Hooped Up

With Channing Frye out until at least November and Raef Lafrentz maybe not playing at all this season.  Greg Oden will see heavy minutes in his rookie season and he is ready to roll.

“Five weeks of workouts with trainer Jay Jensen and strength and conditioning coach Bobby Medina have dropped Greg Oden’s weight from about 300 to 285. “I’m getting there,” Oden says. “I’m not going to say I’m in the best shape of my life, but it’s getting a lot better. I can tell the difference the past two weeks.” There is no pain in the knee, Oden says. The past five weeks, he has paced himself, working gradually into five-on-five pickup games at the Blazers’ training facility but taking part only every other day. This week, Oden will play all four days, “but only three or four games a day,” he says.”

Portland Tribune