During his most impressive run of the season, Sam Merrill, the Cavaliers’ wing, faced a setback when he woke up on Thursday with a sore right wrist. Chris Fedor from Cleveland.com reports that Merrill sustained the injury from a fall on Wednesday.
Despite the discomfort, Merrill, eager to maintain his enhanced role in the team due to various injuries, tried to push through the pain. However, the injury affected him, leading to his absence in the second half of Thursday’s game against New Orleans, as described by Fedor.
“When it rains, it pours,” forward Dean Wade said of Merrill joining an increasingly crowded Cavs injury list. “It sucks, but we’ve still got to go out there and play a game. We’ve got, I don’t know how many healthy bodies we’ve got, but still got to go out there and fight.”
“It was definitely tough for us. He’s been lights out the last two games,” Jarrett Allen added. “He came in and he tried to pull through, tried to rough it out with the hurt hand. Sadly, he couldn’t do it. But it happens. It’s been the cascade of players going down for us, so we just have to keep going.”
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