Comments on: Deja vu: Blazers thump Thunder 113-83

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:00:31 +0000

point taken – I’m just saying that us getting killed repeatedly (hopefully) motivates us to get better – hopefully the team is concentrating on getting better vs being upset over what people are saying . . .

By: Jax Raging Bile Duct

Jax Raging Bile Duct — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:44:30 +0000

@Kev I don't see how us playing poorly and getting obliterated twice in a row somehow makes Greg Oden a 7 foot version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Just because he makes us look like kindergarten girls doesn't mean much.

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:28:16 +0000

@Jax Raging Bile Duct

come on Jax – you’re better than that . . .

hey OKC fans, we just got killed by 30 – are we that sensitive to criticism??

torridjoe has a point – we did get killed in transition – it hurts to say, but its the truth – the Thunder players have play better . . .

By: Jax Raging Bile Duct

Jax Raging Bile Duct — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:35:58 +0000

It had to have been rockets. Surely so. I mean, for a minute I thought I was watching Dwight Howard play in an NBA game that counted for something, but then I realized it was just Greg Oden playing a game that only his team cared about.

But still, watching Greg dominate Robert Swift really got me to wondering why so many people think this Oden guy isn’t living up to all his hype. Not everyone can dominate Robert Swift. For reals yo. That wasn’t Mouhamed Sene out there, that was a serious competitor, someone who can really play ball, someone who is really legit, you know?

Folks got this fleet-footed Oden kid all wrong.

By: torridjoe

torridjoe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:56:27 +0000

Doesn’t move his feet well? What was propelling Oden down the floor ahead of all of the Thunder players–rockets? Because he was embarrassing OKC repeatedly on transition.

By: April

April — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:20:22 +0000

This ain’t much but if we could just have kept winning at least the team wouldn’t have ended up in the cellar of the NW Division. That would have been an improvement.

By: Anonymous1

Anonymous1 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:27:57 +0000

That defense played on Travis Outlaw was awesome, he looked like a future allstar.

By: Royce

Royce — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:40:19 +0000

@Ryan I didn't mean for it to sound like sour grapes. It was more along the lines that Oden doesn't seem to control his body very well. Nenad Krstic fouls all the time too, but that's because he'd have no chance on the glass if he didn't. Oden just seems to hook and bump and push more than most.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:34:55 +0000

“Greg Oden fouls all the time. He only gets called about half the time, but every rebound he’s pushing and grabbing.”

This sounds a little like sour grapes to me. All the good rebounders push and grab for position. Just because he’s stronger and bigger than 95% of NBA players doesn’t mean he’s fouling when he bodies someone for position.

“He’s not going to be the player everybody wants him to be just by dunking the ball.”

Shaq made a living off of good footwork, being big, and dunking the ball on people. He eventually incorporated a decent jump hook but that was a few years later. If all Oden does is work on his footwork and learn to not pick up cheap fouls, he’ll easily be a 15/12 guy (while leading the league in offensive rebound rate like he does right now) next year and a threat that you have to double team against.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:14:17 +0000

The only thing we can hope for at this point is the Clippers to be the Clippers. They want to lose (better chance at top pick) and are perhaps the best team in the league at snatching defeat from the claws of victory.