Comments on: Grant Hill alleges the Detroit Pistons mismanaged his ankle injury, possibly due to standard Isiah Thomas set

By: Player Capsules 2012, #76-78: Gordon Hayward, Grant Hill, Markieff Morris | The Gothic Ginobili

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:40:12 +0000

[...] But it’s a cold comfort. Because Hill’s career will always leave me wanting. Grant Hill is eighth on the all-time triple-double leaderboard. That’s ahead of Jordan and Clyde Drexler, which is rather impressive, because Hill hasn’t had a triple double since Clinton was president. Seriously. His last triple double occurred in the 1999 lockout-shortened season, against the Stockton-Malone Jazz. This isn’t some kind of fluke, either — Hill was phenomenal in his first six years, while he was with Detroit. His career averages as a Piston are 22-8-6, with 47% shooting from the field and 75% from behind the line. With, again, 29 triple doubles. Make no mistake — those are star numbers. The once-in-a-generation sort. He was also a really solid defender, in my view, though we obviously don’t have synergy statistics or per-possession defensive stats for his time with the Pistons. Despite all this, Hill’s career was derailed when (in his 6th season) Hill played through a bad ankle injury and stayed on the court until the ankle utterly gave out on him, breaking badly. But he wasn’t totally to blame for it. Reportedly, the Detroit organization openly wondered whether he was “playing soft,” and just funneled him stronger and stronger painkillers to keep him on the court. [...]

By: Grant Hill thinks a misdiagnosis destroyed his ankle and career « BasketBall

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:22:32 +0000

[...] Whitlock’s podcast, viaPiston Powered: "I (had been) told everything was fine. I even found out that certain team doctors were [...]

By: Grant Hill: Misdiagnosis Destroyed Ankle, Career

Grant Hill: Misdiagnosis Destroyed Ankle, Career — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:48:13 +0000

[...] said the Detroit Pistons mismanaged his ankle injury, possibly due to standard Isiah Thomas set. PistonPowered has the transcript: “‘I (had been) told everything was fine. I even found out that [...]

By: gmehl1977

gmehl1977 — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:02:12 +0000

Does anybody else remember feeling like Hill had abandoned us for greener pastures when he left for Orlando? When i found out i thought the pistons wouldn’t win a championship for at least 20 years. I am sure Cleveland fans would be feeling the very same way but obviously a lot more angrier. I will always feel sorry for Hill and the way his career panned out because he really was going to be something special. I honestly thought he was a chance to average a triple double for a whole season at some point in his career. I am sure there is some truth to Hill being pressured to come back earlier than he should have but at the end of the day he was a grown man and if he knew he wasn’t ready he should of said so.