SB Nation User Blog: Jumbo

Greg Oden hits a half court shot.

Jumbo — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:15:14 -0000

Greg Oden hits a half court shot.

Shaq on Twitter

Jumbo — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:43:06 -0000

Shaq on Twitter

I just found out about this today. It's a running monologue direct from the mind of Shaquille O'Neal. Therefore it is awesome.

Elie Seckback talks to Greg Oden

Jumbo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:02:20 -0000

Elie Seckback talks to Greg Oden

Roy game time decision tomorrow

Jumbo — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:21:37 -0000

Jason Quick reports that Brandon Roy's bruised tailbone might keep him out of the game against Utah tomorrow:

Roy has a badly bruised tailbone, the result of a hard fall Thursday after his driving layin was blocked by Ben Wallace in the final minute of regulation during the Blazers' 115-109 double-overtime victory at Chicago.

"My legs kind of ran into (Wallace's) and I landed smack on my butt,'' Roy said after the game. "And it just went downhill from there.''

After the fall, Roy's back began to tighten up, gradually hindering his game. Roy had a sweet and-one in the overtime, driving baseline after a spinning move off Kirk Hinrich and being fouled by Wallace while making the layin. But with his back tightening and aching, Roy deferred more and more, a direct contrast to the first four quarters, when Roy sliced-and-diced his way to 20 points and a career-high tying 11 assists.
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I'm sure Brandon and the trainers will do what's best, but the way this team's been clicking, I see no reason to pressure the kid into playing if he needs a day off. Just another opportunity for someone to step up and have a great game.

Dean Demopoulos talks to TrueHoop

Jumbo — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:49:55 -0000

Henry Abbot's rocking another in his series of interviews with assistant coaches. This time with the Blazers' zone guru, Dean Demopoulos.

Lots of good stuff but my favorite graph was the one about how G.O.'s learning the NBA game while rehabbing:

What kind of teaching-the-game stuff can you do with Greg Oden while he's watching all this?
He gets it through osmosis a little bit. Just being there, feeling it, you know. Making sure that you show him things that are happening on the floor. I know when we were playing bigger, stronger players the Mournings, the Shaqs, Luke was making sure Greg watched how the power players play. And we don't have a power player on our team. There are only a few of them in the world.

Guys always learn better from watching guys. That's how little kids watch and mimic you. They learn better through watching and seeing what players do and stuff like that. You know, being around practice, he's a nice kid, he's a nice guy. Hopefully, he'll come back and get into condition for us and start from there.

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Eyewitness Report

Jumbo — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:45:08 -0000

Went to my first Blazer game at the Staples Center. Oh what fun. I was decked literally head to toe in Blazer gear with my opening night hat and my brand new Addidas Blazer kicks. I was heckled quite politely at a bar before I even got to the arena. Two nice old guys told me the Blazers would lose and then wished us luck. When I got to my seat I immediately began my usual Laker heckling which consists mainly of me yelling at every player to pass the ball to Kobe and then yelling at Kobe to shoot the ball when ever he got it. My favorite part came when Kobe missed a free throw while all his fans were chanting "MVP" and then Brandon Roy went to the line the next play and I got to be the only guy in the Staples Center yelling "Rookie of the Year". A few guys behind me were making a few "Go back to Oregon and hug a tree" comments but they kept there mouth shut in the 4th quarter.

Jarrett was phenomenal. He scored 30 and you barely noticed. He just did his job. Aldridge was a freaking assassin from midrange. They'd leave him wide open at the top of the key and he was just automatic. I hadn't seen him play that many minutes before and I was a big fan.

The worst part of the game was obviously Joel going down. The Vanilla Gorilla is my boy. He signed my Chalupa coupon last year. It was painful to watch him limping off the court. Also it was no fun watching Martell still looking lost and ineffective out there.

All in all though it was a great feeling. Getting all geeked out and dressed up in my gear and yet still not looking like an idiot cuz my team won! Doesn't get better than that.