5/5 🧵 The encouraging bit: by the end of the season, he was handling 30+ minutes again, including 36 against St. John’s in the NCAA Tournament. He’s stopped taking the creatine supplement, says he feels more like himself, and believes NBA teams still haven’t seen his full level — especially as an on-ball creator. So the draft question is simple: do teams view this as a solved supplement-related health issue, or a red flag? 📎 Source
4/5 🧵 The psychological part matters too. Once you go through a scare like that, every little physical warning sign starts screaming in your head. Peterson basically said that anytime he felt something coming on, he feared a repeat. That’s not just physical recovery — that’s a confidence and trust-in-your-body problem. Ugly combo when your whole life is basketball and the spotlight is nuclear.
3/5 🧵 That explains a lot of what looked strange during the year. Peterson played just 24 games at Kansas, had minutes managed, missed time, and had some very visible exits — including the big BYU game against AJ Dybantsa where he left after 20 minutes because of cramping. From the outside, people questioned his durability. Inside it, he was dealing with something nobody had properly identified yet.
2/5 🧵 The core issue: Peterson said testing after the season showed his baseline creatine level was already high. Then he started dosing creatine in college — something he’d never taken before — and that likely pushed things into an unsafe range. The result was brutal cramping, dehydration concerns, an ambulance ride, and a season-long mystery hanging over him.
1/5 🧵 Darryn Peterson’s rough Kansas season apparently wasn’t about softness, drama, or “can he handle it?” It was a legit health scare. The potential No. 1 pick says high-dose creatine triggered severe cramping so bad he ended up begging trainers to call 911 and thought he might die. That changes the whole read on his season.
5/5 🧵 The encouraging bit: by the end of the season, he was handling 30+ minutes again, including 36 against St. John’s in the NCAA Tournament. He’s stopped taking the creatine supplement, says he feels more like himself, and believes NBA teams still haven’t seen his full level — especially as an on-ball creator. So the draft question is simple: do teams view this as a solved supplement-related health issue, or a red flag? 📎 Source
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4/5 🧵 The psychological part matters too. Once you go through a scare like that, every little physical warning sign starts screaming in your head. Peterson basically said that anytime he felt something coming on, he feared a repeat. That’s not just physical recovery — that’s a confidence and trust-in-your-body problem. Ugly combo when your whole life is basketball and the spotlight is nuclear.
3/5 🧵 That explains a lot of what looked strange during the year. Peterson played just 24 games at Kansas, had minutes managed, missed time, and had some very visible exits — including the big BYU game against AJ Dybantsa where he left after 20 minutes because of cramping. From the outside, people questioned his durability. Inside it, he was dealing with something nobody had properly identified yet.
2/5 🧵 The core issue: Peterson said testing after the season showed his baseline creatine level was already high. Then he started dosing creatine in college — something he’d never taken before — and that likely pushed things into an unsafe range. The result was brutal cramping, dehydration concerns, an ambulance ride, and a season-long mystery hanging over him.
1/5 🧵 Darryn Peterson’s rough Kansas season apparently wasn’t about softness, drama, or “can he handle it?” It was a legit health scare. The potential No. 1 pick says high-dose creatine triggered severe cramping so bad he ended up begging trainers to call 911 and thought he might die. That changes the whole read on his season.