Disappointing news. We’ve got enough weapons to adapt. Hopefully he will be able to recover by MAC play. Modern medicine is slashing recovery times (assuming no setbacks)

We must have been lucky in that regard. My son's surgeon was the Baltimore Orioles team physician from 2000-2010 and since then has been the head team physician for the Johns Hopkins University Department of Athletics. We were originally referred to a surgeon at Children's Hospital (my son was 15 at the time). She asked about 5 basic questions, none of which dealt with his athletic aspirations, and then recommended a straight-forward typical ACL reconstruction.

Thankfully we sought a second opinion because it took about 2 minutes of conversation with the surgeon to know we had found our guy. He told us that since my son was double-jointed (loose jointed was what he said physicians refer to it as) there would be a much higher risk of re-tearing it with the standard reconstruction. He also asked for any recent video of him playing so he could get a more complete picture. The Children's Hospital surgeon also told us she thought he was done growing and that only the growth plates in his hands were open. That opinion was shot down with one X-ray. He told us that not only were his growth plates still open in his legs that we could expect him to grow another 2-3 inches. The side effect being that surgery would be delayed until the growth plates closed. Jack was a tad under 5'11" at the time of the injury and is now 6'2". As far as rehab facilities goes he set us up with a place that specializes in high end athletes. They not only worked to get him back on the court but they worked in training him how to jump and land to avoid reinjuring himself.

His offices are north of Baltimore which is about an hour drive which was a pain but well worth it. Thankfully the rehab facility is directly across the street from his high school.

I agree and I also believe that we are set up more through recruiting and player development to sustain injury or players leaving etc. Before Boals if we had an injury we were relying on guys like Wadley and Khari to step into STARTING roles because we just didn't have the depth. While Clayton and Ezuma or even Granger aren't going to be stars, I certainly believe in Boals and the staff's ability to bring in guys who are quality and also to coach them up. He had to have seen the writing on the wall with Preston and what do we have: Mark Sears, a sure-fire First Team MAC guy someday.