Playoffs Road suffered another blow

In the Rockets game at the New York Knicks, with an injury to captain Shane Battier, in today's medical team after inspection of the rocket after being diagnosed with a sprained left knee ligament. Shane Battier is expected to miss the next 10 days.
At yesterday's game with the Knicks to the section II, Shane Battier in an attack of the opponent players Bierwoke foul, but Shane Battier at the landing, up fighting for offensive rebounds and teammate Lori hit together. Tolerate the pain after the completion of two free throws, Shane Battier to immediately opt to foul. The Afghan commander is aware of what the end will be replaced Shane Battier. In the end, after Shane Battier did not make any stay in the sidelines, directly returned, accompanied by medical staff lounge.
After the match, after a detailed MRI scan, Shane Battier was diagnosed with a left knee medial collateral ligament sprain. Although the degree of injury is not serious, but the knee injury for professional players is still a major ills. In order to be safe, a rocket or a medical team finally decided to let Shane Battier truce 10 days time to recover.
During the truce injury in Shane Battier, Rockets coach Rick Adelman is expected to enable more tall Dejene Jared Jeffries to replace his position. Jeffreys since the transaction closed before the transfer deadline to vote, after the rocket, although in recent races has won consecutive appearance, but, because of the contribution of the team is not obvious, so in recent games, he has been A Edelman bound by the rotation. However, as Shane Battier's injury, Jeffries again usher in an excellent opportunity to rectify the name for themselves. The Adelman there is another candidate, he is currently the team down to NBDL League rookie Jermaine Taylor, but because Taylor has been the team three times this season, decentralization, therefore, according to reports of view, the rocket Taylor does not recall the General Assembly again, and to provide him with the opportunity to play to play.