Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
While they have a similar story, they also have one that is quite different, one that paints their brawny 6-foot-9 teammate Loudon Love — “Big Lou” as he’s known — as either a comforting teddy bear or a stand-on-his-hind-legs mauling grizzly.
First, though, the similarities for Wright State’s Jaylon Hall and Grant Basile.
They are the two Raiders’ basketball players who are returning this year after missing last season due to injuries that required surgery for each in December.
Hall, a 6-foot-5 sophomore from Houston by way of Doss High in Louisville, said he felt his left shoulder “pop” when his arm tangled with a Green Bay player while they went for a rebound in a game late in his freshman (2017-18) season.
While it seemed to get better after that, he said he suffered another “pop” in practice two weeks before last season was to start and this time “the pain was excruciating.”
He missed the exhibition game and the opener, but tried to play against Murray State and struggled mightily. He went 0-for-9 from the floor and was in such pain afterward he knew something needed to be done.
He had a torn labrum and a rotator cuff injury and had surgery in early December.
Basile, a 6-foot-8 freshman from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, had had a tendon problem in his left ankle his senior season at Pewaukee High — where he played for his dad, Mike Jr. — and said it got progressively worse at Wright State last year as he prepared for his freshman campaign.
Officially diagnosed as peroneal tendon subluxation, he had surgery Dec. 15.
