Rudy Gay Out Four Weeks

by thenightstallion on Feb 16, 2011 5:43 PM CST

Rudy Gay is slated to miss the next four weeks (at least) with a partially separated left shoulder. This is bad news for Memphis fans. This team has shown a great deal of heart as of late, lets hope they have a lot more left in the tank.

The injury impacts them in the short run and in the long run. In the short run, it hurts, badly, because over the next four weeks we have two games against San Antonio, and games against Dallas, the Knicks, Heat, Thunder, and Hornets. We've beaten the Thunder without Rudy once, but I don't like our chances in any of those games near as much as I do with him in the line-up.

One other affect it has, is it virtually cancels any thought of trading OJ Mayo. When you lose 20 points a game, its very difficult to trade away someone who is capable of replacing that. Now maybe the front office can put more pressure on Sam Young to score, give DA more time off the bench, resurrect DeMarre Carroll, or try to make a trade for a good shooter that they think can help them out, but I don't really see that happening. As of right now, it certainly looks like OJ just scored one more full season in Memphis, with the assist going to Rudy Gay's shoulder.

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I agree this is really bad do you think we can still make the playoffs? i think if we make a trade we could still be in really good shape.

by GrizzlefoShizzle on Feb 17, 2011 2:00 PM CST reply actions

The more I think about

The more I like letting Darrell see time as the starter and not trading OJ. Darrell has proven he can score when called upon, and I like Tony Allen and OJ coming off the bench. The only problem there is that it leaves us severally undersized in our second squad, with the main guy of size that plays being extremely incompetent. It’ll be interesting to watch. The first couple of games are all winnable. At a Denver team we just beat (that also could be without Anthony, NeNe, and JR Smith), at a very beatable Minnesota team, and home to the Kings. If we can win those three, I think we can manage to stay around .500 in the games without Gay, which should put us within atleast 2 of the 8th seed with 14 left to play.

by thenightstallion on Feb 17, 2011 2:21 PM CST up reply actions

we don’t need a trade or OJ Mayo to start. Sam Young has shown he can get points and so can Conley and ZBO. We need the guys to just keep playing for the team and for the win and we’ll be ok. I’m thinking we win less of the games against the best teams because we dont’ have THE goto guy but we still will compete and take care business in those games we “should win” like tonight.

by xangoir on Feb 22, 2011 12:49 PM CST reply actions

I pretty clearly stated that this meant we wouldn’t be trading OJ

by thenightstallion on Feb 24, 2011 11:32 AM CST up reply actions

can’t I agree with you then? I’m delighted that we got battier because it means we’re serious about winning now and gave up developing Thabeet. thank goodness. but they did try to trade Mayo which everyone agrees I’m sure was a dumb idea.

NOW Today let’s get Powe and he’s hopefully better than a McRoberts!

by xangoir on Mar 1, 2011 3:00 PM CST up reply actions

reported 2 days ago

Leon Powe would seriously consider playing for the Grizzlies if they offered him a league minimum salary. I’d have to say Tony Allen might have something to do with that. However, the Powe signing doesn’t really fill the need of a 6’10"ish power forward. At 6’8" he is significantly undersized but plays hard, physical and crashes the boards. He CAN be a liability on the offensive end (think Tony Allen early in the season). I would love this signing though.

by unionuniv on Mar 2, 2011 10:05 AM CST up reply actions

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