이정도면 고등학교 몇학년수준인가요? 전 고1인데 완벽하게 해석되진 않지만 의미는 대충 알겠어요... 단어사이에 점찍은건 금지단어...-_- 출처 농구겔러리 Ha is no laughing matter Ha Seung Jin is head and shoulders above where was last year at this time. Around this time last year, SFX brought a young Korean kid named Ha Seung Jin over to the United States and had him work out. The workout, which I later saw on video, was one of the bi.gger disappointments I had seen from a supposed top-notch prospect. Ha was being billed as South Korea"s answer to Yao Ming. All he really was, however, was all the things we feared Yao would be. He was slow, mechanical and lacked none of the skill or finesse Yao would go on to show in the league. The rep that Ha was a joke quickly spread throughout the league and he was forgotten . . . until a few days ago when Ha began working out for NBA teams. Frustrated with the progress Ha was making in South Korea and aware of the many physical problems Ha needed to work through, SFX took the unprecedented step of pulling him off his team and putting him into full workout mode six months ago. They flew Ha and his family to L.A., put him up in an apartment in Brentwood and began working out all the flaws that they found. They hired Athletes" Performance to get rid of the body fat and make him more explosive. They worked him out every day in a gym in Santa Monica with a bi.g man coach and several other former NBA pla.yers, including Eddie Griffin and Jelani McCoy. They even hired Ha a yoga instructor to teach him balance and flexibility. The results have been simply . . . impressive. I watched Ha work out in front of several NBA teams, including the Lakers, Clippers, Jazz and Nuggets on Thursday, and I think it"s safe to say that we all walked away a little stunned by Ha"s improvement. Six months of diligent workouts have increased Ha"s strength, quickness and flexibility. Over the course of six months Athletes" Performance has replaced the body fat with muscle, greatly improved his lateral quickness and vertical jump (he"s now up to 25 inches with one step), given him a lot of strength in his lower body (his legs look like tree trunks) and taught him how to run the floor. Everyone moved to the edge of the bleachers on Thursday when SFX put him into full court drills. His ability to get up and down the floor and dunk the basketball seems to have improved a hundred fold. He was much better athletically than I had suspected. Surprisingly, however, he was also not quite as good skills wise as I had heard. His shot is still a little flat and he had trouble converting any shots that weren"t dunks during his workout. Still, when you measure 7-foot-4½ inches with shoes, have a 7-foot-5 wingspan a 9-foot-7 standing reach and weigh 328 pounds -- people aren"t going to worry so much about the basketball skills at this point. He"s already had private workouts for the Spurs and Blazers. He was so impressive in Portland on Wednesday that they are flying down to L.A. to see him again on Friday. Still, Ha-quille O"Neal (as his agent calls him) isn"t a slam dunk just yet. It"s obvious that he"s put in a lot of hard work over the past six months and that he"s improved by leaps and bounds. But workouts are one thing. Playing in a game is another. SFX"s decision to take Ha out of games and into full time training mode has paid off in one area . . . but will it backfire in another? Several of the folks Insider talked to whom have seen Ha recently are understandably impressed with his size, athleticism and agility (he can even do the splits and a handstand thanks to the yoga training). However, they"re worried that the zero playing time, combined with not a lot of great competition in Korea, has him way behind the curve of the other two enormous bi.g men in the draft -- Pavel Podkolzine and Peter John Ramos. "At the end of the day, as important as the workouts are, they"re just one factor in the process," one NBA scout told Insider. "You"ve got to evaluate the entire package. That includes the workouts, the mental evaluations and the playing time. This kid really has nothing to evaluate on the court. He really hasn"t played. He"s a lab experiment in many ways. How do you draft a kid like that? I"ll tell you . . . in the second round where nothing is guaranteed." Teams in the late first round are showing interest in Ha. That"s just one opinion, however. Teams in the late first round are already showing enormous interest. Podkolzine and Ramos will be off the board by the time the draft hits the late first round and several teams hoping to find a diamond in the rough might be willing to take a shot on Ha based on his size and dramatic athletic improvement. The fact that he already has a rabid following in South Korea will also help his cause. "I really respect Yao (Ming)," Ha told Insider. "If he had given up or failed it would be much harder to do what I"m doing. I know he"s helped me." Can he help enough to get Ha in the late first round and guaranteed millions based on six months of intense training? At least one NBA scout thinks so. "You can teach all of that other stuff," one scout told Insider. "As the old adage goes, you can"t teach size. He"s got that in abundance and it looks like with the proper training he can become a decent athlete. That"s enough for someone to take him in the first