Big man coach for GO

Brian Grant?

 

In my opinion Hakeem seems to be the best fit. He had tremendous footwork and was great on both ends of the court. He also has a little history in coaching big men. Another guy I would love to see come back to Portland is Sabonis, extremely intelligent, already coaches big men in Russia, and was good on both ends of the court.

 

Thanks for scaring the crap out of me! For a moment I thought you were saying that the blazers had actually hired Luc Longley to tutor Oden Now that would be really really bad

 

Shaq would be an interesting selection, but I think he is going to play for a few more seasons. I like Zo, especially teaching how to defend and block without getting fouls.

 

What about Chris DUdley? HAHA!

 

Seriously, though. Is there any talk within the org. about this matter? Fans have been clamoring for a one-on-one coach for GO all year, and we haven't gotten any indication that any such thing will go down.

 

Say it is, ZO!!

I remember when he wanted out of Charlotte. Portland reportedly wanted him way back then, but their package was more quantity than quality. I always wished he'd have been a Blazer. I say, let's make it happen. Better late (as a coach) than never!

 

Dudley could teach Oden to maximize his abilities with hustle and grit.....

and teach him free throws!!

 

Rick Berry was on the radio some days back, and he recommended Clifford Ray. Berry said that Ray had been coaching big men for two teams already, and the bigs really improved after working with him. I would much rather trust Oden's training to someone with a good "track record" than to someone who should be good but has yet to prove themselves as a coach.

 

The last I heard, he was living in Jordan.

As for coaches, I'd like Bill Walton or Bill Russell (who lives in Seattle). I'd love Sabas, but he's in Lithuania.

 

sabas would be good because oden seems like a willing and pretty decent passing big man and sabas was the king of that shit!

 

Walton's problems were his feet not his knees unless that bothered him later.

 

Actually, the feet came later. His knees were already a mess when he was at UCLA. He needed therapy and heat-packs before every game, with more therapy and ice-packs afterwards.

 

I always hated Zo, but I just looked up his rookie stats, and holy CRAP! The guy averaged 21 ppg, 10 rpg, & 3.5 bpg in 34 minutes! 51% FG shooting. 78% free throw shooting. Amazing. But every big man takes years to develop, right?

 

No, just Oden because he sucks dick and is a failure at life.

 

Of course he sat out a year because of knee surgery so they are a perfect comparison. Wow, did you really say that? Most stuff you make sense when you talk about it, but if I judge your posting only by Oden I'd probably have you on ignore.

 

Mourning also spent four years at Georgetown, but not like that helped him at all or anything.

 

I don't think Zo is going to move from Miami to Portland.

 

I'm trying to remember the name of the former player who ran a Big Man's Camp during the summer - anyone know if that's still going? I know a lot of forwards and centers said it helped them tremendously.