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Oden looks a lot like DRob in those highlights they were showing.
From what I've read about Oden, hes supposed to be something really special. Theres no way he'd no declare for the draft. He'll go number 1, no matter what.
Oden looks a lot like DRob in those highlights they were showing.
Agreed.
1st; don't wish injuries; 2nd; only teams who need another piece worry about tanking. This team will be a favorite again next season.
I'll take a 4-peat over ANY player.
Yeah, the whole "breaks his ankle" thing was a little too much to take.
How about this?
Tim continues to be plagued by foot problems. His plantar fascitis is completely healed but is now forced to deal with a moderately nasty corn on his big toe. The Spurs decide two days before the start of the regular season that they are shutting Tim down for the year because the rest of the Spurs are sickened by Tim showing his corn to them all the time.
Manu is offered the chance to be sainted by the high ranking members of the Argentinian clergy. He unwisely accepts before finding out that he is now bound into a contract to tour the Argentinian countryside for a year, blessing everything from buildings to livestock.
Tony's rap career takes off in a major way with the release of his new album "Funky TP". Pop gives Tony the rest of the year off to promote his album in hopes that the Spurs might use TP's hit single "Fill the Bowl" to finally replace "Y'all Ready For This" as the arena's anthem.
Pop, after shortening his rotation to 8 players in the playoffs during the championship season, decides to "let the other guys play a little". Fielding a starting lineup of Sean Marks, Beno Udrih, Melvin Saunders, Fabricio Oberto and, showing a little bit of Nellie's influence on his coaching style, Rasho Nesterovic at point guard, the Spurs miraculously finish only one game out of the last playoff spot.
The Spurs send David Robinson the NBA Draft Lottery armed with a rabbit's foot, two chicken feet and picture of the Virgin De Guadalupe and improbably snag the first pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, ensuring the return of the Twin Towers and championships for years to come.
post of the week at least!
Hasn't anyone noticed the 10 year split of all sevens... is a Divine sign????
'tis meant to be...
Greg Oden looks, behaves and plays very similar to Robinson, I just don't understand all that talk about the next Shaq.
That aside, there is zero chance the Spurs can get him, of course, as stated before, if the Duncan, Parker and Ginobili were all out significant chunks of the season, and the ping pong balls bounce the right way.
There's also a LOT of talk about Oden plannning to finish college, that would put him in the draft of 2010, I believe. Perhaps the Spurs would suck by then.
The interesting thing about players like Oden and OJ Mayo is that these guys have been scouted since the FIFTH GRADE. It's amazing that Oden has managed to keep such a level head despite the constant attention for so long.
But on the other side of the coin, scouting them at that age is ridiculous. Nothing but a bunch of vultures looking for something to gain would start looking at and ranking players that early. You're messing with these kids psychologically if you start putting the idea into their heads that they are potential NBA/professional league material when they aren't even out of elementary school. I think some place even ranks the best third graders in the country.
Because of their very decidedly so "amateur" status, you can't do much with them at that point anyway. But everyone wants to groom these guys as soon as they are out of diapers in hopes of potentially cashing in down the road. And when it starts becoming obvious that they won't make it? It was a bad investment, but that's why you work multiple kids.
In the meantime, you've yanked the support system from underneath a kid who has been coddled for years and has been singularly focused on an idea that isn't going to happen. That is a huge letdown for the kid, if not emotionally and mentally damaging. Even people given a chance to make it like Leon Smith fail because they have the physical tools, but not the mental tools to make it.
So again, props to Oden for his outlook and apparent mental maturity. It would be fantastic to have a guy like that on our team. We could hope to consider the idea that he stays in school longer than a year and that some trade the Spurs engage in soon yields an unprotected first round pick that winds up being a lottery pick due to some other teams misfortune, not ours.
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