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Bob Condotta
Seattle Times staff reporter
After he was forced to watch Washington's practice Monday from the
sideline, Spencer Hawes spent about 15 minutes working with coach
Lorenzo Romar on his hook shot.
"It's convenient right now because I kind of jump off my other leg and
don't have to worry about jumping off my right one," said Hawes, the
highly touted freshman center out of Seattle Prep.
But the days of making concessions to the arthroscopic surgery he had on
Oct. 11 to remove a loose particle in his right knee are nearing an end.
Romar said Monday that Hawes will be able to resume all normal
basketball activity on Nov. 1.
That's essentially the timetable laid out the day the surgery was
announced, but Hawes said it was still comforting to hear.
"For [the doctors] to say it looks good, you are right on schedule, I kind of
knew it but it's good to reaffirm it," he said.
Hawes has spent practices since then trying "to soak it all in like a sponge
since I can't be out there," he said.
But he has gradually increased his activity. He will be able to begin
running in a pool today and will start jogging later this week in an effort
to get his conditioning back to the level it was before the surgery.
"I'm going to try to crash course it as much as I can," he said.
Hawes thinks he should be just about back to normal by the time the
Huskies play their regular-season opener on Nov. 12 against Pepperdine.
"I don't want to say there won't be points where it won't ache a little bit or
be sore," he said. "But overall, it should be pretty much completely healed
by then."
Seattle Times staff reporter
After he was forced to watch Washington's practice Monday from the
sideline, Spencer Hawes spent about 15 minutes working with coach
Lorenzo Romar on his hook shot.
"It's convenient right now because I kind of jump off my other leg and
don't have to worry about jumping off my right one," said Hawes, the
highly touted freshman center out of Seattle Prep.
But the days of making concessions to the arthroscopic surgery he had on
Oct. 11 to remove a loose particle in his right knee are nearing an end.
Romar said Monday that Hawes will be able to resume all normal
basketball activity on Nov. 1.
That's essentially the timetable laid out the day the surgery was
announced, but Hawes said it was still comforting to hear.
"For [the doctors] to say it looks good, you are right on schedule, I kind of
knew it but it's good to reaffirm it," he said.
Hawes has spent practices since then trying "to soak it all in like a sponge
since I can't be out there," he said.
But he has gradually increased his activity. He will be able to begin
running in a pool today and will start jogging later this week in an effort
to get his conditioning back to the level it was before the surgery.
"I'm going to try to crash course it as much as I can," he said.
Hawes thinks he should be just about back to normal by the time the
Huskies play their regular-season opener on Nov. 12 against Pepperdine.
"I don't want to say there won't be points where it won't ache a little bit or
be sore," he said. "But overall, it should be pretty much completely healed
by then."