“(I added a) little bit (of muscle),” Williams said. “When you’re in two boots, and then you get out of one boot and you can’t put the other foot down on the ground, all you can do is lift weights. So I ate weights for a little bit. That helps.”
Williams added he came in at the same weight as he’s been in years past, so the bulk-up could’ve been either purely toning his upper body, or adding upper-body strength to compensate for his inability to work out his lower body in the boot.
Listed at 6’3″ and around 210 pounds, Williams already has a size advantage over most point guards, and may look to post up more. Only 27 of Williams’s possessions came in the post-up last season, according to Synergy, less than 2.5 percent of the time. In his last full season in Utah, Williams went to the post-up about 4 percent of the time.
“I did that in Utah as well,” Williams said about using his size to post up smaller guards. “I just got to get back to playing basketball, man. Y’all want me to predict what the hell’s going to happen this whole year, I’m just going to go out and play basketball, have fun, that’s all it’s about, man. Just having fun.”
