What did I see?



I immediately took to watching countless video clips, of the Fultz of old and the Fultz of new.

What I first noticed was that his shoulder blade was lacking the ability to move into its full range, and he seemed to be compensating for this inability by hitching his body backward into an extended position. The visual evidence, coupled with the lack of improvement, and Fultz’ recounting that he was “literally unable to life [his] arm,” when the injury first occurred led me to the conclusion that the muscles in his shoulder blade must not be performing their job properly.



How could this be? A shoulder blade so weak on an NBA first round pick? It doesn’t seem to make any sense. What could have made his shoulder so weak?



Could it be an acute injury to a shoulder muscle or tendon, producing a pain response that inhibited muscle activity? Perhaps, but the timeline reflected that he did not receive a shoulder injection until much later, and after his injection, he still failed to improve his scapular movement.

After the shoulder was determined to be clean on imaging, he went out and continued to struggle.

At this point, I was convinced. I took to the interweb (something I have rarely done in the past), and opened a blog page and a twitter account for the sole purpose of discussing the Fultz situation. I knew what was going on, I knew he wasn’t getting the help he needed, and I knew how to fix it.