[Grantland] Oden on Oden

Yung-T · May 10, 2012

Kojirou said: ↑

I'm frankly not impressed with the article, and think that it shows that the idea of Oden becoming some superstar if he just had remained healthy is a joke. Clearly has severe self-esteem and mental issues, and also shows that he wasn't mentally ready for the NBA. I'll also admit that I'm suspicious about the idea of the Blazers completely neglecting him - they needed a healthy and good Oden if they wanted to win a ring.

Did his life suck? Sure. So did plenty of NBA stars. What I'm saying is that I never thought Oden would be a superstar after Yao pwned him in 2009, and this article definitely makes me more certain he would never be in Durant's league even if he had remained healthy.
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Did you only read every second line of the article? Confused...

Mathloom · May 10, 2012

I think sign him before the end of next season. Would be competing with too many teams if we wait for next summer. Let him rehab under our watch for a few months, make sure everything is ok.

As long as we have McHale, a rotating C rotation, some veteran big guys, and no title aspirations... we need to continuously take these kinds of risks with big men IMO.

Tenchi · May 10, 2012

Mathloom said: ↑

I think sign him before the end of next season. Would be competing with too many teams if we wait for next summer. Let him rehab under our watch for a few months, make sure everything is ok.

As long as we have McHale, a rotating C rotation, some veteran big guys, and no title aspirations... we need to continuously take these kinds of risks with big men IMO.
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Rehab under the Rockets? I don't have much faith in the Rockets training staff.

roslolian · May 10, 2012

Kojirou said: ↑

I'm frankly not impressed with the article, and think that it shows that the idea of Oden becoming some superstar if he just had remained healthy is a joke. Clearly has severe self-esteem and mental issues, and also shows that he wasn't mentally ready for the NBA. I'll also admit that I'm suspicious about the idea of the Blazers completely neglecting him - they needed a healthy and good Oden if they wanted to win a ring.

Did his life suck? Sure. So did plenty of NBA stars. What I'm saying is that I never thought Oden would be a superstar after Yao pwned him in 2009, and this article definitely makes me more certain he would never be in Durant's league even if he had remained healthy.
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Could you stop with all the "Yao pwning" everyone? Oden was a rookie/soph that year, Yao Ming was in his prime. Its this same BS everybody always pulls about Dwight/Yao Ming to justify Yao being the number 1 C in the league. If he was healthy, then yeah Yao would have been number 1 without a doubt. But he wasn't, so DH is the best C.

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