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Trail Blazers and their fans enjoy a Rip City revival

Oden for ROY? (With Poll)

j-blaze — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:50:33 -0000

Oden for ROY? (With Poll)

I decided to do a little research on the top rookies in the league and see how our guys are doing comparatively. What I found was pretty interesting and shows that we have a good chance of seeing one our players as ROY this year. The main prospects on our team for ROY are obviously Rudy and Oden. Rudy we know about, but Oden hasn’t been talked about much, so let’s look at the numbers. Before everyone jumps on me, I know it is too early to tell, I just want to put this out there. I got these stats from NBA.com players section. I went through the stats and highlighted the leaders for each stat at this point of the season, this is what we have so far:

Leading Stats	Player	Season	Team	G	GS	MPG	FG%	3p%	FT%	OFF	DEF	RPG
3	Mayo	09-Aug	MEM	11	11	38.5	0.446	0.407	0.892	1.1	3.5	4.5
2	Rose	09-Aug	CHI	11	11	38.3	0.483	0.375	0.833	1.4	3.5	4.8
0	Beasley	09-Aug	MIA	11	11	31.8	0.443	0.308	0.868	1.9	3.7	5.6
5*	Oden	09-Aug	POR	5	1	21.4	0.533	0	0.654	2.2	5	7.2
3	Fernandez	09-Aug	POR	11	0	29	0.444	0.443	0.944	1	2.3	3.3

Leading Stats	Player	Season	Team	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PF	PPG
3	Mayo	09-Aug	MEM	2.4	1.2	0.1	2.64	2.4	20.1
2	Rose	09-Aug	CHI	5.9	1.1	0.1	2.45	1.4	19.5
0	Beasley	09-Aug	MIA	1.5	0.8	0.6	2	2.7	15.4
5*	Oden	09-Aug	POR	0.6	0.6	2.4	2.2	3.6	9.8
3	Fernandez	09-Aug	POR	2.1	1.1	0.3	1.45	1.5	13.5


* Including all Rebounding stats separate

As you can see, Mayo is leading with the PPG so far, but look at the rest of the stats. GO is leading in FIVE of the stats. Granted three of them are rebounding (could count as 1), but hey, he’s leading in them. Then look at the MPG, G, and GS, big difference. Imagine what this will look like when GO is getting close to the same amount of minutes. You can expect all of his numbers to go up, especially if he keeps dropping double doubles and getting noticeably better each night. I know this is a small sample size but I think we should definitely start looking at GO as a contender for ROY. What do you guys think?

Oden for ROY

Rudy for ROY

No way, it’s going to be Mayo, Beasley, or Rose… You’re a homer.

Let’s wait and see what happens

Poll

What do you think?

Oden for ROY

53 votes

Rudy for ROY

24 votes

No way, it’s going to be Mayo, Beasley, or Rose… You’re a homer

29 votes

Let’s wait and see what happens

44 votes

150 votes | Poll has closed

Trade for a Veteran?

j-blaze — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:19:06 -0000

Wats up fellow Blazer Fans, I am new here but have been reading posts here for the last month. I was curious if anyone was watching the summer league game yesterday against Minnesota during the David Aldridge interview. He talked about the possibility of the Blazer packaging a few of our young guys for a veteran like Vince Carter. What are your thought on this, and who do you think we would make a move for? i would assume a vet SF because that seams to be our weakest link ( no offense to Webster or Outlaw, I love these guys).

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