U guys are ridiculous. .. last year sully was maybe 10 lbs overweight but needed that 10 lbs to play effective at center all year. Saying he was fat is just absurd.. He's said it and his father has said it that he wanted to shed that extra weight and play his natural pf position this year. Yall acting like he's big baby or sumthin lol
This all depends on how you see Sully's ideal playing weight. Some see him as an undersized backup center in the NBA. If that's the case, yeah, he wasn't THAT overweight. However, I personally think his best chance at success in the NBA is to be a PF who can face up in the mould of Kevin Love, in which case, he needs to slim down SIGNIFICANTLY. Go look at the before and afters of Love. He came into the league like Sully. Not fat, but above his ideal playing weight. It wasn't until he had been in the league a few years that he really committed himself to completely remaking his body, and that is when he made the leap from quality player to superstar. While I am not sure we will see the same trajectory for Sully, I think he should be following the same regimen. Not just trying to get back to his playing weight from before the back injury, but to remake his body, so he can really play the PF spot in today NBA, where you need to be a lot more mobile.
I think Billz401 point isn't that Sully shouldn't slim down for the PF position -- just that he was sort of required to carry the extra weight this last year because he was being asked to bang with much bigger centers. I think what seems unfair to some is for him to be criticized and the butt of jokes for that.
It is pretty clear from Sully's comments, his father's comments, Stevens' comments and the very fact that Sully is on this particular conditioning program that everyone is in consensus with you -- his future is probably better off at a lower weight, playing PF.
Where I disagree is the suggestion that he was purposefully overweight last season. He came into camp out of shape, and even said so himself. Now, he had an excuse because he was recovering from back surgery, but I really don't see any evidence that anyone wanted him playing at the weight he was at last season. Just like everyone you mentioned seems to be in agreement on where he should be going forward, I think the same was the case last year, but he just was not able to get to the weight they wanted, because of the injury.
With that said, what are we doing here, if we can't criticize players and make butt jokes? We need more butt jokes (and we will get them with Evan Turner in Boston).
On a side note, who the heck is the trainer at OSU? They need to be fired.
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