Darryn Peterson
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I’ll be rooting for him. He could’ve quit on his team like Mikel Brown and Jayden Quaintance but he didn’t.
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@FarmerJayhawk Can you hit 3s? We might need you next year!
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@TYOHawk OR he could of been like Foster from Duke who was busting his ass off coming back under three weeks from a broken foot
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My 2cents... but if I'd been Foster's parent, I would have strongly discouraged him from playing. There are injuries that are unrecoverable. I don't know the nature of his injury other than a fracture that was repaired with surgery... But I have a niece who was a track star in high school in Maryland... Winning state races as a Freshman. By the end of Junior year she was done. Overtraining on a foot injury led to bone death in her foot and that was that.
We all saw how long it took Embiid to come back from his foot injuries.
For Foster, it might be a mixed blessing that Duke's season is over and he can let his foot recover without pressure or guilt.
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Foster doesn’t have the future that Embiid or Darryn have respectfully in regards to future earnings.
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ESPN panel currently projecting DP as #1 pick. Good.
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There is a very interesting article in The Athletic about Luka Doncik's hamstring injury yesterday that will cost him the last 5 games of the regular season and most likely most, if not all, of the playoffs. He came out in the second quarter, was cleared to come back, and soon after came out for good with a 2nd degree sprain.
The article discusses 3 other NBA stars whose hamstring injuries cost them significant time on IR, ususally somewhere between several weeks to 2 months. All 3 had strains that were relatively minor so they tried to play after a couple of games, only to suffer 2nd degree tears and long times recovering.
This is what DP was trying to avoid. You can't just will yourself through hamstring sprains (the next step after cramping and tightness). The yammering seems to have died down mostly, but I still read comments by people here who think he really was just avoiding playing because of being soft.
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@mayjay DP isn't soft, agreed. I think any exec that dug a little would see that the story now presented about him being gunshy after full body cramps (in addition to the hamstring issues) will see that it fits with what they already have known about the kid for a long time. He's a winner and competitor and didn't wish for any of that. Ultimately I'm not sure DP was a good fit for a Kansas roster with 3.5 other guys that Bill trusted, and not sure that Kansas was the most confortable fit for him. Had he been at a school like Duke, flush with other high profile talent that the announcers could fixate on, he may have healed in peace without the BS scrutiny. In the end, if we goes number 1, maybe the case could be made that by taking the harder route, DP had to show how tough he was. I think he passed the test.
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Not a lot of angst here for DP declaring today.
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@wissox83 If there had been a sliver of a chance he'd stay, there would no doubt be disappointment expressed. But that wasn't the case, and everyone knew it when he committed. Dyabantsa (sp?) was massive for BYU but no angst expressed there, either, because no one had any emotional investment in him returning.
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@mayjay I expected at least someone to mention it here but no one had. That was more of my point.
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Not really a surprise I guess. Thanks for the memories (And maybe a few nightmares)?
I hope he fires his entire entourage, and hires a proper firm to up his PR perception.
Best of luck.
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We'll miss DP later.
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Great talent I’ll miss him.
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@crimsonblu22 All Jayhawk fans should read this. But . . . IMO his family made a BIG mistake in not sharing information about this scary, scary incident. All of us, including NBA scouts and GMs, would have felt entirely differently about DP and Kansas. (One more in an unfortunate collection of unlucky breaks for KU Athletics.)
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@JoJoAndMe said in Darryn Peterson:
All of us...
...No, some of us did NOT jump on the "he's a pussy" bandwagon, and believed it was a medical issue out of his control.
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I wonder if the coaching staff, family, etc. were aware of the high doses of creatine taken by Darryn? Surely things like this are monitored by KU's program. Creatine has been used by athletes for 30 years, so there must be a body of medical knowledge about healthy and unhealthy use of it. But, no one knew what I was doing when I was a freshman at KU. So, there's that. I too wish we had known about the serious medical condition earlier in the year; it really helps me understand what happened better. Coach should take Darryn's situation into account when structuring next year's boot camp.
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The article sounds like his natural level was very high, possibly unexpectedly so. The training staff likely made assumptions that would usually be appropriate. Five days ago my wife was prescribed a medicine and her NP went over the common side effects. Turns out she didn’t mention an unusual one--tachycardia, happens in less than 1% of reported effects. Her heart rate, usually about 57, has been over 100 for lengthy periods over these 3 days. It is starting to go away but we had a scary time until discovering the culprit. (Thank you, Dr. Google, and all the subreddit members!)
