Thursday, August 30, 2007

BLAZERS: Early Practices & Remarkable Dunks

The team is already congregating and practicing together - a month prior to camp officially beginning. This can only mean good things. Greg Oden is showing signs of promise. Channing Frye, who spent the previous weeks guarding Amare Stoudemire and Dwight Howard at USA select team practices in Las Vegas, said of Oden: "That kid is a monster, just a monster. He is so strong. He has no idea how strong he is. He doesn't even realize it. He was just throwing me around."
Martell Webster had a monster throw down Monday. With LaMarcus Aldridge playing tight D, he crossed over and threw it down. One on-looker called it "The most remarkable dunk this practice facility has ever seen." With a comment like that, I imagine it was a nasty one-handed Tomahawk thump. Martell is usually mentioned as a shooter, but let us not forget he has mad hops and, when his confidence allows him, can be pretty impressive inside the paint. He still has LOTS to prove, but he is still showing that he has potential to hang with the big boys one day.






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