Jarred Vanderbilt Discussion: The Vandalorian

That was pretty much on the shore, but he was running in the thick sand

 

I think you're on to something JHS was putting up footage too wasn't he of running up the dunes? On top of @KareemtheGreat33 's theory of no meat not helping him.

 

I mean, seriously. Does anyone like sand in their crack or in their jock?

 

the reason i know vando isn't coming back from injury soon is that he's being leaked as trade fodder. i view him as, like dlo, a "more important to us than them" type of player, so if we've decided to move him, it means he's not important to us anymore, either. i think this only happens if we think his injuries will never go away.

 

bingo. the second i saw him mentioned as trade bait, i knew he wasn't close to playing.

 

how do can you teade injured players? dont they have to pass physical?

 

teams can waive them, i think. obviously any team trading for him would have to expect he's not playing any time soon. and his value is in the gutter, so it's purely for salary matching. and if you're a bad team, having 10 million on the books not doing much isn't the end of the world. depending on the rest of the trade pieces, we'd have to add something for their trouble.

my point is that his name was mentioned by a plugged-in reporter, which tells me the FO sort of blessed it, which tells me they don't see him in the plans.

it's a shame; i'm a huge vando fan.

 

his contract has been a complete waste. Sad, because he fits. We need him but will never have him, better to have someone who can only do part of what he brings than have nobody.

 

So upset over how this has turned out.
His defensive intensity was so contagious when healthy.
Such a bummer.

 

dont forget he needs to ramp up too!

 

Feels like Redick would look even better if our roster had the missing pieces to balance out a bit. I think he'd plug in Wood at backup or starting center and Vandy at forward and find a way to make it all work. In spite of those key reserves missing, he's got the team in a good place competing every night.

 

Is our training staff really that bad? I don’t recall it ever being so horrendous in the Kobe shaq or even Kobe gasol years. What the heck happened

 

Why do players with "difficult" injuries who get sent to the best doctors by the team to try to fix them always get blamed on the training staff? We have a whole new staff this year with a virtual in house doctor .... right?

 

I’m not just singling out our training staff. I’m calling out our doctors, consultants, you name it. Why are you defending something that obviously isn’t working

 

Or maybe you think that this is normal. I don’t blame you after the last 5 or so years

 

IMO it's a tired whipping point that's why. Nunn's bone bruise wasn't fixable. Nothing the staff could have done last year with Vincent was going to fix him. Last year's staff with Vando has been replaced with a new staff with Vando. It's obviously a difficult injury in a tough location because it's completely athletically weight bearing. You can have your opinion too of course but that doesn't make it a fact.

 

Same thing goes for you. You don’t know with any kind of certainty that nothing could have been done to fix those injuries. All we know is that there was nothing that our former or current staff training staff could do to fix it. To act as if absolutely nothing could have been done and present it as fact is wrong.