Quote Originally Posted by goosecreekguy View Post
Man, this team can't catch a break. Hamstring injuries can linger...

I have to disagree with the comments about Pitino practicing them too hard. He makes them go hard, game speed hard, to develop a season-long focus and intensity by nature (something this year's team has lacked). He's pushing this squad hard because he sees the weaknesses and their potential. He doesn't go as hard now as he did earlier in the year by any means and they have lighter practices on the days before games. Injuries are just as likely to occur when players aren't going balls to the wall as they are when its 110%, in practice or in games.

Goose, I am going to really have to disagree. There is a real physical condition called "over training." I spent 16 years in a boxing ring and there is no way you are going to go to the gym and have a serious workout complete with sparring the day before a fight, much less the day of the fight. During the telecest of the providence game, the announcers even commented about being at the morning shoot around and that it wasn't a shoot around, but a full scale practice. They are practicing just as hard now as they did before the season started and the coach has admitted so himself. Ever wonder why every year his teams have so many injuries?