Oden Still Wants To 'Dominate'

Little well rounded article on Greg. Not a whole of new info, just a few other perspectives.

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Greg is still the only hope of us becoming a contender in the next 2-3 years.

A fresh start with a new team might help Oden, although he doesn’t see it that way. He wants to remain in Portland.

“I want to get out there, dominate and do all that for me,” Oden said. “At this time, it’s more about thinking about what I can do to better myself and show my talents out there on the court.”

I wish we would hear from Oden in his own words that he wants to remain in Portland.

I hope the Blazers are doing and saying more than we hear to SELL Oden that he should remain a Blazer and sign a 3-4-5 year deal (probably includes a team option year) with Portland after the lockout ends. They need to sign him to a long term deal and not the Qualifying Offer (which makes him an unrestricted free agent in summer 2012).

They should “recruit” him like they would go after any free agent they wanted. I wonder what kind of salesmanship skills Cho has? It may be up to Paul Allen to personally sell Greg on staying and fulfilling his dreams to “dominate” in Portland. I’d get him out on the Yacht for a few weekends in Monaco.

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man." - Matty Walker in Body Heat (1981)

by BlazerFanSince1970 on Jan 23, 2011 10:46 AM PST reply actions

I think Greg is the kind of guy that would be loyal to a franchise that supported him

through his rehab. What I don’t get is why people are so negitive towards him. None of what he has gone through is his fault, he didn’t choose to be injured, he didn’t pick himself #1 overall. I can’t imagine what kind of cold hearted person could actually say something negitive to his face. What has he done to deserve that?

by blazinagain on Jan 23, 2011 11:53 AM PST up reply actions

ya oden

fire barrett

by thomasikehara on Jan 23, 2011 5:35 PM PST reply actions

There's a real tendency out there to "blame the victim" of illness and injury

Susan Sontag talked about this in her book “Illness as Metaphor.” For a long time, for instance, consumptives (those with tuberculosis) were thought to have brought it on themselves through an immoral and riotous lifestyle. Just so, not that long ago Norman Mailer (and many others) believed that you got cancer from being “too repressed.”

Likewise, if you get injured some will think you haven’t trained right, or you’re not in good shape, you have “bad fundamentals” — in other words, you must have done something wrong.

People don’t want to think “It could happen to me.” It could happen to anyone. That’s a frightening thought.

And no doubt Greg Oden has to fight tremendous feelings of guilt.

ignacio

by ignacio on Jan 23, 2011 10:03 PM PST reply actions