[Groundhog]

A lot of Oden's fouls, from what I've seen, have been fairly stupid and avoidable. He just doesn't want to get beat, so he reaches and tries everything to stop the shot when he should just put his hands straight up and allow the odd basket here and there, realising that sometimes it's more important to allow a basket than foul, because you're more valuable to your team on the court than sitting on the bench.

Prime example was the Spurs game a few weeks ago. He picked up two quick fouls on Duncan in the first quarter, and both were just stupid fouls where he put arms forward instead of sticking them straight up. A rookie mistake, which is no big surprise considering how much time he has missed. Still, looks like he's improving on this already, and I like Portland's "one foul per quarter or it's to the bench" rule for him.