End of January, and still no news about Oden

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  1. magnifier661

    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Pretty much exactly what we're seeing with this team.
     
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    Their last draft was much better than portlands, so I'm not sure that's such a bad thing
     
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    Hanging around .600 for years is not the worst place a team can be. There are teams that hang around .300 for years and never make it to .600.
     
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  6. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    It's not like the lottery has been a windfall for us.

    Nash wiffed twice on Telfair and Martell (we could have had our choice of Chris Paul or Deron Williams).

    Roy/Aldridge were the only recent lottery picks that netted us anything worthwhile. Roy was great, but short lived and Aldridge is now out best player. So, the 2006 draft was a success, especially considering it really was an abysmally weak draft.

    Then in 2007 we won the lottery and the right to draft a once a generation center. If only some one would have told us that meant we'd get a center who plays once a generation...

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    Y'know what pisses me off? If we hadn't moved up in the lottery, we probably would have taken Joakim Noah.
    If we'd've moved up, but got the third pick, we could still have Al Horford.
    And if we got the second pick, you KNOW Seattle would've taken Oden. I mean, they were on a huge streak of taking bust centers (Swift in '04, Petro in '05 and Sene in '06) and here was their chance to get a good one...

    To be fair, Telfair wasn't that great of a wiff. [Edit: just went and checked: Josh Smith went 4 picks later! Oops!] The team did pass on Al Jefferson (supposedly there were members of the Blazer Brain Trust who wanted him) but he's been pretty patchy. But I guess taking Telfair set up the passing on Paul and Williams. That's the Great Blazer Screwup that isn't mentioned half as much as Oden over Durant, even though it's much worse. (And they did this despite it being FUCKING OBVIOUS that Telfair wasn't the answer, because Pritchard himself handed the keys to Telfair at the end of that season, and he was shit.)
     
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    Well I still have hope that oden will play this season. Maybe it's the homer in me; but I think he will play.
     
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