Keshon Gilbert
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Explains the drop off in his play since February. He was a magician driving to the hoop and scoring with some "WTF was that?" type shots early on this season. He added some muscle in the offseason and looked like it was paying off for him so it's sad to see it end this way.
I get the timing of the announcement too, had we revealed this yesterday it would have probably dropped us to a 4 seed. But I also wonder if we should have waited till late next week too and let Lipscomb prepare like he was going to play although I am sure word eventually would of got out that Gilbert was not practicing anyways so not sure how much keeping it a secret would have gained us. In football if a guy is questionable you wait till the last moment to rule them out to gain some advantage in game prep.
Also worries me about where Lipsey's health is right now. He was already playing with thumb injury then tweaks his groin in the Big 12 tournament, Groin injuries typically do not heal quickly so hopefully the week off between games is enough that he can give it his all for 2 games then see how it responds. Do we start Heise for Gilbert and let Jones do his thing as the 6th man or do we start Jones? Going to need Watson and Kelderman to step up off the bench too especially if we get into any kind of foul problems.
I get the timing of the announcement too, had we revealed this yesterday it would have probably dropped us to a 4 seed. But I also wonder if we should have waited till late next week too and let Lipscomb prepare like he was going to play although I am sure word eventually would of got out that Gilbert was not practicing anyways so not sure how much keeping it a secret would have gained us. In football if a guy is questionable you wait till the last moment to rule them out to gain some advantage in game prep.
Also worries me about where Lipsey's health is right now. He was already playing with thumb injury then tweaks his groin in the Big 12 tournament, Groin injuries typically do not heal quickly so hopefully the week off between games is enough that he can give it his all for 2 games then see how it responds. Do we start Heise for Gilbert and let Jones do his thing as the 6th man or do we start Jones? Going to need Watson and Kelderman to step up off the bench too especially if we get into any kind of foul problems.
No doubt. With a team this talented, he was still the #1 focus of opposing defenses when he was healthy, and that says a lot.
TJ says he will be ready to go, Gilbert hurt in early January, I wont go back but he was playing a ton of minutes and scoring plenty well into January. So Lipsey is playing and a lot if he can. Lipsey and Jones are gonna need to watch their fouling as they probably need to play 35 minutes each.
Gilbert sacrificed big time to get us this 3 seed playing hurt for a month and half.
If you guys are buying all of that I don’t know what to tell you.
If we are believing what both the coach and player are saying without any evidence to the contrary? Oh, enlightened one, please forgive us!
Why wouldn't he get back to full strength. Young man go from playing injured to forever injured seemingly unlikely
Please provide concrete evidence of anything else.
Why doesn't anyone do that? What's better? Actually saying what happened with evidence or just conspiring to float things out there?
I mean he tried to give it a go a few times. You could tell he was off. Both coach and player are saying the same thing. Quit with the conspiracy crap. Kid gave us all he had
One of the things we've had to adjust to in the social media age is the impulse by dedicated contrarians to concentrate doubt about fairly basic things without having to produce any evidence.
Frak off! I hope all those on here who were complaining about Keshon can do the same. Any one with any brains could see he was playing hurt.
I have no brains and I could tell he was hurt.
Some people need to have a conspiracy.
100% vs 90% is huge for an athlete at that level. I'm not saying he won't but as an example I messed both my knees up in high school and they still give me sporadic small issues.
CycloneErik
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This should be all that needs to be said.
Really hard to actually narrow that down, as he got pretty severe contact in almost every game.
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