Donnie Freeman injures foot

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Cstate]

let's be honest, a person can do a search through the threads on here and see some posts from people connected to the staff and fanning the flames of some of those expectations.

Exactly. Similar lines of “Chris Bell can play at the next level” talk. Off-season/early season talk for us seems to be always less that accurate shall we say.

 

[Oakland]

So, so similar to Chris McCullough: 5-star, physique, game, injury. Chris played 16 games, Donnie 14 - quite unfortunate.

 

[Bulldog04]

So, so similar to Chris McCullough: 5-star, physique, game, injury. Chris played 16 games, Donnie 14 - quite unfortunate.

I’ll say this, maybe it was me, it always seemed like Donnie had a weird walk and gallop during games. I know him injuring his foot was something else, but I know some of you had to see it. Wonder if it was a build up to the injury. Never seemed right even from the first game. I didn’t see it in practices though, just games. Weird

 

[Scooch]

yeah but that takes dedication. A lot of his issues are lack of trying on defense. He does really good on o so i know he is capable but being lazy on defense doesnt look good for his at all. If i wanna be a one and done then i am hustling my butt doing everything full speed. His lack of ambition hurts him. If he played at Duke he wouldnt play much not cause he isnt good enough. Its effort and thats all and when he sees that he will be an animal. Has all the talent.

Almost no one on this team plays good D. Which makes me think it’s partly on the players, but also partly on the coaching. And I lean towards putting more blame on the latter.

If we had a staff that stressed D, and could teach it well, I have little doubt that Freeman would be better.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

I’ll say this, maybe it was me, it always seemed like Donnie had a weird walk and gallop during games. I know him injuring his foot was something else, but I know some of you had to see it. Wonder if it was a build up to the injury. Never seemed right even from the first game. I didn’t see it in practices though, just games. Weird

Yup. I believe it was the second or third game of the year when I noticed it.

 

[Scooch]

I’ll say this, maybe it was me, it always seemed like Donnie had a weird walk and gallop during games. I know him injuring his foot was something else, but I know some of you had to see it. Wonder if it was a build up to the injury. Never seemed right even from the first game. I didn’t see it in practices though, just games. Weird

People mentioned it during the game threads. That he had a hitch/limp in his gait. I always assumed that was related to his injury but maybe that wasn’t true.

 

[Sherman20]

I seriously doubt he plays again this year. Why would he? What does he gain? If he isnt practicing if he is still 100% in the boot he comes back for what 6 games at best. If he does come back is it to prove to another college or the NBA that he is good to go so he can get the best bag?

As Chris Carlson and Brent Axe said on their show last week, it’s about development. Players need to play to get better. And the only way he’s going to get drafted is to keep improving. You’re not going to get better sitting on the sideline. You don’t want your skills to atrophy. If he’s cleared to play and there’s no risk of injury, he should play.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Looks like he's headed for the draft or the portal.

Or Door #3.

Playing with Sadiq and Kiyan.

 

[DilemaCuse]

Maybe the foot injury had something to do with but his last game against FSU, his D was so bad I thought it was point shaving from Blue Chips. Despite that hope he's back next year, now we wait until season concludes in March

 

[General20]

People mentioned it during the game threads. That he had a hitch/limp in his gait. I always assumed that was related to his injury but maybe that wasn’t true.

One injury leading to another because you overcompensate is super common. It might be two different injuries, but I bet they are related.

 

[Red2003]

The comment I heard most about Freeman was that right about now in the season he would be making a difference on this team. Granted that was with a real PG and Bell shooting 40% to stretch the floor plus some semblance of a defense.

I think what we saw was that the rebounding was there, the scoring was inconsistent and that his defense was a mess. Some of that was bad habits from his teammates and poor coaching.

 

[djcon57]

let's be honest, a person can do a search through the threads on here and see some posts from people connected to the staff and fanning the flames of some of those expectations.

i believe one post said if Freeman averaged 10 pts and 5 boards, we wouldn’t miss Brown a bit

 

[tptcuse]

I’ll say this, maybe it was me, it always seemed like Donnie had a weird walk and gallop during games. I know him injuring his foot was something else, but I know some of you had to see it. Wonder if it was a build up to the injury. Never seemed right even from the first game. I didn’t see it in practices though, just games. Weird

Definitely mentioned it in game threads.

 

[Vorony]

Lol people are still buying the “insider” BS on this board after the last few seasons? Preseason Top 10! Here we go!

 

[Giants1973]

Winning ACC Tournament!!!!