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Coach Howland's Notes On Our Injuries

Thanks to the official site for transcribing Coach Howland's notes on injuries:

on Darren Collison's Knee Injury

"It is basically going to be a pain tolerance situation with Darren. He can start playing as soon as he doesn't have limitations because of the pain. He will not play on Monday and we will see how he feels as the week progresses. He will be getting treatment every day. Based on the findings today, I can't see him being out longer than a week to two weeks at the most. It shouldn't be a long-term issue."

on when and how Collison's injury occurred

"He said that it happened on the first play of the game. He went for a steal in the middle of the floor and he reached out with his right hand and as that happened, his left leg made a funny movement, like a twist. There wasn't any contact. I saw it on the film and it looked like he tweaked it with a sudden motion of his leg stopping and starting while twisting."

on Michael Roll's injury

"I have another unfortunate announcement, Michael Roll ruptured his plantar fascia in his left foot today. Two months ago, he had an injection put into that foot, and he has had problems with plantar fasciitis over the last year and a half. It just happened today. He just jumped up and then boom, he fell into a pile. It is terrible timing because he has been playing so well. Mike, clearly, is one of the guys that makes our team the best offensive team it can be. Our best offensive team was and will be this year (Darren) Collison, (Michael) Roll, (Josh) Shipp, Luc (Richard Mbah a Moute) and Kevin (Love). So we are going to definitely miss him. It seems unbelievable that we just had our first exhibition game and then we have two injuries that are fairly serious, it never ends."

on Josh Shipp's injury

"It happened in the game last night. I knew he had sprained it (right thumb), but I didn't know how bad it was. Today was just hard for him. He started to practice, but every time he caught the ball, it was painful, so I pulled him out. I expect him to play on Friday (season opener against Portland State on Nov. 9). We had it X-rayed today and there was no break."

on hearing that Darren's injury was just a grade one sprain

"It is an unbelievable relief. As you can imagine, I was sick to my gut just thinking about all of the possibilities, but didn't want to talk about them until I knew what the facts were. Now with (Michael) Roll out, the question is who fills into that position and gets more minutes. Both Nikola (Dragovic) and Chace (Stanback) will have a chance to play some more minutes. It probably puts Luc (Richard Mbah a Moute) playing more minutes at the three and less at the four because it gives us one less perimeter player that I was counting on." Again its a huge relief to hear about DC.

I am bummed out to hear about Roll. But at the same time I hope he (and Shipp) takes his time to get fully healed up, and in the meantime it allows players like Westbrook and Dragovic to perhaps pile up some meaningful mins early in the OOC season, which could turn out to be a blessing in disguise down the stretch.

GO BRUINS.

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