Garrett Stutz injures left knee

[WSUShokker]

it didnt appear he was bothered to much by the injury..hopefully he can recover without missing alot of playing time. I think he is getting better each game and hes been providing some quality minutes

[KC Shox]

Postgame radio show said that Stutz's injury is a muscle strain near the knee and has nothing to do with the structural components of the knee itself. This is a good thing.

Muscle strain above the knee will heal faster than ligament damage so thank goodness for that.

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

it didnt appear he was bothered to much by the injury..hopefully he can recover without missing alot of playing time. I think he is getting better each game and hes been providing some quality minutes

when he first came in you can tell he was favoring the other leg. He was running around a bit gingerly.

But as the game wore on it did look like he had no problems at all.

[im4wsu]

He spent a lot of time riding the bike that was behind the bench, just to keep it loose, I'd guess.

[Aargh]

I thought Garrett looked half a step slow compared to what I've seen in other games. A little more tentative around the basket.

I am a Stutz supporter, but Garrett can't lose half a step of speed or quickness, or have any increase in tentativeness, or his game is pretty much gone.

He was obviously favoring the knee in warm-ups, but looked to get more and more comfortable as he warmed up.

Even with Stutz lacking some mobility and aggressiveness, it was fun watching CU players consistently going into the lane and then trying to figure out what to do next when they ran into Stutz just standing there with his arms straight up. They threw up a lot of junk. The same thing happened when they ran into the other front court guys down low.

CU had a pretty low shooting percentage from 7' and closer. I don't think that's because their players don't have a shooting touch from that distance. They just don't have a shooting touch with the altered angles they had to use to get the ball past the Shox D.

[newshock1234]

I thought, especially in the first half Lawson had more problem with Stutz defending him than any of our other post.

[shockall]

I thought, especially in the first half Lawson had more problem with Stutz defending him than any of our other post.

[Anthroshock]

I thought, especially in the first half Lawson had more problem with Stutz defending him than any of our other post.

Is that funny because it was accurate?

[Aargh]

This should bring out the haters:

Stutz has learned some footwork and how to use his long legs. Lawson had a lot of trouble getting around Stutz, 'cause Stutz was covering a lot of horizontal distance with his legs and footwork. It was obvious Lawson didn't like going up against a taller player.

Stutz is learning D faster than I thought he'd pick it up. He's showing a lot of signs that he's able to coordinate the actions to play good D. I think Stutz is probably a student of the game and a pretty smart player.

Looking at Stutz as a 7' So, his D is quite a ways ahead of a lot of players of similar size and age (including Paul Miller, as a So), by a substantial margin. As he matures, gets stronger, and has more reps on D, he could be a defensive monster by his Sr year.

[vancedave56]

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