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Originally Posted by capone0
At 24 and older Hill had 4 pretty solid years in Detroit. Those 4 years either 24 or older he was rediculous and pretty healthy but after that he has 3 years where he's played over 50 games out of his last 7. He's not had an unlucky injury he is injury prone.
What? I don't know how you guys are saying stuff like this. Let me break it down for you:
In 2000 Hill suffers an ankle injury. He had ankle problems at Duke, so he shouldn't have played. He does play and his ankle goes haywire for
3 years. After that, he has surgery, nearly dies because of it, then returns to play. He comes back in 2004-2005, after having only played 47 games the three previous years, and plays 67 games (not too shabby) en route to a 20 PER season. Hurts his groin the next year, and then the last two seasons has played solid basketball, putting up 65 and then 70 games. IMO had Hill's first injury been taken care of properly, then he would've put up more great seasons like he had just had (and we'd remember both Hill and T-Mac MUCH differently). The groin injury he suffered is a pretty common NBA injury and happened 4 years after he was first sidelined by the ankle. That's 10 full seasons of Hill if you're counting, not a full career by any means, but a lot.