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oden may be better then kg
right now he is NOT
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oden may be better then kg
right now he is NOT
stockton and malone, now i know your high
Yes he is.
Well by the time Oden and you guys are ready to seriously contend Timmy will probably be all done so the Spurs will not be anybody you need to talk smack too.
I don't miss the days when the draft lottery was the peak of our season.
Do you live in Portland tlong? People must be going crazy there today... good times for Blazers fans!
when I saw him play against the bagers during the regular season
he sucked(if you played him phyiscal )
I posted it here at the time
he has never played without the same point guard ever
lets see how fast he can adabt to play at a higher level then ncaa before calling him better then kg right now
This board has done strange things to me.
There I am last night doing a million things before tip off, with the lottery on in the backround. They get to the last 3 and what goes through my mind? "tlong is going to be thrilled if the Blazers get this pick."
I don't know tlong! I spend way too much time here!
Anyway, congrats tlong. It's a big pick.
well i woulnd't count my chickens yet, could have another Michael Olowokandi on your hand's
You have not made the playoffs the last number of years now all of the sudden you guys are le contenders. Lets say Oden is dominant right away, so was Shaq and Hakeem and Ewing and Robinson and Malone and Barkely, none of those guys won les right away and some never did.
I hope he is the real deal
portland deserves it the fans deserve it with the crap they had in the past
portland is going to be like the jazz
they might win in the first round
gain some experience and be tougher the followering year
it takes time to gel
some good bounces to win a le
Oden already looks 85 years old
I'd rather the Spurs be slapping LA, their en led fans and Jack, but if not the Spurs let it be Portland, just as long as LA keeps getting slapped for years to come.
LOL, same with me.
And I don't even like tlong!
I have a couple friends that live in Portland and they tell me that the Blazer fans are awesome. Very loyal and love their team... the only pro-sport in town - similar to San Antonio. It's nice to see them luck out and get this pick.
Portland is not boring. Its a very progressive city. Very green
Blazers will get better but cannot think of a worse place to send a nice young man like either of the top two out there.
Congratulations to tlongII... you have an increadible team on paper:
PG: Jarret Jack - Sergio Rodriguez - Fred Jones
SG: Brandon Roy - Ime Udoka - Stephen Graham
SF: Martell Webster - Travis Outlaw -
PF: Lamarcus Aldrige - Zach Randolph - Raef Lafrentz
C: Greg Oden - Joel Pryzbilla - Jamaal Magloire
This is an impressive team on paper!
And no, there was no error in the lineup... IMHO, Zach Randolph is very overrated. His contracts is too big, he is a bad defender, and he may produce chemistry/discipline problems with the young core of players. If I were in the Blazers FO, I would try to get something for him, perhaps offer a trade to Chicago for Luol Deng + filler to see if they agree, or something of this sort.
Gee, this team really looks impressive! If you could get a long 3 alas Prince or Deng, the Blazers could have enough talent to be the best offensive and defensive team in the league.
Portland has all the pieces... they need to get rid of Zach, preach D, build a no egos mentality team, gain experience, and have some luck. Depending on how the young guys evolve, they could be in the playoffs in 1-2 seasons, and be a contender in 4-5 years once they get more experience.
We'll be in the playoffs next year. There is no doubt in my mind about that. Why don't you have Darius Miles listed?
Most people don't.
, I forgot... perhaps because the Randolph - Miles combo is "too explosive" for my taste. Still, you have a lot of talent on paper.We'll be in the playoffs next year. There is no doubt in my mind about that. Why don't you have Darius Miles listed?
Henry Abbott, who's a Jailblazer fan, is making a case for Durant:
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/...Greg-Oden.html
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From David Thorpe's ESPN chat this morning:Willie (Portland, OR): David, I think Pritchard will surprise everyone and take Durant? Is this a bad move?I'm going to be writing about this for the next six weeks. Watching video, obsessing, wondering. But in the meantime, alarm bells are going off every time I hear someone say they know Portland will draft Greg Oden. There are a lot of angles here -- too many to discuss right now -- but some of the major points:
David Thorpe: Chad Ford says it is Oden all the way. Personally, I go KD and sleep very easily.
Paul (Portland, OR): David, love your insight. So I assume when you say that you'd pick Durant and sleep easy, it's because you have no doubt about his potential. Whereas Oden, even with his beast-ness, is more of a wait-and-see?
Now look, I'm no dummy. I know that it's GREG ODEN ... the star of what has long been called THE GREG ODEN DRAFT. The guy teams have been scheming for for two years. Oden may well be the guy. And if that's the pick? I'll cheer, and start cooking up BS reasons why ESPN has to send me for long weekends to Portland next season, because I trust Kevin Pritchard.
- Greg Oden, bless him, is a well-balanced individual. Kevin Durant is not. Multiple sources, who are in position to know, assure me that morning noon and night all Durant wants to do is dominate on the basketball court. I think it's entirely possible that distinction, multiplied over five years, makes Durant the more important player. (And don't give me all that stuff about big men ... Durant can be a big man too. He outrebounded Oden handily in college, and can defend a lot of bigs.) So, I hope my kids grow up to be happy like Greg Oden. But I hope my Trail Blazers hitch their wagon to Kevin Durant.
- As Thorpe suggested to me on the phone, LaMarcus Aldridge is an "A" player who deserves a big chunk of the paint and the ball. Playing next to Greg Oden, who is at his best beasting around the lane like Shaquille O'Neal, would turn Aldridge into either a backup center, or a face-up power forward, and I think the Blazers expect more than that of him. And, in the new faster-paced NBA, LaMarcus Aldridge and Joel Pryzbilla is hardly a terrible center combination, especially alongside 6-10, long-armed Kevin Durant who can guard most power forwards. In that scenario, Portland just needs to find some veteran glue guys to play defense on the perimeter and hit open shots. (Jason Kapono, Matt Carroll, etc.)
- If you have listened to Kevin Pritchard over the last couple of years, he has made clear that he values "heartbeat" almost above all else. From what I have heard, Durant wins that column easily -- not because Oden has little heartbeat (he almost won a freaking NCAA le as a freshman) but because Durant has so much. Pritchard has also spent the last several hours telling everyone who'll listen that it's up in the air who he'll draft.
- The biggest worry of all, which is largely unknowable, is who's going to get injured? No real way to know, except Oden has a history of that and Durant does not.
- The closer people are to Kevin Pritchard, the more they seem to believe Durant is a possibility. The Oregonian's Jason Quick wrote: "Personally, I have always felt Pritchard is a Durant guy. He's never said it directly, but in passing conversations throughout the year, I got that drift." Quick is echoing what two other Portland-based sources have told me, too.
But let's not just turn off our brains because Greg Oden's a center. This is a marvelous, and tough, decision Portland has to make.
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