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"One thing's for sure: we're going to make sure he has a left hand once this is all over," Matta told The Sporting News.
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This will turn out to be a perfect example of how a good thing can come out of a bad circumstance. If Oden has a decent left hand to go along with an impressive right hand, it will make him all the more valuable to Ohio State, Team USA and the NBA team that obtains his services.
I don't remember the exact details, but Larry Bird once spent an entire summer shooting left-handed, for hours and hours a day, in order to improve his all-around game, after he was already in the NBA. The end result was perhaps the greatest NBA player with regards to being able to shoot with either hand.