The Greg Oden Watch "OFFICIAL" Thread...

A vet minimum contract for 2 years. LOL

Riley may as well gamble, I guess, but Marcus Camby would have made a lot more sense at that price.

 

Did Camby even do anything with the Knicks last year? He seemed pretty washed up even with us, not saying i'd take Glass kneesden over him, but...

 

This is a zero risk, high reward opportunity for the champs. They won without Oden. They can win again without him. Everything he gives them is gravy, and the possible reward if he can even play 12 minutes a night is huge. And he costs them the minimum.

They can start him around 6 min in January, increase him to 12 min by the spring, maybe try to get 20 min out of him in the playoffs. If he is 60% of what he once was, they scored.

 

Signing Oden will cost the heat $2.6mil in lux tax. Along with his contract that is over $3 million. Heat payroll plus tax now at $101 million.

 

Indy, Chicago and Brooklyn improved. Miamis biggest weakness is lack of bigs. Signing oden is low risk, but they haven't done muchto shore the glaring weakness they have. Counting on oden for anything would be dumb.

 

This.

The Heat's backcourt is an old Wade and Chalmers. Not THAT impressive. You do realize that LeBron is in the frontcourt, right?

THIS IS THE KEY:

"I could be ready to go but it's still a work in progress," Oden said. "My minutes and amount of playing time and all that is going to have to be monitored."

This guy will never play. He's been "rehabbing" for years and is STILL a "work and progress." Find me a guy in the history of the game who missed four straight years of basketball and came back to be a difference maker. And he hasn't played much basketball in his life to begin with. One injury plagued year of college basketball and 82 games of foul proned NBA basketball. Oden will be in a suit during the playoffs. This doesn't sting at all. A guy with a drinking problem wants to be in Miami? Oh boy. He is doing this for Money, a free Ring, and Parties. That is it.

 

LeBron is in any court he wants to be. He is the only guy who I truly believe could be an All-Star at all 5 positions if he wanted to be.

 

Good point.

 

Magic Johnson and Turkoglu too

 

Magic maybe. Definitely not Hedo though.

 

Lebron plays or can play all five positions so you could quite possibly put him in the back court, no?

 

Grant Hill

Supposedly Sacramento, NOH and other teams were offering more than the vet minimum he accepted, in which case he isn't playing just for the money.

 

Sure. Well, Hedo wouldn't be an All Sta but he could play all 5 positions.

 

Grant Hill did not miss four straight years. And Grant Hill played several years at college and several All Star seasons in NBA before getting hurt. Big difference.

 

Grant Hill only missed one full season. He had other seasons where he played very little but he never just went four straight years without playing at all.

 

Boris Diaw could play all 5 positions better than Hedo.

Obviously neither could be an all-star at them. Kevin Garnett in his prime was pretty freaking amazing he could legitimately dominate playing center and SG. PG would have been the hardest but I think he played backup point fairly well in a few games.

 

Word FAMS

I hope G.O. wins a ring with the heat this year, I am of the opinion that the Blazers medical/training staff fucked him over from the get go, no pun intended.

 

Yes I agree about Diaw and KG. KG was so good in his prime. Kobe averaged 40 ppg for about a month and KG still beat him out for MVP. His lines that year (2003-04) were ridiculous.

 

He may win a ring but he probably won't have anything to do with it.

 

You should bring that! For real....