{"id":1050,"date":"2011-02-07T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2011-02-07T22:37:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T03:37:03","slug":"lowe-blames-leslies-suspension-on-youth-says-leslie-will-play-sunday-at-wake-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Lowe blames Leslie\u2019s suspension on \u2018youth,\u2019 says Leslie will play Sunday at Wake Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N.C. State doesn\u2019t have a game until Sunday at Wake Forest, and perhaps it comes at a good time for the Wolfpack. Tracy Smith\u2019s knee is ailing \u2013 again \u2013 and State is also looking to get freshman C.J. Leslie back on course after he was suspended from Saturday\u2019s loss at Duke for violating team rules.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfpack coach Sidney Lowe said Monday that he expects Leslie to practice Tuesday and play Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>As for the suspension, Lowe said, \u201cI characterize that just as youth, just not understanding the importance of things, little things. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just youth. It\u2019s just growth and maturity and understanding\u00a0 there is structure, there is discipline, and it has to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lowe also made a pointed remark about the club circuit and its impact on the elite players. Lowe suggested that some of the behavior seen at the college level has its roots in club basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately sometimes kids today &#8211; and I hate to talk about the AAU circuit &#8211; but there is not a lot of structure and discipline there. And then we get the kid and we have to show them that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.C. State doesn\u2019t have a game until Sunday at Wake Forest, and perhaps it comes at a good time for the Wolfpack. Tracy Smith\u2019s knee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-uncategorized","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}