basketball is a team sport, it certainly wasnt tmacs fault considering he has a higher career playoff PER than um...kevin durant
TMac didn't have teammates like Ilbaka/Harden/Westbrook, his best shot was Yoa ming/Grant hill but in each case he was either hurt or the other player was hurt.
Everyone always has a choice; possibly he chose to bend to public opinion; I don't know. And by the way, I have never expressed an opinion online or offline, that I was glad the Blazers drafted Oden. I first had reservations when I heard KP's "assassin" remark and then when there was a story that there were medical concerns; I hoped when i heard those reports that the Blazers would put a tremendous amount of effort into assessing Greg with numerous experts and assessing the entire history of sports of guys with similar injury history and with one leg longer. And I don't have any criticism for fans who wanted Oden; none of them were able to personally interview him; none of them were able to personally interview friends, relatives, coaches teammates etc. like i hope the Blazers did. None of the fans were able to ask Greg to take a psychological test and none were able to look at the results. None of the fans had a fair chance to determine if Greg had the mental toughness and desire to be a star.
But TMac went up 3-1 against the Pistons, talked about what a great accomplishment it was to make it to the second round and then was awful in Game 7, losing three straight to lose the series. Everyone on Orlando was good that game except for him.
orlando had ZERO regulars with a 15 PER besides tmac that year, to blame orlandos struggles on tmac is just plain silly
TMac had unbelievable talent. Durant has unbelievable talent. Not everything has to be A is better than B. We never had a shot at TMac, but we passed on Durant.
I wished we had drafted Chris Paul, Michael Jordan, kept Moses Malone, and gotten Sabonis earlier. Porter Jordan Drexler Malone Sabonis Best team of all time!
