Weight/Strength Importance

It´s a make or break for a big man due to the fact that they have to bang down low against their fellow big men every night. Not so much for the guards/wings though but it will help their game in terms of finishing around the rim and not getting beat around much by stronger players if they gain strength/muscle. MJ had to gain weight to withstand the Pistons and eventually win his first ring.

To answer your question on Terry, he did gain around 18 lbs during the pandemic so yeah he is capable of gaining weight while not affecting his shooting.

The talk of Terry gaining 20 or so lbs. misses the point that even at 170 lbs. he is really light for a 6’2″ or 6’3″ guard. Even if you look at a sport where being light matters like boxing, you rarely see a super middleweight who is 6’3.” Also, there is a real chance Terry’s agent told him to do the NFL Combine trick of drinking as much water as possible before stepping on the scale, because he knows that the weight is going to concern teams. Frankly, it is rightly so. De’Aaron Fox and Dennis Schroder are probably the only two guys in the past decade to make it while entering the league in that general area of height and weight, but those two are vastly better athletically. Maybe the shooting and ability to endear himself to coaches helps his cause for sticking, but the bar for how good he has to be offensively to overcome the liability he will be when he gets bullied defensively is a real cause for concern.