Another site said he was cramping up. Good news (albeit still painful for him) if so.
Anyone notice Caleb Grill's back?
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Could the refs have just honored his request for timeout and charged us the TO. Lol. That would have been kinda funny too. And more appropriate than a taunting Technical.
Guy certainly expends enough energy to make this likely. Especially when contorting his body to grab a huge rebound.
It was on the rebound of the free throw he went up high and reached really far back to grab the board. You could tell he tweaked it a little but instantly.
Looked like back spasms to me which, if you've never had them, are miserable and can take several days to fully recover from.
Grill being young and strong (and surrounded by professional therapists) helps a lot but I guarantee you he's not moving too fast this morning. The next day is always the worst because the muscles have all tightened up over night but are still prone to spasming.
Luckily at that age you can cut a finger off and it grows back in two days.
Good thing he's got a few days between games if it was tweaked.
Coming out and hitting a couple of free throws afterwards is what this team does.
Good thing he's got a few days between games if it was tweaked.
Coming out and hitting a couple of free throws afterwards is what this team does.
TJ had to call that timeout. We were gassed.
It was the big stretch for the rebound off the missed free throw. Probably pulled something a little. I’d bet he’ll be fine.
It definitely happened right after he really extended to pull in a rebound before the 4 minute mark. As soon as he passed the ball I noticed that he was grabbing his lower back and could tell the rest of the game he was walking around a little stiff. The under 4 timeout looked like they brought some kind of pad out for him, guessing it was either a heat or cold pad. Would guess he's probably a little sore this morning after that but major props for him to gut it out and not come out of the game.
That and I think he wanted to refocus the team for the final stretch, as we had been holding our lead, but weren't taking advantage of some opportunities to extend the lead.
Other than walking into the big group under the basket, didn't look like much.
It looked like he walked into Cunningham and Cunningham made an exaggerated motion in response (like he did on almost everything the entire game).
After a dead ball and multiple players were gathered under the basket starting to walk towards there respective benches there was some contact between him and a Tex@$$ player. Basically walking through each other to get where they are going. It didn't seem overly egregious to me but King threw his arms up in there as to show "I'm not the aggressor here" which more just brought attention to the incident.
Just stupid chippiness and overly physical contact for no reason.
King did the classic “I’m going to instigate contact while leaving this scrum but I’ve got my hands up so I’m not doing anything”. Was entirely avoidable, but maybe a 2 or a scale of 1-10. Absolutely no reason to call a T.
My guess is the refs were jumpy with the intensity of the game and that minor scrum on the baseline.
If I’m being totally objective, his T and no-call with Grill taunting their bench that blatantly probably balances each other out.
