I think you forgot the "whoop-dee-friggin'-do" that generally goes along with that. If not, I apologize.
Yeah, but given that he's recovering from microfracture and he also had the knee injury, it's not that surprising at this point. It's not really an interesting argument anymore, at least to me. What this story does convey is that it was one hell of a good rookie class. We've got four rookies who played decent-to-major minutes on a 54 win team, and the only one who got in was the guy who set the rookie record for three pointers. In some draft years we'd probably have two or three guys on this team.
30 NBA Head Coaches voted and Greggy Oden got 3 total votes. And you homers continue to say Oden is not a huge disappointment. Embarrassing.
I don't know, I still think not starting Oden hurt his development and I still think we mis-manage him sometimes again not allowing him to fully be utilized to be noticed. Edit: and hank, go fuck yourself
How was Beasley selected ahead of Love? I would literally take every other player on those rookie teams ahead of him, yet he's first team?
Dude if you want to be dissapointed with him, have at it. I don't want to keep you from enjoying yourself.
What is truly embarrassing is your ignorance on the significance of making, or not making, the all rookie teams. Did Chauncey Billups (4 time all-star, finals MVP) make it? Did Dirk Nowitski (8 time all-star, MVP)? Do you consider those players embarrassments? Would you be embarrassed to have them on your team since they couldn't even make all-rookie second team? There many great players who didn't make the all-rookie teams. Those are just two (and neither had microfracture knee surgery). There are also tons of guys who make the all-rookie teams and then totally flame out and never amount to anything. Such as: Adam Morrison, J.R. Bremer, Cedric Henderson, Courtney Alexander, Marcus Fizer, etc. Making, or not making the all-rookie team has no direct correlation on how good, or bad, a player will become. Was Oden's rookie season disappointing? Compared to the hype coming out of college? Yes. After undergoing microfracture knee surgery and sitting out a year? No. I see nothing at all embarrassing about his play as a rookie coming off microfracture knee surgery. Established all-stars have trouble their first season back after microfracture surgery. Expecting a rookie in the same situation not to struggle is simply unrealistic - not embarrassing. BNM
