Re: Knocking on wood

["Lance Jacobson" <lancejacob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure about the testing done for the physical, but if it's rotator cuff,
it's very hard to strengthen ALL the muscles that support it, and a hit from
the wrong angle, while under stress, is all it takes to pop it out and
stretch the muscles all over again.

The Celts have been VERY lucky to have only had minor ankle issues last
year.  Twan did have something wrong with his hand for a while, and played
sloppily, but that's about it.

Going to be one interesting couple of months seeing how Vin fits in.  When
he's feeling good, he scores pretty easily.  Having a career 49% shooting
average tells me a lot. . .and the Celts haven't had that from a 10+ppg game
in far too long.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tammo29@AOL.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: Knocking on wood


> From ESPN:
>
> Is Rashard Lewis headed for season-ending surgery?
>
> The speculation continues to swirl in Seattle around the sore right
shoulder
> of Rashard Lewis. He will be evaluated and X-rayed this morning in
Seattle.
>
> "We'll find out a little more because I'm really not sure," Lewis told the
> Seattle Post Intelligencer. "It may be more serious or it may not be. I'm
> really not sure."
>
> However, Lewis sounded like a player ready to concede that season-ending
> surgery may be his only real option.
>
> "I'm hoping everything will be all right," Lewis said. "But if not I might
> have to go ahead and get it [any surgery] out of the way now while I'm
still
> young and it's early in my career instead of keep rehabbing and rehabbing
and
> it just keeps happening over and over. If I have to have surgery, I'd
rather g
> o ahead and have surgery so I can prevent this from happening again.
Whatever
> the doc tells me I have to do [today], that's what I'm going to listen
to."
>
> Now you know why the Sonics drug their feet so long this summer. Lewis
> injured his shoulder last season, but didn't want to undergo offseason
> surgery while he was a free agent. The team tried to get Lewis into rehab
> over the summer, but Lewis chose to work on the shoulder in Houston.
>
> A Tacoma News Tribune report, citing Kevin Smith, a prominent specialist
at
> the University of Washington, claims that surgery is inevitable. "The
writing
> is on the wall here," Smith said. "This is going to happen over and over
> again until he gets it fixed. He has two options. He can live with it the
way
> it is, and most likely it will get worse over time. Or he can have it
fixed.
> The only reliable way for these symptoms to be fixed is to have surgery. I
> have not seen him to examine him, but I know a lot about shoulders. He has
> all the signs."
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>   I'm not surprised at all to read this.  It's exactly what I was thinking
> when I first heard about Lewis's shoulder problems.
>
> We have a player here at Kansas that had the very same problems in high
> school.  He tried to strengthen the shoulder without surgery only to have
it
> pop out on a regular basis.  The last straw for him was when it happened
at a
> practice for the McDonalds All-American game.  Kept him from playing in
the
> game.
> He had the surgery, rehabbed for about 5 months and hasn't had a problem
> since.
>
>   I'm actually surprised Lewis passed the physical under these
circumstances.
>  I guess that's good news and bad news for Lewis and the Sonics.
>
>
> One more reason Celtics fans should knock on wood.