DeMarre Carroll is somehow a game-time decision for Game 2

The Atlanta Hawks need to stay as healthy as possible, and DeMarre Carroll is somehow a game-time decision after suffering a brutal knee injury in Game 1. 

When the Atlanta Hawks lost DeMarre Carroll late in the fourth quarter of their Game 1 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, things did not look good. A non-contact injury to Carroll’s knee looked and felt in every way like an ACL injury, but that just wasn’t the case.

Luckily, Carroll only suffered what is being called a knee sprain, and as a result he’s somehow a game-time decision for Game 2 on Friday night.

Someone call Wolverine, Carroll has stolen his ability to self-heal in a short amount of time.

The Hawks are already down Thabo Sefolosha, a player that helped gel with the team in a way that made them the best team in the Eastern Conference this year. Losing Sefolosha was a big blow to the Hawks, but it wasn’t a death sentence.

A team can only stomach so much heartbreak though, and losing Carroll would have been a brutal blow to the Hawks. That being said, he’s not a guarnteed start tonight against the Cavaliers, and having him miss a game will change the series entirely.

What we saw in Game 1, up until the Carroll injury, was a false-positive. It wasn’t what we will see throughout the remainder of this series because things have changed rather drastically. Even if Carroll can play, he’s very clearly doing so while operating well below 100 percent, and that’s something that could lead to the Cavaliers grabbing some much needed momentum as they prepare to head back to Cleveland for Game 3 on Sunday.

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