Nets Noah Clowney visibly bigger after reshaping body: Looks great

Various Nets have come into training camp looking visibly different, from Day’Ron Sharpe and Cam Thomas having gotten leaner to Egor Dëmin having gotten bigger.But none reshaped their body more than Noah Clowney.The once-willowy big man finally qualifies as big, and finally looks like a grown man instead of a young one.

Clowney packed on muscle in the offseason, added weight that he and the Nets figure will help shore up the weak parts of his game.“Yeah, [Clowney] looks great,” said coach Jordi Fernández.“Credit to him and the work he’s put in the whole summer.

He looks like a grown man at just 21.“[I’m] excited to watch him play real games.Obviously you’ve got to go through training camp and the preseason games, but he’s done a great job.

His ability to shoot, his size and getting better at playing off two feet in the paint, limiting turnovers and fishing better at the rim.So those things are important for him.”The added bulk should help toward that end.“That’s been the whole goal, being a better driver,” Clowney said.

“I have to get stronger, I have to be able to drive through contact and be able to still be able to explode.”After coming into camp a year ago listed at 210 pounds, and saying he played last season at various times between 220 and 225 pounds, Clowney tipped the scales last week at a solidly built 234 pounds.Physically, he looked more like starting center Nic Claxton than the waifish youngster who struggled to finish last season.“A lot of [NBA] players have been top athletes all their lives and when they get to this level, they just think they’re going to go to the rim, jump and finish.And a lot of times they’ve never had to figure it out,” Fernández said.

“Challenging centers in the best league in the world is not necessarily a good thing.“A lot of times the best finishers are guys that’ve never been that gifted early on, and they had to find a way to play, to be better decision-makers and finish wh...