Showing posts with label Anthony Oden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthony Oden. Show all posts

Monday, March 26, 2007

The "Average" Oden


6.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 0.5 blocks. That is what Anthony Oden, brother (allegedly) of wunderkind Greg Oden, averaged over the Ohio High School Final Four. How does a 6'8", 270lb junior only average 0.5 blocks over the two most important games of the season? Most high school teams are lucky to have a 6'3" guy playing center while eating at Old Country Buffet befor the game to get his weight over 210. Especially in the championship game in which Oden's Dayton Dunbar team faced an Upper Sandusky team reminiscent of Hickory from the "Hoosiers" movie. Upper Sandusky had their Jimmy Chitwood in Ohio State bound John Diebler, a white guy Mr. Basketball who had one heck of a stat line. Try this: 48 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 blocks and 7 steals. While scoring 48 of 85 points, taking 19 of the 21 free throws, and taking 21 of the teams 42 threes. Guess we know who might make it to the NBA one day and who is likely to be sitting in the audience at SNL while watching a much better older brother succeed again where you have failed time and time again.