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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1015649, member: 405"]
Good post.  I think that getting hurt is much less of a concern if it's a young guy, unless it's a certain type of injury.  Even ACL's have become routine - like Tommy John surgery.  Once it was considered a miracle, now it has about an 80-90% success rate.

It's not until the 2nd or 3rd ACL that a guy really starts to lose it. You see this a lot watching soccer, where everybody plays a season that runs from August to May, and then play for their countries for a month in the summer, if they are good enough.  No rest, and ACL tears are common.  Almost everybody recovers well from the first one, especially if they are 17-22 years old.

On the other hand, big guys, especially those carrying too much weight, are injuries waiting to happen.  It's almost always the wheels, and we are looking at Coleman on his 2nd year in a row with surgery and a cautious recovery projection.

Flynn's hip tear was a freakish injury.  He would have recovered better from a knee than the hip.  That usually doesn't happen to players in hoops.  That's usually a football type of injury.
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