Oden Will Be Running In a Few Weeks

[.GR]

Bobby Medina, in his 11th year in Portland as their strength and conditioning coach after five years with Seattle, says Oden reminds him of a young Shawn Kemp or Jermaine O’Neal in terms of work ethic.

“Greg’s a monster in the weight room,” Medina says. “I’m not at all worried about his (weight). Once he gets into his cardio, running up and down, he’ll be fine – he’s an active guy."

“Right now is a tough time because all he can do is ride a bike and do a little work in the water. But when he gets to the point where he can run, he’ll lose some weight and keep all the muscle and his tone."

“We don’t want him to be a football player. We want him to keep his athleticism, but he needs to be strong at that position.”

Oden gets that sheepish grin when asked how he’s doing.

“Right now, I’m just enjoying being big,” he says. (Don’t you just love this guy?)

“I’m the strongest I’ve ever been,” he adds. “I hope I can stay that way, but that I’ll be able to get my weight down after I’m able to start running again. Jay (Jensen, the Blazer trainer) says I can do that at four months, so I’m a few weeks away.”

 

[dez]

They say he's put on some weight, If I were a Blazers fan wouldnt want him to rush back. I mean they're on a 10 game winning streak and he could make it worse.

 

[.GR]

Yeah, he wont be playing at al this season. But he will be ready for sure come next season.

 

[.GR]

Asked about Greg Oden's rehab, Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard wanted to make things clear. "He's so far ahead of what we expected it's not even funny," Pritchard said by phone Thursday. "Having said that, he will not. Come. Back. This. Year."

Fannation

 

[DJT]

They were giving out some awards to guys in NCAAF (like May something) and a couple of gys tore their ACL, didn't want surgery and kept playing, and did very well.

But I hope Oden will be able to get his knees strong and healthy so they won't have problems in the future.

 

[kdogg]

They were giving out some awards to guys in NCAAF (like May something) and a couple of gys tore their ACL, didn't want surgery and kept playing, and did very well.

But I hope Oden will be able to get his knees strong and healthy so they won't have problems in the future.

Yea I was watching that too, they showed a kicker with basically half an arm

 

[.s31t]

Oden definatly will be a stud next year. He's better then Beasley by far. I think the rookies next will take it over the sophomores. Just think:

C -- Greg Oden
PF -- DeAndre Jordan
SF -- Michael Beasley
SG -- OJ Mayo
PG -- Derrick Rose.

Very Studly.

 

[DJT]

Oden definatly will be a stud next year. He's better then Beasley by far. I think the rookies next will take it over the sophomores. Just think:

C -- Greg Oden
PF -- DeAndre Jordan
SF -- Michael Beasley
SG -- OJ Mayo
PG -- Derrick Rose.

Very Studly.

Will they let Oden be on the Rookie team. I know technically he'd be a Soph. but he didn't play, I wondered what they would do about that. So next season will they call him a rook or him having 1 year experienced, cause he didn't get any experience.