Simmons with some quality blasts at the Blazers

When you factor in the hype he's the biggest bust in the history of the NBA.

 

It was insufferable for about 3 years, once it became obvious Oden wasn't going to happen.

Remember the "let's build the offense around Oden" days? To the expense of trading Roy and starting Rudy? I'd pull up those idiotic posts if I cared to do so.

 

No doubt about it. Simply the Biggest. Bust. Ever. No trade value at all. KP and others have to share the blame in that decision.

 

OK, so you think the Blazers did the right thing by not doing anything. Gotcha, just checking.

 

How do you know that Blazers did nothing? IMO, Oden is a broken young man who still hasn't really accepted that he's not going to be the great NBA player he thought he'd become, and we all thought he'd become.

He's the biggest bust in NBA history, considering he played all of one total season, and I imagine he still isn't mature enough, or self-aware enough, to dig deep and see that he was the primary root of his own problems.

He was supposed to be rehabbing, yet he was an admitted alcoholic? I remember a quote from GO right before he turned 21, and somebody asked him about it. He said the best part was that now he could drink legally. I posted about it at the time, thought it was a red flag, and was shouted down for posting it. That's the great thing about these boards, though. People can change their opinion completely. Well, at least some of us can.

 

Yeah, I seriously don't understand why you're so sure the Blazers "did nothing". If anything, history has shown the team to be extremely cautious with the lad. Why would they protect him so fervently on the court, yet completely ignore his lifestyle off the court? That makes zero sense.

 

You're going to make him earn his pay and hang around the team. Pritchard let him live 2000 miles away and rarely visit here. Oden said he didn't watch games and friends told him scores later on Twitter. Pritchard had no leash. I posted several times to complain and was told he deserved his freedom.

Up until the day he was cut on the Ides of March, there were people here arguing that Oden was not injury-prone, because the injuries had happened in different body parts.

 

How could the Blazers brass have possibly known Greg was struggling with Alcohol when Greg himself said Portland sucked for rich, young (underaged) black men? Add the cock internet pic to the scenario and I think it's pretty obvious what happened. Oden goes home, drinks. Wakes up, rehabs. Goes home, drinks. Wakes up, rehabs. Since 2007. It's not hard to hide a dependency on alcohol at work, especially if you aren't required to work. You can't put this on the Blazers. They definitely handled him with kid gloves, but I don't believe they understood what exactly they were handling.