Bulls’ Torrey Craig Out at Least 2-4 Weeks With Knee Injury Suffered Staunch through Thunder
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The Chicago Bulls announced on Tuesday that feeble Torrey Craig will be re-evaluated in 2-4 weeks after struggling a lawful knee sprain for the length of a say over the weekend.
Head coach Billy Donovan also supplied an exchange on Patrick Williams, telling newshounds that the gargantuan man is smooth experiencing light discomfort in his left foot and the crew would proceed “very, very careful.”
Williams has overlooked the past 9 games with the damage.
Craig, 33, has appeared in 33 games for the Bulls this season (eight starts), averaging 6.1 capabilities and 4.7 rebounds in 21 minutes per contest while taking pictures 42.5 percent from the arena and 37.4 percent from three.
But staying healthy has been a local, as he previously overlooked 22 games this season to a sprained plantar fascia.
Correctly being has become a most predominant arena for these Bulls in same old. Alongside the absences of Craig and Williams, star guard Zach LaVine—the topic of consistent trade rumors for the explanation that summer—is already out for the year with a lawful foot damage that required surgical treatment.
“He did the entirety he could presumably to rob a imagine at to fetch himself aid to taking half in,” Donovan suggested newshounds earlier in February. “I deem the discomfort in his foot modified into as soon as at a residing the assign I deem he good didn’t primarily feel love he had any probability of being himself and contributing. And I deem that modified into as soon as primarily frustrating and tough for him.”
Those injuries acquire left the Bulls very skinny on the flee, and the head coach hinted on Tuesday that relying too heavily on DeMar DeRozan, Coby White and Alex Caruso wasn’t sustainable.
“I do no longer know if we are able to retain doing what we have been doing,” he suggested newshounds, speaking on the heavy minutes load the trio has been forced to undergo. “We are going to wish to resolve some issues out going forward.”
The Bulls, no topic a disappointing 26-29 file, are smooth very much within the playoff hunt. The crew at the present sits ninth within the Jap Conference standings, inserting them in residing to fetch one in every of the four Play-In Occasion berths.
The crew’s dwindling depth could presumably perchance no longer merit these efforts, nonetheless, with Craig the most modern casualty of Chicago’s chronic damage worm.
