I’ll give Nate & Co the benefit of the doubt for about 20 games, but after that, I’m going to start getting upset.

If you want to maximize your REGULAR season wins this year, then by all means continue to treat Oden as simply a one-way player who might get some garbage buckets here and there. But if you want to maximize your regular season wins over the next 5 years, and have any chance at winning a title, then you have to start developing him on the offensive end – even if it costs you a few games this year.

And another thing – one of the best ways to buy Greg an extra foul or two a game is to make the refs think long and hard (subconsciously or consciously) about calling cheap fouls on him. Refs have NO qualms about calling tick tack fouls on one-dimensional big men. But if you assert him as a two-way player – a marquee guy the league starts marketing – then they are going to give him the benefit of the doubt a LOT more often.