Tony Allen 65% Ready

by Jeff Clark on Aug 23, 2007 10:45 PM EDT in Boston Celtics News & Links

In an interview on NECN (scroll to last video on the list under the Instant On-Video player), Tony Allen declared his knee "65%" and said that he's "aiming for November" to be back. He sounded cautiously optimistic about getting back to full speed.

That doesn't really sound very encouraging to me, but I have to keep telling myself November is still 2 months away.

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Tony must be a graduate of the Rick Smits School of Percentages.

by T1ME on Aug 23, 2007 10:52 PM EDT reply actions

Hahahahaha. Good one, T1ME!

by Cousin It on Aug 23, 2007 11:34 PM EDT reply actions

That’s OK; 65 percent of Tony Allen plus 65 percent of Brian Scalabrine is almost one and a half players. Our bench will be SWEET!

by Big_Easy on Aug 23, 2007 11:36 PM EDT reply actions

well…to put it another way…

with TONY ALLEN and SCAL….65 65 = 130

we’d have one FULL player…and one who’s 70% useless…

by celtpinoy on Aug 24, 2007 1:20 AM EDT reply actions

Good posts lol. Lets hope he makes it back 100%.

by FatJohn on Aug 24, 2007 7:00 AM EDT reply actions

as Yogi said:

‘’You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough in the second half you give what’s left.’’[/quote]

[quote]’’90% of the putts that are short don’t go in.’’[/quote]

[quote]’’Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.’’

by Jeff Clark on Aug 24, 2007 7:48 AM EDT reply actions

From experience and watching pros coming back from ACL reconstruction, an athlete may be 100% after the first year, but will not return close to pre-injury form for at least two years after. Don’t get your hopes up with TA.

by ShakeNBake on Aug 24, 2007 8:08 AM EDT reply actions

RU-BEN PAT-TER-SON !!!

by achansen on Aug 24, 2007 12:55 PM EDT reply actions

i really loved the way ta was playing prior to the big hurt. he’s got long way to go. 65% for an nba player with all the cuts and stops and starts is way not enough. take your time, tony and get it healthy before the big push. your future as a walking human being depends on it.

by nazzbo on Aug 24, 2007 4:11 PM EDT reply actions