Kevin Durant revisited

[Fez Hammersticks]

You knew it was coming.

Oden was the better prospect.

I'd take a productive Kevin Durant over a suit wearing Greg Oden.

These injuries are more than a coincidence. These injuries are a pattern.

Shoulda' coulda' woulda'

 

[THE HCP]

Fuck this! Here we go with this shit! Gimme a break!

 

[Nikolokolus]

Fuck this! Here we go with this shit! Gimme a break!

You took the words right out of my mouth (er fingers).

Fuck Kevin Durant and fuck this thread.

 

[Tortimer]

No we should still take Oden. I thought about this last night when I couldn't sleep. If we knew Oden was going to be injured like this then maybe we pick Durant but even then probably not. I would always pick the best prospect especially if he is a center or a PG over a SF. Durant might end up being one of the top 3-4 SF's but there usually at least 3-4 good SF's in every draft. It is lucky if there is a real good center in a 5 drafts. People are going to say we should have drafted Durant but they are wrong.

 

[MAS RipCity]

Kevin Durant doesn't make this team better. With him, we're still a jump shooting team who has trouble scoring in the paint and rebounding. Oden was our remedy.

 

[BrianFromWA]

You took the words right out of my mouth (er fingers).

Fuck Kevin Durant and fuck this thread.

check

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Generally, you don't take wing players over Centers.

In this case, you take the wing player over a Center who cannot stay healthy to save his life.

This is a business and hindsight 20/20 is always convenient, but picking Greg Oden over Kevin Durant is turning out to be a horrible and massive business mistake.

 

[alex42083]

I'd still take the big guy 100 times over again.

 

[Tortimer]

Generally, you don't take wing players over Centers.

In this case, you take the wing player over a Center who cannot stay healthy to save his life.

This is a business and hindsight 20/20 is always convenient, but picking Greg Oden over Kevin Durant is turning out to be a horrible and massive business mistake.

I'm not even that high on Durant after watching him in the NBA so far. He has had his good games but far to few for my liking. He is just a volume shooter that IMO isn't any better then a couple other SF's in the last few drafts but picked way to high. If we had to pick some one other then Oden I would go with Horford not Durant.

 

[crowTrobot]

batum may already be a better rebounder and defender than durant.

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

I'm not sure. I still take Oden, but seriously, this injury is pissing me the FUCK off.

 

[<-=*PdX*=->]

OMG! You all are dumb as shit for jumping ship. /yourself

 

[Tortimer]

OMG! You all are dumb as shit for jumping ship. /yourself

Hell there is only one or two even wanting to take Durant now after all the Oden injuries. I don't think many have jumped ship from reading this thread.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I'm not jumping ship. This isn't just a sprained foot. This is a pattern that Oden is going to have an injury plagued career.

Let's not forget a pre-draft MRI showed he also had a bulging disc in his back.

 

[MaxaMillion711]

you do realize how silly it is to make this thread. sheesh. its so easy to saw what someone should have done after it happened.

 

[Sedatedfork]

Is Durant even better than Horford? Durant has not impressed me at all.

 

[Tortimer]

you do realize how silly it is to make this thread. sheesh. its so easy to saw what someone should have done after it happened.

If you want to talk about should of's - we should have drafted C.Paul instead of Webster. Now that is a huge mistake in a draft but every team has similar mistakes. I bet we have as good of track record in the last 5-6 years as anybody at drafting the best player.

 

[Mouse]

arrgh!! i wanted Durant the whole time

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I was on the Durant band wagon for this very reason until the very end. But I decided that a dominant center is fairly rare and with one a team can go far.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I hope Greg can come back and show he is worthy of all the hype. It's a wait and see type of thing. Kevin Durant is a good player, he's only 20! His skill set at 6'11" is going to be scary once he bulks up.

 

[Tortimer]

I hope Greg can come back and show he is worthy of all the hype. It's a wait and see type of thing. Kevin Durant is a good player, he's only 20! His skill set at 6'11" is going to be scary once he bulks up.

I don't think so IMO he is overrated. He will be a good SF but nothing like LeBron or Kobe or MJ.

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

I still believe a confident Martell can be just as offensively good as Durant. The thing is, we don't need the shots to go around really.

I'll take Martell + injured Oden > Durant anyday.

 

[Mouse]

I don't think so IMO he is overrated. He will be a good SF but nothing like LeBron or Kobe or MJ.

that's better than what the Blazers picked

 

[alex42083]

hahaha... for Durant fans..

 

[Tortimer]

that's better than what the Blazers picked

Maybe but we will have to wait and see. IMO you have to take a chance that the player like Oden is going to be healthy. It seemd like KP did his homework on Oden's health but it hasn't work out that way yet. Durant wouldn't mean anything to us and Okc isn't going to be any good for a long time until they get a real good big man.

 

[BlazersBlood]

You knew it was coming.

Oden was the better prospect.

I'd take a productive Kevin Durant over a suit wearing Greg Oden.

These injuries are more than a coincidence. These injuries are a pattern.

Shoulda' coulda' woulda'

And we shoulda dropped a nuke on Russia to make them give us Sabonis in his prime so Drexler, Porter, Kersey, Sabonis, & Buck could have dominated from '89-'95.

Nobody could have predicted what has happened to Oden.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Chances are Durant wont stay in OKC longterm...

 

[The_Lillard_King]

No we should still take Oden. I thought about this last night when I couldn't sleep. If we knew Oden was going to be injured like this then maybe we pick Durant but even then probably not. I would always pick the best prospect especially if he is a center or a PG over a SF. Durant might end up being one of the top 3-4 SF's but there usually at least 3-4 good SF's in every draft. It is lucky if there is a real good center in a 5 drafts. People are going to say we should have drafted Durant but they are wrong.

There are article that the Blazers should have had concerns about Oden's health.

Why is everyone so opposed to the idea of wondering if the Blazers made a mistake. It's not saying fire KP or fuck the Blazer organization . . . it is wondering if the Blazers made the right choice . . . aren't fans allowed to question that?

 

[oldmangrouch]

Is that a graveyard over there, and is that desperate whistling I hear?

Yes, hindsight is always 20/20....but when you have the #1 pick in the draft, you should exercise due diligence. You don't draft a gimp, regardless of his hypothetical upside.

You can badmouth Durant (or Horford) all you like - but at this point neither of their respective teams would trade them for Greg Penknife (ie wimpier than a Bowie).

KP screwed up. Get over it and move on. You can't let the team, or the fanbase, be held hostage by one guy. Just hope KP has a "plan B"!

 

[Tortimer]

Plus it doesn't do any good to whine about it now. We made our choice and that's what we have to live with. There are mistakes made in every draft. I'm not saying Oden is a mistake. I hate all these Oden injuries as much as the next guy but what are we going to do just wishing and a hoping isn't going to do any good. Get over Durant he isn't the answer.