http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/01/trail_blazers_greg_oden_talks.html Just a few questions quoted, go read the whole thing.
How many times does he have to hear the KDurrant question before he pops someone. I hope I am there when it happens. Please be Canzano.
I think Oden's too intelligent and mature for that. The way he handles questions like that, questions designed to provoke IMO, is very cool and under control. He credits Durant for the great job Durant has done but returns the focus to his confidence in his own game and how he'll work to prove what he can do on the court.
It'd be interesting to see what kind of ploy Canzano would come up with to parlay his clock-being-cleaned into ratings gold for his show.
I liked hearing (reading) from Oden, but I was a little disappointed in some of his answers. Not "trade the bum!" disappointed, but more that they seemed like loaded questions and he gave "I'm tired of answering/thinking about this" answers that can easily be read to be negative.
What would you have liked to hear (read)? To me, they read like the antiseptic responses modern athletes who have been clued into the media game give. Which is fine by me since they were loaded questions...why should he play Freeman's game? What should he have responded to things like "Greg, you know what I mean. Everyone thinks you're a horrible disappointment. What do you think about that? Are you a horrible disappointment? Well? Are you?"
That's why I'm not disappointed in his responses, as much as the typical loaded questions he'd get, and the almost all to easy to predict responses the article will get from those who like to chum the waters. *edit* I can see that it looked like I was upset with his answers, but I meant that I was upset with how people will react to his answers. They make his answers out to be exactly what they want them to be. Thus, I am disappointed in the whole article. It makes me to to read any posts here or many other places.
By the way, fuck those people who have said negative things to his face. Do you think these injuries were his choice?
My favorite quote: "I just want to get out there and dominate." If he hasn't given up, I won't. Sad that he won't say he wants to play in Portland, flat out. Even LeBrin said he wanted to stay in Cleveland and he bolted. I really don't want to see Oden dominating somewhere else.
