Do not play on that calf strain dude…. I can’t handle seeing another Achilles injury this season

Mans is 24 and his history of leg injuries is scary.

this dudes body is made out of swiss cheese and rotten meat

It will only increase the slander if we win. We weren’t supposed to make it this far anyway

How many players need to tear their achilles after coming back too soon from a calf strain before they actually start taking it seriously?

Not great considering how poorly everyone else is shooting.

Zero chance he plays. Leaving a game with a muscle injury not to return means he’s out at least a week, if not 2.

On the bright side, his jersey number isn’t 0 so I think he’s safe from the achilles tear for now

This is a huge issue. Orlando offense is pretty mid already, Franz out makes it even more stagnant. Can easily see this series going to 7 now, as I imagine Detroit to come out very strong in G5.

I feel like his availability status is gamesmanship, no way will he be ready to play by game 5.

That’s gonna be a big blow for the Magic damn 

This changes everything. 

Can’t wait to lose 79-86 after going scoreless for the last 7 minutes of the game.

Don’t do it Franz

ugh

he was just hitting his stride too after coming back from the high ankle sprain. he was cooking last night.

Magic in ✋🏽

Jonathan Isaac legacy game incoming

Raptors ECF run loading

I mean this is best case scenario that his availability is even in question.

Get out of jail free card for Detroit

Saying this as a basketball/Michigan fan not a pistons fan.

Moseley shouldn’t allow him to play. The risk of an achilles tear is way too big, and as a Franz fan I really don’t want to see his career be derailed because he comes back to play early.

Jesus. So many injuries in first round.

Of course it happened on a screen from Stew

You’re up 3-1. He should only be playing if the 4th quarter of game 7 is close

They beat Scott Foster and Tony Brothers

Can they beat unavailable?

please learn from the other athletes on what happened when they played with a calf strain. game 7 of the Finals last year

Is his number zero!?!?!!?

This is where Mosley has to be a leader and make the call to sit him. We’ve seen this same story play out to many times, and it’s irresponsible to let him go out on the court.

Don’t fuck around with calf strains, Orlando

This man can’t stay healthy at all damn 

Probably done for this round and next if they advance

Cant ever stay healthy its such a tragedy

Calf strain…Achilles.

Way too many following this path.

This pistons come back will be much much easier if Orlando’s best player is out.

This event was manufactured to add the exclamation point to a truly brutal round 1 knockout. ORL in 5

Lots of doomers here. If it was serious he would be shut down immediately. Fact that the door is still open for tomorrow means this is a lower grade 1 at worst. Don’t expect him to play tomorrow but don’t see this being a long term injury.

FUCK ME why can’t we have any nice thing? We aren’t winning a game vs detroit without him. We are cooked

Do NOT play, please bro. We do not need more injuries these playoffs.

He needs to sit out to not risk a long term injury. This team isn’t winning a championship and it’s already obvious the flaws the team has even when fully healthy.

Uh oh

Yeah don’t mess around with calf injuries… take all the time you need

Pistons going to make a comeback…

We are in an era of war of attrition basketball

Franz need to return to Europe and get whatever Luka got to speed up his recovery.

They don’t need him against Detroit anyways

Oh shit, the door just opened back up for Detroit

These injuries are tough 💔

Orlando could/should still close it out but we know how that goes

NBA needs to do something about this. The injuries are unprecedented. Ant, AG, AR, Luka, Wagner and Im sure im missing more than a few others

Oof

Training staff and coaching needs to shut him down, no questions asked.

availability is the best ability…i think its fair to say that Franz is injury prone

I like Franz. Hope he doesn’t rush back if he’s not 100, they say the science doesn’t like Achilles tears to calf injuries but everyone who keeps tearing their Achilles has a calf injury before it.

Always love for my Michigan players I watched in person

Big bro you gotta shut this shit down

sit him. calf strains are a bad omen

That sucks was hoping Orlando would be fully healthy for the next round

More injuries this playoffs is actually terrible

Everyone is fucking injured on this league man

Rest up, come back to play at home in game 6 if needed.

Definitely rest young Franz. Banchero and Suggs too, in case it’s contagious.

WCJ will probably drop ³⁰⁄₂₀ on Duren in their absence.

They don’t make Germans like they used to

Anthony Black has to have a big game if Franz is out.

this shits going to 7 baaaybeeee

we’re 4 games I to the playoffs and we’ve lost like 8 star players to some degree if not the rest of the playoffs.

The way the Pistons are playing they don’t need him anyway. 

Way too many injuries this playoffs

I don’t want to see 18 achilles tears this post season, but maybe seeing 18 achilles tears is what the league needs as a wake up call to shorten the season 

third blown 3-1 lead of these playoffs. the east is just a support group for teams that can’t close.

Feels bad and theyre about to do history as well with a play in team beating a first seed

In his case it’s weird to me. He played full force in Eurobasket then skipped a lot of games in regular season. Only to have this injury. How the hell did he overuse his legs?

He doesn’t catch flack for always being injured like AD

Gotta imagine he sits it out considering they don’t NEED to win until G7.