Yahoo and the Oregonian are reporting that Oden is going to take the qualifying offer and than will bolt the following year. Got to say if he has a great year this year and bolts he will have truly screwed Blazer Fans!
rrreaks of Crapzano. And sure enough... http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...sf/2011/09/canzano_time_is_running_short.html Ground breaking news..
Why would anybody be surprised? Not that I'm taking this as fact yet, but I've been saying this would happen since the Blazers stupidly didn't even offer Oden an extension on his rookie contract. Dumb dumb dumb.
I don't see anything in the article saying he was going to bolt. It just said he would be an unrestricted free agent. So he's going to test the market. He's going to go to the team that makes the offer that's best for him and that could still be the Blazers.
Canzano has been throwing out that doom and gloom scenario for months now but he forgets the most important reason as to why that won't happen. For that to happen it is gambling that Oden will remain injury free. Do you really think Oden will walk away from a guaranteed $30? $40 mill contract for a chance to earn the exact same amount of money elsewhere? Do you think his agents are going to advise him of that? "Hey Oden, your knees are garbage, your luck is horrible, lets not sign an extension with the Blazers and hope you don't get injured for the next year."
Exactly, I got the impression the Blazers want him to test the market to see how other teams would value him. Given his history/health I'd say most teams would feel he's worth taking a risk on but he's not going to get a max. deal. Oden hasn't been mistreated by the Blazers at all so I don't know why he'd have already decided to leave. He's had a bad experience while working for the franchise but it wasn't anything they did to him.
No other team will offer much. If he goes, he'll make half of what Paul Allen offers. If he does that, good riddance. The chances are at least 50% that he'll continue to have a ruined career. If we lose him it will greatly simplify our lives as Blazer fans.
LOL this is NO NEW news! There is NO quote from Dden and we all knew this anyway, it just Canzano trying to get some attention and rehashing the same old BS
Can't argue with that one. It would probably simplify Oden's life as well, because here in Portland a large chunk of fans are going to always view him as a franchise player.
We have no idea when play will resume or what the CBA will look like. No sense in getting worked up about this.
yep, and if we use a likely amnesty clause to get rid of Roy's contract lets perhaps make a clean sweep of the injury guys and let Oden go if he won't sign a reasonable contract. No one know how good he'll be but bringin Freeland over next summer is likely a good idea as well.
I'll be crushed. 10 years of franchise rebuilding wasted. After Oden and Roy, what...build around LMA? we'll be lotto fodder for a while and hopefully luck out again.
It kind of "feels" to me like the Blazers may match an offer another team makes Greg after the lockout. On the other hand, it also "feels" like they could extend him an offer on their own prior to the start of the season that would be large enough to get him to sign. If I were in Greg's shoes and had his injury record, I think I'd "feel" like getting some longterm security ASAP instead of just taking the 1 year qualifying offer and hoping that I don't get injured again and never see another dime. It also "feels" to me like Canzano is continuing his traditional pattern of writing much while knowing little.
If give him a nice extension he will stay (not sure if we can even give him an extension) for the guaranteed money, if we don't he'll test the market and we may lose him or we may be able to match and keep him. I'm not gonna worry about what happens tell it happens, to much ?? around this team to add another one to the mix.
Blazers have one option, well, two, and Oden has two options. Oden -can sign Q.O. and become a UFA after what is left of the 2011-12 season. -can reject Q.O. and become RFA prior to 2011-12 season. Blazers -can hope Oden rejects Q.O. and becomes RFA My opinion is that the Blazers lost their leverage when they refused to offer Oden even a token extension on his rookie deal. Maybe that was a good move, maybe that was a bad move. We'll find out over the next year, at a maximum.
I think that you have a basic misunderstanding of the Q.O. process that contributes to your pessimism about the Blazers' position. The Q.O. doesn't have to be signed or rejected by Oden until next spring. He can, and IMO will, sit on it and then listen to all of the offers he's going to get from other teams and/or the Blazers prior to the start of next season...whenever that may be. Once he looks those over and sees if there's something that makes good sense to him, he'll either accept an offer from another team...which the Blazers will have the opportunity to match, accept an offer from the Blazers, or decide at that point that he'd rather go unrestricted the following summer and accept the Q.O. The last course of action has a huge risk to Greg, given his injury history, in that if he has another injury this next year he may never see another big offer again. I have no idea what the Blazers and other teams will make of Greg after they look over his medical reports and see where he is from a playing standpoint once a new CBA is signed. Assuming that he is making good progress and his medical tests are positive, I'd expect him to get offers that will be too good to pass up.
