The House of Blue

Please provide your insight to Dr. Andrews. World renounced orthopedic surgeon and you claim malpractice.

Also, please deal in facts and not opinions.

I personally have Dr. Andrews and Dr. Lyle Cain to thanks for my ability to function. It was those two who was tasked with surgically repairing a knee that was devastated by a Dr. here in Tuscaloosa. NN would be very lucky to have Dr. Andrews as his surgeon to repair his ACL.

Here is the best reason why there should be a 2 yr rule. Look at Archie and Alex at UK. Both would have been top 10 picks out of highschool. Not one GM would take them that high right now.

You cant a job that requires a degree. Why would you think you have the right to make the NBA change there rules that does not help them see how good a player is.

first i am glad that Dr. Andrews was able to fix your knee and you have had a successful recovery. as a person who has torn my ACL myself i know what that the road is lengthy and very difficult at times.

my beef with Dr. Andrews in the case of RGIII, i stated earlier in the thread. main point is that he used patella tendon from the knee RGIII had surgically repaired at Baylor to provide the graft for the knee he just injured.

to me that makes very little sense. given the multiple methods of ACL repair and multiple graft sources available, to recompromise a knee that has made a healthy and complete recovery from a previous reconstruction surgery is risky to say the least. in my eyes RGIII is healing from surgery on both knees when only a single knee was damaged.

second Dr. Andrews was on the sideline that night in a Redskins hat. he was seeing what everybody else was seeing. he was talking to RGIII and Shanahan. if i could see that at the end of the 1st quarter RGIII worsened an already existing injury and continuing to play could lead to a far more significant injury why could Dr. Andrews not see it.

i don't care what RGIII told him, his job is to take the emotion out of it and look out for what is best both for the player and the franchise. when Andrews followed RGIII back into the locker room, they were not even in there long enough for Andrews to remove RGIII's brace, shoe, sock and roll up his pants to do a proper and thorough evaluation of the stability of his knee. t

that evaluation needed to be done to see if that fall in the 1st quarter had compromised his knee further. if the evaluation was done, no way RGIII retakes the field and at worst he is rehabbing a repaired LCL (a much smaller deal than an ACL). like i said it was clear to anybody watching that the fall in the 1st quarter worsened his injury and it continued to get worse as the game went along until it ultimately gave way.

Andrews was right there and should have prevented it, that was his job and he gets paid to do it. it just makes me question his professional judgement.

again glad your surgery and recovery has worked out.

Good stuff from Jeff Goodman on Noel after talking to his brother, who said he'd be really surprised is Nerlens returned to school. Also revealed he tore some meniscus in the knee and that he mother had left for a trip to Haiti on Tuesday and to his knowledge wasn't aware of the injury yet.

I both agree and disagree with Goodmans assessment of the state of this team minus Nerlens. I agree that Poythress hasnt lived up to expectations so far this year but Harrow had shown some good progress since the semester break until he has disappeared these past couple of games. Goodwin is the other player that hasnt been the player that most thought he would be. This team could pull together and make a run at a tourney birth but the 3 players I mentioned must come forth and join the rest of their teammates in actually playing as a team. Good luck Nerlens and WCS get in there and kick some butt.