http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/27910101 I have no clue if this is behind/right on/ahead of schedule, but I recall someone here mentioning that there had been no updates on his progress. Thought I'd pass this along.
I just don't think the guy is going to pan out. He doesn't have the drive. I don't think he ever did. He's incredibly gifted, but it seems more and more apparent that he's going to be a bust. It's sad.
I truly hope for the best, but this is the exact vibe I get from the guy. I desperately hope I'm wrong.
imagine answering these same "when are you going to be back" type questions for the last 4 years. Trust me as someone who has been through a couple long rehabs, it's very tough on you mentally even if you don't have a bunch of pissy fans and press pestering you about things outside your control asking the same stupid questions again and again. All he can do is work at the things the medical staff puts out and take it one day at a time, and by every report he's been anything but a dog about it. STOMP
Pop-psychologist moms. I don't care if he hates basketball...as long as he works hard at rehab (as everyone has always said he does) and plays as well on the court as he has when healthy, he can care as little as he wants. Not that I really credit posters here with knowing whether Oden cares or not. But even if he doesn't, all I care about is what he does...not what he feels.
These weren't the standard questions. I really got a bad vibe from watching it and I hope it was just a bad mood kind of thing, but honestly from what I've read and heard it isn't. It's too bad.
Did you watch the interview? Only one question was like that and it was in a very nice way. All the other questions that had nothing to do with that he just seemed like a dick with how he answered.
I don't think he was being a dick at all and think you're being pretty ridiculous reading into things like that. Did you read my post? Having gone through a couple of long rehabs, I truly know what a "bummer" it can be... it's hard not to go crazy with the frustration & waiting. Two more months of leg squats, swimming and the fucking elliptical machine before he gets to finally hit the court. I'd guess at that point his attitude will ramp up. I know the promise of hitting the court kept me motivated throughout my rehabs but it wasn't until it became eminent that I really wanted to talk to others about things. You just want to get it over and get back to living your life. STOMP
Since we seemed to have some difference of opinion from people who watched the video, I thought i would watch it myself. In my opinion Oden is a lot like Andre Miller, doesn't really like talking with the media and is definitely not an enthusiastic rah, rah type guy. (that certainly hasn't affected Miller's game). Greg seemed like he is keeping up on the team and the rest of the league, so he seems like a guy who is still interested in basketball. Talking about his rehab, he seems realistic and just taking it one day at a time (his answer to what is his goal for the next two years: "to stay healthy"). I didn't get any kind of negative vibes from watching the interview, nothing that would make me think Greg doesn't care about basketball or that he isn't interested in his rehab.
Another observation from these interviews, specifically with LMA. He said that that was OK that they finished that road trip 2-2, and how difficult road trips are and especially when you need to stay 2 days in one city and how they were tired, etc. In my experience winners do not make excuses. I cannot imagine Kobe Bryant talking that way. I would like to see just one player on the team who was really angry and disappointed about the way they finished that trip. And I don't think this team can even think about ever being a championship team until somebody on this team develops that attitude or until they acquire somebody with that kind of attitude.
I would love to see that but I think a lot of what our players say are canned and fed to them by the couch's. The way the public sees the Blazers is still on the front of the front office minds and probably will be for years to come. If we get a player who is perceived to have attitude problems it would reflect on the team badly because of the jail blazers era. I on the otherhand would love to have that player who is outspoken about losing and playing bad to the media.
If you go back and watch the Greg that was a media darling before we drafted him, you can see a clear difference.
