2009-07-17T09:21:04-04:00 Is it too soon to call Greg Oden a bust? 2008-10-29T20:59:33-04:00 73 2008-10-29T20:59:33-04:00 1 8 10 2008-11-10T02:50:01-05:00 1 OR Jeckyll2hyde Portland 604393 77 They touting this injury prone Sam Bowie like he isn't Sam Bowie of 84. I am sick of it. Portland has turned it's image around, but is feeding false hopes to the fans. He's a chump. Could have plugged the Small Forward position with Kevin Durant. What a farce Portland. I'm a season ticket holder for you, and I want you to quit feeding us FALSE HOPE! 3293025 2008-10-31T14:11:21-04:00 5 OR Derftron Portland 28622 76 &quot;can you say sam bowie&quot; So original. So funny. What an awesome comment. I never heard that one before. Has anyone said he looks old yet? That just cracks me up. Freaking clowns 3208652 2008-10-31T14:09:05-04:00 5 OR Derftron Portland 28622 75 What a stupid article. While his injuries are troubling, it is an ankle sprain. Deron Williams just had the same thing happen to him. To say he will never fulfill his potential because of an ankle sprain is just dumb. Give him 2-3 years. thats when you start to see what kind of player he will become, and how many injuries he has. If he has one more ankle sprain in 3 years and improves every year, then this is all mute. If he is injured every week and never gets better or gets on the court, then he probably wont have a great career. &quot;he should probably be given a complete game before he is labeled a bust&quot; ??? A game? How about multiple seasons? Yao was terrible when he first came in. Shaq stunk his first game. Dwight Howard took 2 years to develope an identity. Bynum didnt do anything until last year, and for only 34 games. KG took a while too, as did Amare Stoudamire. Tyson Chandler was worthless for 3 seasons and got traded. The injuries are troubling for sure, but even more troubling are idiot journalists labeling this KID a bust already. Give him time. 3208626 2008-10-31T14:08:39-04:00 5 OR Derftron Portland 28622 74 What a stupid article. While his injuries are troubling, it is an ankle sprain. Deron Williams just had the same thing happen to him. To say he will never fulfill his potential because of an ankle sprain is just dumb. Give him 2-3 years. thats when you start to see what kind of player he will become, and how many injuries he has. If he has one more ankle sprain in 3 years and improves every year, then this is all mute. If he is injured every week and never gets better or gets on the court, then he probably wont have a great career. &quot;he should probably be given a complete game before he is labeled a bust&quot; ??? A game? How about multiple seasons? Yao was terrible when he first came in. Shaq stunk his first game. Dwight Howard took 2 years to develope an identity. Bynum didnt do anything until last year, and for only 34 games. KG took a while too, as did Amare Stoudamire. Tyson Chandler was worthless for 3 seasons and got traded. The injuries are troubling for sure, but even more troubling are idiot journalists labeling this KID a bust already. Give him time. 3208600 2008-10-31T12:03:56-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/274/78/thumb/100_1136.jpg 125 tx spider33 San Antonio 27518 73 Way too early 3206909 2008-10-31T11:31:58-04:00 3 NJ RUGU Piscataway 577506 72 This is a ridiculous article. The kid is 20 years old and has only missed one full NBA season. Give him a break already. We have no idea how this will play out. What has happened to sports journalism? People ask how have we become such an instant gratification society - look no further than this article. Talk about unnecessary and myopic. 3206337 2008-10-31T09:17:51-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/576/543/thumb/bourbon.jpg 581 NC Bourbon:TheAnswer Titletown 577083 71 He's a project for Dr.'s, He's not a project for the coaches 3204071 2008-10-31T05:49:57-04:00 12 MI wcdaniels Mount Morris 4455 70 Yes, he is a bust. He has proven that Portland never should've taken him so high, and he hasn't done one single thing to help his team since being taken. He can still (and hopefully will) have a productive NBA career, but you don't take a number one pick to be such a project. 3203399 2008-10-30T22:00:41-04:00 1 MA vlar Amherst 596061 69 check that dude's pituitary, he look 60. plus he's got a leg that's like 1 inch shorter than the other which puts crazy stress on spine. i think he gunna have health issues his entire career. 3201990 2008-10-30T18:47:01-04:00 1 CA UAZALUM Brentwood 595843 68 Oden=Bust, the guy hasn't played a full season since high school. How can you say that he's going to be a great pro? You have to play in order to be considered great. People want to give this guy a chance to see what he'll become. I think that we've already seen what he is; and that unfortunately, is an injury plagued player that will be nothing more than a career journeyman in the NBA. 3200768 73 <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img src="http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/t1_1029_oden_ap.jpg" alt="T1_1029_oden_ap" width="298" height="400" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes">Greg Oden was&nbsp;hurt on a foul by the Lakers' Andrew Bynum.</div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align:right;">AP</div> </div> <p>LOS ANGELES -- <strong>Greg Oden</strong> thought he was done wearing a protective boot on his right leg, finished with using crutches to limp out of arenas and past watching his team play on television while he got treatment. Yet there Oden was, no more than one half into his NBA debut, back on the trainer's table, unable to play and barely able to walk.</p> <p>"It sucks, but I have to keep on working," he said. "Hopefully, this is just a little setback, but I have no idea when I'm going to be back."</p> <p>It was an inauspicious opening night for Oden, who missed all of last season after having microfracture surgery on his right knee and also suffered a right ankle sprain earlier this month. The early report on Oden's injury Tuesday was a mid-foot sprain in that same right leg, although judging from Oden's demeanor and the inconclusive X-ray results after the game it could be worse.</p> <p>As he sat atop the trainer's table in the cramped visiting quarters of the Staples Center, Oden looked helplessly at his right foot as he shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. It's about the same reaction most fans had at the news of Oden getting hurt.</p> <p>Oden has gone from simply being "injury-prone" to being compared to <strong>Sam Bowie</strong>, whose career in Portland was cut short due to injuries after being the second overall pick of the 1984 NBA draft ahead of <strong>Michael Jordan</strong>. Bowie, however, played in 76 games and averaged 10 points and 8.6 rebounds&nbsp;before injuries limited him to only 63 games over the next four seasons, including only five during the 1986-87 season and missing the entire 1987-88 season. Already in his second season, Oden has yet to play more than 13 minutes or score his first point.</p> <p>It may be early to label Oden a bust -- he should probably be given an opportunity to at least play a complete game before being lumped into that category -- but it would be foolish at this point to think that Oden will be the player he was hyped to be coming out of college.</p> <p>He hasn't played a complete season since he was in high school after he had surgery on his right wrist to repair a ligament injury late in his senior season, and he missed the beginning of his only season at Ohio State. He has made more news since the NBA draft for MRI results than anything he's done on the court and there is little proof that this will change. Much was made before the draft that Oden's right leg is slightly longer than his left (notice all his injuries are on his right side) and that he had alignment problems. That's never going to change and, sadly, in all likelihood neither will Oden's propensity for getting injured.</p> http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/396/7/thumb/markazi_arash.jpg 118 CA Arash Markazi Los Angeles 3987 18701 <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img src="http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/t1_1029_oden_ap.jpg" alt="T1_1029_oden_ap" width="298" height="400" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes">Greg Oden was&nbsp;hurt on a foul by the Lakers' Andrew Bynum.</div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align:right;">AP</div> </div> <p>LOS ANGELES -- <strong>Greg Oden</strong> thought he was done wearing a protective boot on his right leg, finished with using crutches to limp out of arenas and past watching his team play on television while he got treatment. Yet there Oden was, no more than one half into his NBA debut, back on the trainer's table, unable to play and barely able to walk.</p> <p>"It sucks, but I have to keep on working," he said. "Hopefully, this is just a little setback, but I have no idea when I'm going to be back."</p> <p>It was an inauspicious opening night for Oden, who missed all of last season after having microfracture surgery on his right knee and also suffered a right ankle sprain earlier this month. The early report on Oden's injury Tuesday was a mid-foot sprain in that same right leg, although judging from Oden's demeanor and the inconclusive X-ray results after the game it could be worse.</p> <p>As he sat atop the trainer's table in the cramped visiting quarters of the Staples Center, Oden looked helplessly at his right foot as he shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. It's about the same reaction most fans had at the news of Oden getting hurt.</p> <p>Oden has gone from simply being "injury-prone" to being compared to <strong>Sam Bowie</strong>.</p>