Oregon Basketball receives positive health updates
On Thursday Oregon received some fantastic news about two members its basketball team. Nate Bittle, and Mookie Cook are now both fully cleared for basketball related activities according to CBS’ Jon Rothstein.
This comes as very important news for Oregon especially with Nate Bittle as last year when N’Faly Dante was on the bench, Oregon lacked a secondary rebounder. Admittedly Oregon also could have used the floor spacing Bittle can provide as well. The former 5-star played in just two games at the start of the season before getting hurt in the third game against Tennessee State with a wrist injury. He wouldn’t return from that injury until Jan. 25th where he would play well against Arizona State. Unfortunately however, Bittle would only play in one more game for the rest of the season before his illness.
As for Cook, the former 4-star started off the year hurt, and finally made his debut on Jan. 4th. The forward would only log 32 minutes all season however as the ankle injury that held him out until January, continued to linger before Oregon shut him down for the year. It will be a big question as to how Mookie fits into the rotation this season with several forwards potentially ahead of him, but this is certainly a major stride in the right direction for the Portland (Ore.) native.
