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Mirror Guy
This sounds like Jackson is a guy that Cavs will be able to count on next year at least to play the 2 off the bench. I remember the buzz about him was really good at draft time last year. I hope he has a big year next year. I think the Cavs should focus on finding a great PG before they worry about a SG. Although they do need 2 new guards for next season. I think Jackson and Pav could be good for them.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/sports/11381214.htm
Posted on Wed, Apr. 13, 2005
Surgery cures Jackson's pain
With back much better, Cavaliers rookie looks forward to playing again
Editor's note: This is one of a series of journal entries by Cavaliers rookie Luke Jackson as told to Beacon Journal staff writer Brian Windhorst.
Hello again, everyone.
I know we haven't had an entry in a few months.
This hasn't gone the way I planned, just like my season hasn't gone the way I'd hoped.
In January, I had surgery at the Cleveland Clinic to shave a bulging disc in my lower back that was pinching a nerve and really causing me a lot of pain in my leg.
It ruined my rookie season and was a disappointment, but I'm pain free now, and I'm excited about the future again.
Coming into the season, my back was hurting. Last summer at my second practice at Gund Arena, when I came in for summer league, I was in an awkward position, and I got hit from the side and my leg just went numb.
I've never hurt my back, never had back problems, and no one in my family's had back problems.
It kept me from finishing summer league, and I really didn't know what it was.
I just kept on telling myself I'll keep doing therapy, I'm going to be OK, and no one is going to know anything and I'll be fine.
Even though I was hurt, I thought I could and should be playing.
I wasn't telling the team anything really. I've played through injuries before, and I've always seen that as a part of the game.
I've always been really athletic and I don't think anybody on the team or even the coaching staff ever got to see how athletic I was.
When I worked out in Atlanta for the Hawks last spring, my vertical leap was higher than Josh Smith's off one leg. I felt like that was taken away from me with the back injury.
I didn't shoot the ball well, and I couldn't move well and I wasn't able to contribute to the team, which was the worst part of it all.
Not being able to be on the floor hurt so much, because I'm such a competitive guy and I really did think I could help the team.
By January I was in so much pain that I finally started to let the team and trainers know.
I was really nervous about having surgery, but at that point I didn't care, because I couldn't put my socks on in the morning and I was still going to practice trying to compete.
I want to have a good basketball career, but I also want to have a normal life.
After the operation, the pain was instantly gone.
I really feel I can be at 100 percent; I feel a little better each day. Sometimes it is like climbing a ladder, you take two steps up and one back, but I know that I'll get there.
I'm looking forward to playing in summer league this year and getting my game back.
I keep hearing about how we need a shooting guard to go with LeBron.
If I'm not that shooting guard right now, I'm the guy who is going to spend the time to be that guy.
I'm addicted to the gym, addicted to making myself better. Thanks for your support, I'm looking forward to my future.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/sports/11381214.htm
Posted on Wed, Apr. 13, 2005
Surgery cures Jackson's pain
With back much better, Cavaliers rookie looks forward to playing again
Editor's note: This is one of a series of journal entries by Cavaliers rookie Luke Jackson as told to Beacon Journal staff writer Brian Windhorst.
Hello again, everyone.
I know we haven't had an entry in a few months.
This hasn't gone the way I planned, just like my season hasn't gone the way I'd hoped.
In January, I had surgery at the Cleveland Clinic to shave a bulging disc in my lower back that was pinching a nerve and really causing me a lot of pain in my leg.
It ruined my rookie season and was a disappointment, but I'm pain free now, and I'm excited about the future again.
Coming into the season, my back was hurting. Last summer at my second practice at Gund Arena, when I came in for summer league, I was in an awkward position, and I got hit from the side and my leg just went numb.
I've never hurt my back, never had back problems, and no one in my family's had back problems.
It kept me from finishing summer league, and I really didn't know what it was.
I just kept on telling myself I'll keep doing therapy, I'm going to be OK, and no one is going to know anything and I'll be fine.
Even though I was hurt, I thought I could and should be playing.
I wasn't telling the team anything really. I've played through injuries before, and I've always seen that as a part of the game.
I've always been really athletic and I don't think anybody on the team or even the coaching staff ever got to see how athletic I was.
When I worked out in Atlanta for the Hawks last spring, my vertical leap was higher than Josh Smith's off one leg. I felt like that was taken away from me with the back injury.
I didn't shoot the ball well, and I couldn't move well and I wasn't able to contribute to the team, which was the worst part of it all.
Not being able to be on the floor hurt so much, because I'm such a competitive guy and I really did think I could help the team.
By January I was in so much pain that I finally started to let the team and trainers know.
I was really nervous about having surgery, but at that point I didn't care, because I couldn't put my socks on in the morning and I was still going to practice trying to compete.
I want to have a good basketball career, but I also want to have a normal life.
After the operation, the pain was instantly gone.
I really feel I can be at 100 percent; I feel a little better each day. Sometimes it is like climbing a ladder, you take two steps up and one back, but I know that I'll get there.
I'm looking forward to playing in summer league this year and getting my game back.
I keep hearing about how we need a shooting guard to go with LeBron.
If I'm not that shooting guard right now, I'm the guy who is going to spend the time to be that guy.
I'm addicted to the gym, addicted to making myself better. Thanks for your support, I'm looking forward to my future.