If Meeks was hurt he wouldn't be playing. His play has simply diminished as others have elevated their play.
The issues with Meeks were evident before he missed games earlier this he's with injury. Look I think Meeks is a piece of the puzzle but he shouldn't be getting many minutes. He's just not been consistently productive for us.
When it was announced that Meeks had the bone bruise and was held out of several games Roy told us that it occurred before the season began and that he tried to play on it but struggled to. Maybe they pulled him from that set of games to see if it could heal or at least get tolerable that he could play with it, those games then were not as important as the games now are. I can accept that this pre-season injury rather than getting better has gotten progressively worse and that he is just doing the best he can to play thru the pain and maybe the fear of hurting it more.
Now as this season has progressed, I have been very critical of his play, I mean with no official word of what the kid is struggling thru the fact he is struggling is crystal clear for all of us to see. We know the kid is a top notch player, we know we have not been getting anything close to that in his play, we know something is wrong. But with no official word all we have is his play to consider, fans would be MUCH more understanding if we knew officially he is dealing with a painful injury. That is not to question those telling their sources say it is the injury but I do feel we should be told so the critisims of the kid would back off.
I recall when it was announced he was being held out of some games for a bone bruise, I kinda poopooed it, a bone bruise, a bruise, you can not play because you have a booboo. Something to that ilk was how I took it but someone on this board shared how serious a bone bruise can be and that many times it ends up needing micro surgery. That same person shared that it is not something that being held out of 4 or 5 games would allow for total healing or even healing to any significent extent, I fess guilty to not knowing that. But from what I see the kid is dealing with something very difficult to handle physically, he is a shadow of the player we have seen, he isn't even the player we saw when he was way over 300lbs, so something is way wrong clear to see.
People poopoo ankle sprains all the time but get one of those high ankle sprains and you will deal with it the whole season, it depends on the grade of sprain and location of the sprain and maybe this bone bruise thing is similar if not worse. Maybe the amazing thing is that the kid is playing as well as he is, I sincerely hope that at least when the season is done that Roy will tell us officially what the deal is with the kid, I think we all want to know officially. I for one would feel much better about next season knowing this is something that Meeks can over come in this off season and we get a solid player back in our front court next season along with Hicks. Without an official explaination of what is going on with him I do not feel good about our front court for next season, not at all and I do not want to feel that way, I need some official word of what is going on with Meeks, I need that badly.
