Hill a game-time decison
March 31st, 2008, 1:39 pm · Post a Comment · posted by jerrybrown
When Grant Hill arrived for Monday’s morning shootaround, he was convinced his injured groin has improved enough to play tonight against the Nuggets at US Airways Center.
But by the time he was done, Hill was huddling with members of the training staff and officially shifted himself back to the “questionable” category, and will be a game time decision for the first of back-to-back games with
Denver.
A few minutes after coach Mike D’Antoni said Hill had told him he was good to go, Hill said he could no longer commit to that statement.
“We’ll see, game time, game-time decision,” Hill said “I’ll talk with (Suns general manager) Steve Kerr and talk with (head athletic trainer) Aaron (Nelson).
“You want to play but you want also don’t want it to be nagging. Is it going to be nagging if I try to play tonight? I wish I could look in a crystal ball and figure that all out. But it is a little nagging right now. We’ll see come game time. I really don’t have an answer right now.”
Hill has also bee troubled by a wrist sprain (“I also have a sty in my eye,” he said, showing it to the media) but said it was the groin – that he initially injured taking a charge from Kevin Durant of the Sonics on March 19 in Seattle – that would keep him out.
If Hill can’t go, the Suns will be in a tough situation from a matchup standpoint against Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson and the rest of the desperate Nuggets. Leandro Barbosa would get the start and Phoenix would move Raja Bell to the small forward spot, as he did when Hill missed Saturday’s win at
New Jersey.
