When did you realize the conditioning/weight issues you’ve had were becoming a real issue for your NBA career?
SM: Honestly, I never felt like I had weight issues. You know, I asked them where they wanted me to play at. They said 260 and I was around 260 all year. Conditioning? When you don’t play, it’s tough to be in game shape. I felt like I’ve always been in pretty good shape. I don’t feel like the conditioning was the reason why I wasn’t playing. I just wasn’t playing.
This is the comment (not
comments) that you are basing all of your feelings on?
It is all past-tense.
He is referring to his time with Charlotte. No where in there does it talk about his weight/conditioning now. We don't know what went down in Charlotte, and quite frankly nor do I care.
It's already been posted here that he's lost 20-25 lbs the past few months, and this is was his workout regimen when he "out of shape." -->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAOEJCpx1c
When did you realize the conditioning/weight issues you’ve had were becoming a real issue for your NBA career?
SM: Honestly, I never felt like I had weight issues. You know, I asked them where they wanted me to play at. They said 260 and I was around 260 all year. Conditioning? When you don’t play, it’s tough to be in game shape. I felt like I’ve always been in pretty good shape. I don’t feel like the conditioning was the reason why I wasn’t playing. I just wasn’t playing.
Read the quote again, and you realize he said "pretty good shape." Not Great, not even good. He acknowledges there's room for improvement.
First off, Diogu doesn't have anything to do with the criticisms of May. I'm just talking about May here, and their situations are not the same.
Sorry, it just seems that one reason you are such a Anti-May advocate was because you were such a strong re-sign Ike supporter. If that is far off, then forgive me.
It would be different if the issues against May were ones he either could change (health/durability/injury), or things he was committed to change (commitment to the game, work ethic, conditioning, etc). But the limitations are either out of his control, or are things he doesn't think NEED CHANGING. Again, this would be a totally different situation if he came in an admitted his weaknesses, what held him back before, and took this upcoming season with the team as a chance to reinvent himself and his career by working hard and trying to improve himself as a player. THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
Why is this "NOT THE CASE?" From the interview I read, I see a player who is desperate to prove he can play in this league and be a part of something special with all of our young players. I just don't see how you can be questioning his commitment to the game, work ethic, conditioning, etc, on just this one comment/Bobcats fans.. How do you know he is NOT committed to changing these things? Because of ONE comment?
Giving May a "second chance" means thinking he will improve here and do things differently than he has before, and hopefully be better off for that. That's not going to happen based upon his comments.
No, giving May a second chance means welcoming and believing that he will change. You don't give someone a second chance by saying, "Well, I want you to succeed but during your time here I'm going to constantly and consistently bring up EVERY negative about your game and about you I possibly can, but good luck."
That's not giving a second chance. Your mind is already made up.
He says his conditioning isn't an issue, and insinuates that he can only get in shape by actually playing in the game (wtf?).
I am glad you are basing your argument/opinions on insinuations found in a single paragraph of a Internet article.
Sorry I don't blindly embrace every single player just because they wear purple. There's a difference between giving a guy a clean slate when he deserves it, and being blindly optimistic and not seeing the reality of the situation.
Nor do I. But May doesn't deserve it? I mean wow, did he commit a crime or something? I see the reality of the situation. He is a guy who has been working out the past few months because he wants to prove naysayers wrong. He will be fighting for time with Brockman. He will be costing us the very least possible and has the possibility of being a major steal.
If you do look at the past, which you seem to do quite often.. you will also see that when he has been able to play - he was quite productive for a reserve big and he also was Most Outstanding Player when led UNC to a title.
In summary, Potential = high, Cost = low.
What makes you think that May will turn things around here?
I'm not saying he will. But my mind is made up that I will be supporting and hoping that he does. Guess what? He might not play well here. But if he doesn't, we let him go at the end of the year while giving his minutes to Brock or some other big in the process of this year. Like I said, the cost is low.
No harm, no foul.
Go May. Go Kings.
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