2013 NCAA

i happened to turn on the game while Ware was on the floor. at first assumed it was a neck injury/paralysis situation. checked twitter. horrible. have made a point not to watch the replay.

HOWEVER I had been thinking a shot of the bench's reax would be worth seeing. and it is. incredible gif up there. so kudos to lagoon for that one.

secondly, i'm an ilm guy and didn't even realize there was an I Love Hoops! this is very exciting.

agree w/ earlnash that UL looks like they are on a different level, though I don't think they are on UK '12's level. but when they are rolling they're scary good.

I don't know if Michigan is more athletic than Syracuse, and I think actually that they match up well. A lot of times this year Syracuse really stalled when their outside shooting went cold. It's kind of hard to believe that they lost 5 out of their last 10 games, but all of a sudden they seemed to lose their confidence in their offense. And really, everyone they've played in the NCAA tourn has seemed puzzled by the zone defense.

Maybe part of it is that it's hard to last two halves against Louisville's defense, especially in the guard play.

you re welcome alpine!

oh man, that bench reaction gif...

its totally profound

i am walking atm and felt my knee kinda buckle. i got so scared. i demand to be transported everywhere in a litter from now on. my legs should never touch the ground

I didn't watch it but just ffwwd it to the point where they wouldn't show the injury anymore and just showed the players/coaches reactions. That was def enough.

From what I understand, though, he can come back from that (clean break, minimal muscle damage) and it isn't as bad as a shredded knee acl/mcl (baron davis, shaun livingston)? Even though it looked worse.

He's already up on crutches
http://www.cardchronicle.com/2013/4/1/4170500/kevin-ware-is-already-up-and-walking-on-crutches

crazy

He must have already had a stress fracture there or something, no? That just doesn't happen.

yeah was thinking the same

people were speculating about peds? idk

they said there was a footabll player who had a similar injury and is now in the nfl. michael bush i think

lol i don't think PEDs result in you shattering your leg

Hopefully not.

Also people bring up the career ending Theismann version of this injury, but he was like 36 when that happened and it was nearly 30 years ago. I bet Ware is back playing within a year.

maybe if they cause you to jump high enough, like 30 feet up

i think like with derrick rose the big hurdles in recovery will be mental instead of physical

lol i don't think PEDs result in you shattering your leg

they're saying peds weaken the bone sometimes? idk

All pro-level athletes should have titanium rods as bones tbf

every time lebron does one of those monster dunks or alley oops i wonder if he's gonna crush his ankle upon landing

Pretty sure he isn't human tho

Durant is the one I worry about every time he lands

Doesn't automatically mean PEDs. People suspected the same of Bo Jackson, but that wasn't true then either.

My son had a similarly horrific bone break playing soccer and he was only 8 years old. Sometimes there are bone issues that you never know about until it's too late.

(I'd post the xray but it's nasty.)

How is he now?

he's fine but was in a wheelchair for like 8 weeks. Happened about a week before school got out --> awesome summer

sad

the surgeons should insert a rod into his other leg, just in case. preemptive

otm

I wonder if they'll take the hardware out. I assume so.

I can't decide if this is better or worse than the Johnny Knox injury, nor how horrible a person I am for even asking that question

I think the knox one is way worse, personally.

I think so too - I can't even imagine something more gruesome than that. But at least the Knox one wasn't really apparent in real time. Or even on replay, really - I had to rewind it a bit to really see that what we were seeing was not, in fact, two different players.

for broken leg pathos its still go for wand. will never get over that shit, and it wasn't even a person.

Doesn't automatically mean PEDs. People suspected the same of Bo Jackson, but that wasn't true then either.

My son had a similarly horrific bone break playing soccer and he was only 8 years old. Sometimes there are bone issues that you never know about until it's too late.

― The Great Forgiver (dandydonweiner), Monday, April 1, 2013 1:15 PM (6 hours ago)

yeah i shattered my femur playing soccer when i was 4, was in a half-body cast for several weeks. couldn't have been fun for my parents

also it wasn't PEDs

Well I would hope you weren't on ped's at that age.

omg i just heard about this kevin ware thing somehow. via chris hayes' msnbc show. (that is how closely i am following the tournament this year.)

i hope i never ever ever see a video of it. the reaction shot and descriptions alone.

Mama ✚ Kreay ‏@KREAYSHAWN 9h
Breakin' bitches harder then Kevin Ware.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9123661/usc-trojans-hire-fgcu-andy-enfield-men-hoops-coach

lol *cash register sound*

godspeed, usc

hah that guy is not fucking around

so this rutgers coach

don't you have to be somewhat successful to get away with shit like that? i mean the dude is 16-38 in three big east seasons.

anyway, fire the coach, fire the ad, salt the ground with their ashes

fire collegiate athletics

now, if he was 38-16, his methods would seem sound.

that dude is the son of the unredeemably awful color guy for the trailblazers i'm always goin on about

it's extra fucked up that he was REALLY abusing the walk ons

What a complete prick

when i was a senior in high school this 68-year-old 'legendary coach' came out of retirement to coach our team. he was like this dude, but nowhere near the degree, and saved most (but not all) of the worst stuff for this one kid. i guess he thought that kid could be motivated that way (the kid's dad had a similar temperament) while others like me could not.

i promised myself early on that if he ever whipped a ball at me, i'd throw it back, but he never did it to me. dunno if i'd have had the stones anyway, so just as well.

we went to the state semifinals -- largely because his (awesome) son showed up and *really* taught us how to play a 2-3 matchup -- so i guess it worked in a way. fuck him anyway

what a piece of shit

glad to see the espn opinion guys coming down on the side of "fuck this guy, fire him," i really could've seen rice being protected by these assholes.