Greg Oden begins to impress

James Edwards — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:43:11 +0000

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

Greg Oden is a big man with great skills on the hardwood.

After sitting out a year with injury, Greg Oden is starting to have the type of games everyone thought he would.

Oden put on a show down low, violently shaking the basket standard and shot clock with five two-handed dunks in the second half, including a thunderous rebound slam with 6:01 to play that pulled Portland to 94-91. But the Warriors twice knocked the ball out of Oden’s hands while he wound up to dunk in the final minutes, and Oden scored just two points in the final six minutes.

“Greg Oden did a great job just dominating the paint, doing what he does, getting us into more of a rhythm,” Roy said. “He is getting his confidence, which is good for our team.”

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We will have to keep an eye on this guy.

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Greg Oden goes down again

James Edwards — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:02:46 +0000

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

Greg Oden is back to waiting mode and so is the NBA

In our continuing saga about Greg Oden and his injuries,

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Oden sprains ankle, Portland holds breath

another chapter is born. Greg is hurt again. Still no NBA baskets for Greg Oden.

Only 2½ minutes into his NBA debut — which was delayed for a year by knee surgery in 2007 — the Portland Trail Blazers’ center suffered what the team called a sprain in his right foot. He played on it for the rest of the first half in the season opener against the Los Angeles Lakers, but when the third quarter began Oden was back in the trainer’s room, preparing for an X-ray.

Sixteen months of waiting … for less than 13 minutes of play.

The X-ray was inconclusive; Oden will have an MRI exam back in Portland on Wednesday.

Trail Blazers fans already have their own diagnosis: worst-case scenario. They drafted a They-Don’t-Make-’Em-Like-That-Anymore big man, only to find out he can’t play.

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With Oden in the Portland lineup, they have the chance to go from being an average NBA team to a good NBA team with chance to be a great NBA team in the future, but when will that happen?

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