Rubio Thread Seis (VI)

[funkatron101]

Did Trolly get some action in the photo booth?!

[C.lupus]

I noticed that, too. Sure looked like it.

[Klomp]

Ricky Rubio ‏ @rickyrubio9
I feel great! I'm back to Minnesota! Wow. I have missed MN.

[Sammyzuko]

Great video! Two comments.... Trolly's a pimp and I officially dislike Steve Blake.

[diegoluis]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7780080/the-loss-ricky-rubio-minnesota-timberwolves

Another great bit to read.

wow!!! I must ask for free days at work to read this. I haven't got time enough to read the article this weekend

The video is great specially the D-Will's fall. Very funny!!

[NewWolvesOrder]

Is it the best and the first opportunity in Rubio's life to pump some serious iron from horizontal position. Next few months he's not able to to much basketball activities only rehabbing his knee and what else? There never will be a better time to build some chest and shoulder muscles.

[Calinks]

Documentary about Rubio (Spanish )

http://www.canalplus.es/play/video.html?xref=20120403plucandep_9.Ves

Trade his ass!

[lobishome]

Is it the best and the first opportunity in Rubio's life to pump some serious iron from horizontal position. Next few months he's not able to to much basketball activities only rehabbing his knee and what else? There never will be a better time to build some chest and shoulder muscles.

A little bit of gym isn't bad but ... Muscles? ... nah ... First, women don't like men with too many muscles and second, people are obssesed with the association between muscles and NBA. Look at Marc Gasol or Kevin Love : They have improved a lot when they lose muscles and weight.

Trade his ass!

what who why where when how

[Sammyzuko]

Meathead Rubio....lol. He could be great next year if he spends the off-season doing bicep curls and working on his pecs.

[lobishome]

Meathead Rubio....lol. He could be great next year if he spends the off-season doing bicep curls and working on his pecs.

Do you like...gladiator movies?

[C.lupus]

I don't think Turnover is suggesting Rubio turn into a Dwight Howard muscle man. He needs to add some strenth, though. He's 6' 4" and, what, 185? He needs to add some muscle mass and some strength so he can be more effective in the lane and around the basket. He just bounces off defenders now.

[lobishome]

In the documentary, Kahn said "We think he need get more strength but he doesn't like weight training" ... or something like that. Obviously Ricky has a really good work ethic, then I deduce that really Ricky doesn't want to do weightlifting and this Is a premeditated decision.

Ricky will be stronger along the next seasons mainly due to the age. I think Ricky will be only a little stronger than Nash, even Calderon, but he never will be Deron or an athletic PG.

Finally, the weightlifting may provoke a lot of physical problems and I think isn't a good idea for his knee rehab. You can't work only the arms or the chest, you need to work the entire body , otherwise you will get an unbalanced body and this means more injuries. Maybe next year, or the next, ... but not this season. He must be concentrate in his shot improve.

[NewWolvesOrder]

In the documentary, Kahn said "We think he need get more strength but he doesn't like weight training" ... or something like that. Obviously Ricky has a really good work ethic, then I deduce that really Ricky doesn't want to do weightlifting and this Is a premeditated decision.

Ricky will be stronger along the next seasons mainly due to the age. I think Ricky will be only a little stronger than Nash, even Calderon, but he never will be Deron or an athletic PG.

Finally, the weightlifting may provoke a lot of physical problems and I think isn't a good idea for his knee rehab. You can't work only the arms or the chest, you need to work the entire body , otherwise you will get an unbalanced body and this means more injuries. Maybe next year, or the next, ... but not this season. He must be concentrate in his shot improve.

I doubt that a guy with Rubio's body composition and aversion to lifting weights can add more than 5 pounds of muscle over the summer. And 5 pounds won't put too much extra stress on his knee but go a long way in adding strength if those 5 pounds are muscles added to his upper body.

[Godzilla039]

Bulls fan here that loved watching Rubio play. Hopefully he has a sppedy recovery. Don't know if this was posted, but here you go.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/778 ... mberwolves

[cynskeptical]

Meathead Rubio....lol. He could be great next year if he spends the off-season doing bicep curls and working on his pecs.

Do you like...gladiator movies?

(Nowadays, this scene would be forbidden, but it´s still great)

I agree with you. Sometimes, in the NBA, athleticism is overrated.

[C.lupus]

Steve Nash ‘Very Disappointed’ Ricky Rubio Got Injured

Steve Nash is a Ricky Rubio fan, and is feeling bummed out that the exciting Spanish point guard had his promising rookie season cut short by a knee injury. From the Star Tribune: “Like just about everybody around the league, Steve Nash remembers being disappointed when Ricky Rubio went down because of a knee injury March 9 against the Lakers. ‘It hurt them, obviously, in a number of ways,’ Nash, in the Twin Cities with the Suns for Monday’s game, said. ‘One, it took away their main playmaker. And two, it hurt their depth. It’s not something anyone wants to see happen. And it’s a shame for the team. You never want to see that happen to anybody.’ Rubio is back in town after an extended stay in Colorado following surgery to repair two ligaments in his left knee. Nash, meanwhile, was in town for a nationally-televised game that would have featured two of the best pass-first point guards in the game. [...] ‘I was very disappointed for Ricky,’ Nash said. ‘He was having a very good rookie year, and he was an exciting player for our league, so it’s a shame. But he’s young. He’ll recover well, and he’ll be back this time next year and nobody will remember what happened.’ [...] ‘He gets a ton of respect for his ability, and what he brings to the game, and rightfully so,’ he said. ‘I think people around the country — and around the world — are excited for what he brings to the game.’”

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/20 ... t-injured/

[C.lupus]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCD7L8zcUMY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

[C.lupus]

Also, saw this last night:

Jerry Zgoda ‏ @JerryZgoda
Ricky Rubio is back in Minnesota and will meet with the local media Tuesday afternoon for the first time since his March 9 knee injury

Anybody know more about this? Is there a press conference scheduled?

[cpfsf]

In the documentary, Kahn said "We think he need get more strength but he doesn't like weight training" ... or something like that. Obviously Ricky has a really good work ethic, then I deduce that really Ricky doesn't want to do weightlifting and this Is a premeditated decision.

Ricky will be stronger along the next seasons mainly due to the age. I think Ricky will be only a little stronger than Nash, even Calderon, but he never will be Deron or an athletic PG.

Finally, the weightlifting may provoke a lot of physical problems and I think isn't a good idea for his knee rehab. You can't work only the arms or the chest, you need to work the entire body , otherwise you will get an unbalanced body and this means more injuries. Maybe next year, or the next, ... but not this season. He must be concentrate in his shot improve.

I read a report not that long ago from an NBA scout who said that the European basketball players don’t lift weights like the NBA players do. I'm kind of skeptical of this, but I thought I'd might as well post this.

Edit: Sorry I can't post a link. I'm pretty sure it was in an article last summer about Rubio.

[Klomp]

Also, saw this last night:

Jerry Zgoda ‏ @JerryZgoda
Ricky Rubio is back in Minnesota and will meet with the local media Tuesday afternoon for the first time since his March 9 knee injury

Anybody know more about this? Is there a press conference scheduled?

2 pm. Live streamed on Timberwolves.com