<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne)</div><div class='quotemain'> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chutney)</div><div class='quotemain'>I hate how people talk like this was easy to predict, when in reality it's just a case of hindsight being 20/20. The Blazers did their due diligence when investigating his health before the draft, and they realized that there wasn't anything serious enough to overshadow his great talent. Just like the Sonics believed Durant's talent wasn't overshadowed by the fact that he couldn't benchpress worth shit.</div></p> I doubt the Blazers did their due diligence. Bulls passed on Roy last year, because of his predraft medical....Blazers took him, and low and behold, those injury problems crop up. Same thing with Oden. Time for Portland to start doing their due diligence. </p> </p> </div></p> That's some pretty weak reasoning. None of us has any knowledge of what the Blazers tested for or how thorough their methods were, because none of us have enough information or knowledge about the issue. But the fact that they were checking a player for over a week seems to reflect that they took the issue very seriously. In the end, doing your due diligence means weighing the risks against the rewards. With the Brandon Roy pick, they did their due diligence because the eventual rewards (RoY season, potential franchise player) far outweighed the injury risks. Its way too early to make a similar judgement on Oden. For one, we don't know if what he's going through now is even related to the risks that everyone knew about before the draft. And Oden hasn't even began his recovery or stepped foot on an NBA court yet, so we don't know what he'll end up like. Microfracture surgery is by no means a career-ending issue.</p> </p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane)</div><div class='quotemain'>Bowie's name was invoked before the draft, because the situations are/were so similar. Given the choice of the ballyhooed big man or the wing player, Portland took the big man both times.</p> The injury only ads to that mystique.</div></p> But, it's still far too simplistic and premature. It's like when Bargnani was playing terrible in the first couple of weeks of the season and people began throwing up "Darko Milicic over Carmelo Anthony" comparisons (the Carmelo Anthony in this case being Adam Morrison).</p>
LOL, IDK how this guy has been compared to Patrick Ewing, then Sam Bowie....WITHOUT PLAYING A FREAKING GAME YET!!!!
