Re: Pierce's injury

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

I hope he recovers completely, last year he didn't play well when he came
back too quickly from a sprain.

At 03:48 PM 12/12/99 EST, you wrote:
>   "Day-to-day" is better, I guess, than the usual "4 to 6 weeks."  If there 
>is any area in which we fans are ignorant, it's this "toughness" thing and 
>how "the great ones play hurt."  I have no idea how badly Pierce is hurt, or 
>what the deal is/was with Ellison's feet or Fortson's stress fracture.  I 
>don't know how common it is for teams to rush a player back into action too 
>soon and then denigrate him if/when he doesn't perform to expectations.  You 
>hear a lot of it in football, where behemoth linemen can be replaced fairly 
>easily.  Remember the TV special some years ago called "Disposable Heroes?"  
>How it takes Jim Otto about ten minutes to get out of bed in the morning?  
>One hopes that Pitino and his medical staff look at the long run - the rest 
>of the seasopn - and let Pierce recover fully before bringing him back.
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