Clippers' Injury Report Turns Into a Podiatrist's Waiting Room
Brandon Ingram (heel), Max Strus (foot), Yanic Konan Niederhauser (foot) to miss at least 1 more week. - @UnderdogNBA
The ' injury report is starting to read like a podiatrist's waiting room. According to Underdog NBA, Brandon Ingram, Max Strus, and Yanic Konan Niederhauser are all scheduled to miss at least one more week with various lower-body issues.
Ingram is dealing with a heel problem, while Strus and Niederhauser are both nursing foot injuries. That is a whole lot of walking boots for one locker room to accommodate.
If you were hoping to see the Clippers operating at full capacity anytime soon, you might want to adjust your expectations. Missing your primary scoring wing and your best floor spacer at the exact same time is a recipe for some truly disgusting offensive possessions.
Ingram and Strus eat up a massive chunk of the perimeter rotation in . Without them, the coaching staff is going to have to get creative, which is usually just a polite way of saying they are going to play guys who should probably be sitting on the bench.
Right now, the are operating with the structural integrity of a Jenga tower in a windstorm. When you lose this much firepower, the offense tends to look like a local YMCA pickup game where nobody knows each other's names.
For the fantasy managers and prop bettors out there, this creates a massive vacuum of usage. Someone on this roster has to actually shoot the basketball over the next seven days, which means a few role players are about to get the greenest light of their careers.
We will see if this trio can actually get back on the floor next week. In the modern NBA, "at least one more week" is often just the opening bid in a month-long phantom injury timeline.