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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 366498, member: 185"] Umm, I do believe your mistaken in your recollection. The one player I did say would never play again, Cody Catalina injured at Pitt, was not able to play again. What I said about Delone Carter was that from a medical perspective in the annals of medicine there had never been a player at a high level who sustained his type of injury who was able to return to the same level of performance that he was previously at. Not that he couldn't return (once I found out the true nature of the injury), but that he wouldn't be the same player he was pre-injury. Some say this is true with Delone maybe having lost a step. That said and irrespective of that, what he's accomplished is truly historic from the medical perspective especially in that even though others have returned to play with this injury, he is the first to have accomplished what he has and performed anywhere near what they used to be at. The first. I said it then and repeat it now that this has not received enough attention what a miraculous accomplishment this is, a truly great example of modern medicine at it's finest in concert with a supremely motivated, talented, hard working athlete. What you may also be recalling was that early on I said that there WAS a chance he'd never play again. Meaning that in a large percentage of patients who suffer the truly rare fraction-dislocation of a hip joint that if they concurrently suffer what is known as an avascular necrosis with it there's not much chance of return (this is where the blood supply is temporary lost to the area and bone dies, only to reform misshapen). Early on none of us knew if he had this issue too and I postulated that if he did it would be lights out and career over. So all that said given the current state of the literature at that time I gave the likely outcomes. One was catastrophic that happily and luckily didn't occur, while the other was that if it's only the fracture dislocation without blood supply losst then he could be back but likely not as good as before. Clearly there was a middle ground and he came back, while maybe not as dynamic as his freshman year, he was clearly still a good to great player. As for Pugh, I hope you're right and my concerns are needless. [/QUOTE]

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