All-time best Blazer defenders

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It's not just the Carmelo signing, although God knows that doesn't help. It just seems to me that Olshey doesn't give a shit about defense. But then I got to thinking: maybe that's a Blazer tradition. While other teams can have two way superstars (Jordan, Olajuwon, LeBron, Kobe, Duncan, Antetokounmpo et. al.) none of our great players is known for his defense. Who are the best individual defenders in Blazer history? I'm struggling. I guess Buck Williams? Greg Anthony? Our best current defender is probably Nurk, although Collins was looking promising.
 
Bill Walton by far. Then Buck, Bowie, Luke, Clyde, Kersey, Sheed, etc. Porter was probably an underrated defender. Pippen while on the team.
 
Reep said:
Bill Walton by far. Then Buck, Bowie, Luke, Clyde, Kersey, Sheed, etc. Porter was probably an underrated defender. Pippen while on the team.
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Pippen, no doubt, although he wasn't close to Bulls Pippen. Have to take the oldies' words on Walton and Maurice Lucas. Never thought of Clyde as much of a defender, except steals and the occasional chase-down block. Brian Grant and Rasheed both deserve mention, I guess.
 
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Is that simply by being fucking huge? Because he was basically immobile.
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He gave people a lot of trouble at the rim. He had never had a defensive rating above 97 and averaged 2.3 blocks over 7 years. I would call that pretty substantial. Same number of blocks as Marc Gasol, but Gasol's lowest defensive rating (on a good defensive team) was 98. Agreed he didn't cover the perimeter at all.
 
like people have said, Walton leads the pack. Larry Steele was good, and Buck was really good. Others who haven't been mentioned: Lionel Hollins, TR Dunn, Stacy Augmon, Aaron Mckie, Darnell Valentine

also: Blazers had Don Buse for half a season and he was named to the all-NBA defense 1st team 6 times, including 5 straight seasons.
 
I'm putting Al Farouq Aminu on the list....he's a super underrated defender that was also a defensive floor general for us....we miss him this season
 
Pippen belongs on the list because there actually isn't a ton of competition, but while he was both an incredible individual and team defender in Chicago, he was really only a great team defender in Portland and more along the lines of pretty good on the ball.
 
Kurt Thomas, Rueben Patterson, Gerald Wallace....actually Steve Blake's best talent was his toughness on defense as well..Gerald Henderson too
 
Marcus Camby
Kermit Washington
 
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Marcus Camby
Kermit Washington
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Marcus Camby for only about 7 games...then he went to sleep...he pissed me off that season...he should have kept us in the mix...instead he took 13.3 mil to have 7 decent games...I ranted about that guy and Felton for a year...if we'd kept Andre Miller, Camby would've probably been a game changer...with Felton at point, Camby was our best lob passer
 
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