Willie Cauley-Stein – photo by Walter Cornett | WildcatWorld.com
On CoachCal.com, Willie Cauley-Stein takes us through his injury from last weekend, how he’s dealt with it and what the experience of the late-season turnaround has been like for him:
“Let’s just get this out of the way. Don’t have much of an update on my ankle at this point. I’m kind of just playing it by ear right now. I’m going to do a bunch of treatment on it in to see if I can start to jog on it or run on it, but we’ll have to see what happens. It is doing a lot better and I can put pressure on it now. Before I couldn’t.
How it happened is kind of crazy. I remember we turned the ball over and I tried to steal it. Wayne Blackshear was throwing it down the court and when I turned around, I just felt pain. I tried to walk over to the huddle, but I kind of knew right away something was wrong the second I tried to put more weight on it. I knew I probably wasn’t going to be able to come back. It hurt to take off my shoe and I didn’t really want to take it off. All I could think about was I wasn’t going to be able to play.
When we went back to get it looked at, I really didn’t know what was going on. It was just a lot of pain. I was trying to get back on the court just to sit on the bench in street clothes, but they wouldn’t let me so I had to watch with Will Barton and Mike Malone on the TV. At halftime, everybody just came in and gave me daps and was like, “We’re going to win this for you.” All the coaches came in and said the same thing.”
