Oden Vs Durant
Posted on June 27th, 2007 by MoverMike
My central Oregon friend Michael Hall sends me information by John Hollinger ESPN Insider, in which Hollinger has developed an analytical method for evaluating draftees and makes the case that Durant is the best player in the draft. Thus Portland should draft Durant #1. His two big knocks against Oden are the bad wrist he suffered that held down his stats and 7-footers.
Hey, I don’t make the rules, I just play by ‘em. Seven-footers in the drafts I studied tended to greatly underperform their college stats in the pros.
We’ll know tomorrow. I’m guessing Oden!
It’s gotta be Oden. They wouldn’t draft somebody else…would they????
[…] Today, the Trail Blazers went public with their choice of General Manager. He’s 44-year-old Rich Cho, the Oklahoma City assistant general manager. Oklahoma City, formerly the Seattle SuperSonics, now the Thunder, drafted Kevin Durant #2 after Portland chose Greg Oden #1. I was going through some of my 2007 posts and I came across this post of mine: Oden Vs Durant. […]