What is the word on Adrian? Hope it isnt a season injury,

(02-12-2009 11:19 AM)gdayre Wrote:  What is the word on Adrian? Hope it isnt a season injury,

Adrian? Do you mean Dyson?

If its Dyson then he's day to day so nothing major.

Your right, my bad. thanks for the info.

Bruised right knee. No structual damage. Day-to-day. Aren't we all.

Yeah, Dyson will be alright. Hopefully he won't miss any more games due to this (or any other) injury.

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Dyson might be out for rest of the season. Huge loss for UCONN. This makes Nate Miles thing even worse. Rest of our guards will have to step it up. Maybe Donnelly Beverly will get a chance to play more. The task to keep going rests on Austrie, AJ Price and Kemba Walker. As long as we got Thabeet, we can still win the NC.

Yeah, this is a real tough break for us.

Here's the ESPN article: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3903478

It's a tough break for sure. But it's a good thing UConn has the depth to deal with such a loss. A lot of other teams losing a player like that could kiss their chances at post season success goodbye...

Time for Stanley Robinson to show his true talent.

Wow, ouch. I spoke too soon.

I certainly agree with SF Husky. Now is the time for Robinson, a former ***** recruit, to flash his talent. He's been a solid role player for us but must step up and become a leader if UConn is going to win the national championsip.

Comments from Calhoun on Dyson's injury. I feel bad for the kid. He gonna be awesome for UCONN next year even though we will have a different team without AJ Price, Adrien and Thabeet (assuming he will go to the league). People are picking against UCONN now Dyson is out, but they are underestimating UCONN. I think Calhoun has built the team with so many guards for this very reason. Let's hope one of the other guards will step it up. This is also why Calhoun is a great coach and his players always rally around him.

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Quote: Bad Afternoon
"I'd like to say 'Good afternoon,' but I don't really mean it."

That's how Jim Calhoun started today's teleconference call with reporters. Here's some of what Calhoun had to say about Jerome Dyson's injury:

"We're saying (his absence) is indefinite, because they truly don't know until they go in and do surgery on Monday, I believe, to see exactly what they find. There's a tear in the meniscus, and they can either repair it or cut a piece out. The best thing to do is repair it, which is what they try to do at all costs, so down the line five, six years from now, Jerome won't have problems. If they cut it, there's an outside chance he'll be back in 3-4 weeks."

"We're prepared for the worst. We wish for a good, if not necessarily speedy, recovery, so he can come back next year and probably be our leading scorer, and hopefully have a great career after that."

"Our goals are still attainable. Injuries happen, sickness happens, tragedies happen. This isn't a tragedy. What happened in Buffalo -- that's a tragedy. This is an unfortunate thing for Jerome."

***Calhoun said Craig Austrie will return to the starting lineup.

"He's started before," Calhoun noted. "We have a good record with Craig starting."

The coach added that both Donnell Beverly and Scottie Haralson will run a bit with the first team in practice today. But the three players who need to step up the most in Dyson's absence are, in order, Kemba Walker, Stanley Robinson (who'll see some time at power forward) and Austrie.

"Kemba will have the most significant rise (in playing time). Stanley, obviously, has got to do some of the things he's capable of doing -- some 18-point games, games like he had in the first half the other night ... more than the 2-point game he had at Louisville. I don't think this changes A.J., Jeff or Hasheem, given foul trouble or not."

***The coach said that after Wednesday's game, everybody was confident that Dyson's injury was no more than a bruise. Concern started creeping in when Dyson couldn't close his knee, and the pain didn't subside.

Calhoun said Dyson was "devastated" when told the news of the MRI findings while in the training room yesterday.

"He broke down, his teammates went to see him. It was a tough scene. But I put things in perspective for him. Things happen to people. You don't want adversity, but character doesn't come out when everything's going good. Character comes out when something very difficult happens. It's how you handle that."

"I tried to put some things in perspective for him. If he does come back and play in the postseason, it's a bonus."

***Calhoun said he still very much likes the team that will board a bus (with Dyson) to Newark, N.J. later this afternoon for tomorrow's noon game with Seton Hall.

"As I drove home (Wednesday night), I had seen Duke and North Carolina play, and I had certain feelings about our team. I still have those same feelings now. The adjustment will be different, we'll be a different team, but hopefully we'll get the same results."

"We lost a terrific player, but I like this group. Not saying we're better or worse, just different."