Notice Clyde Drexler’s stern message to Damian Lillard after CJ McCollum trade & more

It also feels shitty that fans, or ex players, will say a guy is complacent, only cares about his ego instead of success, but then mock Durant for his rings.

 

Nothing against Drexler he was great while playing but he also had pretty good supporting cast around him while he played here too. He had 2 chances to win it all in Portland and that team fail both times. There a lot great players that didn't win championships but that doesn't make them less of a great player. Will Dame ever win a championship probably not just because how a few teams load there roster ups. Plus winning championship everything has fall in place as healthy team and some luck on the way.

 

It’s weird though. Sticking with the marriage analogy, Clyde is like the doctor who was married to someone through college and medical school. That person helped pay for school and was loving and cared for him a lot. He becomes a doctor and finds a lot of success but he decides that he wants kids and his wife can’t have kids. So she understands and helps him find a new wife who can have kids. He has kids and he’s happy and now he pretends like his ex didn’t do anything for him and he’s telling her new husband that he should also leave.

 

It's actually a lot more like he left the wife that got him through school and he knew his whole life for a new one and then left his second wife for his first. It's crazy to me how often people seemingly forget that Houston is Clyde's hometown and where he went to college. It kind of sucks that his loyalty isn't here but it only sucks for us, it's not disloyal to have loyalty to the place that made you over the place where you had the bulk of your professional success. Don't get me wrong, as far as Dame is concerned he needs to shut the fuck up but as far as he is concerned you've got the first wife confused with the second.

 

This seems like an odd veiled dig at Lillard, that him getting the scoring record is more about longevity. Lillard has played 711 games for Portland. Clyde played in 867. Dame is 530 points behind Clyde, in 150 less games. He can average 20 a game for less than 30 games and top CLyde in less games. But Dame beating him is more about longevity? He's 200 assists behind Clyde. But when he passes him there, it's about longevity? ok

 

They're probably different people.

 

Oh my goodness, this is ridiculous. Anything that isn't just the way someone else wants it is an "odd veiled dig"? Be better. It is an observation. If he wasn't here very long, he wouldn't have many of the career total records. Is that a shot at someone like Roy whose career was cut short due to injury? The assist thing is also just an observation that Clyde, playing SG/SF, is still the leader after all this time in assists to any PG that has ever played. Dame will pass him. They are both great players.

Stop searching for negativity when there isn't any. Maybe that is the way some people chose to live their lives. Guess I shouldn't be surprised any more.

 

Great post. Dame will have the records because he has been great in a Blazers uniform, PERIOD!

 

Not a great post. Walton was great in a Blazers uniform but he doesn't have any of the records because of a lack of longevity, PERIOD!

 

Obviously if he wasn't here long, he wouldn't get those records. But to say he'll have them because of longevity is taking an unnecessary dig at him when he will have spent less time than Drexler here to get those records. I don't have to search hard for negativity in your posts, it's frequently there, whether out in the open, or right under the surface.

 

Obviously someone has to play long enough to set all time records. But there's a difference in it being almost entirely because of longevity, a guy hanging on and hanging on to surpass a record, and a guy doing it in less time than others. If Dame was short the record at age 37, and was here playing 19 minutes a night, getting 7 points per game, and THEN broke the record, it'd be because of longevity. Not when he does it in less games played than Drexler.

 

No. It's overdue.

 

Clyde has them due to longevity. Dame will break them due to longevity. Not a dig....unless you are putting one there on your own.

 

I took @TBpup 's post differently than you did. I thought he was saying that due to longevity Dame is bound to pass Clyde's records but not that Dame couldn't and won't pass them without having more longevity than Clyde. That's just how I read it.

 

Due to longevity would imply to me, that it was taking him more time to do it. Due to being a superior scorer is why he will pass Drexler.

 

speaking of the impact of longevity:





looks like Clyde ranks where he does due to longevity, rather than Dame

 

Bingo!

 

Longevity is REQUIRED to have those types of record. You have to be very good, for a long period of time. Both are incredible players. Both are Top-75. Likely if I pointed out where they were ranked, I'd be dissing Dame somehow.

Feel free to mind read, assign negative intent, or whatever hallucination you would like to apply.

 

Nahhhhhh...... Houston is basically his parents. The Rockets are his second wife.

You aren't born into marriage..... at least not in the US. Some places might be like that. The city nurtured him and obviously he has a lot of love for Houston, but he was drafted by Portland and we built around him. We passed on Michael Jordan for his ungrateful ass. Clearly he never loved Portland. Kinda reminds me of Brandon Roy honestly. I don't think Roy ever loved Portland either.

 

Now that's a great, informative post