Update: -21 against Utah. It Is Time To Sit Brandon Roy

rest him for another week or so

making the injury worse. The only way to do that is to rest and allow the hamstring to heal itself. Players are going to have to be able to defend if they want to play and Roy just can’t right now. I don’t care so much about his offense, as I ‘m sure that in time he will be able to adapt to his limitations and find a way to produce points, as I am about his inability to stay in front of his man. If Brandon can’t jump or sprint then what is he doing on the court anyway. Whats the point in risking further injury if he gets real hurt and misses the Playoffs?
I wonder if anyone in the Blazers medical department has ever heard of a physiotherapist in Serbia called Mariana Kovacevic. She has a miracle cure for hamstring injuries and am pretty sure that she could help Roy. She has been working for seven years with top-class sportsmen,it is a placenta cream applied with a (massage) machine that creates waves of pressure. This cure is mainly used by footballers(soccer players) and proven to cure them over 50% quicker then rest. Pritchard and Allen need to send Roy over to Serbia right away so he’d be ready to play by next month cause right now he looks like a 50 year old man trying to recapture the glory days.

Not a dig at hill but saying he felt pressured to play with an injury which made that injury much more severe… Roy is doing that right now… He knows its not right, he knows their is a significant risk of making it much worse…. He shouldnt be playing

his trainers, doctors, and coach probably know.

No defense, very little offense and he looked like he was in pain. Either he needs to toughen up if he really thinks he can play with this, or he needs to sit if it’s hurting that bad. Seems to me, though, that if a guy can’t run then he shouldn’t be playing, for his own sake and the greater good of the team. Last night, it looked like Brandon was having a hard time just jogging walking up the court. My vote is rest him for atleast a week or two, then reevaluate.

This is a marathon, not a sprint. Maybe if we were a title contender this year I’d say push it, but Roy’s health is not worth a shot at the 2nd round

Hamstring injuries don’t heal by playing with them. lol. Sit him – stop hampering his ability to heal over a week’s worth of playoff games. I’m getting a little ticked off about it now.

it was mostly 4 on 5 last night, on both ends of the court when BRoy was out there.

Hamstring injuries stay with you until they are completely healed. Even if brandon plays the rest of the season and doesnt reinjure it, i still gurantee that the majority of his performances will be like the one last night. Rest brandon!

behind having him out there when he is dragging his leg around like a peg legged pirate. Is it moral support? Do they think the other players will get a boost in morale by seeing him out there valiantly playing through the pain? As was stated above, we could get a 9-4-1 in 35 min from almost anyone else (Shav?) and not be risking nearly as much. It may have been rust being his first full game participation in a month, but it isn’t good when I cringe everytime he jumps and lands becasue HE is cringing each time he jumps and lands.

at this point in the season. Roy doesn’t need to be at 100 percent. He certainly needs to be much closer than he is now however.

That doesn’t mean he can’t play in the near future, but he will have to get to a certain level of healthiness before he can do it without thinking about the hammy.
Eventually he’ll get to a point where he is always aware of the injury but he also knows he won’t re-injure it.

At this point, it may well be too late. By the time he’s truly healed, he’ll likely have too little time to regain his conditioning and rhythm in time for the playoffs. Assuming the Blazers make the playoffs sans Roy, his last-second return would probably just hurt the team.

This whole Roy hamstring episode baffles me. I’d like to think there’s a rational explanation, but I certainly haven’t heard one from Roy or the team. Could classic denial be the true explanation? Weird & frustrating.

because Nate is an idiotic coach. Brandon Roy should keep playing. He missed like 15 games. He is playing great when you take that into consideration.

Hamstring injuries are very weird, yes. They can take a long time to heal, they can heal up in 3 to 5 days, they can linger on for months. They can be serious and painful or they can be mere inconveniences.

Roys performance last night was fine imo. He scored 23. His defense was somewhat suspect but I feel that this was due (in equal parts) to his trying to figure out what he can and can’t do at game speed as well as his lack of recent playing time.

The big issue I see is that the team (while Brandon was benched) was playing AS A TEAM and not simply throwing the ball to Roy and spectating. The Blazers lapsed ALL TOO EASILY back into their spectating ways once Roy got back on the floor and the team suffered from it.

He, and the team, will put the pieces back together correctly and get rolling again soon. I, like all of you, just hope it won’t be too late.

when, right after Fernandez made a series of outstanding plays, Roy came back into the game for him.

Roy needs to play – but does he need to play so many minutes? Right now?

I agree with you Anim8rguy – not just yet. Maybe later. But not right now. Let’s quit throwing cold water on Rudy (and Webster, Batum, and Bayless) by jerking them out of the lineup in favor of a wounded Roy. – Elgin

but i think Roy looked 95 % himself towards the end of the game. It’s not his hammy that is killing us but the iso plays. Its kills the flow of our offense.

but he will never play as well as he can without decent minutes. So heres the awkward transition phase.