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No Oden, No problem. Nicolas Batum for ROY!

Found November 01, 2008 on Sports Muffin:
PLAYERS: Greg Oden,  Rudy Fernandez,  Jerryd Bayless
TEAMS: Portland Trail Blazers,  San Antonio Spurs

After a listless effort in their opener, the Portland Trailblazers won a nailbiter at home against a tough San Antonio Spurs team on Friday night. The Blazers are loaded with rookie of the year candidates as many picked Greg Oden to win the award heading into the season. Rookie Spaniard Rudy Fernandez has been another trendy pick after his solid performance against Team USA in the Olympic gold medal matchup. A few even thought that maybe Jerryd Bayless could potentially surprise some people this season as he was the summer league MVP. After watching this evenings game against the Spurs, however, I think I'm going to pick the Frenchman Nicolas Batum as my ROY favorite. Read rest of the article at the Muffin!
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10 Comments:
  • I was at the game tonight, and damn that kid can ball. Was pretty sketchy about KP picking him instead of kopenen, but like I always say, in KP we trust. Man he can scout them.
    by KeeganJM   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +4 Likes
  • That was a thriller at the end!
    Gotta love that the arena was jam packed. Did you catch the unfortunate Warriors game? The Toronto arena was EMPTY!
    Sad.
    Win lose or draw - you gotta show up for your team!
    by GSWgirl   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +2 Likes
  • Man, I really hope you just mean rookie of the year on the Blazers.
    by Ruggedly   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +3 Likes
  • pretty much, i get excited though
    by HairyGuate   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +3 Likes
  • True to your point though, we had the best margin of scoring in the Phoenix game with Batum at SF
    by Ruggedly   November 02, 2008   Reply   Options  
  • yea postin 100 on the spurs is a pretty good night. almost looked like travis was trying to keep up with nic and kinda forcing things. talk about LENGTH!
    by lewii5   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +2 Likes
  • Yeah agreed. From what I have seen out of Batum is that his bball IQ is already much higher then Travis, I like Travis a lot, but I dont know. He has really taken some bad shots, still early in the season, so no real predictions for me.

    And the ROY award is messed up, look at the Al Horford his rookie season was crazy good, but Durant still picked it up. Mainly just on a point per basis scale.

    I think if all our rookies had minutes they would all be in talks. Bayless, Rudy, Batum, Oden.

    You never know, Oden or Rudy could really get into a flow later in the season.

    But my money is on Rose.
    by KeeganJM   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +2 Likes
  • i really want trout to prove me wrong, but i think batum might be starting in a week or two.
    good call on rose, but if he's going to get ROY he really needs to help the players around him.
    rudy brings a lot of the intangibles to the table and those don't really matter in ROY awards, so he's got the odds against him. those offensive rebounds last night by him were huge.
    I personally think Beasley is still the guy to beat.
    by lewii5   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +1 Likes
  • But really, I think KP really sold his soul to the devil. How does he pick dudes up like this. I looked at Batum and was like WTF, are we retarted for picking him up?

    But KP pulls it out again. I want KP to do my fantasy league for me.
    by KeeganJM   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +3 Likes
  • haha, good call. If this were baseball I wonder how much the Yanks would throw his way?
    by HairyGuate   November 01, 2008   Reply   Options   +1 Likes
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