sigh...it is time to be realistic folks

by its on Dec 7, 2009 7:20 PM PST

Has a season ever started out with more negative energy?

Please dont think I hate Greg Oden. Followed the guy since he was 16 on nbadraft.net. The day we won the lottery was the highlight of my sports life. Every game he has played I have hung on his every dribble, shot, and block.

But come on folks. Three major injuries in 4 years. Dont tell me that everytime Oden fell to the floor you didn't wince. Some people just aren't meant to play such sports. We started out comparing Greg to Bill Russell. Now we are down to Antonio Mcdyess? Big Z? I love Greg Oden as a person. When Oden is healthy, I have loved his game.

What we get from Oden is gravy. But as an organization how can you build around him?

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What makes you think we are building around Greg?

IMO we are building and catering towards Brandon.

Brandon works best with Blake…Greg has worked best with Andre…who is the starting PG?

Cloudy is Sergio. Makes other people look good, can’t score himself. -Cablinasian

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by Philthyanimal on Dec 7, 2009 10:26 PM PST reply actions

KP all but said from day one....

When we drafted Oden and KP was asked about Oden over Durant, the answer was that Oden as a highly touted and talented big man was the type of player that won championships.

I don’t want to say The Blazers were directly at this point in his career “building” around Oden but in building the team, Brandon, Oden, and LMA were clearly the nuculeus that I think The Blazers hoped would become championship viable.

I don’t think you give up on Oden, but given his history I also think if you are running the franchise you get to the point where the OP is correct, it just becomes too costly to your present and your future to proceed with the idea that Greg Oden is going to be able to be a mainstay contributor.

I’m not giving up at all on Oden. Love the guy, love his game, love his heart and desire. But from a very cold, analytical purely business standpoint, he now has to show that he is durable enough to play longterm in the N.B.A.. It’s not covert or deceitful, it’s common sense. How can any franchise build around (or as part of a nuculeus) a player who seemingly can’t maintain his health? I’m not talking occasional sprains, bruises and strains but I’d talking lost seasons with fractures. Like the OP, I love Oden. But stepping back and being objective, I do agree that if the philosophy in assembling this team was Brandon, LMA and Oden are the “Cake” and everyone else is icing…The cake just caved in like Odens knee.

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

by Krang on Dec 8, 2009 1:16 AM PST up reply actions

Third out of the last four fanposts

giving up on Greg.

#52

by jscot on Dec 8, 2009 1:05 AM PST reply actions

Yeah. But nobody's hating on him or saying that they should ditch him.

All he can do is rehab, eat right, and play hard until the clock runs out on his body; hopefully he won’t hate himself for something he has no control over. He’s apologetic, but he shouldn’t say sorry to anyone given how hard he worked. It just appears that his career will be much, much shorter than we or Greg would like.

Keep your expectations low and you won't be disappointed.

by Benjamanic on Dec 8, 2009 9:37 AM PST up reply actions