Blazers in review part 1

Now that the season has been over for a couple weeks (drag) I’ll start putting up some player reviews. Not everyone mind you but those players who had an impact on the team for the good and the bad, first up the big three.

Brandon Roy

What’s to say really? After all this man did for the team last year could we say that he was still the most improved player on the team? For the most part he stayed healthy missing only four games this year, some of which were due to a death in the family, his scoring went up 3.5 points per game, FG% was up 2.6%, and still carried 5 boards and 5 assists, all while playing half a min less per game (thank you Rudy).

Brandon Roy went from fringe All Star player this year to the 7^th best player in the NBA. The man is a leader of one of the most promising teams in the league. Stay in school kids.

LaMarcus Aldridge

The Blazers second gun, I won’t even call him Robin to Roy’s Batman, how about a young Batman to Roy’s Prime Batman? Aldridge just needs to learn a few things. Before the season, the knock on LA (besides his nickname) was that he was too soft and didn’t take the ball inside. This year he came out and proved that he could play anywhere from the rim to 18 feet. He went inside, he went outside, he popped of the pick and roll, and for a softy he got 7.5 rebounds a game, not bad for a guy who competed with Joel and GO for boards. Do people realize he averaged just 1 point less this year than Brandon did last year? One year younger too. Hmm me thinks he is going to be on a nice incline next year.

Greg Oden

Disappointment was the word that fallowed Oden around this year. I’m not sure if I’d got that far. Looking at his base stats you see 8 points and 7 boards in 21 mins of play. Now some people are looking at that and saying, hey if you give him 36 mins he averages 14 and 12. While that sounds nice, it’s not like the coaching staff was holding him back, they can’t play a player who is in constant foul trouble. The biggest thing Greg can do this off season is work on keeping his hands up and moving his feet. I am going to throw some stats around just to show you how he can play. Let’s look at January, he was back from the ankle injury and played some of his best ball, these are the kind or numbers I expect from him next year.

Games 10

Mins 33.1

Points 14.4

Rebounds 9.5

Double Doubles 4