Tip-In: From Perfect to Painful

what's worse is that the injury should never even have happened. jorge had no business going after that dunk, but I'm sure it was mostly out of frustration that he went up there in the first place. real tough to watch. you knew it was bad when calderon came over, jorge looked up and saw his leg and started screaming - calderon just pushed his head back down and put a towel over the leg. awful.

it really overshadows the absolutely horrible game they played.

However bad the game was it was insignificant compared to Garbos injury. He'll be missed....badly.
Get well soon Garbo!!

I keep seeing that play again and again. Just feel sick for Garbo and his family. Seeing the look on their faces just made me ill. Get well soon.
Mitchell's rotations were mind-boggling tonight and this incident could become a season (play-off) changer unless Bargnani can get back sooner than expected and pick up right where he left off.

I hate to say it,but it could be a career ender.

Man o man....it's all over. He was my favorite. It's true he had no business chasing that one down....

I can't even focus on the lose of the game...Garbo is done forever...career is over, I don't think at his age he can come back from that....

All i can say is I wish it looked 5000 times worse than it was because that was just horrific...

A major setback to their success...I can't even see them in playoffs without Garbs...

What a change of events...

peace

This only proves The sportsguys is right about Rivers. The Celts need to lose games and instead they are risking their only star's future to give the appearance that they are trying to win games. It is ridiculous that they are playing Pierce when no one in the NBA would fault them for resting him for the rest of the season. Can you imagine if the roles had been reversed and Pierce went down with that injury?
Which brings me to the Raps. Last nights injury only proved something that I had already come to the conclusion of, mainly, neither Bosh nor Parker should have been playing last night. Boston is a team looking for a reason to lose and I believe that the Raps could have handled them without Bosh and Parker. I know how ridiculous that sounds considering they lost but they did it with not at 100% Bosh taking up a lot of minutes. If they had simply rested Bosh and started Humphries or Mo Pete then I believe they could have handled Boston who have no interior presence other than Big AL. That injury could have just as likely happened to Bosh or Parker and where would the Raps be then? It was a completely meaningless game and they would have been better off letting Bosh take a few extra days off than rush him back and risk him aggravating the injury. Something to chew on.

Here is a quote from Jefferson,- "I really thought he broke his leg," said Jefferson, who landed on Garbajosa as he completed the contested dunk. "When that happened, the first thing that came into my head was, `Why did he jump? Just let me go.'

Oh well, I wont beat this to death, but I feel bad about it...just let him go...

man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jorge's screaming said it all, let's just hope it was a clean bone break and not a complete mangling of his ankle. thinking of the way his foot was turned gives me shivers.

I was so excited about the return of the starting five that so thoroughly owned the month of january. We just get our best perimeter defender back and our key inside man goes down. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

Almost as horrific in this game: the reffing. Bavetta tried to keep it fair with a few payback calls, but generally Boston could do no wrong. How about the jump ball called when TJ was fouled to prevent the easy layup? Even the defender was like, Huh? Really?

I too wish parker could have forced his game a bit more. If everyone's going one-on-five anyways, he's one guy who can finish.

I have to say we missed dixon a lot too since we played small ball so much.

Jorge Garbajosa: "My leg is not broken. My knee is OK, but my ankle is not. Today I will undergo surgery and we will see." Marca

Garbajosa: "The season is over for me, for sure. My goal now is to play the European Championship
with Spain. But we have to wait until the surgery." Marca

For those who can read spanish (and if that's you, please translate for the rest of us!)
http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/305/nba/es/desarrollo/773651.html

I was listening to the game on TV while doing some work on the computer and I heard Chuck describing the injury and I almost puked. I do not want to see those highlights I think.

Sounds like Garbo thinks he will play in the European Championships. I guess that means it is season-ending (and playoff) but not career-ending.

What a horrible game though. I started watching it, then decided work would be better. You could tell right at the start that this was going to be a loss, very much like last year. Why does this team not know how to beat up on the Celtics like everyone else?

Hey Erezona - try this link. It's Google Translate of that page you linked:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marca.com%2Fedicion%2Fmarca%2F305%2Fnba%2Fes%2Fdesarrollo%2F773651.html&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

yeah, he's basically saying it was for sure the ankle and, thankfully, nothing else. he said they won't know what the extent of the injury is until they open the ankle up, sometime today, (wednesday,) in toronto. I guess we'll find out tomorrow how bad, (or not so bad,) it really is.

interestingly enough, it looks like all guns are pointed at graham now as his replacement. (via doug smith.)

make it or break it time for joey. I, for one, am really hoping it works out for him.

Papa,

Franchise and I were talking about just this point this morning. It is all on Joey now to make it or break it in the eyes of Colangelo. He needs to be a 12 and 8 type guy and needs to do it on a consistent basis. He must know what is required of him at this point and needs to proove that he can be a contributor to this team for years to come. My guess is if Joey stumbles Joey is gone.

This team simply finds new ways to break my heart.

Garbo snaps his ankle on one of his all hustle plays in a nothing game against the second worst team in the league?

Just shoot me.

It's definitely put-up-shut-up time for Joey G, but I wonder whether Colangelo/Mitchell shouldn't tank a few over the next week by playing the scrubs for heavy minutes and let the top-enders heal a little for the playoffs.

We've got room to spare for a little healing time, non?

On a separate note, I thought I saw that NBAdraft had Big Baby Glen Davis becoming a Raptor in one of their mocks.

Oh man. I sure hope not. He's just a 320lb Joey Graham.

Christ, what a disaster! Good recovery and god bless to Jorge and his family. Basketball aside, he is a classy guy and will be missed.

With Luke Jackson already on board, chances are his 10-day contract might be renewed on a non-guaranteed basis (just like Andre Barrett last year). Are the Raps able to add another body to the team, given Garbo's injury? If so, do you see PJ Tucker coming back?

If Jackson shows any kind of game, he will be in there ahead of Joey in no time. Especially since he brings a leather 3pt shooting that we are missing in the absence of Andrea.

What’s with all the recent talk of resting our players? They can rest in June! I trust Brian/Sam to not play players that are injured. If however, they and the doctors in charge, decide a player is healthy, they will play as they should! There is absolutely every reason to try to win the remaining games down the stretch as the difference could mean home court against Washington in the first round vs. no home court against the Bulls. Just look at our home vs. road record (and our history at beating the Bulls).

Lastly, perhaps the best summary of the injury comes from Garbajosa himself as reported on the Google translation of the Spanish article linked above:

"Garbajosa explained in Radio Mark how it was the play in which it was injured: "In a counterattack of them Jefferson tried to do kills, I tried to plug to him behind and when falling I have been above to him. I have fallen very badly and me luxé the ankle. Luckyly me they placed it quickly".

Word of warning should anyone else try the dangerous move of try to "plug to him behind".

Why does anyone believe that Joey Graham will magically learn to play basketball, when he has obviously not been able to grasp the basic concepts in the first 23 years of his life?

If Sam Mitchell keeps his usual short leash on JG, I would think that Mo Pete or Juan Dixon will be in the starting lineup by the Washington or Charlotte game, and BC will be wishing that he'd cut Joey instead of Tucker.

Can we get a do-over on the 2004 and 2005 drafts yet? I think that we could use Iguodala (2004) or Granger/Maxiell (2005) right about now. ;)

Well I can translate from marca.com but they are not really saying anything new at this point, basically what papa translated: only the ankle is injured, it's really ***** up (season-ending) but not as bad as it could have been (very unlikely to be career-ending), anyway it's mostly speculation and we won't know much until they open the ankle up on wednesday.

Spain's national coach is saying he will probably make the Eurobasket because the injury is only thought to be for 3-4 months and the tournament is in September (plus August for conditioning), but i'm not sure how much of this prediction is wishful thinking or just trying to keep Jorge hopeful (this Eurobasket is played in his hometown Madrid).

Anyway, the injury is a real pitty for both him and the Raps. Like others said, time for Joey Graham to show once and for all if he can play (i'm not hopeful) and for a healthy Bargnani to get more burn in the playoffs, do you guys think he might even start?

I didn't get to see the second half and turned on the car radio just as they were putting Garbs on the stretcher. Best wishes to him, and as I've pointed out in before the Raps will really miss his -6.3 Defence!

On a brighter note, this could be a good thing for the franchise long run. The reality was, it would have been a coin toss to move to the next round, and no chance to going to the finals.

Now we will see for better or worse, how Sam can "coach" them out of this, and whether Joey is a player or just a play-ah! He will either contribute and make the rotation next year, or buy him out and cut him loose.

Our BIG-3 (Bosh, Bargs, Ford) will get a few more touches in the playoffs, and more specifically Bargs - who hopefully will be 100% in the playoffs will be relied upon more. There's no school better than the hard knocks!

As much as I want to see the Raps do well in the playoffs, it's all about learning. And when/if the Raps win the Championship, it probably won't include Garbo anyways. Eye on the Prize.

Can we still finish 8th and get our draft back?!?!?!

BC,

joey, in his limited minutes recently, has actually been playing some pretty solid ball. and by that I mean he hasn't screwed up horribly. he's made most of the shots he's taken, which haven't been that many, and he's cleaning up on the glass. to boot, he's had at least 1 or 2 monster jams every game for the last little while.

it's not like they've been game changing performances, but for him, they were pretty consistent. which is key for joey, as we all know.

me and my buddy have been arguing since day one about joey - I like him, and keep waiting for him to bust out. my friend, not so much.

here's to hoping it finally happens! (cause your right howland, he'll definitely be gone if he doesn't pass this test.)

BC, we believe in Joey because we have no choice. Dixon has trouble matching up at the 2, he can't play the 3. If Joey realy stinks up the joint, I expect to see more of Jackson. They could play Dixon at the 2 and Parker at the 3, but only against smaller teams or they will get burned on defence.

Mo Pete has no game which is why you won't see him.

Ustation, I don't think we can finish 8th. But in either case, we don't "get the pick back", it's just protected which means if we keep our pick this year, we give it up next year.

They're saying 6 months for garbo:

Garbajosa suffered a displaced ankle joint with a ligament tear and a fractured fibula after falling awkwardly in Monday night's game at Boston.

silver lining ... without Garbo, the team has a built in excuse if they play bad in the playoffs. Going into next year we will talk about his as an addition.

Erezona what are you talking about pick and number 8, please make sense the Toronto Rapors are not dead, the ACC door is not closed please don't think because of what happen the raptors is out of the NBA, weak up man this is sports player have accidents all the time

Marcia,

Sorry for the confusion. What I'm saying is that there is no chance that the Raps will fall that far.

Confirmed: 6 months (minimum) and no Eurobasket for him. Well at least it looks like he should be ready to start the next season.

I suspect jackson may step up and play well. It seems BC has the midas touch with his moves this season. He may actually be an upgrade on the O side but the raps D will suffer. Once Bargs comes back we will be fine. Till then it may be rough.