Greg Oden has now missed 10 straight games for the Portland Trailblazers. Oden, averaging 9 points and 7 rebounds a game, has a knee injury this time. Can we say that Oden is injury prone and it is not "bad luck" anymore... seriously. Oden is like a really nice car that is in the garage all the time. Looks nice, got it for a good price ($$$) , has some nice flat monitors in it, but has too many problems and is always in the shop. That's Oden in a nutshell at the moment.
Quit with this bad luck jargon. Karl Malone missed eight games in his eighteen year career in the National Basketball Association. Oden is obviously injury prone. Portland made a poor decision and drafting the wrong guy and it is just that simple. Oden has had back issues, knee issues, and all kinds of issues in high school and college. Do not expect the injuries to just come to a halt now that he is in the NBA. (There is no Shaman in the NBA.) The NBA is a a more physical, longer season with the most athletic basketball players on planet Earth. As "big boned" as Oden is, his body is like an object from the store Coach House (a craft store)- he is FRAGILE... a soft piece of science matter.
For example, your wife gets in seven car accidents. That is not bad luck. She is just a bad driver. She may deny it, but she is wrong. It is an example of mediocre people validating their lack of success. That being said, Oden does not have to be a 25 and 10 guy every single night on the basketball court. If Oden averages 12 and 10 it would be considered a good career. To argue that Oden just has bad luck is just silly.
Meanwhile that "other guy," Kevin Durrant, has other issues. Durrant has had slowing down issues. He is scoring at will right now for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Durrant is averaging 26 points and 6 rebounds a game. He is the fourth best scorer in the NBA at the moment behind Dwayne Wade, Lebron James, and Kobe Bryant (good company).
Do not worry Portland. Your team is fine without Oden. Your currently fifth in the West and you still have a premier scorer in Brandon Roy (22 ppg). You also have one of the "deeper" benches in the NBA, including the likes of Joel Przybilla and Jerryd Bayless who are both coming along. Lastly, LeMarcus Aldridge is no pushover as a "big man" either (17 ppg 7 rpg). The Blazers are still a year or two away from being one of the premier teams out West. Not only did they make a bad move by not picking up anyone before the trade deadline, but they made the catastrophic decision of not drafting Kevin Durrant in the 2007 NBA Draft. (That is the real problem!)
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