Sibande out for the season with torn ACL.
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Wow. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. The transfer portal really needs to go to a draft system...we'd have accumulated so many top picks to use by now.
NOOOOOO!!!
can he come back next year?
such a crappy break especially when the NCAA cost him the entire OOC schedule last year for no reason.
can he come back next year?
such a crappy break especially when the NCAA cost him the entire OOC schedule last year for no reason.
We’ve gone full Willard (without the NIT appearance)
Any injury is unfortunate but I just hate these preseason ones as they are such a gut punch right before things get off the ground.
Burton (when healthy), Jeffress, and Collier are going to have to fill the gap quickly.
Burton (when healthy), Jeffress, and Collier are going to have to fill the gap quickly.
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Everybody knows that you never go full Willard. You'll be farting in bathtubs and laughing your ass off.
I wasn't at the game so I am not going to say one way or another what this team looks like. But from everything I'm reading on this board, and now we lose a player to injury in an insignificant exhibition game, it doesn't appear too promising this year. Again. My question now is....how much of a string is this guy Capel going to get before he's given the boot for not producing anything resembling an ACC basketball team? Very discouraging, to say the least.
I just hope our win total is more than 10 (I mean total wins, obviously not ACC wins) this year. With this lineup, we may be lucky to win 2 ACC games.
I just hope our win total is more than 10 (I mean total wins, obviously not ACC wins) this year. With this lineup, we may be lucky to win 2 ACC games.
So, really bad news for Sibande
and of course bad for Pitt.
When it was described as at
first "banging his knee" against
another player's knee, I thought
a bruise. When it was described
as coming to a stop and it went
out, I thought ACL.
I tore my ACL playing Bball. When
the knee goes too far forward,
it's often an ACL tear, too far
backwards and it's a posterior
ligament tear (PCL). ACl tears
are for more common than PCL
tears. Painful as hell, and a tough
rehab. I wish him the best.
and of course bad for Pitt.
When it was described as at
first "banging his knee" against
another player's knee, I thought
a bruise. When it was described
as coming to a stop and it went
out, I thought ACL.
I tore my ACL playing Bball. When
the knee goes too far forward,
it's often an ACL tear, too far
backwards and it's a posterior
ligament tear (PCL). ACl tears
are for more common than PCL
tears. Painful as hell, and a tough
rehab. I wish him the best.
Looking at the bright side. This team wasn't going to make the NIT. If Sibande decides to come back for Year 6 of college basketball, that will help the team in their quest to make the NIT. Jeffress will be thrust into the starting lineup and should get better with playing time. I'm not sure this injury costs us that many wins. Maybe we go 4-16 instead of 6-14. I'd probably take that if it meant we get him back next year. Sibande + an older team + Mintz = possible NIT run
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Wow, not what you want 2 see while checking the board before bed after a night of lagunitas, we are cursed
Won't be as bad as 2017-2018, so I don't know if that qualifies as a "long time."
Ralph Willard's Conference records at Pitt:
5-13
5-15
10-8
6-12
5-13
I don't think we have actually "risen" to this level yet, unfortunately,
Two VERY different 5-13 seasons to bookend his career here. The 6-12 season really wasn’t all that terrible considering we had lost our frontcourt the year before
I've always thought that if we dont blow that lead vs #1 UConn, he may have had a successful career here. That was a talented team that never recovered from that.
The first year post-ACL usually isn’t a terribly fruitful one. Not saying that’s the rule, but there’s no guarantee that he is full go next year.
Given his age, I think it would be best for all parties that he move on and pursue professional options. Whether Capel is here long term or not, this team needs to get back to building its core from recruiting and development rather than filling/patching large chunks with transfers every year.
That was a talented team but with Cosby, Primus etc, I don't know that a win over the #1 team solves all of their issues. It was a weird group, they had those two huge wins in Puerto Rico, but then lost two in a row before the Uconn game. And then it all fell apart.
Ralph really got burned by Blount leaving as a Sophomore. If he comes back, with Vonteego, that's a NCAA team.
I don't see Nike putting in all the work here just to come back and possibly play reduced minutes behind Mintz, who by all accounts is going to start from day 1.
Its not as big of a deal in basketball as football. I would guess he's close to 100% next November
You're right about that. The
key is the rehab. Today's
rehab is so much better and
players actually get back to
full participation within a year.
The rehab is tough, real tough,
and you have to do it 100%.
Speaking from personal
experience on torn ACL and
rehab.
Very bad news. I'd be a little surprised if Nike comes back for another season. I don't know him personally, but he has a kid, a degree, and would be 23 years old. He may want to play in Europe/wherever before he's too old.
Coming off an ACL tear, he isn't going to be making more than gas money playing in the Moldovan league. He'd probably make more playing at Pitt between cost of attendance, free food, and housing.
People dont realize the lower level Euro leagues pay very close to nothing
Playing overseas is not for everyone but for most of these guys, you’ve got a narrow window to cash in. The guys who’ve gone overseas that I’ve talked to really have only had the stomach for it for a few years but we’re able to bank some nice money before they came back and figured out their next move. It’s the Wild West over there in some spots, but you can pull down some nice money.
With Nike, it will come down to risk v. Reward. At Pitt for the next year he’ll have the best rehab that you can imagine but then once he’s healthy, what’s the risk in staying another year vs. starting to bank pro dollars. This isn’t Tuscaloosa or Lexington so NIL deals aren’t going to do much.
Again, I am saying he is going to make very close to $0 playing in a very low-level European league. He would likely make more at Pitt.
Low level, sure, it's not good pay. Mid level national leagues (below EuroLeague but in Spain, Turkey, Italy, Russia) is like $100,000-$300,000 or so a year. Depends how good they think Nike is.
He’s not making more at Pitt. Quality of life? Absolutely better staying in college but NIL isn’t touching a pro deal for a guy like him
Do you realize how hard it is to make those leagues? All-time greats like Fields, Gibbs, etc cant make those leagues. Of all the Glory Days Pitt players, only a dozen or so have made those leagues. Nike Sibande is NOT making a top or even mid-level European league coming off an ACL tear causing him to miss all the Euro combines. Beyond that, he was lower-level ACC player before injury.
He will not make as much money playing in Estonia, Liechtenstein, or Moldova as he will at Pitt.
