hey, the Spurs were supposed to tank this year so they could start a new era...sorry boston..
5 turnovers tonight against the badgers
all traverling
wait they do not call traverling in the nba
but when they get physically with oden he is not effective
he needs to stay in school one more year
by the way I am a fan of his
Greg Oden 4-8 0-0 3-5 3 11
'87 1st pick in the draft - David Robinson
'97 1st pick in the draft - Tim Duncan
'07 1st pick in the draft - Greg Oden / Kevin Durant
Now what are they going to do? Tim's fire is dwindling and Parker and Ginobili are not picking up the torch. I know the Spurs are smart with their money, but they are going to have to make a huge free agent splash in the next year or two to match up with the Mavs.
LOL.....
Irregardless contains two negative elements and is considered a non-standard form of grammar.....
Btw, it means: regardless.
Using Irregardless to mean Regardless. Sounds like crap to me.......
Normalcy is considered standard today.
Grammar police out............
Oden will wait to decide if he stays or if he goes
By RUSTY MILLER, AP Sports Writer
March 2, 2007
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Amid all the talk about him going No. 1 in the NBA draft, Greg Oden is content being a college student and trying to make his 7-foot, 270-pound frame fit in with the rest of the student body at Ohio State.
He's taking history of rock and roll and sociology this quarter.
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"I'm doing pretty decent," he says, a grin playing at the corners of his mouth. "I don't have any failing grades, I know that."
Ask him about what he's learned in the Music 252 class, and he turns into a typical 19-year-old -- albeit one who could pass for twice that.
"We went from blues, and now we're at nouveau," he said earlier this week during the top-ranked Buckeyes' preparations for the regular-season finale Saturday at Michigan. "The crazy thing is, I go to movies a lot. And now that I've had that class, it's like every movie has an old song. I'm sitting there watching a movie and I'm like, 'THAT'S the Andrews Sisters from 1951!"'
It's still unclear whether he'll spend more than one year in a scarlet-and-gray uniform.
His friend and teammate since the sixth grade, fellow freshman Mike Conley Jr., looks at Oden standing 50 feet away, his head, shoulders and armpits above a thicket of microphones. Oden's telling a story, a group of reporters is laughing and the big guy seems light years away from muscling Shaquille O'Neal or trading elbows with Dirk Nowitzki. He looks like an extremely tall but typical college kid.
"He's definitely enjoying himself," said Conley, Ohio State's standout point guard. "He's having a good time. People aren't bothering him. He's trying to be normal."
Oden said he won't decide on whether he'll jump to the NBA until after the season. Most experts had him as a shoo-in to be the No. 1 pick a year ago, before the league made it mandatory that high school grads spend at least a year in college before turning pro.
One nod of his head and he'll become an instant multimillionaire, yet Oden has given no indication that he'll make the Boston Celtics, Memphis Grizzlies or some other lucky loser very, very happy.
No one knows which way Oden is leaning right now.
Some have called Oden the best American-born big man in a generation. His own worst critic, Oden doesn't agree. For one thing, he still does not have full use of his right hand after surgery to repair a torn tendon in his wrist last summer.
Oden, who missed the first seven games, wears an elastic guard on it and shoots free throws with his off (left) hand because he can't flex it enough.
"There's some things I can't do just because I don't have full motion in my wrist," he said. "And I just know that I can do better out there. You know you have sacrifice some things for the good of the team."
The Buckeyes (26-3, 14-1 Big Ten) have already locked up the conference's regular season le despite graduating four starters from last year's team that accomplished the same feat. They did it with a wholesale transfusion of new blood -- four standout freshmen and a junior-college transfer dubbed the "Thad Five" after head coach Thad Matta.
Oden has led the Buckeyes to the top of The Associated Press poll for the first time in 45 years. He knows he can be even better, a fact that must send shivers down the spines of his future compe ion.
"All I know is I'm doing what I can," said Oden, averaging 15.3 points, 9.5 rebounds and four blocked shots. "I know I have a lot more to improve on. I want to be a better player. But right now I'm doing as much as I can to help my team win."
Matta says he and Oden have not discussed next year, and that they've had enough to deal with getting through a long season. There's time to weigh the pros and cons of the pros later.
"We'll talk about it after the season," Matta said. "That's the one thing that people I don't think at times let him do -- just be a college kid. He always has to answer questions like that. And I honestly don't think he's thought about it."
On topic: Oden will be great - even if he's not an outstanding offensive player (though I think he'll be a 20+ ppg guy), you can place 12+ rebounds and 3+ blocks next to his name in every one of his first ten NBA seasons at least.
Off topic: Irregardless is a word. I'm looking at it right now in my Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
call out again
you must be bored
Clutch find.
Nice dust-off, mookie. Lolz
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You guys just watch what happens this season. Oden is so much better than Durant it's ridiculous.
Oh, but apparently Durant can bench 180 now!
I love watching big men, but Oden hasn't done a damn thing to deserve that sort of comparison. Much less win it.
Oh really? He's only a key cog on what was a 54 win team. How's OKC doing?
They had their 07 lottery pick play in 154 games the past two seasons.
you mean as much better as Spanoulis is better than Tony?
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