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Donnie Freeman Injury Updates (Not Out)

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Donnie Freeman is making progress from injury: ‘Seeing a lot of improvement from him’

Freeman played four games for Syracuse before going down with injury.
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There is still no definitive timetable for Donnie Freeman to return to the basketball court for his Syracuse team.

But an encouraging sign emerged before Wednesday’s game against Mercyhurst in the JMA Wireless Dome.

Freeman, the Syracuse sophomore forward, warmed up with his team before the game.

He wore his Syracuse uniform. An SU team spokesman said before the game Freeman likely would not play and he did not. His participation in warmups was an opportunity to return Freeman to game rituals after a four-week absence.

Progress, his coach and teammates said, has been made.

“He is participating in practice,” SU coach Adrian Autry said, “you know, slowly, surely kind of working him back in. He has some conditioning to catch up with and things like that.

“But we do expect him back, you know, fairly soon. I know it sounds like a broken record.”
 
After reading this article, Donnie is not close to returning. He’s not going to play Saturday or Monday. He’s not even cleared for contact drills. Is he getting better? Yes, but not close to playing in a game. I was hoping this team would be full strength before Clemson with game time experience together. He comes back and it’s like starting all over.
 
hoopsupstate said:
After reading this article, Donnie is not close to returning. He’s not going to play Saturday or Monday. He’s not even cleared for contact drills. Is he getting better? Yes, but not close to playing in a game. I was hoping this team would be full strength before Clemson with game time experience together. He comes back and it’s like starting all over.
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He’s done for season, same bull they pulled last year. No other school pulls this crap but Syracuse
 
Cusefan0307 said:
Donnie Freeman isn’t fixing what as this team.
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A healthy Donnie Freeman could develop into a 20-10 or better guy who plays good defense at 3 positions. He absolutely helps this team if he can come back healthy and effective. He essentially takes the worst minutes on the team and potentially turns them into All American quality minutes. Look at all his advanced stats. Freeman is a great player. He just can't stay healthy so far. :(

All of the "efficiency" rate stats (ORtg, DRtg, WS, BPM, PER) think Freeman is great, on both offense and defense. And they try to account for quality of competition.

 
Niastri said:
A healthy Donnie Freeman could develop into a 20-10 or better guy who plays good defense at 3 positions. He absolutely helps this team if he can come back healthy and effective. He essentially takes the worst minutes on the team and potentially turns them into All American quality minutes. Look at all his advanced stats. Freeman is a great player. He just can't stay healthy so far. :(
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He's talented, but he's not going to fix our inability to play hard possession to possession the offensive design, JJ being a black hole, or fix the turnover issue.
 
Cusefan0307 said:
He's talented, but he's not going to fix our inability to play hard possession to possession the offensive design, JJ being a black hole, or fix the turnover issue.
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I think the only thing accurate you said in your post was "he's talented."

If you think Freeman being out there 30 minutes a game won't make a huge improvement to our offense, you don't understand what Freeman brings to the table. He is extremely hard to guard one on one, because he can do a variety of things offensively. That opens up the court for everybody else.

JJ is not a black hole. He has cut his shots dramatically, is accepting fewer minutes and is shooting better than he has since a late season stretch of his sophomore year. You are engaging in calumny, Sir, and I won't have it!

Turnovers happen, but having one additional really good offensive player out there should help the turnover problem.
 

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