A big part of the Heat’s success has come through Pat Riley’s ability to take on reclamation projects and rejects of sorts. Guys like Gary Payton and Jason Williams, who have bounced around or worn out elsewhere for various reasons.
One of these reasons is that some fellas don’t always stay in the best of shape. Knowing this, Riles took steps to ensure that wouldn’t happen in Miami by installing a strict system of weight control requirements this season.
Some players were obviously hesitant to embrace the thing, and this entire article made us laugh, especially the James Posey quotes.
“They want you at your best and all that, and in my head I’m like, `Well, two years ago, that was my best year, and I was in the same shape.’ But you can’t fight the system, so I just worked hard at it and did it the best I could to meet the standard and meet those goals.”
‘It got to a point like when we were playing teams, I lost so much weight and stuff like that, people were like, `Man, eat a steak or something,’ ” Posey said. “They could just tell.”
If you didn’t read the whole thing, James had to lose a massive 8 pounds. Yeah dude, you’re freakin’ anorexic. God, the torture you must have gone through. What’d it take you – two weeks?
Antoine Walker is the best, though. He’s classic ‘Toine in his innocent simplicity.
”I always thought you kind of worked your way into shape as the season starts,” said Walker.
Aww, poor 3-point specialist…he didn’t know he was supposed to be in shape! He just didn’t know. Had he known, this wouldn’t have been a problem for the first 9 years of his career. Why didn’t anyone tell him?
Let’s go back to Posey, though, who seems surprised that a team paying him millions of dollars per year to be an athlete would want him “at his best”, when “fair to decent” has served him perfectly fine so far.
Now let’s go back to ‘Toine again, because ADD is the rule of the day. If there’s one thing we don’t like about the NBA, it’s dudes like him. This guy has gotten by on pure talent his entire career. Can you imagine how good he would’ve been if he’d worked at it?
As it stands, he’s the rich man’s Derrick Coleman, which means he’s made over $100M in his career and…yeah. Well, it’s hard to argue with that. So the guy likes to eat entire bowls of frosting. As always, we blame Paul Pierce.
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posey is bitching about having to lose 8 pounds? all he had to do was abuse diuretics and it would have been off in a week!
at least ‘toine was honest. infuriating (no wonder bill simmons hated him) but not boring.
i say miami wins this one tonight.
I dunno – depends on if Shaq is mad at his team or the other team. Hopefully DAL – I want to see a series.
the knicks could use such a program.
The Knicks need Jesus…not a weight loss program.
Posey doesn’t want to work at it, Walker can’t understand it … looks like the answer to the whole Heat weight problem is plain to see:
Have ‘Toine snack on his teammates. They don’t have to work, he doesn’t have to worry.
(he could solve the Knicks probs too by eating Isiah)
Maybe if Jesus got fat and signed with the Knicks, they could have both. Cause like then he would need to lose weight, but he’s still Jesus, so you know he can do it.
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“work his way into shape” how has this guy avoided going to the knicks? and if so would who would come first on the depth chart him or vinny baker? who , by the by the celtics are still paying next year! Also, and i know I’m in trouble for this one, the only thing you have to blame Pierce for is the fat 50 he dropped on the cavs last year.
when Eddie Curry is best described as “pear-shaped” and Jerome James is commonly referred to as “Big Snacks,” it might indeed be time for some sort of nutritional education at the very least. you know…for kids.
How’s that 50 point game end up for Pierce?
funny you should mention the outcome of the game… I think if you, you know, go to the tape, that is the game when the refs started to hand the league to the “chosen1″.
(i should mention that i am just bustin should anyone’s head explode. i pretty much would send pierce and the new dance team to the lake for lebron)
posey is nuthin’ but a big pussy.
if he wants to know what losing weight is , let him go see the contestants in America’s Top Models.
maybe satan can help the knicks. seems to me that god put all his energy into lebron james. the way i see it, if satan ressurects the knicks, that would be really good for his image! new york would totally be indebted to him!
So what year does Walker plan on working himself into shape in. I believe at his current pace he should get there around 2010.
The funny thing is that Walker is actually in much better shape than he was in his Boston Days. He hooked up with Tim Grover before his year in Dallas. Find a pic of him from prior to 03-04 and compare it to him now, and you’ll know what I am talking about.
of course that doesn’t stop him from jackin up threes
Im Shaq and im good at threes im a piece of shit i hope you have a fuckful life.
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