we want to play so bad that we try to tough it out, and all of the sudden you irritate the injury by an unusual movement.
I think we should hold off on speculation until we get the whole story. I certainly hope it is something minor and he can play again, maybe even Sunday.
Go Duke!
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Not making an excuse for him, and if it was bothering him at all this week, he should have said something to the trainer, so he could have gotten treatment.
Sometimes we want to play so bad that we try to tough it out, and all of the sudden you irritate the injury by an unusual movement.
I think we should hold off on speculation until we get the whole story. I certainly hope it is something minor and he can play again, maybe even Sunday.
Go Duke!
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Jumper’s knee or some sort of tendinitis would explain a lot. Not a result of anything in particular but could be very painful. Probably just draft stock though.
I've learned so many new medical terms just by being a Duke fan I'm practically a doctor...what's the hell is "jumpers knee" ?
If he’s worried about draft stock, then are you suggesting he laid down on his teammates?
What say you Dukiejay, Timo?
I must have misinterpreted on the insider site where you said “anyone with half a brain knows he didn’t lay down.”
Jumper's knee can be pretty painful (obviously depending on severity). I've had it in the past (and I mean way in the past). Not that I could jump that high, but playing on hard surfaces (like many parks that I played at that were concrete) are tough on knees. But it can be sorta quirky, at least with me it was. It can be really sore, and hurt but you feel like you can play, but then just like that without any hint you can have shooting pains that will stop you in your tracks. Rest, and anti inflammatory meds are pretty much the ticket.
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This is exactly my point. No one is turning on the team with negative comments. It's just mere speculation in this situation and it's not just this situation. Look at the game threads. Every time someone makes a single negative comment some of the same people blow up every time about it.
I totally 100% get it that there can be posts on the board and especially in the game threads that go overboard with negative comments, but there's many who lose it on people who say anything at all.
Saying negative things about the team does not make you less of a fan than someone who purposely goes out of their way to never say anything bad. I don't think I've ever made a single negative post on the boards about Duke, its players, or Coach K, but I see nothing wrong with those who do.
It's fine if people want to disagree but chill out on people who make negative posts sometimes. It comes across obsessive to jump on people every time a negative comment is made.
Now don’t go and be sensible some people can’t handle sound post like this. Also it’s only ok to talk bad about a player if it’s Greg Paulus
