Greg Oden's last 5 Games

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Shooter said:
Why the hell do you think Oden was so depressed and moody earlier in the season? He clearly wasn't meeting his OWN expectations, much less those of the organization. His teammates were also disappointed in his play; some were even reluctant to pass him the ball because he was playing so poorly. McMillan told a reporter that " . . . there are certain things you can be patient on, but other things if you continue to see the same mistakes then you have to discipline him in the sense of calling him out and sitting him down.”

The point is, Oden started his career off even more slowly than many people expected, including himself, his teammates, and his coach. You can keep pretending that you were wiser than everyone else, and you never had any doubts about him, but you'd only be fooling yourself.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=jy-odenblazers010509&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
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I think that the fact that Oden wasn't living up to his own expectations should be evidence enough that everyone's expectations were too high, including his own. You can't tell me that he wasn't going out there and trying to be his best, but he was frustrated by his lack of explosion, lack of stamina, and lack of a good feel for the NBA game. Your quote from Nate is only evidence that Greg is young and needs to learn good fundamentals now.

I can honestly say I had absolutely no doubt that, barring another injury, Greg would get to the level that he's been playing at now, and I didn't expect quite this much till the end of the season, or maybe even the beginning of next season. Maybe I was just setting my self up for worst case scenario. But the people I have a problem with are the ones that started complaining after his 5th and 10th and 15th game that he was a bust, that they had doubts that he would ever amount to anything were just so ridiculous.
 
But the people I have a problem with are the ones that started complaining after his 5th and 10th and 15th game that he was a bust, that they had doubts that he would ever amount to anything were just so ridiculous.
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And they are suddenly his biggest fans now, and always knew he would be ok. It happened all over the internet, from OLive, to BEdge, to here to ESPN, and its sad. What is more sad is that he will most likely continue to be an inconsistant rookie and those people will start saying the same thing after 3-4 bad games. Oh well...

Same thing pissed me off with someone like Colin Cowherd saying that he will never be an good offensive player (or something like that) like 2 or 3 games into his NBA career.
 
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