Bearking news : Grant Williams out for season with torn ACL Injury

 

It’s not surprising. Williams’ injury was the textbook example of what a torn ACL looks like. His knee buckled and caved inwards while he was trying to decelerate. He immediately gestured to the bench and was carried to the locker room. Imaging confirmed what I think most people were already assuming.

The injury will end Williams’ season. He’s been a Swiss army knife for a Hornets team that’s been short on bodies once again. He’s been the team’s starting center and starting power forward depending on absences. He’s been a quintessential glue guy and steady performer. Now the Hornets are once again scrambling to fill a void created by injury.

 

 

If there’s any silver lining to this injury, it’s that it’s early enough in the season that Williams will have a good chance to be cleared to return by the start of next season. It all depends on how well his body responds to surgery and rehab

 

I just feel he needed to do more this offseason in terms of conditioning. He flopped all over the court during exhibition season. He winded easily. Consistently late to the perimeter, only raising his arms feigning the ole ‘college try’.

His base is too heavy. He’s lost significant agility/mobility since his playoff days in Boston when he was a total menace on defense, often assigned to guard the other team’s best player, even sticking with guards and wings whereas recently, more limited to guarding the 4/5.

Dallas saw it coming and dumped his contract. Yes, PJ was engrossed in social media ego drives, but he at least kept his body in shape as he lost mental focus and brought a Fight Club split personality to the court. Some games looking like a champ, others a hopeless chump.

The big picture for me. This injury hurts. It does. But the pain is short term. Out of all the serious injuries, the only core piece sidelined right now is Mark.