Oden Is On His Way To Being A Bust!
New York Vinnie has been saying for years what the big problem is in this great Nation of ours! There just is not enough Frickin Common Sense! If people just thought things through we would not have even half of the world’s problems that we have today! That is why from time to time your old pal New York Vinnie likes to give you a little advice. I call it “New York Vinnie’s tips for how to get along better in the World!”
It doesn’t cost you anything extra and this way New York Vinnie gets to give back a little bit to Society. It really is not all that much its just using your melon for something more than to put a cap on! Here is the first one: You should never as a practical joke go up behind a Police Officer and try to remove their weapon from their holster. Makes sense right? Here is another one: If you are standing out of doors and a 40 mph wind is coming at you one should not attempt to relieve themselves. Finally if you are the Frickin Portland Trail Blazers and you have the first pick in the Frickin NBA Draft you don’t draft a Frickin center!
This is going to be season number three for Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden although barring injury it will be only the second season he plays. Oden of course was the number one pick in the 2007 NBA Draft as the Blazers thought they had finally found the answer to their dreams in the middle. Well surgery took him out for the season in his first year in the NBA and this past season he played in 61 games but his numbers were anything but impressive. The center averaged 8.9 points and 7 rebounds per game and with those numbers the only way you are getting into the Basketball Hall of Fame is with a Frickin ticket.
Team USA had a camp in Las Vegas over the weekend that Oden played in and once again his numbers were not all that much. Oden scored 7 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist and he had 1 block. Now if My Man was playing against Dwight Howard New York Vinnie would cut him some slack but he wasn’t. At least in the picture that you see here he is playing against New Jersey Nets center Brook Lopez. In the neighborhood that New York Vinnie grew up in they would call that under achieving.
This is going to be a big year for Oden to see if he can finally shake off the label he has been given at least temporarily as a Major Bust. New York Vinnie saw Oden and the rest of the Trail Blazers play a lot last season on the NBA Package. From what I saw this past season and from what he showed on what they called the “Showcase” game last Saturday New York Vinnie does not see Greg Oden at the end of the Frickin day being worth the first pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.
Alright New York Vinnie is not going to make anyone forget George Clooney anytime soon so how a person looks is not something that I talk about. However and no insult intended but My Man Oden looks Old! I mean My Man is just 21 years old and the dude has wrinkles like Robert Frickin Parish! How can you be so young and have so many wrinkles in your face? It is not like My Man probably had a lot to worry about during his growing up years. Oden must have known for years that he was going to be big in the NBA! He should be happy as a Frickin lark!
But here My Man Oden was at 19 years old and looking like he had the wrinkles of a dude in his fifties! Those Frickin creases are so deep you could hide stuff in there! Now New York Vinnie would have seen My Man when he was playing for Ohio State and said Hold Up! Why does this 19 year old kid have so many wrinkles? To me it looks like it could be the symptoms of a disease like Rickets! Now to be honest with you New York Vinnie has no idea what Frickin Rickets is but doesn’t Oden look like somebody who has them?
New York Vinnie grew up a big fan of the Sweet Science boxing and there is a term for a boxer with a weak jaw. They call it a glass jaw. Well Frickin Pops Oden may have a glass body! Look at how Frickin fragile My Man is! He got hurt in college, he missed his first season in the NBA and lost 21 games to injury last season. My Man is like Samuel L. Jackson in that movie “Unbreakable.”
Every Frickin time the Trail Blazers take a center near the top of the Draft they crap out! Bill Walton got them their only ring but feet problems kept him on the sidelines for years. Then of course the one and only Sam Bowie who was actually taken ahead of a guy named Michael Jordan. Injuries never allowed him to come close to fulfilling his potential.
And now it appears that Portland will have the Frickin trifecta as Oden will most likely be hampered by injuries through out his career. And unless he picks it up big time he will go down in history as a Huge Frickin Bust!
New York Vinnie will never start a fight, but he's not afraid to finish one.. Mess with New York Vinnie and he'll rip your nuts off and throw them down the sewer!
July 29th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Vinnie will never start a fight huh?
You’ve already labled Oden as a bust? You’d better call KP and let him know. No sense in wasting his time on Greg this season. While you’re at it, call all the USA Team Coaches – tell them too. They think he’s got merit. So do the Portland coaches, teammates and fans. Forget what all the reports have been saying about him this summer…you obviously know WAAAAAYYY more than the scouts and coaches about what level he is at.
You do realize…don’t you…that Greg was never drafted to put up 30 ppg? You do understand that, don’t you? He was drafted to rebound and play defense…scoring is a bonus.
In spite of that, Greg Oden’s PERS – in his rookie season – the year following his M/F surgery, which btw generally takes 2 years to recover from (you do understand that, don’t you?), were the 12th best out of ALL NBA CENTERS!!! AND THIS GUY’S SPECIALTY DOESN’T EVEN SHOW UP ON PERS. HE’S A DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you possibly comprehend that he’s already much better than he was last year, and while he still has a long ways to go, he’s making progress by leaps and bounds? His efficiency rating should end up putting him in the top 6 in PERS in his second season.
Do you understand that his production in minutes played was on par with Durant’s rookie year? Oden’s rookie year, he had 9ppg, 7rpg and 1 bpg in 21 mpg. Durant had 20ppg, 4rpg and .7bpg in 35mpg. The multiplier is about .6…meaning that if Greg had played an equivalent amount of minutes in his rookie year that Durant did, he would have had 15ppg, 12rpg and 1.5 bpg. And keep in mind that Oden was still not 100%, either in the health of his knee OR in terms of his conditioning (because of being down for a year). So GO would have scored 5ppg less, had 8 MORE rpg and 1 bpg more than Durant.
He didn’t stay in the games last year because of foul trouble. THAT’S IT. His lateral quickness has improved and is improving, as is his conditioning. As it continues to do so, he will become much quicker with his feet, requiring him to play less defense with his hands like he did last year.
Did you read all the stuff Colangelo and the rest of the coaching staff said about him? Like the fact that his team shut down the other team for 11 straight possessions, and they credited Greg with being the anchor of that effort? Or the part where they claimed that he already was looking much better than last year? Or the part where they see him being a part of USA basketball, simply because of his physical presence? I didn’t think so.
BTW, Greg’s per minute stats last year were very equivalent to many very good NBA centers in their rookie years.
Dude – you don’t have a single clue when it comes to BBall talent or what it takes to win.
You should really get a life and stop talking smack about a guy who’s in line to become one of the best 2 centers in the West this year…and one of the 4 best in the NBA. If NY had a real center, Greg would kill him.
I’ll bet he makes the All Star team either this year or next…one of the two.
You really should get some frickin common sense.
July 29th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
You are such an idiot on so many levels that I don’t have time to name them all.
July 29th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Yo Toadstool!
Your e-mail must be mis-marked it says Greg Oden’s Mother. New York Vinnie thinks it must be Greg Oden’s Lover because it sounds to Vinnie like he is boning You! Yes that is correct New York Vinnie will never start a fight! You are the one who is trying to start a fight you little Nancy-Boy with your Frickin Panties all bunched up! New York Vinnie has forgotten more about basketball than you will ever know! You can quote all the Frickin stats you want but if Old Pops Oden can’t play they don’t mean SQUAT! Your Boy is a broken down old horse one step away from the Glue Factory. The only All-Star team he will ever play on is the one on the Bobs Big Boy team when he is a dishwasher for that restaurant in three years. New York Vinnie has some advice for you there Pal. Why don’t you start your own Frickin Website you can call it Portland Percy’s Home For Cry-Babies. If you ever decide to come to a real city like NEW YORK CITY let Vinnie know! I will meet you at the airport, tear off your Frickin Head and Crap down your Frickin Throat You Sissy-Boy Pud!
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August 1st, 2009 at 3:06 am
HAHaha this guy thinks he is so popular he writes in third person. Like no one knows who he is so he has to get his name out there. “Le Basketbawl”?? So you’re a LeBlunt James fan? Why don’t you write more about LeBong isntead of players coming off their rookie year.
LeChron is out there snatching up tapes of getting dunked on. Shouldn’t that be news to you?
August 1st, 2009 at 3:23 am
Yo Peabrain!
Don’t You read the Frickin news You Frickin Moron? The tapes were given back where have you been sniffin Frickin Glue? No You sad excuse for a human being New York Vinnie is not a fan of LeBron James. Again it just goes to show you don’t know how to Frickin read! New York Vinnie is a fan of the New York Knicks! Does LeBron James play for the New York Knicks Chuckle Head? No of course not! Are You on Drugs or just naturally Frickin Slow Witted? Come on Back when Your Mommy will write you another e-mail You Frickin Lumber Jack Lovin Plaid Shirt Wearin No-Mind Goon! And Oden is a broken down old glue factory nag!
August 1st, 2009 at 3:26 am
Yo Fargon!
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December 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
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December 7th, 2009 at 5:39 am
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