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Originally Posted by Phyr
Body fat is a stupid excuse. You can hire a trainer, you can't manufacture talent. The point is that Zeke mismanaged the draft. Balkman will help the team but is not a first round talent. We have so many medicore high paid players glutting up the roster that we need to take the bpa. Balkman was not the best player avaliable.
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Stupid how? I don't believe there is a backcourt player in the league that has 14% body fat. Hell, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a big man that has 14% body fat playing basketball. You believe it's a stupid excuse because it can be worked on but I believe it shows a direct correlation to his dedication to the game. How could you not manage to attempt to shed some of that before entering the draft? Team's are so thorough with players that they even interview people from players neighborhoods to make sure there not making a mistake with a players character. Your telling me that he didn't have the dedication and common sense to realize that being overweight would affect his performance in a negative way and reflect poorly on him? There's a reason why more than 20 teams based on him.
The actual point to be made is that Zeke went with the player he deemed best suited for the team. I could care less where the "experts" deemed Balkman as being because guys like Michael Redd, Carlos Boozer, Gilbert Arenas and Rashard Lewis all fell to the 2nd round and all have been all-stars (save Boozer). I'm not saying Balkman will be an all-star but I wouldn't sleep on his skill especially with the way he's performed. Before we judge Balkman's entire career as being a substandard player, let's actually see him play a regular season game.