Carlos Boozer -- how did he really break his hand? - and a few other tidbits...

Here's just a few opinions -- you decide......

The injury was said to be a fractured 5th metacarpal bone...which is commonly known as a boxer's fracture. Of course the bone can break other ways, but far and away it MOST COMMONLY gets broken when someone punches something that's harder than expected. A few years ago, Illinois' Brian Randle missed the whole Final Four season after the exact same 5th metacarpal injury he got from punching the padding under the basket after he missed a shot in practice. Why do people mindlessly ignore the obvious....people just don't get this kind of break falling over their gym bag!!

But Boozer says he fell or injured his hand at home, although his story seemed to be vague and maybe changing a bit...

Here's one guy posting on a Chicago message board saying he knows for a fact that Boozer was injured punching someone in a late night bar brawl!
http://forums.chicagohoops.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24168


Others are saying essentially the same thing...
http://courtsideanalyst.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/boozer-did-what-i-did-in-sixth-grade/
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/10/11/bulls-are-not-investigating-boozer-injury-nothing-to-see-here-move-along/
http://chicagobullsinsights.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/report-bulls-not-investigating-boozers-injury/
http://www.mtrmedia.com/bulls/



Here's a little evidence that big men -- no matter how obscure and no matter how low their averages, if they just hold out long enough, offers will, and sometimes good offers...
we just saw where SIU landed verbals from two pretty obscure big guys -- one that is 6-11...(but 32 lbs skinnier even than Anthony Thompson!)- got zero offers out of high school and hasn't played a single game since then...
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16490

Georgia just got a verbal from a juco big man who averages an incredibly low 3.7 ppg and 3.5 rpg!! These numbers make guys like IU's Bawa Muniru and Tijan Jobe look like Kareem Abdul Jabbar by comparison!
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1141588

Here's one more....6-10 Tim Thomas - a juco kid averaging just 7 ppg, 5 rpg gets an offer and verbals to Pacific!
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1141595



A couple followups from yesterday...
Apparently Robbie Hummel and his family are not
happy with the Purdue orthopedic surgeon who did his knee the first time...
there's several mentions that they are picking someone else this time around...
someone should tell them about Will Egolf's guys right here in Peoria!!
(definitely stay away from the guys who work on the ISU players, because their knee problems like Bobby Hill & Mike Vandello never get better and ultimately become career ending!)
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20101021/SPORTS10/10210323/1022/Sports
http://www.purdue.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=52&tid=149050494&mid=149050494&sid=892&style=2

Also, Seton Hall's Herb Pope, who it was reported yesterday had signed with a European pro team, apparently hasn't mentioned it at all to his coach or team and is still at Seton Hall attending classes.
In fact at yesterday's Big East Media Day -- the representatives of Seton Hall and coaching staff were all totally befuddled and knew nothing of it...
http://thehoopsreport.com/article.aspx?id=580



They're at it again...
The notorious Bradley haters and BU-bashers...it's not even worth mentioning except for how comical they look.
I am told someone has started yet another discussion trying to slam BU and claim someone at BU has like, maybe, a DUI??
Funny -- I know nothing of it and of course nobody's given any evidence or any link.
(and you can't be sure they won't either)
I always give links to prove what I say and reference, but as seen in most trollers' or flamers' posts there's never any proof or evidence or links...
remember this one??
http://www.pjstarforums.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=81053

That one was almost two months ago -- made some ridiculous and false accusation, and yet now it's clear that was a lie also...just like the buyout threads and some of these recent idiotic rants....
and these guys keep pretending to be Bradley fans, while stooping to the lowest levels to attack decent people.

I'll repeat it for the 1000th time and nobody's come close to challenging it yet..
but there has NEVER been a rostered Bradley basketball player get a DUI -- NEVER...
It has happened plenty of times at ISU, SIU, where the DUI's are also only 18 & 19 years old, and even U of I where the DUI's are accompanied by nearly murdering their own teammates..
Some of their DUI's were kept under wraps and the ones at ISU on Levi Dyer and Brandon Sampay were not only found and disclosed by the people on the message boards (embarrassing the newspaper guys), but the message boards also proved that Jank was a liar when he claimed those violator were going to be disciplined and "immediately and completely suspended" -- all the while allowing them to play and practice without missing even a single day!
Ryan Hare literally STARTED a game the same day he was in court for his DUI!
Sure -- maybe some day it might happen at Bradley -- kids are kids...
I don't hold it against the kids -- only against the hypocritical fans who act it only happens at BU when it never does...and against the hypocritical coaches who talk tough with discipline but who act far differently.
But it's funny to see the bashers try so hard to paint Bradley with the same brush ISU and other schools are painted with....they can't.
BU hasn't had any DUI's and it ain't happening now, either...
still waiting for that link you seem to conveniently forget...