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- Hill's ankle issues, as is well known, began midway through the 2000 regular season. At the time of injury, Dr. Ben Paolucci ordered an MRI, which generally deals with soft tissue injuries. Nothing of note appeared and Paolucci at one point suggested the pain could be in Hill's head. When Hill went down again in the playoffs, Arnie Kander was shocked to hear he hadn't had an x-ray since sustaining the injury. Kander insisted he get one, which revealed a broken ankle.
- Joe Dumars, who'd taken over team operations by 2000, didn't make much of a free agent pitch to Hill, telling him to go have his fun talking with other teams and that the Pistons would be ready when he was prepared to talk. Hill was confused and taken aback, taking that as a sign that the Pistons were lukewarm on his retention.
- Orlando had zero rehabilitation plan for Hill upon his arrival, so he just started playing immediately. His surgeon was later dumbfounded, stating he'd sent explicit instructions to Orlando to ease Hill back in by mid-December. Hill later learned the Magic's doctor, James Barnett, had died in a plane crash in September and Hill's medical info got lost in the shuffle. The result: multiple ankle surgeries more, a near death experience due to a staph infection, and four lost seasons of basketball.
- Grant gave serious consideration to rejoining the Pistons during the 2007 offseason as he and Joe Dumars reconnected. Ultimately, he chose to leave the past as the past, wanting to carve a new chapter (he signed with Phoenix).
Upon arriving in Orlando, Hill complained of his ankle pain to his father, wife, and agent (the last of whom countered with a cautionary tale about his daughter's irrational fear of escalators).
Hill: In hindsight, they (my wife, father, and agent) likely all trusted that the training staff had been taking care of me and following protocols. But there were no directions to follow. My rehabilitation with [Magic trainer] Ted (Arzonico) consisted of a few repetitions with a resistance band—ten to the right, ten to the left, ten up and down—before practicing. That, combined with my own ritual of downing Advil and icing my ankle, wasn't a plan put together by anyone with a medical degree of value.
Bitte nicht! Dann lieber RJ Hampton spielen lassen.Vielleicht sollte man über nen billigen Vertrag für Dennis nachdenken. Ein weiterer Deutscher im Roster wäre doch cool. Schröder als Backup PG, daneben Cole somit hätte man wenigstens ein bissel Scoring von der Bank. RJ Hampton traue ich nach der schwachen Summer League irgendwie nix mehr zu...irgendwie scheint die NBA derzeit noch einen Schritt zu hoch für ihn zu sein.
Vom Eyetest her und seinen Stats würde ich sagen, er ist kein Starter. Seine FG% ist immer noch unter 50%, was für einen Center brutal ist. Freiwürfe mit 80% völlig ok, aber das Skillset ist einfach nicht vorhanden. Besonders im Sinne von zuverlässigem Punkten im Nahbereich, die Größe und Kraft hat er ja obwohl ihm mit 2,11 etwa fünf, sechs Zentimeter zum Gardemaß fehlen. Als Backup ist er vermutlich nicht schlechter als so einige andere Bankcenter der NBA. Sein Weg sollte der Hustle eines Theiss sein, weil ich nicht glaube dass er sich mit 25 noch in den feinmotorischen Skills verbessert und Layups und Garbage mit 70% versenkt.