Repped. This forum's gone to the dogs even as the team has improved. On BBF I had maybe 7 people on my ignore list. On this forum, with all the quality posters driven to the fringes by threads like these, there's no reason to even be here. I didn't add much here; I know that. But I've been tagging along with this group since the BLT days. This is by far the most asinine it's ever been. When MARIS is one of your "top tier" posters, you have a problem with your board! I'm done with you lot.
If ya don"t like the thread, don't respond to it! How hard is that? Trolls are people who come to criticize and add nothing else! I don't respond to posts I don't like or want to add to, I don't jump on to attack someone who is discussing hoops. If you don't like the hoop topic move on. Techad, I have a whole paragraph of suggestions if you read my post. Guess not again! Well since this thread is so lame I guess I'll ask to have it closed! I wouldn't want to be called a little crying girl anymore, or have more kind adjectives used to discuss my thoughts from the gifted posters on this board who come up with them all day and add nothing else!
It's true. He really doesn't look like he's on the path to the Hall of Fame. He's actually gotten worse as the year has gone on. When we won the #1 pick, I think we all expected a superstar and not a future Devin Harris or Danny Granger, good players but we expected someone on a higher level.
We also didn't expect him to have microfracture surgery before he even played. Perspective is good and may help with the emotional rollercoaster you often seem to be riding.
But when we won the lotto in 2007, were you expecting an "exception"? I know I was. I know you were too. But what we got was a 1st year no show and a 2nd year 7.9/6.9 and dropping. He has little to no impact on our team this year and everyone in here and his teammates thought he would.
64 responses is a lot for a crappy thread that makes everyone not want to be here anymore? HMMMMMM.... Most responded thread of the day. It really needs to be shut down. Thanks mods for allowing such a crappy thread to exist as long as ya did!
Exactly. A once in a decade franchise center would be giving us at least 25/10 by now, what should be his second year. So be it. But less than that is fine. But 8/7??? How bout meeting me halfway with 12/10??? 12/10 isn't "great," but I would've gladly accepted it. He's too big and strong to have FOUR games this season in which he only grabbed ONE rebound. He doesn't have a zest for dominating this game. No fire. At this point in the season, he should be a little more comfortable and able to crash the boards for us pretty consistently. It's upsetting.
You should probably just delete your Greg Oden fan club thread and throw that number one fan foam finger in the fire at this point.
That's my point. I expected more when we drafted him. If you knew we were getting nothing from him in season 1 and only 8/7 from him in season 2, would you still have been excited?
Well before I say anything about Greg not being capable of an elite center status, I'd like him to have the best platform to atleast try! I don't think he's gotten that yet, not for his skill set.
Speed, how do you propose to know what I was thinking??? I was excited as hell to have the first pick but like most other things in life, there are no guarantees. We knew what we were getting in Oden - a whole lot of upside but basically a very raw and young athlete who would need some time to fulfill his potential. And yet, this soon into his first season people are going nuts already. I like you as a person and a poster but you're depressing the shit out of me with your downer attitude; have you been hanging out with Mixum or something? Just because a thread gets a lot of replies doesn't make it any good. If you take a look back at the bulk of the replies, many/most of them say the same thing: this thread is retarded.
If I'm depressing you then it must mean that you believe that some of what I'm saying is true. It IS depressing. I'm depressed about it. Am I just supposed to squelch my feelings? Or should I merely stop expecting anything out of Greg Oden? Just let it go and wait a couple years and see how I feel then? As for mixum, he never depresses me because I hardly ever agree with him that we're having a bad season and should make trades. We have the 9th best record league and I like the people we have. I don't want to trade anyone.
Yes, because I was and still am very excited to have Greg Oden and to be developing him. I am not so much excited at the prospect of McMillan doing this, but that is another topic. It's like being told that the best young musical prospect has signed onto your musical for ten years and you know she brings with her the best chance at critical acclaim and success. Yet before she ever gets to open a show she has surgery on her vocal chords that take a year to even get to the point where she can get on stage again and sing and recite her lines. During the year following her initial rehab there are ups and downs, and sometimes her voice falters terribly but even in the faltering you see the potential. Then there are the nights where she feels strong with her voice and trusts her vocal chords again and you get a reminder that this is just the surface and the best is yet to come (provided her coach doesn't continue to put her in situations where she gets exposed at this part in her coming back to the stage and performing). If she is still at this inconsistent point three years down the line after everything has been tried then yeah you start writing her off. But in her first year back? No. You take the bumps along the way and realize this is an unprecedented (wow we have heard that word a lot these past few weeks) situation and look at the big picture.
Then why respond? Makes ya wonder! If it's crap don't respond or have a counter point besides "IT's Retarded!"
Okafor is in his 6th year right? 5th year? #2 pick? Defensive minded player? Or am I thinking of another Okafor?
