<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Kendrick Perkins was home in front of a television with teammates Tony Allen and Al Jefferson [stats] when the ping-pong balls bounced in Portland?s favor two months ago. ?I thought we were going to get at least No. 2,? he said. ?But when it went down like that, I just said, ?All right, let?s go.? ? Perkins seems determined to prove the C?s already have a good big man - himself. ?Going through the season, it was frustrating for us to keep hearing about how guys who were in college were going to come in and change our team,? he said. ?Guys can be good college players, but that?s not on the same level as the NBA. I mean, you take the best college guys right now and put them into an NBA workout, and certain guys will look OK. But I don?t think, except for a few guys, that most of them are ready. ?It?s just hard when you?re sitting there hearing that a 19-year-old is going to come to the NBA and make your team that much better. You?ve got a few that produce pretty quickly in the league. You?ve got your freaks - LeBron James and Dwight Howard - but most guys can?t do what they did right away. I heard that Kevin Durant at the workout couldn?t even lift 185 one time. (Greg) Oden?s a freak - you can?t take that away from him. But just about everyone else is going to need time.? Perkins might be speaking out of frustration, but he is determined to back it up. ?Besides Oden, I think this draft was really overrated,? he said. ?It?s cool in college. They don?t play defense. You don?t have the defensive 3-second violation, so guys just stand in the paint. It?s different when you get to the pros.?</div> <div align="center">Source: Boston Herald</div> For a guy who is a career 4.0 ppg player, who never played college basketball, and who has always struggled with his weight, those are some big words.
My roommate down at Tulane played HS ball with him for Ozen HS in Beaumont, TX. He's always talking the guy up as if he's Shaq. Maybe being treated like the big-man-on-campus in his hometown has gone to his head. He's been in the league three years now and has still barely made a dent, yet he feels entitled to call out the first freshman to ever win the Naismith Award? That's backwards.
LOL. Who the hell is Kendrick Perkins to talk all that trash? Career averages of 4 pts and 4 rebounds. Sounds like a bum to me.
LOL who is this guy.....at first I thought it was Sam Perkins saying this, lmao.......Kevin Durant is about as close to a sure thing that you're going to get.....he will "at least" be a all star calliber player...at least.
I don't know if he's calling him out or really saying anything bad. He's really just saying Oden is the only guy from his perspective that will have immediate impact, and that rookies take time to develop. After he talked about Durant's lack of lifting, he said "But just about everyone else is going to need time.”, and that isn't something we usually disagree with. In the end he's saying the guys will need time, and they'll have to adjust to the NBA game but people are making it seem like they'll all come in and dominate right away.
What he said no one will really disagree with, it's just who said it that puzzles me. He still has to adjust.
