Nice to see he’s currently leading the leauge in FG%: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/statistics, #3 In Blocks and a PER of 22.82

Watching Tuesdays matchup against Chicago, I noticed something and wonder if anyone else did too? Remember when Noah posterized Oden? After that moment, I saw an entirely new demeanor in Greg, fierce and wanting revenge, as if Noah lit the fuse of confidence in him and he was ready to explode.

That is the fire we’ve all been waiting too see, however, I think the best is still yet to come.

After playing with some grit in the last 3 games and matching his career best, I can only see things getting better as the refs begin to respect his play as this confidence grows with each minuet of play.

I think what has impressed me the most is he’s been playing with a higher IQ, taking advantage of easy baskets and passing to the open man when he’s double/triple teamed, leading to some big plays. It’s nice to see him a major threat on both sides of the floor. When he excels at his job, so does everyone else.

This is going to make for a very exciting season.

Why?

Hype and expectations surround young greatness.

But when ‘young greatness’ is, at the moment, only ‘young really good’ everybody wants to b**** and moan.

Anyways, hate to be PATHETIC LOSER on this one…but I totally agree with jliebfor3 #24. Lamarcus does NOT box out well. Still seems to be a problem for him. Reminds me of KENYON MARTINS TOMAHAWK TIP

Let’s see…on
April 16th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

*LA = LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE

BERN BROGDEN says:

GO and SERG actually WERE boxin’ out…it was LA who caught a bad angle and was plain useless.

All of Portland’s eyes were on Melo.
Outlaw eats pick.
GO picks up the ‘roller.’
Melo jacks shot with Outlaw’s hand in his face.
GO boxes out.
SERG boxes out.

–}}} Instead of BOXING OUT, LA tries to get position for the rebound.

KMART’s at the left elbow, waiting, timing, anticipating…

KLABOOM

You can see it for yourself right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07gTJOm6kA&feature=player_embedded

or here:
http://dimemag.com/2009/04/kenyon-martin-raining-down-the-love/

thanks for the post. logical for him to stay off bulk with the surgery. He should be a bit more toned than he is now wihtout bulking himself. anyhow i hope he improves much more and contribute to a bigger scale when it comes playoff time this yr.

Portland is definitely solid. This yr will be even more exciting. cannot wait till April again. I m calling Denver.

B.S. article. I’m very disappointed in ODEN during last yr’s playoffs. NO IMPACT. Too easy to pick out things that you mentioned here. Foul Trouble, Wrongside help D and confidence. What bugs me is his work ethic. He was out for one full yr. he comes back last yr and there was no work on his upperbody. From what i recall his injury was a lower body injury. 1 full yr to get tanked. He comes back like somebody who sat on his ass and played all the Grand Theft Auto series plus every single side mission, and did not hit the weights. Absolutely no upperbody improvement. what has he been doing for the whole yr? He can be a total beast if he put in work.
I dun like kobe nor lebron but these guys put in work. Lebron was lifting like a madman since gr.10 when i read about him on hoopstv and slam. Kobe put in work even during the all-star weekend festivities, jus so he can get better while others are partying.

What i m sayin is NO. He is not the missing piece because there are wayy too many intangibles to be improved upon.

Portland is gettin much better tho and Oden is a factor.
But i don’t see him becoming what the portland GM’s envisions in ODEN. dats my 2 cents.

You guys should all check out this youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FreeOden52

Whoever made that page puts up videos of refs calling fouls on Oden that are RIDICULOUS calls. The dude has arep for getting a lot of fouls, but LOOK AT THE TYPE OF FOULS HE GETS CALLED FOR!

Oden IS a huge building block in helping portland to hopefully win a championships. That is the truth.

There is a defender, or two defenders, on most teams that can make Roy a very ordinary player. More notable than this though, is that most teams don’t go through the process of special preparations surrounding shutting him down. When a team walks into the Staple’s Center, they are appropriately besieged with questions about how they are going to stop Bryant. There is a good reason you rarely hear that same question asked about Roy. Confusingly, the blazers continue to structure themselves around him as if he is going to be a Kobe Bryant, but the main possibility they have to win a championship still probably lays in drafting or trading for a tenacious and uber-dominant player, and then somehow squeezing all the salaries in there and convincing Roy to accept a smaller role. He has shown this season with Miller that he is hesitant to do anything but dominate the ball, so I’m not sure that’s really a likely option either. He’d make a solid Pippen to some else’s Jordan, but I think there are legitimate doubts over whether that is even a possibility anymore, now that they have paid him (and especially Aldridge!) so much that they will have trouble paying the final piece of their championship puzzle whenever it does come along. Ultimately, this team looks one superstar away from a championship, but that is an increasingly high hurdle to leap after the financial moves they have made this year.

Don’t forget to check out my new sitcom “Accidentally on Purpose” Mondays at 830 on CBS.
Jenna Elfman

For some odd reason, when I read this comment. The inner voice sounded like Mark Jackson.