Some interesting tidbits in here about Greg Oden, KP doing some work for the Pacers, Roy, etc.: http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=129583687627459900
I really do hope GO gets a multi-year offer from another team so we can match it and be done with the uncertainty. It would be a damn sight better than him signing the QO and us fretting all season whether or not he's going to leave.
Eggers speculates that Utah might make Greg an annoyingly big offer to get payback for our overtures to two of their players (Matthews and Milsap). I remember there has been talk of their point guard being unhappy with Utah management moves. This made me wonder how I (we) would feel about a trade of Oden for Williams -- assuming Utah thought they were going to lose Williams at the end of his deal. (I think he has one more year after this one.)
Were do I sign for utah to give up there franchise player and #2 pg in the league to us for a player who has yet to prove himself (although I really hope we keep oden and he turns into a monster)
I just looked up the Deron news. Wow. http://www.nba.com/2011/news/features/david_aldridge/01/24/morning.tip/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1 From David Aldridge.
I'm not too worried about Utah. They don't have the cap space to do anything more than a front-loaded MLE offer like the Blazers did with Matthews. And that's assuming that the new CBA provides for such an exception.
Good article for sure. I have to know though if Eggers is an idiot that doesn't know anything, or someone outside the Blazers that we can listen to before I can take anything he says seriously?
Eggers used to be the beat writer who covered the Blazers for the Oregonian. He's well connected and a solid source, IMO.
But Kenny Vance who used to be the beat writer for the Columbian isn't? Jason Quick is the current beat writer and knows less than the former one? I am just trying to figure out who to listen to
Let me get this straight. We're worried that we're going to lose a guy who has done nothing except sit on our bench for 4 years??? What's the problem--we don't want him sitting on somebody else's bench and getting paid millions?
Rhetorical question or trolling? You know the answer. Many fans are worried that after babysitting and rehabbing Oden for 4 years, he heals up and becomes a top 3 center in the league -- on another team.
It seems to me that it's a matter of calculated risk in going forward with Oden. Let's face it, guys who have his size and talent don't come along very often and the odds of the Blazers being the team to get a shot at another dominant center anytime soon are remote at best. So, you weigh that against the medical information available and try to determine how much money you're willing to bet that Greg will be able to contribute significant playing time over the life of his next contract. It's easy to be cynical on a message board and say that he's never going to amount to anything, but we don't have the inside information about his medical tests. It would truly suck to pass on re-signing Greg, only to have him develop into the player that we all thought he would be when we drafted him. For a team with the number one pick to miss out on both Durant and a healthy Oden would be a whiff of legendary proportions.
I get what you are saying. People need to stop worrying about who the writer works for, and look at their track record. I don't believe Quick because he is a numbskull. Eggers was actually a pro.
