Many people have been bombarding Bleacher Report with articles on Greg's injury. Even though it is a massive loss, he is 22 and still has time and they are not recurring injuries.
The more important loss is not of a player; the loss that is going to affect Portland the most happened in April, when the team's best player and three-time All-Star Brandon Roy had the last of his meniscus in both knees surgically removed.
Ever since the injury, Roy has lost his explosive first step, and has looked less into the plays. Roy is basically playing bone-on-bone, and this is going to affect his health a lot.
It won't really affect his game much, as I like to call him the "Tim Duncan of Shooting Guards" and doesn't use his athleticism, but his extremely high IQ and fundamental skills to attack enemy defenses.
Everyone likes to look at the negatives, but here are the positives I see from this.
Wesley Matthews
Matthews is about to prove all the teams who did not draft him wrong. Matthews is a defensive monster, in just his sohpmore year.
When you get the starting job on a Utah team playing for a coach who seldom p ...
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Brandon Roy: What His Injury Means for the Portland Trailblazers
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