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According to pretty much everyone you talk to (including Dwight), D12 has fully recovered from his fractured sternum. However, watching this game (and the last) on ESPN, it is clear that physically Dwight has lost some of braun. He looks to have lost about 20 pounds of muscle mass, and possibly more.

Muscle can, of course, be put back on, but with Dwight competing in the Olympics, re-adjusting to US time, and then preparing for training camp next season, it may be tough to find the time for heavy offseason lifting.

Thoughts/opinions?

he has not lost 20lbs of muscle mass...

It sounds drastic, but turn on your tv Ron. Dwight looks like a 1.5x scale version of Kobe walking around out there. Watching him check in for Bosh, the two aren't nearly as far apart as they were in last year's playoffs.

I dont think its that big of a deal.

well i didnt think it was a big deal

but then i saw lebron with a dunk that d12 usually does

and i found out it was d12 instead

Well the pictures I saw of Dwight at the US training camp he still looks stacked. He's prob lost a tiny bit from the fact he probably wants allowed to even look at weights.

Speaking objectively, he's lost more than a "tiny bit". Dwight will add it back on, no doubt, but it's stupid to pretend that he looks the same as he did coming out of the playoffs.

That said, if this game is any indication, he hasn't lost his ability to dunk. He's putting on a clinic right now.

Haha... who saw Hedo and Dwight embrace? Classic lol.

he's lost some, and I know what you are saying, but there is no way he has lost 20lbs of muscle, and honestly he doesn't look that much smaller...



it's camera tricks...

theTHIEF wrote:he's lost some, and I know what you are saying, but there is no way he has lost 20lbs of muscle, and honestly he doesn't look that much smaller...



it's camera tricks...

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You may be right about camera tricks. And for all we know, he really built up his legs while he couldn't work on his arms. Doesn't seem to be affecting his performance, at least so far.

He looked great in todays game

He had several empathic dunkages.

As far as him loosing muscle it may not be a completely bad thing. It will make him more agile if anything. Even at the state he is he will be the hardest center in the NBA to guard next to Yao.

If he worked on his legs that also makes him all the more powerful in my opinion.

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Oh and what was his stats? I couldn't see the game.
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according to this box score from today, 14/8

Yeah I just got on the board and saw that in the Hedo Vs Dwight thread. Thanks.

He will be fine a fractured sternum caused him to not lift a weight with his upper body of course he will lose 4-6 pds of muscle but 20 come on now.

4-6 is pretty specific...truth is, there is no way to determine how much weight, if any was lost and further more there is no way to determine how much muscle mass was lost...he may have lost a few pounds total, but being in the physical condition that he is in, im sure he worked out in other facets and maintained a solid shell diet, which most athlete due in the off season...many athletes will fluctuate in the off season regardless...20lbs of muscle mass would be chalked up to a severe ailment or being confined to a bed for medical purposes...

With any injury it is going to cause you to take a step back whether it is with strength or conditioning. The fact is that Dwight is still a beast and he will easily get that strength back that he may have lost. You have to expect a decline in strength if you can't lift weights for a while.

I'm not worried about his muscles, but I am worried about his free throw shooting.

Yeah, has he hit a free throw in any of the exhibitions yet?

That could be due to his time off, too. I thought he looked rusty all the way around against Canada.

One thing I do worry about with Dwight is not his conditioning. It's his weight. Even though he had tremendously defined muscle mass at the end of the season, he looked noticeably thinner to me than he had at the start of the season. Maybe it's just that he is maturing and his body is changing. But I think he actually might lose weight during the season (Kobe has trouble with this, by the way). If he starts out thin, and loses more weight, that could be really bad.