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Wow that video was awesome. It gave me goosebumps seeing him and Durant on the same team.
 
westnob said:
I love the thumbnail for this
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Here ya go.

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MrSelfDestruct said:
Here ya go.

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now i need directions how to make that my picture on here... (nevermind =] ) also Why is the blazer's website so hard to navigate? I tried to find more videos like the ones posted here, and the most recent thing i saw was RipCity Uprise BS from pre-playoffs
 
Here's the same video posted by CTC on Youtube.

[video=youtube;DbP2bRnbpxQ]

The normal dimensions make GO look a lot slimmer.
 
They scrimmaged at Valley High School? I think I see Slater and Preppy in the corner by the bleachers dumping itching powder into the Bulldog mascot costume.
 
BlazersBlood said:
Wow that video was awesome. It gave me goosebumps seeing him and Durant on the same team.
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i just was able to view it. I only had time to post it before. His quickness is what it was at OSU. If this is what we can look forward to next season, we will be contenders!
 
WOW, I just watched that vid twice in a row and loved every second of it.

Greg is looking like a beast on D. He is going to make the Blazers feared from here on out!
 
yuyuza1 said:
Seriously, dude goes on some road trips with the team, travels to Europe to visit Rudy/Serg/Nic, has access to the team USA practices, writes about the team for a living, and has all of Blazer nation hitting refresh on his twitter page.

Makes my work/education seem meaningless.
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I'm sure your job is cool too brother! What do you do?
 
"Defense is why the U.S. was effective in the Olympics," said Triano. "Defense is the great equalizer. They got in [opponents] faces and were aggressive."

The players quickly took Triano's words to heart. Moments after the break in the action, Devin Harris launched himself into the air to chase down a loose ball. Greg Oden leveled Derrick Rose on his way to the rim and Andre Iguodala bounced his body off the floor in an effort to save the ball from going out of bounds.
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yuyuza1 said:
Here's the same video posted by CTC on Youtube.



The normal dimensions make GO look a lot slimmer.
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Thats actually my youtube :)

the blazers.com player is so annoying lol, i couldnt even pick and choose where i wanted to watch from!
 
BlazersBlood said:
Wow that video was awesome. It gave me goosebumps seeing him and Durant on the same team.
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Yeah, they've got some great respect for one another being the top two picks of the 07 draft. It'd be awesome if we could have both those guys. CP3/Roy/Durant/LA/Oden. Haha.

But Greg looked great, was moving well and had a little more vertical. Good to see! Best news of the entire offseason!
 
alex42083 said:
But Greg looked great, was moving well and had a little more vertical. Good to see! Best news of the entire offseason!
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though it's been expected by many here, this development would have trumped landing either Hedo or Millsap. Portland isn't going to become an elite team without him stepping up

Casey on 95.5 right now...

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Please update what he's saying, STOMP, I am unable to listen at work. Thank you.
 
said he was the 2nd best player of the first day (after Durant) but that the drills they were running favored guard play. Blocked and contested everything inside. Said his progress has been steady since the offseason started as he continues to work with Bayno and get further from MF... getting back to SF-esk mobility/bounce. Sounded very matter of fact as he slathered on the superlatives.

His next round of Tweets should start at 12:30 or so

here's an ESPN recap with a Greg mention

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/olybb/news/story?id=4352887

STOMP
 
Thanks for the recap. Appreciated!
 
I watched the video, and came away feeling very happy for Greg, I think things might turn around for him this year. He's a good kid, he deserves better than what he has got so far.
 
Screw Rudy at PG, You see the way Greg moves down the floor! Takes him about five steps to get across the court.
 
Minstrel said:
Video reminds me of former All-Star Jamaal Magloire.
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No.

Magloire never flashed to the perimeter on defense. In fact, he was never that much of a defender at all.

Also, he couldn't run up the floor very well.

Usually you say things that make some sort of sense.

This was not one of them.
 
LittleAlex said:
Usually you say things that make some sort of sense.

This was not one of them.
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Ever wonder why? He DOES pretty much always make sense. Unless he's joking.

(On a sidenote, anyone else has a couple of posters they pretty much always agree/disagree with? It's weird... saves me a lot of posting though.)
 
LittleAlex said:
No.

Magloire never flashed to the perimeter on defense. In fact, he was never that much of a defender at all.

Also, he couldn't run up the floor very well.

Usually you say things that make some sort of sense.

This was not one of them.
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Also, Magloire had a difficult time detecting subtle humor.
 
his attitude looked great, but apparently i'm the only one here that wasn't otherwise overwhelmed by what he did in the video. mobility and reaction time may be slightly improved but i didn't see anything that really challenged him much in that regard, vertical look more or less the same, blocks seemed to have a lot of contact and probably would have been fouls in real games last year (hopefully he will get more ref respect this year).
 
axs88 said:
Ever wonder why? He DOES pretty much always make sense. Unless he's joking.

(On a sidenote, anyone else has a couple of posters they pretty much always agree/disagree with? It's weird... saves me a lot of posting though.)
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Absolutely. A few folks I always agree with and a couple of folks I don't think I've ever agreed with. What I find amusing is that Maxiep and I don't see eye to eye at all in the OT forum, but I agree with darn near everything Maxiep has posted about the Blazers. It's funny.
 
crowTrobot said:
his attitude looked great, but apparently i'm the only one here that wasn't otherwise overwhelmed by what he did in the video. mobility and reaction time may be slightly improved but i didn't see anything that really challenged him much in that regard, vertical look more or less the same, blocks seemed to have a lot of contact and probably would have been fouls in real games last year (hopefully he will get more ref respect this year).
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One of the biggest differences I noticed was the fluidity and ease of his movements. He didn't look like everything took a huge effort like it did last year. I was also impressed in the amount of ground covered in little time. There was one instance where he recovered from the three point line to the basket in what seemed like one step that made me say "wow."
 
crowTrobot said:
his attitude looked great, but apparently i'm the only one here that wasn't otherwise overwhelmed by what he did in the video. mobility and reaction time may be slightly improved but i didn't see anything that really challenged him much in that regard, vertical look more or less the same, blocks seemed to have a lot of contact and probably would have been fouls in real games last year (hopefully he will get more ref respect this year).
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It's not supposed to look like one of those normal youtube highlight videos where a scrub can look like an MVP.
It's just subtle things like his ability to go out and show on the pick and roll and get back to his guy quickly, his presence in the middle didn't allow anyone to go inside. I know it's a short snippet, but you didn't see anyone taking it inside on that squad Greg was on.
It allowed the perimeter guys to be more aggressive on defense, and take more gambles.

I think his vertical looked a lot better, too. Greg's far from perfect, but it was an encouraging sign with the caliber of players he was up against.
 
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