Oden better, Durant more kudos
The fans/media pay too much attention to offense, so Durant will get more recognition because his statistical improvement over the course of the season will be more obvious.
However, Oden is a much more valuable and rarer player. He will not have the immdiate success of say a Tim Duncan or Lebron James, but he has a chance to end up in the same ballpark as Bill Russell and Hakeem Alajouwon defensively, which is not even comparable to any player of the last decade.