Quick: Oden probably won't play this season

[BlazerCaravan]

You think I'm Chad Buchanan?

He believes it in his heart, and you can't prove otherwise!

 

[magnifier661]

You think I'm Chad Buchanan?

LOL no... My sarcasm is bad?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

You think I'm Chad Buchanan?

 

[Nikolokolus]

LOL no... My sarcasm is bad?

Is this meant to be a statement or a question?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

"Two men say they're Jesus... one of them must be wrong."

 

[PapaG]

Devon Sawa/SLC shoutout. Well done!

 

[oldmangrouch]

BTW, did you hear that Zach Randolph has a torn MCL...and is projected to be back in 6-8 WEEKS.

It wasn't that long ago that a torn MCL was a season ending/career threatening injury. It is amazing what the combination of modern medicine and a motivated patient can achieve.

 

[Shooter]

Look: if the organization figured Greg isn't going to play again, why pay him ANYTHING? Why not just let him go?

You really can't figure this out? Management has a huge vested interest in Oden, seeing as he is a #1 pick and the supposed "savior" of the franchise. They are hoping like mad that he's going to make a comeback one of these days and make them all look like geniuses for drafting him. In short, they have too much invested in him to give up just yet.

They can dream as much as they want to, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to.

 

[RR7]

You really can't figure this out? Management has a huge vested interest in Oden, seeing as he is a #1 pick and the supposed "savior" of the franchise. They are hoping like mad that he's going to make a comeback one of these days and make them all look like geniuses for drafting him. In short, they have too much invested in him to give up just yet.

They can dream as much as they want to, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to.

yes, but that has nothing to do with what rasta said in his response.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I agree with your post, completetly. Guess I'm still confused as to how that article was translated into exactly what the title indicates.... Did I miss something in the article?

I saw that. But it still sounds more like Quick being Quick, than stating an actual fact (and the fact that Quick said it means it more than likely NOT fact - I even called Coach Iavaroni and he confirms I shouldn't believe JQ).

 

[Boob-No-More]

This sounds like unsupported idle speculation by Quick. He doesn't cite any sources, not even Canzano's usual "an unnamed source cloes to the team" (i.e. himself).

BNM

 

[jlprk]

It's a blog, not a newspaper article. He can stuff it full of all the personal opinions he wants, just like a message board. It's up to the reader to try to distinguish.

Good old Oregonian, with all the excuses for poor journalism.

 

[C_note]

C'mon....Kingspeed you took that quote completely out of context to make this thread title.

I read the paragraph and immediately realized that Quick was just stating his opinion and using pure conjecture.

Not trying to defend the guy, but this thread is blown way out of proportion.

 

[Sinobas]

I'd be interested to find out one day what is wrong with Greg Oden. Why does he keep getting all these injuries?

 

[blazerboy30]

You really can't figure this out? Management has a huge vested interest in Oden, seeing as he is a #1 pick and the supposed "savior" of the franchise. They are hoping like mad that he's going to make a comeback one of these days and make them all look like geniuses for drafting him. In short, they have too much invested in him to give up just yet.

They can dream as much as they want to, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to.

You don't understand the concept of "sunk cost" do you?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Do you think a growth spurt had a little something to do with his knees constantly being frail?

I remember an interview during his rookie year where he told Canzano that he went from 6'11" to 6'11.5" during that M-fracture year.

I wonder if MB or Rice could get his most recent measurements. I know they measure players every fall during camp.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Maybe Oden is 7' 2" now and is just waiting for tomorrow's Laker game to come back and beat the hell out of Bynum.

 

[Draco]

BTW, did you hear that Zach Randolph has a torn MCL...and is projected to be back in 6-8 WEEKS.

It wasn't that long ago that a torn MCL was a season ending/career threatening injury. It is amazing what the combination of modern medicine and a motivated patient can achieve.

Zach has a "slight" MCL tear, which is also called an MCL sprain. He does not have a completely torn MCL. He does not need surgery. There is no magic modern treatment or special motivation going on, this is an injury football players routinely come back from with a couple weeks of rest.

 

[Nikolokolus]

You don't understand the concept of "sunk cost" do you?

The essence of the term simply means individuals should not let past losses affect a current investment decision; that only the current merits and drawbacks should be weighed. Based on the length and value of Oden's 1 year deal I'm mostly guessing the Blazers have decided to go in another direction, but threw out a flyer on Oden as sort of a "just in case" side-bet. Is that what you are getting at?