Comments on: Greg Oden has micro fracture surgery; likely to miss 2007-08 NBA season http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=217 Basketball blog from InsideHoops.com Sun, 19 May 2013 21:27:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: G-Moon http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=217#comment-826 G-Moon Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:51:44 +0000 http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=217#comment-826 Well first of all H, Stern has not ruined the league...Oden would have hurt whatever team drafted him, at least for this upcoming season. Everyone seems to look at the impact on players, but no one looks at what happens to the teams and the fans. Keeping players in college for at least a year matures and develops player so that they are ready to put on a show for the fans in the NBA. The more time they have to mature, the less chance that they are a fluke. It's just that we have been blessed with an excellent crop of high school to pros players lately like lebron that we don't see the flukes like Darko. A year has also helped several players to mature and prove themselves to teams (Carmelo, Bosh) It's not like getting to the NBA, signing a big deal, then showing that you're really a washed up 19 year old and walking away with a bag of cash is really a good thing for the league. That hurts teams AND fans and THAT will ruin the league. As for Oden, I have one question, before the draft, teams run physicals....why didn't Portland discover this before? I also heard rumors that he had a bulging disc and bad knees...how can that escape a physical? He had way too many problems to be cleared from a physical examination. If he was a train wreck, didn't anybody see this? In reality, I think portland had some hints, but because of all the hype, they felt forced to take him. The possibility that in the long run, he might be like an abdul-jabbar or a bill russel. Passing on him, his injury, and his potential was perhaps Paul Allen's greatest fear...like passing on Michael Jordan to get Sam Bowie in'84. Unfortunately, it might still end up like '84 if Oden ends up to be a mediiocre big man saddled by injuries like Bowie or Pervis Ellison and Durant becomes a versatile swing man like (dare I say it?). Seattle was the real winner in the draft. They had no pressure. They just pick up "the other guy". No expectations, no sweat! Nice and Easy for the Sonics. Well first of all H, Stern has not ruined the league…Oden would have hurt whatever team drafted him, at least for this upcoming season. Everyone seems to look at the impact on players, but no one looks at what happens to the teams and the fans. Keeping players in college for at least a year matures and develops player so that they are ready to put on a show for the fans in the NBA. The more time they have to mature, the less chance that they are a fluke. It’s just that we have been blessed with an excellent crop of high school to pros players lately like lebron that we don’t see the flukes like Darko. A year has also helped several players to mature and prove themselves to teams (Carmelo, Bosh) It’s not like getting to the NBA, signing a big deal, then showing that you’re really a washed up 19 year old and walking away with a bag of cash is really a good thing for the league. That hurts teams AND fans and THAT will ruin the league.

As for Oden, I have one question, before the draft, teams run physicals….why didn’t Portland discover this before? I also heard rumors that he had a bulging disc and bad knees…how can that escape a physical? He had way too many problems to be cleared from a physical examination. If he was a train wreck, didn’t anybody see this? In reality, I think portland had some hints, but because of all the hype, they felt forced to take him. The possibility that in the long run, he might be like an abdul-jabbar or a bill russel. Passing on him, his injury, and his potential was perhaps Paul Allen’s greatest fear…like passing on Michael Jordan to get Sam Bowie in’84. Unfortunately, it might still end up like ‘84 if Oden ends up to be a mediiocre big man saddled by injuries like Bowie or Pervis Ellison and Durant becomes a versatile swing man like (dare I say it?). Seattle was the real winner in the draft. They had no pressure. They just pick up “the other guy”. No expectations, no sweat! Nice and Easy for the Sonics.

]]> By: acerunner http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=217#comment-802 acerunner Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:13:15 +0000 http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=217#comment-802 I'm not sure the NBA wanted to find out about Oden. From everything I've watched regarding him from high school to now, no one wanted to see what was always there. I mean it isn't like one leg being an inch longer than the other happened "after" they drafted him. In fact there are stories now saying that Oden has other physical problems such as bad ankles and a bulging disc in his back. If you look at game tape you will see that Oden was always clearly winded during games. The fact that he had a tonsillectomy could bear out that his stamina, or lack there of, was the product of an already severly challenged immune system. Think about it. How many 19 year old athletes do you know of that have no stamina, a weak immune system, a bum knee, a bulging disc and no tonscils? Oden was a train wreck that no one wanted to see coming. I’m not sure the NBA wanted to find out about Oden. From everything I’ve watched regarding him from high school to now, no one wanted to see what was always there. I mean it isn’t like one leg being an inch longer than the other happened “after” they drafted him. In fact there are stories now saying that Oden has other physical problems such as bad ankles and a bulging disc in his back. If you look at game tape you will see that Oden was always clearly winded during games. The fact that he had a tonsillectomy could bear out that his stamina, or lack there of, was the product of an already severly challenged immune system. Think about it. How many 19 year old athletes do you know of that have no stamina, a weak immune system, a bum knee, a bulging disc and no tonscils? Oden was a train wreck that no one wanted to see coming.

]]> By: H. http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=217#comment-743 H. Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:13:31 +0000 http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=217#comment-743 If Stern didn't put in the "one year" rule and Oden was already in the NBA, perhaps they would have found it sooner, or the injury could hav been prevented. Reason #4080 why Stern has ruined the league. If Stern didn’t put in the “one year” rule and Oden was already in the NBA, perhaps they would have found it sooner, or the injury could hav been prevented. Reason #4080 why Stern has ruined the league.

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