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David Hell
Raly, NC – Cooper Flag says “painful” after suffering an ankle injury that will keep him away from most of the ACC Duke championships, and expects to be completely healthy for the NCAA’s Blue devil against Mount St. Mary on Friday.
In the first half on March 13, the Duck star turned his ankle against Georgia in the first half, but Flague said on Wednesday he had gone through a full-time training and wouldn’t wait for any problems when he took the pitch to the NCAA’s first game.
“We have worked on just returning to 100 percent, and I feel very good,” Flag said Thursday. “I am so confident in myself that I’m going forward.
Coach John Sheer says Flag wants to play in the ACC, but the DOK staff wanted to continue with caution. Flag did not heat up the Blue devil at the end of the weekend last week, but he moved without problems and did not need any lawyer’s shoes.
“He’s heal was to get out of there,” Shayer said. “I think it’s a lot of who he is, because many boys will have more patience or that’s not that they don’t worry about getting out of there.
Flag said he had often dealt with small ankle injury, but immediately learned that the unit was slightly strict. He left the game, had the DUKE’S ACC, and MRI and X-rays, both of whom did not show any significant damage. Flag said he spent next week with the Duck training staff in a reform program with the aim of being completely healthy for the NCAA tournament.
“Since the beginning of the week, it was a kind of jumping gathering to return to training, to return to 100 percent, doing some personal actions with some coaches on the side,” Flag said. “Then I returned to full training (Wednesday).
The Flag said he had gone through it without any problems and “had a 100 percent full movement.
The poet was not so happy in his appointment but agreed that the Flag moves without any restrictions.
“This is related to what he can move well,” Shair said. “He wouldn’t play if he’s compensating for it. It doesn’t matter what, an ankle turning point, to say a hundred percent (by Friday), he must still work a little.
Even without the Flag — and striker Malik Brown, who is outside on a separate shoulder — Duck left the ACC, beating 11 players in the final. Duck used his length in defence, although the Khaman Malloch Center said it was only more important to something that the blue devils had done before throughout the season.
“It didn’t matter if the squad changed. We were only us and we were still playing a normal basketball,” Malouch said. “But,” I was happy that Flag was there when he was training. He came back one step. I’m very happy to see him playing.
The Flag has an average of 18.9 points, 7.5 penalties and 4.1 assists and consensus of all Americans.
Shair was alert by assessing the possibility of his return. The youngster is unlikely to see the activities at the end of the opening week, but Shair said Brown was eagerly involved. If the blue devils make a deeper run, it is likely to be able to return to the next game.
“I don’t know if that happens or not, but it’s thinking, it’s our thinking to do everything to give only an opportunity if we can continue to progress in this championship,” Sheer said.