Partying away when you're young and rich is fine, but doing it on the Blazers payroll while rehabilitating multiple knee surgeries is just stupid! I gave Oden a lot of rope with recovery until I learned he was drinking heavily which is the worst thing you could do for bone repair or tissue regrowth. Greg lost my support after that and I don't think he'll have a long career now. I've been wrong before, might be in this case as well but that's my 2 cents on Greg Oden.
What about Odens foul troubles and issues with staying in games? Everyone focuses on his health issues but before that he could never stay on the court due to fouls and he never got the experience he needed to learn how to play around that. I was always suspicious of the refs back then as he seemed to get a lot of ticky tack calls along with some legit ones. It will be interesting as he plays to see how much of this is still an issue. IF it is not an issue at all, like I assume it wont, then I call bullshit on the whole stupid league..... again.
He plays for the Heattles now. He will no longer be a victim of biased officiating, he will benefit from it. BNM
I know a lot of posters here like to give Oden shit about his rehab efforts, but I think the team is every bit as responsible. In other words, plenty of blame to go around. He had his first microfracture surgery at 19 years of age. During his first rehab Oden gained a LOT of weight, mostly upper body from lifting. That as just plain stupid and should have gotten our strength and conditioning coach fired immediately. He didn't need to get stronger and the last thing Oden's knees needed was an extra 45 pounds of weight to support. He was 19 and living alone in a new city. The team should have hired a nutritionist and a full time chef to make sure he was eating right. Yeah, ultimately it was Oden that put on the weight and started drinking, but the staff should have done a MUCH better job supervising his rehab. BNM
Yeah, when I was a kid, our family doctor was 5'9" and about 350 pounds. I can see why my dad, at 6'2" 250 always had a hard time accepting his advice to lose weight. Physician heal thyself! BNM
You know they tried, right? And you know that the CBA prohibits forcing him to do what they suggested, right? Yes, they deserve a good bit of blame for what happened. But don't pretend they didn't want to do more but couldn't...
Tried what? Wasn't the strength and conditioning coach the one who had him lifting weights during his first rehab? Did they hire him a nutritionist and offer to hire him a full time chef? Not saying it didn't happen, just don't remember reading anything about it at the time. BNM
His underage drinking with his uncle had nothing do to with that weight gain, I suppose. What surprises me is how even after Oden has said he basically quit caring in Portland, became a boozehound, how people will continue to make up excuses for him.
To me it seemed like Oden got special treatment from day one. Wasn't he at one point sleeping on Allen's bed in the plane? I don't know what specifically they were doing with Oden, but seems like Blazers bent over backwards trying to keep him happy and allowed him ample time to recover from his injuries.
Yeah, from what I gather, Oden's obese uncle was not looking out for his best interests. In fact, might have been a horrible influence for a naive kid that was anointed a star before he ever proved himself.
i just want to know how he put on 45 pounds of muscle(well not all was muscle) in one rehab. I can't even add 10 pounds of muscle after months and months of working out regularly
Lay on the couch, lift upper body, and drink a ton of beer without exercising. Oden went from being always active to mostly sedentary, ate horribly, drank a lot, and apparently did the bare minimum for rehab.
