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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 3185076, member: 7171"] Lou learned to compete in the driveway as the youngest of three basketball playing sisters. I had a good angle to watch her get injured diving for the ball in the Houston Senior Day game, and I was wincing even before she hit the floor going aggressively for the ball, thinking "no, don`t". She also loves to take charges and is very good at it, but the WNBA players are bigger, faster, and stronger. I know her competitive fire will probably keep her diving and taking charges, but I would encourage her to do less of that and try and stay vertical more. I think she is playing without an ankle brace now, which if true is a good sign. This season she moved much better than before the operation and moved better and better as the season wore on (until the back injury). Hopefully after all she has been through with her foot and ankle, those issues are over with or at least under control. Finally, she gets wacked in the face a lot. If she were a boxer, I would tell her to get her hands up. I don`t know what`s going on there. Poor peripheral vision? Rip Hamilton ended up wearing a mask all the time, food for thought. In any event, she has had enough injuries to last a career. Hopefully she gets and stays healthy from this point forward. (I went through a two year stretch in high school, playing three sports, where I had injury after injury, impacting every season; after that through college and beyond, virtually injury free.) I would note, though, that injuries, particularly knee and leg injuries, seem to be at epidemic levels in all levels of basketball. Case in point, Golden State Warriors. Very unfortunate and distressing. [/QUOTE]

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