I think we need to treat every Langston Love appearance like a luxury. He's a great player and a good program guy. But through no fault of his own, he can't be counted on. His injury history is just too extensive to confidently pencil him into the rotation for more than a stretch here and there.IowaBear said:
Has Drew said anything ?or is it one of those "day to day" things where he's out all year.
The situation is weird. He's been medically cleared. He's also said he's feels the best he's felt in years yet he's not playing.
Utah football is the only college program that has as many strange injury situations as BU basketball. Love was also game time several weeks both of the previous two seasons. There was one more guy who was "game time" quite a bit in the 22' season as well.Big12Fan2024 said:
I wish I believed "game time decision" statements. Anyone remember LJ Cryer being a "game time decision" and "day to day" for the final 7 weeks of 2021-22 season? He only stepped foot on the floor 1 time after January 25th and missed 15 games.
Yep it was Akinjo. The whole roster that was left was playing through some serious pain in 22' or we would have Uconn'ed to a title that year (went OT with the hottest team / recently beat and co-champs with the eventual champ)Big12Fan2024 said:
Yup. Akinjo.
Drew's certainly not the only coach who does it so I don't put much stock into any coach saying someone is a game time decision.
That same Nova team made the final four and then got run by KU. I think they run to a title. With Langston, Cryer, and Jon healthy in addition to the other guys we had.. forget it.Big12Fan2024 said:
Definitely agree. KU would have been the favorite in '20 but we also would have been one of the 4 or 5 most likely to win. Then won it in '21. And no one looked like they could touch us after that demolishing of Nova in front of Dickie V in December of '21-22 year. And then injuries got us.
BUCANDOIT82 said:
We were 17-0 and ranked #1 before being snakebit by injuries.
Fre3dombear said:BUCANDOIT82 said:
We were 17-0 and ranked #1 before being snakebit by injuries.
The defensible showing against nova had me believing we had a decent shot to go
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.@BaylorMBB coach @BUDREW told "The Matt Mosley Show" with @realcamstuart that guard Langston Love had a "setback" with his ankle recently and it started bothering him again. Love was getting very close to returning, but now it will take more time.
— Matt Mosley (@mattmosley) November 15, 2024
Mitch Henessey said:
That Villanova game at the Ferrell Center was legitimately terrifying. I've never seen a college defense flying around like that. We absolutely dominated a team that went to the FF.
Such a shame that injuries derailed that season. It goes to show how much the stars have to align to make a deep tourney run.
It just sucks to see good kids like that have their dreams snuffed out by injuries. Unfortunately almost every school has 1 or 2 though. I look at Norchad and convince myself EJ would have been at least that or maybe even better if he hadn't been robbed by that wretched knee injury.Crawfoso1973 said:
First EJ now Langston. Very sad to see injuries wreck promising careers. This is why I never judge guys who wanna leave early to get paid while they can. All these guys are an injury away from being cooked.
Jon was upping his offensive game just as he got hurt. That team would have dominated the tourney, even with Akinjo and Sochan at 75% or whatever they were.Big12Fan2024 said:It just sucks to see good kids like that have their dreams snuffed out by injuries. Unfortunately almost every school has 1 or 2 though. I look at Norchad and convince myself EJ would have been at least that or maybe even better if he hadn't been robbed by that wretched knee injury.Crawfoso1973 said:
First EJ now Langston. Very sad to see injuries wreck promising careers. This is why I never judge guys who wanna leave early to get paid while they can. All these guys are an injury away from being cooked.
Big12Fan2024 said:
I agree with you. It is reasonable to question what went awry with the rehabs of both LJ and Langston whether it was misdiagnosis, discovery of additional issues into the rehab, miscommunication or misleading of the actual extent of the injury or something else.
