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How’s the interview process been going for you?

It’s going really well. I was excited because I think just seeing me from the outside, I don’t know what perception you get of me but once I get the interviews, they really get to know me and it makes a world of a difference.

Any questions that stood out to you during the interviews?

I mean, I think I was well-prepared. Eric told me they’re private eyes, man. *laughs*

They know everything. There’s nothing they don’t know, so I wasn’t thrown off by anything.

Were there any basketball-related questions that you felt you impressed people with your answer?

I don’t know. They don’t let you know if you impressed them. They just keep a straight face. *laughs*

But I don’t know … maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. I think there was a question they asked about basketball … they were talking about Kevin Garnett, and I was just saying how mental it is. Basketball is way more mental than anything. I believe that intensity and that mentality that Kevin Garnett has or Pau Gasol … it makes them great players.

How did Tim Grover help prepare you as you begin your professional career?

He was really focusing on my body and things that I needed because I always wanted to put on weight so I always wanted to get bigger and get stronger, I just didn’t know how. That was good for learning things like that. Learning about what areas of my body were tight or my hips, I needed to open my hips up, things like that and then that kind of carried over to IMG. I started doing yoga, things like that. Eating more and more and more and within those four weeks, I gained ten pounds. Just knowing my body, so that’s good.
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Read the interview in its entirety at: http://www.magicbasketball.net/2010/05/21/media-log-2010-nba-draft-combine-media-availability-day-2/
 
What does that say about our strength and conditioning coach? I keep hearing that statement about how Larry "didn't know how" to put on weight. I know we were all pretty hyped about him last summer "gaining weight" but it never really panned out. Then he leaves VCU and in a month or two he puts on 10 lbs of muscle. Roose should have been be well versed in this I would think.
 
I doubt he gained 10 pounds. He was listed at 222 at the draft combine. Are you telling me he played last year at 210 pounds? :shock: I know the eye test can be deceiving, but that's pretty ridiculous.

I do remember being told that Larry was around 225 at the beginning of the season and I'm pretty sure I posted that. Then again who really knows about these things? They fudge these numbers all the time.
 
I'm not debating the weight really as much as relating a general concern over the statements Larry has repeatedly made during these interviews about how he didn't know how to put on and maintain weight while at VCU.
Hopefully he is just saying these things for the benefit of the scouts with respect to his potential ability to put and keep weight on for the future.
 
Yeah I mean you could clearly see that guys had gotten bigger last offseason, especially Brad Burgess and Brandon Rozzell. They were noticeably stronger than the season before.
 
Also since he left VCU putting on weight has pretty much been his full time job. No games, no practices, no classes, just working out, eating, and trying to tack on a few pounds and add definition to impress the scouts. 10 pounds in a couple of months sounds like a huge stretch, but it sure does sound good.
 
funny how larry talks about these people being "private eyes". what he probably doesn't know is that there actually are investigators hired by professional ball clubs.

i worked for a florida-based PI company out of college, and we were hired many times to discreetly tail potential draftees. i never got to do one myself, but i did hear some rather interesting stories. most of the guys my company followed around had character issues to begin with. i can pretty much guarantee that someone has been following demarcus cousins at least at some point over the past year.

i won't name names, but there were a few football players who were passed on after pro teams saw the tapes of their "activities" out and about.
 
buckwheat said:
funny how larry talks about these people being "private eyes". what he probably doesn't know is that there actually are investigators hired by professional ball clubs.

i worked for a florida-based PI company out of college, and we were hired many times to discreetly tail potential draftees. i never got to do one myself, but i did hear some rather interesting stories. most of the guys my company followed around had character issues to begin with. i can pretty much guarantee that someone has been following demarcus cousins at least at some point over the past year.

i won't name names, but there were a few football players who were passed on after pro teams saw the tapes of their "activities" out and about.
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It's funny you mention Cousins. When he was interviewed at the NBA combine he was asked what he was trying to prove wrong to people here and he answered something along the lines of I'm trying to show people I'm not a bad guy, a thug, or a murderer :shock: . When you have to state something like that, it raises red flags IMO. I hope he is showing people he is a great person as he should be a top 5 pick and I think he was the best player on Kentucky last season.
 
ramramthankyoumaam said:
What does that say about our strength and conditioning coach? I keep hearing that statement about how Larry "didn't know how" to put on weight. I know we were all pretty hyped about him last summer "gaining weight" but it never really panned out. Then he leaves VCU and in a month or two he puts on 10 lbs of muscle. Roose should have been be well versed in this I would think.
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It says nothing. Larry has a special physiology. I remember Jesse Pella-Rosa gaining a great deal of muscle via VCU's weight program and BA not gaining very much. It pretty much depends person to person.

Our trainer has to work with a few dozen kids. He does a good job, but he cannot give a kid like Larry specialized attention the likes of which a professional who prepares kids for the NBA can. Finally, Larry is more likely to listen to these guys about what he needs given, he doesn't have the student body possee and others in his ear. At this point the kid is trying to get paid and is listening as well as following up. He can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Meaning maybe its Larry's motivation more than anything else.
 
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