for the same reasons you mentioned. It’s hard to believe this guy ever worked in Portland.

man the things he was saying were so iritating like he said we dont need him to be a twenty ten guy duh we just need him to be a rebounder and a shot blocker you could see in the heat game with him just sitting in the lane the players had to arch their shot to get it over him thats the type of things we need from him.
                    
                                colin cowherd tell how my * taste

Did anyone predict Oden would be an offensive star? Everything I’ve heard points to him being defensive oriented. That’s half the game. AI plays no D (although he got a bunch of steals, it was a gamble and he often paid for the attempt), and yet Cowherd never bashed AI for only being an offensive start.

Was Cowherd actually paying any attention, then? The guy basically exposed himself as a limited pundit, one who can only think of stars in terms of offense. Let’s just hope that one day Cowherd meets Ben Wallace, Oden in a dark alley.

Oh and all sports radio guys are complete tools. The way they use those pauses and repetitive phrases to eat up time simply shows they have very little to contribute. If my friends talked to me like that, I’d slap them and tell them that need to only say something once and they better not contrive to make it sound special.

I didn’t watch the video because, after having listened to Cowherd too many times in the past, I know exactly what he will say and how he will say it… plus at this point the sound of his voice on any topic just makes we want to vomit and throw something at the radio. He is smug, arrogant, condescending, and generally quite ignorant.

Did I mention that I can’t stand Cowheard and his opinion carries no credibility with me? That being said, he is hardly alone and this assessment has become quite fashionable. I was sitting in the stands for the opener against the Lakers when Oden got hurt and limped around for about 12 minutes. I had to listen to an ignorant Laker fan proclaiming that Oden was a bust and a wasted pick. I wanted to turn around and punch the guy….fortunately better judgement prevailed.

I wish we could keep a file on all the “experts” who are ready bury Oden after 2 short cameo appearances, after not appearing in a real game for over a year and a half and recovering from major knee surgery (I am an MD and microfracture is major knee surgery). I would like to hear their re-assessments in 6 months or a year from now…

but he’s soooooooooooooooooooooo right about a lot of you people in this chatroom i said over a year and a half ago about certain people jumping on the blazer express once they got the #1 pick in the draft i wondered out loud in this same chatroom if pricthard would’ve taken durant over oden how the reaction would’ve been in portland i still see the image of 1 idiot getting on his knees praising god saying “our savior” is finally arrived then he started saying championships also the people who all of the sudden started talking dynasty and yet nationally 2 weeks ago mcmillian said the lakers are the present and the blazers are the future the national media started saying no nate the lakers are the present and the future my point is like i’ved been saying for awhile now a lot of you have to start facing reality it’s going to take a couple of years before this team will start competing for titles and as for oden get over it he has no offensive game period and for those of you and many of you people fit this category BRANDON ROY=THE FRANCHISE PERIOD !!!!

the fact that oden is the so called franchise of this team don’t get me wrong people i’m not hating on him i’m just saying let this kid develop his offensive skills and by the 2011-12 season when this group will be ready to take over this league oden should be a 14-16.pts 12.rebs 3.5 blks a game player wacth out batum is the dirty work young b.bowen type of guy this franchise badly lacked and with roy*aldridge*m.j.*trout offensively these guys can score their only setback is that they really need a real floor general a guy who can get each player to where they feel comfortable to get points a pg like t.j.ford would be a perfect fit for this team imho so enjoy the journey and let g.oden grow to be the player we all feel he will be in time like somebody said earlier patience people patience book it!!!

that he had before the surgery. I don’t think we will see that back until next season.

I listen to Herd on my way to work every morning…and he is very predictable about who is going to bang on. Wade Phillips, the National League in MLB, Michael Vick, LeBron James, and the bane of his existance the Big 10…especially Ohio State. My feeling is, he gets a little thrill out of criticizing the big man from Ohio State.

He’s in love with Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady/Bill Belicheck, American League MLB, and himself…according to him, he has never been wrong…oh yeah…except the SuperBowl last year and the NBA Championship series just to name a couple. Though, I still listen to him. He is funny.

i’m with you my man he’s sooooooooooooo wrong half of the time but he is funny and don’t forget his mancrush with a.bynum*usc football and tina faye !!!!!

remember 2-3 years ago vick was 10x better than favre and also blazers thank-you for the kind words my man book it !!!!

you’re the best man book it !!!!

blazers you’re da man book it baby !!!!!!!!

is an idiot. Really? You can’t hide on an NBA court? Marcus Camby anyone? I think he’s had a stroke.

i’m not an inspiring english professor wannabe like some people dude lol.

blazers you are the main man dude keep up the great work.

can be a real a*** when he want’s to be he’s so red sox*yankees and dallas cowboys crazy and a big g.oden hater

thank-you sincerely 1.st of all it feels good to be back with you guys and it’ll come real soon so far so good the blazers in 08-09 when i see something i don’t like you all will hear about it book it babee lol !!!!

possessed the wisdom of Oliver Wendell Holmes; understood hoops as well as Red Holzman; and articulated his thoughts with the wit and erudition of the incomparable A.J. Liebling, I’d still find him unlistenable.

It’s the voice.

That nasal, whiny, petulant voice. I actually tried listening to him a few times back when I lived in Portland and he was still a local on-air personality there. But I always turned him off after a minute or so. I just could never get past that voice.

He compares players of different calibers, positions to Greg Oden’s situation.

Take for example the Shaq, Kareem, and Wilt comparisons. He immediately makes this assumption that Greg Oden should be those molds. But he’s not. Everyone who really understands Greg Oden knows he came with the following: strength, athleticism, defense. He didn’t have a go to hook shot or some tricky fadeaway. But should one center be compared to other different centers and make assumptions that he has to be that kinda player or else.

If first impressions do matter, which they do, then does it make sense to say that Kobe was going to be what he is today. He seems to be discounting Kobe’s rookie year, which frankly wasn’t that impressive. Sure it showed potential, but apparently Cowherd doesn’t think that matters. If it’s downside, not upside, then you can’t help but pay attention to those Kobe moments where he didn’t look like he could change.

You can’t judge a player from one day, which the media does.

Look at Michael Jordan. Everyone knew he was a scorer, but didn’t know much else. People claimed he was one dimensional and could only score? That he couldn’t defend. He then went on to claim a defensive player of the year award as one of two guards in history to win the award. If not MJ, then look at other big men that see the game as a marathon. Dwight Howard, Yao Ming, Jermaine O’Neal, Chris Bosh, etc.

The truth is that you can, in fact, hide things in basketball. I would argue that you can hide a lot more things in basketball than you can in baseball, where players have to hit the ball without any help from their teammates. In basketball, you can hide a weak man-to-man defender by asking them to guard less dangerous offensive players or by using a zone defense, you can hide a poor ball-handler by having them play off the ball, and you can hide someone who does not have a decent jump shot by having them play in the post. There are lots of ways to hide things in basketball, which is one of the reasons why the draft is such a crapshoot. If you watch a player enough you can generally find out what their strengths and weaknesses are, but usually it takes dozens of games to make a thorough scouting report. Trying to figure out how good a player is (or worse yet, how good a player is going to be) after just one game is foolish.

that this guy is so clueless that he never uses the correct comparison? Go back to that draft in your mind, there is the ESPN panel talking about Greg and the type of difference maker he could be. Were they comparing him to Shaq?…..No. Were they comparing him to Kareem?….No. Were they comparing him to Wilt?…No. Who the heck was it they were comparing him to? Oh, now I remember…..it was Bill Russell. And what kind of player was Bill Russell? Well he was a player who averaged 15 points a game for his career, and his highest season average was just UNDER 19 per game. He was also a player who averaged 22 rebounds a game and anchored a defense that won ELEVEN CHAMPIONSHIPS.

I would simply like to know why this comparison was never made by Colin. I mean, we as Blazer fans were told that this is the kind of player Greg could become. Nobody ever tried to sell us a bill of goods on Greg becoming a 30 point a game scorer, and I don’t think Blazer fans have ever expected Greg to become the team’s leading scorer. For Colin to call us “delusional” for believing that Greg can become the player we all thought he would become on draft night is not only stupid, but it is ill informed.

I would like to think that we as Blazer nation are smart enough to see for ourselves what a player might become. I have watched Greg since he was in high school and always thought he would be a dominant defensive force. I would hope that this is the outcome we are all hoping for, and if it is then we are not delusional, we are simply hopeful and realistic. Colin on the other hand is stupid, and should really learn to make ligitimate player comparisons before ripping a player and an entire fan base.

It will be great to dig up this footage and throw it back in Cowherds face once its realized nobody in the league can stop GO.

I still remember the night Rod Strickland arrived at the airport for his second tenure as a Blazer, he had his camera guy wait way down the hallway as Cowherd approached Strickland and asked if he wanted to talk. Strickland said sure, and instantly Cowherd motioned for his camera crew to ambush Strickland with studio lights and questioning.

I’m glad he’s away from the Portland sports scene, but geez now he is ripping the Blazers nationally.