when I has in high school we had a big man

by skott75 on Dec 6, 2009 2:28 AM PST

he was a giant and every sport wanted him.....well not soccer, but every real sport. He was six seven( thats a giant in north Idaho) and could barely walk, but he was six seven dammit! He played basketball, and he played football, but never really had the coordination to excel in those sports....that was until his body finished maturing and he was finally able to wield his god given gifts. He ended up getting a football scholarship and had an opportunity to play in the pros, but he didn't have the passion for the game to put in the work. My point is that Oden is 21, and he is still developing as a man. These injuries could very well be a function of a still maturing man playing a very punishing game. Big men in general have a lot of injuries to contend with, and there are few men of oden's size that make it through a full NBA season. especially, young big men. Bynum, Bogut, Blatch, Haywood, Nene, Cambie, Curry, illgauskas, Yao, to name a few. All had injury problems early in their carrier, and MOST were able to come back and be productive. It is the exception( howard, O' neal , Robinson, end of list) for big, back to the basket centers to stay healthy, not the rule. Now, obviously this is starting to become a scary trend with Oden, but there is the possibility that he is just one of many bigs that has to go through some growing pains before he can trasform into the unstoppable wrecking ball we all need him to be.

Keep you head up greg, your not the only one.

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i'd like to believe that these injuries are ordinary

or rather that they are “freak injuries” and mere incidents… but 2 season ending injuries including a microfracture and a fractured petulla, along with several other minor injuries ALL in 3 very short seasons are enough to convince anybody that something ain’t right about Greg’s body, especially his lower body. We thought this was due to excess weight and inproper movements, but as this injury and the circumstances under which it happened reveal, something ain’t right.

I will still support Greg and hope he can someday, be it for this team or another, be able to become the dominant big man that he can be. But this injury is a major setback and I don’t expect Greg to return next season and kick off where he left off.

by jbm01 on Dec 6, 2009 5:07 AM PST reply actions

The minor injury last year

is what caused the big injury last night. He was out for some time last year because he chipped his left patella but came back because they didnt opt for surgery. Now he’s out because of a fracture on his left patella. coincedince? i think not

by RUDYYYY on Dec 6, 2009 8:29 AM PST up reply actions

I want to be positive...

…I’d really like to believe Oden isn’t genetically predispositoned to be injury prone. It’s Emotion vs. Logic, right brain vs. left brain.

But at what point do we face the reality? Almost 2 lost seasons in 3. That’s a little above what you could call average, or the norm. What’s further disturbing is the way and type of injuries Oden seems to be having. It never really was discovered or revealed or known what led to Oden needing the Microfracture. Evidently his knee just starting hurting.

Last night there was little to no contact, just a what appeared to be a slightly off balance plant and attempt to block.

If it was related to his previous injury against Golden State then Epic Fail of Blazer medical staff. Hindsight is 20/20 but shouldn’t of follow up MRI’s been done to the knee-cap to assure it was healing alright? If it was a minor injury that was allowed to become a major injury…which it now is…then our medical staff needs to be re-evaluated.

But I’m not going to go down that road because I don’t know. Perhaps such MRI’s and X-Rays were taken. It easily could of been something that happened and simply was not released to the public. If you check Odens Knee and it appears Okay, is that going to make news?

Sooner or later it just comes down to reality. Almost 2 lost seasons in his first 3 years in the N.B.A. and I’m sorry, REALLY REALLY gallons of tears sorry, but I think you do have to say Oden is injury prone.

"Mother Nature started this fight, I think it's about time we ended it!"

by Krang on Dec 6, 2009 10:30 AM PST reply actions

the doctors said no

the chipped kneecap had nothing to do with the current injury. anybody “moving on from the Oden era” needs to go cheer for LA, where people jump on and off the bandwagon as often as they pollute the earth

by sparks89 on Dec 6, 2009 9:38 PM PST reply actions