Ty Lawson plans to play on Friday
It looks like Ty Lawson’s toe is good enough to play against Gonzaga in the Sweet Sixteen on Friday.
“It’s getting better,” Lawson said Tuesday. “I’m walking on it better. Hopefully in a couple of days, it’ll be back to 100 percent.”
He participated in the team’s shootaround Monday and expected to go through some drills during practice this week. But the team has been cautious, keeping him out of practice for almost two weeks, in addition to missing both of the Tar Heels’ ACC tournament games and their NCAA opener against Radford.
[Roy] Williams said the injury will linger.
“It’s here,” he said. “It’s going to be here. It’s not going to go away. It’s going to hurt the whole rest of the season until he can take that time off.”
“I don’t think he’s going to be 100 percent,” Williams said. “But we’ll take whatever we can get, especially if it’s like that performance Saturday. That’s about as good as I’ve had a point guard play in 21 years as a head coach. I even told him that I was thinking of calling him ‘Rambo’ instead of ‘Dennis the Menace.”
All right, so he’s going to play. After performing well (though looking a little gimpy) against LSU, that’s no surprise. But is 80% or 90% of Ty Lawson enough to get the Tar Heels past a good Gonzaga team? That question will be answered on Friday.
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Well, you went on and on about how good Gonzaga was and how they might beat the Heels… then you eventually crossed the Heels off your bracket and put in Gonzaga, retroactively… a gay move, since people don’t get to change their minds mid-tourney… an even gayer move because you were wrong.
Actually, Joe, I made the decision to select Gonzaga over UNC prior to the first round game when we learned that Lawson wasn’t going to be able to play. A bad move? Yes, as it turns out, but you should really check your facts before you start calling people names.
What’s worse — being wrong about about a pick or being wrong about the facts and then being self-righteous about it?
Come on Joe, are you serious?? You couldn’t take two seconds to see that JP changed those picks before the tourney started?
You were all full of piss and vinegar because UNC beat Gonzaga that you just hopped on the comments section and started slinging mud.
And, “gay move?” What are we in the fifth grade? Come on Joe…COME ON JOE! I would say you’re better than this, but clearly you’re not.