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If Goulding is done for the year, Kennedy must go!!

The bloke must have no pain threshold at all. Every time he goes down he looks like he's done a career ending injury and plays the next game.
I guess it doesn't suprise with a hair cut like that

Thanks for the info.

That's great news

Will he play on Monday?

Glad to hear that it is "just" bone bruising. Sounds like Melbourne fans can breathe a sigh of relief

Any early mail re: severity of CG43's injury?

If Goulding is out for the season I would sign the best Australian possible then change Imports depending on what they needs.

Eg if a good Australian C becomes available cut Boone for a SG.

Kennedy arrived in Melbourne around September 9 or September 10. Since then, he's had the injury in Philly and the injury vs Illawarra. Do any of us know how much training he's been doing in the past few weeks?

For a guy with his credentials and reputation, I'm willing to give him more time before I start calling for his head!

CG obviously a crucial part of this lineup for many reasons.

If this were a worst case scenario then I would expect Plan A: they'd try to convince Madgen to come home from Germany.

Which other Aussie guards are available or unsigned this season? Shaun Bruce?

Forgot about his USA knee injury.

That complicated things, possibly means it’s not as bad. Just something that has been re-injured.

Although, the opposite of that is, it was still not 100%, he was at higher risk of an ACL injury and that’s still possible.

Didn’t he jar his knee in America? Could it have been worse but they were playing it down then?

Sorry. Few typos. I’ll blame autocorrect

“Skilled at picking injury from video”

I’ll give it a go.

Worst case - ACL/MCL year
Medium case a meniscus tear
Best case - bone bruise (but these can take a long time to heal too) or a “jar as they say”.

The fact he didn’t return to the arena floor makes me think it’s more than just a jar.

The way the injury happen makes me think it’s more likely to be a sever injury.

No contact, lateral extension of knee, all gravitational force down on the join on impact followed by immediate pain reaction.

Text book ACL by looks, as it’s similar to other basketball ACLs I’ve seen. E.g Derek Rose.

Also think Melbourne are saying “Jarred Knee” as they don’t want to give away if it’s anything more ahead of Monday’s game.

For those skilled at being able to pick what injury someone has sustained from the footage, how bad do you think CGs injury was?

Boone
Barlow
Kennedy
McCarron
Ware

I kind of like the balance of that starting 5 more now, the defense is definitely better than with Goulding, and Ware gets a bigger offensive role.

They are however very thin in the backcourt off the bench now, Hooley will need to play key minutes which isn't ideal, but for now both Ware and McCarron playing 35mins I think they'll go on a win streak.

Seriously? That post was removed immediately, but a post about hoping Gleeson gets breast cancer remained for two days?

Kennedy looks underdone and so does boone. Was at the game what is the suspicion about the injury?

For some odd reason Perth dont want the home grown big. Will another NBL team pick him up or is he off to europe/d-league?

Possible suiters in NBL are Crocs and Blaze.

I have ruled out Cats/Tigers are these are his ex clubs he seems to have fallen out with and the other clubs have their big's shored up.

I reckon with his size/ability he will pick up a gig with a mid range euro team for solid money.