Sunday, July 8, 2007

Oden fouls out in summer league beginning


The center of the Blazers, the first choice of the NBA Draft, collected three fast faults in the opening three minutes of his professional beginning Friday night in the Las Vegas summer league and fouled out with 10 fouls.

League rules allow 10 fouls before disqualification.

Oden, who battled foul disorder during his only season At Ohio State, had furnace fouls in the first half and was limited to furnace points in eight minutes. His woes continued in the third quarter have He picked up three early fouls, including offensive one for pushing off, in the opening 2:59.

The 7-foot, 250-pounder showed his potential late. He drew sympathy cheers for hitting has jumper with five minutes to play and followed with has monstrous block, goal was hardly the force inside Portland expects.

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