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He looks pretty fit to me.
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Still looks good.same player
Thats way too heavy. They need to scale him back and do a lot of cardio and stretching/yoga to work on muscle, tendon, and ligament flexibility. If he starts playing at that weight the pressure will be way too much for his joints way too young. This is horrible news and I truly hope they correct this before he further damages himself.
No, that looks like Andrew Bynum after he gets his payday...
Can anyone explain to me why he would even feel it necessary to gain more than 10 pounds of muscle anyways? I mean, sure, Yao is pretty big, but he's not going to dominate a player like Oden because of the extra mass. It's not like there's any other 280 or so center in the West and once Shaq retires in a season or two, there may not be one in the entire league. It just seems that this wasn't well thought out on his part. It's a completely unnecessary risk for a player that built already and coming off of major knee surgery.
As so many others here have already said, Oden at 260 or so is much better for the time being (and maybe long run) than Oden 280 or more.
As ChumpDumper put it... "madness"
LMAO at all the orthopedic "experts" in here!
old man river has all the makings of being a bust
Or, you know, people who have been around sports long enough to know that more weight = potential ligament damage.LMAO at all the orthopedic "experts" in here!
I myself thought it was a relatively simple connection. But I guess I was wrong.
West: Andrew Bynum, Kwame Brown, Darko Milicic
East: Dwight Howard, Eddy Curry
He looks good to me.
Holy crap, Bynum is 285. That's incredible. He does not look nearly that... is it all in his legs?
Karma is coming after tlong and his team.
it's 100% body fat
Well a couple of points:
1) He has desire to be the best...that goes a very long way. There is lots of talent in the NBA, but not many that want to be the best.
2) I'm sure he's going to be a beast
3) I'm sure he's also taking a few years off his career as a trade-in for immediate success.
If he wants to be a beast now and forego a longer future, that's his choice. I for one, don't want to see that Portland team against the Lakersi n the Playoffs next year. They're next years Hornets with a 310 pound Oden beating up on the little guys.
From that video it doesn't look like theres anything wrong with him to me. Seems overblown.
I agree...he looks great in that video...the Blazers will be a force in the West next season.
Andrew Bynum is listed at 285, that is before he went out.
Tlong's "recent" video is five months old.
Presumably before he got into The Clear (the Cream already having been taken, or at least given, by Tlong).
At 310 pounds, Oden's going to be so good that Durant's going to send him his ROY trophy just so Oden doesn't obliterate the Sonics every game for the next decade.
That's a serious amount of weight for someone only 19/20 years.
I don't even think Shaq was close to that weight when he was 20.
If I were Oden, I'd be more concerned with conditioning than weight training.
Weaksauce.
Here you go:
April 20, 2008
Oden Itching for Activity After Lost N.B.A. Season
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Greg Oden is simply not the type to dwell on the misfortune of his first season in the N.B.A.
Oden, a perpetually positive 7-footer, is looking ahead.
“I’m just antsy, you know, to compete,” he said. “To get out there and to be able to win a game, I miss that feeling.”
Oden’s rookie season was iced before it even started when he had microfracture surgery on his right knee last September. The procedure is intended to stimulate cartilage growth by drilling tiny holes in the bone.
Recovery time can take six months or more, and the Blazers exercised caution. He sat out the season.
The news stunned Oden, not to mention the fans who had hailed him as the team’s savior.
Oden was the crowning piece of a rebuilding effort that had taken Portland from the Jail Blazers of years past to the N.B.A.’s comeback franchise.
The Trail Blazers had shed players like Rasheed Wallace and Bonzi Wells; hired a disciplinarian coach, Nate McMillan; and brought in young talent like guard Brandon Roy and forward LaMarcus Aldridge, placing an emphasis on character.
After going 32-50 in 2006-7, the Blazers beat the odds and landed the No. 1 pick in the draft. There was much speculation about whether Portland would go with Oden, who played at Ohio State, or Kevin Durant out of Texas.
When the selection was announced, the crowd rushed to center court and chanted: O-den! O-den!
He averaged 15.7 points and 9.6 rebounds in his only season at Ohio State, despite being hampered by a wrist injury. He led the Buckeyes to the N.C.A.A. championship game, scoring 25 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in a loss to Florida.
Before that, he was the 2006 Naismith player of the year — as well as homecoming king — at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis.
He was introduced to Portland at a downtown rally. The turnout was big and enthusiastic, leading many to proclaim the return of Rip City, a term for the city and its fervent fans after the 1976-77 Blazers won the N.B.A. le.
Oden played in a few summer games but offered only a glimpse of the future before he needed a tonsillectomy. Then came the jolting news about his knee.
After surgery, Oden went into the first phase of rehabilitation — lying around for eight hours a day with a machine on his leg that manipulated his knee. It was tedious, so Oden watched, he said, “a lot of movies.”
Once Oden was off crutches and started working out in the pool. And he took on an increased role as the future face of the Blazers. Throughout the season, he was a looming presence on the bench at home and often on the road. In the pregame video introduction of the team, his face was right there with Roy, Aldridge and the rest of his teammates.
In his downtime, Oden blogged. He endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. He launched Team Oden, a mentoring project for young people.
And he has continued his workouts. Now he is even able to do some shooting.
“His knee feels good; his knee looks good,” Jay Jensen, the Blazers’ trainer, said. “But again, we’re going really slow with him.”
Recently, Oden went to a 24-Hour Fitness near his home and played a pickup game. Word spread quickly on the Internet and made its way back to the Blazers, who were not pleased. Oden got a call from McMillan, who scolded him.
“He wants to do some of the same things he probably did a couple of years ago,” McMillan said, “and there’s certain things you can’t do as a professional athlete, a lottery pick, a franchise player. He’s aware of that now and he understands that. And I don’t think that it will happen again.”
I really hope Oden has a great career and it would be fine for the Blazers to take the reins when the Spurs time has passed and continue the slapping of the Lakers. But human knees aren't made to take 310 lbs, be it muscle or fat, pounding on them, particularly kness that already have issues.
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