The jury’s still out. And there’s nothing we can do to change what happened. We’re still rooting for a ridiculously talented basketball team. Don’t buy into all the Oden vs. Durant hype. Buy into the fact that KP is getting closer and closer to putting together a perennial contender for NBA Championships.

than Oden is this year. There is no reason not to expect similar improvement over the next year from GO that Durant has achieved.

but I didn’t and then she inherited a pile of money in 85, but by that time I was married to my current wife of 29 years and had a couple of kids. Why would I even think about a do-over?

I hate to paraphrase Colin Cowturd but – Live in the is, not the was. You’ll enjoy life more that way and get better results.

post about how the Blazers blew it when they picked Oden i/o Durant? If so, why did you not comment in that thread instead of adding another fanpost to the site?

But I think that Atlanta’s Dominique Wilkins would be his potential. That’s pretty fantastic, but not the greatest ever.

…for a Junior yr. Collegian.

Biography of a complete failure. When do you think people started calling this person a bust? When do you think he would have been called a bust in the modern media age?

• Teenager: Next to no formal education
• Age 22: Lost his job
• Age 23: Defeated for state legislature
• Age 24: Failed business
• Age 27: Nervous breakdown
• Age 34: Ran for congress and defeated
• Age 39: Ran for congress and defeated again
• Age 46: Ran for senate and defeated
• Age 47: Defeated for vice president nomination
• Age 50: Defeated again for senate
• Age 51: US President
• Age 56: Murdered

Thanks for all the rec’s everyone! Good to know that there are people in agreement.

Now hopefully next season everyone will be saying “OKC should have picked Bayless, they really blew it passing him up for Westbrook!” ;)

Durant did not deserve to win the HORSE turni! OK technically he did deserve to win because he made his shots, BUT….. he was so boring to watch, Joe Johnson and OJ Mayo were trying to be creative, Durant bored me…. whatever Im over it

I had Greg at 20/15/5/5 way back in June. I still believe that there’s a parallel universe where he did not have an injury to start of this season, and where he got his game and his confidence together to put up those kinds of numbers by the AS break.

He could easily average 20 ppg if they just ran a couple of plays for him every quarter. The rebound numbers are there. The assists would be happening if we had consistent 3-pt shooting from Steve and Martel. Finally, don’t forget the 6-block game he just had.

As I see it, once Greg learns to avoid foul trouble, he’s an all-star.

But if you are just now saying we should have picked Durant over Oden based solely on the Rookie game. Then you are an idiot. Sorry. (You know who you are)

Nowadays I mostly drop in to BE’ for Dave, Ben and any breaking news.

But I am glad I dropped in here.

I usually don’t read anything else anymore because of all the goofy, compulsive and immature cuda, wuda, shuda’s.

Dave has repeatedly tried to TEACH on this site but alas, it still seems that so many just don’t get it. We will not know who really was the better choice for at least 2-3 more years.

Rec’d

out some stats of Greg Oden specifically rebounding.

Greg Oden is the best Offensive rebounding Center in the game.

Przybilla is the best rebounder in the game with Oden coming in 10th. He has the 5th best PER among the top ten rebounder’s in the league.

He has the 14th best FG% in the league.

All in all Greg is doing fine. Let’s wish him and KD the best and let the debate end.

Let us also remember that the Blazers are the second best offensive team in the league and one of our greatest strengths is shooting. We all new at the time of the draft: if you wanted the rookie of the year and a guy who could score 30 points a game draft Durant, if you want a title(s) draft Oden.

As far as I am concerned nothing has changed. I think once the fouling problem is fixed Greg will be an allstar. And if you want to say Durant is good/great thats fine, but don’t ever say you are upset we have this guy.

not only does he have to be a degree or two better than Greg Oden, but he has to be significantly better than Brandon Roy. Too many of Durant’s abilities overlap Roy’s. IMO the decision was pretty easy.

most lottery picks have a lot of potential and talent. however u gotta be in the right situation at the right time to really make the most of your opportunities.

bayless has the most upside of any of the blazers guards not named broy, but hes not in the right place at the right time, and most of the time he was last guard off the bench. however im totally sure he could be scoring 20+ per game for a team like memphis/OKC/clippers.

durant was in the right situation at the right time to be “the man” for the franchise.

oden will be solid to great for the next 10 years +. he could even be a superstar, but we will let time decide that.

’Nuff said. Well, ALMOST ’nuff said, I got 10,000 more words before I hit my quota.

Durant is an amazing player. Oden will be amazinger and win more. I’ll take my chances on the dominant big man winning the titles, and not the good wing scorer who isn’t Michael Jordan… since, um, only Jordan has done it since I’ve been alive (and I am extremely old).

Every big man has had good wing scorers, but they are the sidekicks, not the main attraction. KD will not even compete for a conference championship until he has a decent big man next to him. That is why you take Oden over Durant… an Oden is what ANY team needs to compete. Great wing players are awesome, but in the realm of awesomeness they are a dime a’ dozen.

I was, and am, a big fan of Durant. A big part of me hoped he would be so good that he COULD be worth the #1 selection, because c’mon— the fan in me loves streaking dunks, great pure shooting, cross overs, all the fun stuff in basketball. Durant will lead the league in scoring. It still won’t affect a game like Oden will affect a game on both ends of the court.

Even though I loved what Durant was about (the length, the range, the versatility), I knew in my heart Oden was the right pick if you wanted to have a team that won.

Durant will always be a much better scorer than, say, Brandon Roy. However, if you put Brandon Roy (of last year even) on that Thunder team, they won’t have one of the worst records in the league. Roy is a playmaker who can score, not a scorer who can make plays because every play goes through him. There is a big difference, and it shows in the win/loss column.

NO MATTER WHAT, it is too soon to tell. I may be wrong, and Durant is the modern era Jordan. Having no position he can safely guard on defense will likely prevent him from being as dominant as Jordan I’d say, and I don’t see how Durant could be as good as Lebron or Kobe. Those dudes are just better playmakers, even if Durant is in their league scoring wise.

The point is, both players are still growing and improving, and will for years to come. Oden is a rookie coming off of an injury, and Durant is coming into his own in his 2nd year after a pretty mediocre rookie season that no one watched, except in the boxscores. Neither are a finished product, and both will be very, very good.

I am extremely happy we got the #1 pick. Oden is what championships are made of, and I do not see any way that a trio of Roy, Durant, and LMA win the title. Ever. Unless they luck into an amazing big man, of course… they will be much too good to get one in the draft, but not good enough to go all the way.

All of those bemoaning Oden’s current game don’t need to look too far away to have a great example of a player expanding and exploding his game in his 2nd season. Durant has gone from a guy many was underwhelmed by, a guy barely scoring 20 on a billion shots, to a dominant offensive juggernaut. To many who watched him last year, they didn’t see how he could become what he is becoming. This lesson has been taught a million times before, but this is how youth develops. It takes time, and you must use your imagination to see what the player will become. What they are now, is not permanent.

I do not get why people don’t get that concept, when it is seen year in and year out.

Oden is what negates forces of nature like Lebron. Oden is completely unguardable as a stupid, dumb, stinky raw rookie. He simply backs down anyone not named Shaq/Yao. Just wait a few years, and we’ll all be happy and the debate will seem as silly as the Melo/Lebron debates their rookie year.

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of the KD/Oden thing. Oden is our guy, go root OKC if you want KD over Oden. They have plenty of room for you over there.

However, Durant played very well in the rookie/sophmore challenge. If I was an OKC person I’d be proud. Regardless of whether it’s a “defense-lite” game or not he still went to work.

The HORSE thing was just kinda dumb, but I guess it’s for the kids or whatever.

because he reminded me of J.R. Rider. My absolute favorite jail blazer. Boy, did I love to watch him play. The post ups. The touch on his mid range game.

What a guilty pleasure he was. Too bad his eyes were always bloodshot and too bad he wasted those gifts.

and really he’s progressed a lot more and faster than I expected him to. He’s going to lead OKC to the playoffs in a few seasons and be very hard to stop.

But, having said that I still think the Blazers did the right thing in drafting Oden, and I would take Oden over Durant again if given the chance simply because of how much affect a great Center has on the performance of a team vs. a great forward. Then there’s the simple fact that Durant wouldn’t have complimented the play of Roy and LaMarcus like Oden does.

Regardless of what Durant does in his career, Oden was the right choice.