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Patric Young Is the Final Four Player You Least Want to Mess With
Many of the players who partake in this weekend's Final Four, the culmination of March Madness, are intimidating in their own ways. Kentucky's Julius Randle, as we previously mentioned right here, is 6'9" and 250 pounds of pure beast. Florida's Scottie Wilbekin possesses one of the fiercest game-face stare-downs we've seen.
But no player — not one — is as intimidating as Florida's senior center Patric Young.
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Just how fearsome can Young get? You don't often see sports hit Reddit's front page, but this shot of a mid-celebratory flex from Young did just that on Wednesday night under the very appropriate caption: "'Patric Young isn't even that big.'"- nobody."
Young, if you're wondering, is 6' 9" and 247 pounds. (He's also, by all accounts, a really nice guy.) His dad played pro football, so he's got the genes, but perhaps you're curious: How in the hell does someone get this huge and intimidating?
The video below likely holds some clues. Young posted the clip, which shows him going through an off-season workout, to Twitter back in the summer of 2012. But he's not just lifting weights — oh, no. He's flipping giant tires! He's using a rope to pull an automobile toward him while seated on the ground! He's pushing a pickup truck around campus with nothing but his bare hands, gigantic muscles and sheer force of will!
But mind-boggling offseason workouts like that are actually the norm for Florida's basketball team. They're the brainchild of one Preston Greene, who is the team's strength and conditioning coordinator.
"It's not easy," star point guard Scottie Wilbekin told Sports Illustrated's Greg Bishop of the workouts earlier this week. "It's not fun. I don't really like that stuff. But it's a necessary part of the process."
Greene tells SI that the savage workouts are a key to the toughness that's helped the team reach this year's Final Four, and that he and the other coaches use them as fodder to motivate the Gators through tough moments.
"Guys, you've pushed trucks 100 yards up a hill, outside, in the heat," he tells the players. "There's nothing you can't handle now."
We'll find out how true that is when Florida takes on upset-minded underdog Connecticut in the Final Four's first game, which tips off Saturday at at 6:09 p.m. ET.
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