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Follow up topic, most impactful injury to MU bb?

Posted on: September 14, 2021 at 12:08:35 CT
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Thames was obviously devastating and changed the potential directory of the program and a number of important outcomes. The recent examples would be Michael Porter Jr and Jontay's injuries.

Some for consideration:

- Curtis Berry getting injured before 1979-80 NCAA tourney and being unavailable in our Sweet Sixteen run
- Marc Dressler being lost for the 1980-81 season
- Lynn Hardy losing most of his senior season of 1987-88
- Lee Coward breaking his wrist down the stretch in 1989-90
- Kelly Thames aforementioned injury before the 1994-95 season
- Kareem Rush having to play with a broken wrist in the 2000-01 NCAA tourney
- Rickey Clemons breaking his hand late in 2002-03
- Klieza being lost for the year after non-con play in 2003-04
- Stefhon Hannah breaking his jaw and missing the rest of the 2007-08 season
- Laurence Bowers being lost for the 2011-12 season
- Kim English getting injured in the 2011-12 Big 12 tourney
- Bowers being re-injured during SEC play in 2012-13
- Montaque Gill-Caesar hurting his back in the 2014-15 Braggin Rights game
- Michael Porter Jr missing almost his entire freshman year in 2017-18
- Jontay Porter being lost for the year in 2018-19

Those are the big ones I can recall. Given who the player was, what kind of team they were playing on, and what ended up transpiring afterwards there are a decent amount of different ways to assess and rank the biggest impact.

I think I might be inclined to say the Lee Coward injury was the biggest, we went from being arguably the best team in the nation to completely collapsing and not really accomplishing anything and that team had so little depth. You could also argue that with Berry in 1980 it gives us a much greater chance at defeating LSU, but that also probably means Dressler doesn't have the opportunity to emerge against Notre Dame. Similarly adding Bowers back to 2011-12 would be outstanding, but that probably means Kim English plays a completely different role and is likely disruptive and the team dynamic changes considerably.

Edited by FIJItiger at 12:44:03 on 09/14/21
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Follow up topic, most impactful injury to MU bb? - FIJItiger MU - 9/14 12:08:35
     Coward. That was a national championship caliber team(nm) - TigerMatt - 9/14 21:48:02
     And people wonder why MU fans are so negative !! - Beakerbasher KC - 9/14 20:48:20
          Makes me spitting mad(nm) - TigerA MU - 9/14 21:11:20
               nice (nm) - phrejd MU - 9/15 16:50:54
     I say Bowers getting hurt in 2011-12 season, that team won - MUKdC MU - 9/14 19:39:24
     Interesting discussion - quicksand MU - 9/14 18:53:15
     Kelly Thames - HissingPrigs77 MU - 9/14 18:30:45
          Yes(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 9/14 20:21:43
     Those injuries during the Norm years all sucked, but the - Uncle John MU - 9/14 18:26:39
     Hiring Frank Haith(nm) - alstl MU - 9/14 17:46:19
          This(nm) - TigerFan92 STL - 9/16 18:35:01
     March 20, 1976 - LamarFrazier MU - 9/14 14:46:28
          BULLSH1T - mizzoumurfkc KC - 9/14 17:40:28
               if it weren't for his ruptured achilles and spleen - LamarFrazier MU - 9/14 17:41:44
                    Pretty sure he hung on the rim to - mizzoumurfkc KC - 9/14 17:45:54
                         Moved below - mizzoumurfkc KC - 9/16 10:40:18
                         Question for you (or others) - FIJItiger MU - 9/15 07:32:47
                              Damn...I had forgotton the dunk was still banned in '76 - mizzoumurfkc KC - 9/16 10:41:48
     Bowers. That was a legitimate national championship - Fred G. Sanford USA - 9/14 14:34:21
          That team only played 5. Bowers makes 6. Not enough depth. - ClassicTiger MU - 9/14 15:10:51
               That team was nearly a #1 seed - mizzoumurfkc KC - 9/14 17:43:19
               That team won 30 games with only playing 5. - tgr MU - 9/14 16:40:54
               Steve Moore played a lot and there was one other - Genco98 MU - 9/14 16:07:03
                    moore, ratcliff, denmon, english, 2 presseys, dixon(nm) - TigerA MU - 9/14 16:09:34
                         Thank you - Genco98 MU - 9/14 19:41:07
     MPJ is one - Jeff85 MU - 9/14 13:36:08
     Moon McCrary at the tail end of the season the year that - *M* KC - 9/14 13:31:41
          That really sucked (nm) - Uncle John MU - 9/14 18:28:24
          For sure missed Moon. Slipped on a pompom, is that true?! nm - ClassicTiger MU - 9/14 15:12:51
     i'd say Kim getting hurt for the NCAA tourney. - TigerA MU - 9/14 13:04:50
          True, and I didn't list it but Denmon was playing - FIJItiger MU - 9/14 13:41:54
     I think the most 'thank god it's ok' injury - XRob MU - 9/14 12:52:22
          unfortunately he played against OU though(nm) - TigerA MU - 9/14 13:05:11
     Chang's injury that caused him to miss the entire yr. BIG! - Sigma MU - 9/14 12:51:06
     The Coward injury……. - ClassicTiger MU - 9/14 12:37:13
          RE: The Coward injury……. - FIJItiger MU - 9/14 12:42:22




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