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

that brings up an interesting question: I wonder how Nurkic would have reacted to Laimbeer, Mahorn, and James Edwards, not to mention Rodman

 

Nurkic would have been owned by them.

 

A T-Wolf, a Celtic, and a Rocket.

 

Any discussion of greatest Blazers should include Geoff Petrie. He was out first star and for several years our only glimmer of hope. Like Roy, he was a HOF level talent cut off in his prime by devastating knee injuries. Unlike the above triumverate, he didn't want to leave Portland and actually came back to work in the front office and help build some of our best teams.

 

twolf?

 

After leaving Portland he unretired, signed with the TWolves, then re-retired. He screwed with our cap-space in the process. Just like D (dirtbag) Miles with Memphis.

I wish Roy understood how important he was to this fan base and cared about how much he was worshipped here. Instead, he has made it quite clear he does not. In that respect, I see no difference between Roy and Clyde.

 

That's Dame, Clyde and Bill... no Brandon pictured.

 

Yikes! I need to learn to wear my glasses when I surf the internet! I see the black print on the white background OK, but colors tend to blob up on me.

Man, I feel like a doofus!

 

that's dame in the pic from the top 75 celebration, not broy

 

Sorry but no, it was David Stern's league. Dame or not, Portland's entire front line would have been picking up the same ticky tacks while Detroit mauled them.

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This is how i remember it as well. Some of us actually watched that series.

 

Portland actually attempted & made more FT's than Detroit in that series. Kersey and Duckworth were constantly in foul trouble though. Cliff Robinson was a deer in headlights

Detroit simply made the plays, and shots, when they needed to and Thomas was hot from three at critical times. Mainly, the Pistons won the 4th Q's

 

I really like that picture. I loved Clyde as a Blazer. I really hated when he got traded. And then for a Yugo( over the hill Otis Thorpe) . I just wish Clyde would show more love towards the franchise and the city that loved him. Everything i've heard from him has been like the Blazers were just a stop on the way. Bill talks about his Blazer days a ton. Returns regularly. Clyde's BEST YEARS , performance -wise, were as a Blazer. I know he won a championship in Houston, and it's his Hometown, but it was Portland where he ruled during his NBA career. He seems to have taken that for granted. I hope one day he will realizes that.

 

Clyde is very bright & I'm sure he knows whats what with his playing career. He also knows where he lives and who is writing him checks, so he pumps Rocket sunshine.

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Reading box scores is not the same as watching the games. If you had watched the games, you'd be siting the Microwave as the difference maker not Thomas. But since you went there, I waded through all 82 regular season and 21 playoff box scores from that season to see if memory served me well. Games 1 and 3 vs Detroit featured the two highest foul totals against Portland during that entire span (35 & 38). Those two crucial games also just happened to have the most calls against Portland's starters (22 & 24). Again, Portland was being consistently manhandled on one end while phantom nonsense calls happened on the other. Two different standards were being held which was in line with what happened throughout Stern's era where the bigger market consistently had the favor of his officials when it mattered most.

Perhaps you aware that the NBA is still the only major sports league where the officials don't regulate themselves but instead report directly to the league's front office? Following the Donaghy scandal this was promised to be changed by the league, but was swept under the rug after the public fervor died down. Clearly thats the way Stern wanted it.

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Agree to disagree.

 

Wondering why? To me it's always been pretty obvious he's bright. I don't like everything he says, but thats a different question.

http://www.apbr.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1688

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Clyde has always been considered one of the highest IQ guys that ever played the game on and off the court.

 

To be able to dribble with his head strait down, know where everyone was, and still make the types of passes he did, it was either IQ or a ridiculously innate sense of what was going on all around him.