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Good to see Smart working so hard this summer to improve his game. He's got a big contract year coming up.
Is it just me, or does he look significantly thinner and actually ripped? You can't tell me he had those abs this past season when everyone was calling him fat!
Perhaps the coaching staff did ask him to bulk up last year to play bigger, and now that we have a million wings and he has zero reason to play the 3 he's slimming back down. That'd probably do wonders for his game.
I would love to see the physiques of posters that regularly call Marcus fat or tubby.
Firstly, I don't think Smart was every "fat" or "tubby". He's a professional athlete, and by pro-athlete standards his body fat % seemed to be on the average-to-slightly-above-average range. Which isn't necessarily a huge issue for bigs or even wings, but can be a limitation for guards who needs to stick with guys like Kemba Walker and John Wall on a nightly basis.
If you saw Smart waling on the street among a sea of every day people, I have no doubt he would stand out as looking extremely athletic and well conditioned by comparison.
That said I don't think the "I would love to see the physiques of posters that regularly call Marcus fat or tubby." comment the slightest bit relevant.
I work in the IT industry, and if I were getting paid an excessively large salary to do my job, then I think there is going to be an expectation that I will go out of my way to make sure I am up to speed with the technologies I am working with, that I have all the necessary certifications (etc) to ensure I am able to my job to the absolute best of my ability.
Marcus Smart is not a computer programmer, or a chef, or a high school teacher. He's a professional athlete who gets paid millions of dollars play basketball. While my job depends on technical knowledge in order for me to be at my best, his depends heavily on his physical conditioning.
Therefore it does not make any rational sense to hold random people posting on a forum to the same standard as a professional athlete, in terms of physical conditioning. That's just silly.