Mark,
Taking summer classes at Villanova University, and got to talking to a classmat about lifting. He told me he has a gym in his garage and was so motivated from lifting that he switched his career to S&C. I let him borrow my copy of SS 2nd Edition and asked him about his involvement with S&C of the VU basketball team. Three days later he returned the book with the comments of, good book but a bit too scientific and our basketball team could never do squats. I bypassed the too scientific part and asked why no squatting? He said that three reasons: 1) The long arms and legs make squatting difficult. 2) The need to jump so we do more plyometrics 3) the season is too long (Oct-Apr) to do squats throughout the season. 4) When the players did want to squat, the couldn't walk the weight out (b/c they used the same weight as the leg press). I went further to ask what about C&J or variants (PC)? No because again the body type doesn't lend itself to those types of mechanics & they do a lot of jumping on the court. Finally I asked them what the S&C gurus do for the b-ball players for weightlifting. The answer - leg press & Pylometrics. WTF Just WTF man!