In the Boeheim press conference, he made it sound like DC2's knees were so troubling in practice that he wasnt going to be playing anytime soon. I kind of hoped he was doing a "decoy" with his injury listings like Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots is infamous for, but Boeheim isn't known for that.
For Chuckwu, I haven't heard any updates in awhile, but originally it was very long term, if not the season. About a week ago on here, someone claimed that some of the animosity toward Franklin Howard was explained as him having contributed to Chuckwu's eye in practice. I hadn't heard about that anwhere else, so I can't provide an update on the Howard Hate Meter(tm) either, other than it appears to be dropping slightly being Gillon's play has been down 2 games.
I know none of these are good things to hear facing what could be the toughest opponent of the season, but stranger things have happened. At least Lydon looked better than some had thought he'd be, but yeah we're very likley to miss those 2 in a big way.