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Apparently, it does.
Sure it was.
Apparently, it does.
Dear Tlong…I have enjoyed your enthusiasms this season…I think Oden looked great all season & I was looking forward to Bynum/ Oden match ups…Here is to a speedy recovery…
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Okay, this is an issue. No denying that. I'm starting to feel like we're cursed. However, I still think he'll be fine. I believe this was caused by the chipped knee cap he got when banging knees with Fisher last year. Fortunately there was no serious ligament damage so it's not like a recovery from MF surgery.
Look who decided to come out of mourning. Welcome back old man.
tlongII,,
.......we were wondering what happened to you.
We thought you pulled a.
Sorry for Greg man.
Microfrature has a timer on it, t. Even good ones.
It's not like Oden has lost everything.
Put him in a suit and taddaa : the next Blazer coach
Well, at least he looks old enough
Time to Lower Expectations for Oden
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I don’t mean to be the bearer of bad vibes or yell "fire" in a crowded internet. But unfortunately, the Greg Oden saga is over. After Saturday’s injury and subsequent surgery, the point’s been made.
So what if this and the knee problems that caused him to miss his rookie year were flukes. I’ve never liked the whole "I can watch a man and predict his whole medical future" conceit, but the fact remains that, three years after the 2007 Draft, Kevin Durant is fast becoming one of the league’s best players and Oden is struggling to stay on the court. He’s made encouraging progress when he plays, but compared to what Durant’s done—and more importantly, what he’s allowed the Thunder to do—it’s peanuts.
Players develop at different rates; Oden was more always more raw, and missing a rookie year is a bad thing. I’m talking more about Greg Oden’s relevance to the league and maybe even the Blazers. Without making any predictions about his future health, I’ll still stand here and say that Oden now recedes from the New NBA until definitively proven otherwise.
It’s easy to see why the Blazers and the league were excited about Oden playing a major role in the future of the sport. He has all the physical gifts in the world, was a great quote when in a good mood and could’ve possibly been … well, Andrew Bynum, back before everyone realized what Bynum might become. Durant has a sense of humor, but he doesn’t fill up a room like Oden. If the NBA always needs personalities, or at least players not afraid to have them, Greg Oden was a gift from above.
And those Blazers. The plan was simple: Roy was a stud, Aldridge unpredictable but indispensable. Plug Oden in there, and there would be a triumvirate of guard/inside-outside forward/orthodox big man might to contend for a thousand years. Roy keeps exceeding all expectations, Aldridge has yet to truly come around–even adjusted for flightiness—but Oden was supposed to be a rock.
Sadly, just as the NBA needs to accept that it can’t count on Oden down the road, or at least do so without it coming off as cynical, exploitative or shallow, Pritchard’s future-world can no longer depend on a solid, fully-formed Greg Oden. He’s been downgraded to a project, taking longer than expected, developing good habits to go with the bad ones. If a player doesn’t immediately assert himself, he gets self-conscious, and then his game starts to unravel—or at least the mind starts to wander. That’s what’s happened to Oden, why his confidence and overall state-of-mind have suffered, and why it just doesn’t make sense to depend on him. For his sake and the team’s.
The Bynum question is an important one. After all, the Lakers center has dealt with his fair share of injuries. We’ve yet to see a full season of Bynum at full-strength, and his extension this past summer came largely on the assumption that things would eventually work out.
But for better for worse, Bynum just didn’t come into the league saddled with these same expectations. His team didn’t need him to star, which is why his sudden meteoric rise was just plain fun, not "about time." And as a young, still-developing seven-footer not quite at home in his body or getting all that much time to come into his own with all his parts in order, Andrew Bynum might be lagging in the same way Oden is—the same kind of slowing, not level.
The difference, though, is that the Lakers already have talent. They have a philosophy. For the NBA and the Blazers, Oden was supposed to furnish both. To continue to put that on him is just plain unfair.
Poor guy, he was playing real good bball...
stupid thread.
Uh, no. That's crazy.
Yeps, out of the bad news this was an excellent one - no ligament or tendons damage. Had he ruptured his patellar tendon and I'd doubt we'd ever see Oden in a NBA court again (at least playing). An important factor still to be released is the type of fracture. Most probably it was a transverse fracture but the degree of displacement of fragments is something that may lead to a tougher healing process.
Why? I think it's very probable it does. Patella fractures not caused by a direct mechanism are generally associated with some kind of primary condition: infections, poor metabolism, ACL surgeries, degenerative diseases or, as it was probably the case here, some underlying kinematic problem which leads to chronic stress. Most probably Oden has some kind of biomechanical problem when contracting his quadriceps on a jumping motion. The Blazers should seize the opportunity to conduct an exhaustive kinematics analysis of Oden.
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