Who had the better Blazer career; Roy or Aldridge?

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Who had the better Blazer career?

  • Brandon Roy

    Votes: 15 36.6%

  • LaMarcus Aldridge

    Votes: 26 63.4%
  • Total voters
    41
  • Poll closed .
DaLincolnJones said:
Great post Wizard Mentor

Just to add to that..people forget with the fog of LAs recent couple of years, how less than awesome he was. LA had the starting job right out of the gate as implied by being the number two pick. I would rather be watching someone like Meyers have to earn and learn to appreciate the position. Give Meyers a year then compare their collective first few seasons..
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Slight nitpick: LA wasn't a starter his rookie year.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Good point I mis-remembered. Of course we wouldn't have had to amnesty him if he'd stayed medically retired...
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I believe the medical retirement only meant that the team would not have to pay his salary out of pocket, but it would still count against the cap. The amnesty came after he retired, or right around it.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Roy sacrificed shit; he played for Minny which put his massive salary on our books for years and hamstrung us from becoming a true powerhouse after he was gone. We paid him 19 million on our books last season. Wouldn't that have been nice to have last summer? Thank Roy for wanting to play 20 games for Minny.
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No we didn't, Roy's contract was amnestied after the latest CBA renegotiation, he had literally zero impact on our cap whatsoever. PA had to pay him whatever the insurance didn't cover, but otherwise you're completely wrong.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Slight nitpick: LA wasn't a starter his rookie year.
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That is why I wrote "as implied " everyone knew that the mantle had passed the moment LA was drafted. BUT I will accept the nitpick from someone as highly regarded as yourself....it means that I am not on your ignore list hahaha
 
Roy led the Blazers out of a really rough time in franchise history. He gave fans a reason to cheer and believe again. He brought heart and hustle, leading the team to some incredible last second wins. Roy made the Blazers relevant again, LaMarcus played longer, scored more points, pulled down more rebounds but he didn't really lead the team anywhere. I'm not knocking Aldridge, Roy was a shooting star when we really needed one. Roy exceeded expectations, we saw glimpses with Aldridge but he never quite lived up to them.

Roy meant more when he played here so, IMO, Roy had the better career.
 
Roy at his best was much better than Aldridge. I've been waiting for Aldridge to take that next step to be one of the top dominant NBA big man and thought he might be able to finally do it his next few seasons here but his Blazer legacy was also finished somewhat incomplete. Roy lead the 2008-9 54 win team with the most efficient offense since the best Nash era Suns. Roy did it with an offensively inept Pryzbilla in the middle; something Nash never had to overcome. That year it was all Roy isolation's for the fourth quarter with Outlaw at PF. Defenses couldn't do anything to stop it. Let Roy take the ball up top one on one and he got a layup, foul, or open three point shot for a teammate. LMA was never that dominant. Roy never had the quality of teammates Aldridge had for Aldridges best few years here. That series loss in 2009 against Houston our third and fourth best players were scoring 9 and 7 points per game in Steve Blake and Rudy Fernandez. What would Roy have accomplished if he had players of the caliber of Rolo, Batum, Wes, and Dame all starting alongside him?

LaMarcus obviously shined longer but Roy shined much, much brighter. Will I think of Aldridge more fondly a few years from now? Perhaps, but I just remember those peak Roy moments much more than any of Aldridges. Roy was a much better leader, spokesman and teammate. Aldridge isn't a bad guy he's just sort of an uninteresting loner personality as Kareem Abdul Jabar is. Roy was the type of person players, fans and the media all enjoyed being around.
 
Roy. He is far more iconic imo. Aldridge will go down as just a long tenured Blazers player. Terry and Cliff level (but a notch below because of lack of playoff success.

Roy was the franchise reviver, for that he is always gonna be my 1a or 1b with Lillard.
 
julius said:
I believe the medical retirement only meant that the team would not have to pay his salary out of pocket, but it would still count against the cap. The amnesty came after he retired, or right around it.
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No that's not true. Remember when we tried to medically retire Miles so we could get more cap space? It fucked us because he signed a couple of 10 days with Memphis and his contract came back on our cap space.
 
LAs Blazers career included voluntarily leaving the team in his prime and fucking the fans over with a rebuild so Roy wins by default.
 
Here's a good one. Has a premium franchise player ever retired a Blazer? Roy (whom I worship) had that aborted comeback with Minnesota) Clyde Drexler will always view Houston with more love than us. Whenever Walton is mentioned, it's with UCLA or Boston. LMA's future career path is on an arc similar to Frank Robinson with the Orioles. There is no franchise in the modern NBA with players who have no identity like Portland. For me, Sabas may be the ultimate Blazer. And he left us twice!
 
Not super uncommon for franchise players to play their last year's somewhere else. Think of guys like Rice, Montana, Karl Malone, Gary Payton, Barkley, Pippen, Jordan, Olajuwon, Barkley, Shaq....
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
LAs Blazers career included voluntarily leaving the team in his prime and fucking the fans over with a rebuild so Roy wins by default.
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I call BS. LA's career involved making it out of THE FIRST ROUND, something Roy couldn't do even with HOME COURT advantage. Sure Dame made the shot but Aldridge gave an all time franchise performance games 1-2 to make winning the series even possible.

And y'all wonder why LA never felt loved in Portland, still to this day in Roy's shadow.
 
HailBlazers said:
I call BS. LA's career involved making it out of THE FIRST ROUND, something Roy couldn't do even with HOME COURT advantage. Sure Dame made the shot but Aldridge gave an all time franchise performance games 1-2 to make winning the series even possible.

And y'all wonder why LA never felt loved in Portland, still to this day in Roy's shadow.
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Aldridge had way better teams than Roy did.
 
HailBlazers said:
I call BS. LA's career involved making it out of THE FIRST ROUND, something Roy couldn't do even with HOME COURT advantage. Sure Dame made the shot but Aldridge gave an all time franchise performance games 1-2 to make winning the series even possible.

And y'all wonder why LA never felt loved in Portland, still to this day in Roy's shadow.
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You know, I'm probably the worst person to talk but having a magnetic personality usually helps with fan appeal. Not being a jaded prick being bitter about the relationships of other player's with the fans. There was no reason LMA couldn't have been just as loved. If he wanted to be a leader he obviously read the wrong books .
 
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HailBlazers said:
I call BS. LA's career involved making it out of THE FIRST ROUND, something Roy couldn't do even with HOME COURT advantage. Sure Dame made the shot but Aldridge gave an all time franchise performance games 1-2 to make winning the series even possible.

And y'all wonder why LA never felt loved in Portland, still to this day in Roy's shadow.
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Who gives a fuck if you get out of the first round if you're just going to leave the team the year afterwards. That's what pisses me off about LA and why he didn't have the better "Blazers" career. He was on a path to do BETTER things, but he voluntarily gave that up. As far as I'm concerned his time on the Blazers didn't exist because he built it up only to break it down.

LA had plenty of love in Portland. He had MVP chants, he would have gone down as the greatest Blazer in team history had he stayed, he would have had a statue in the Rose Quarter, yet he chose not to so his career on the Blazers was bullshit. He was an "also ran" as far as I'm concerned.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Roy sacrificed shit; he played for Minny which put his massive salary on our books for years and hamstrung us from becoming a true powerhouse after he was gone. We paid him 19 million on our books last season. Wouldn't that have been nice to have last summer? Thank Roy for wanting to play 20 games for Minny.
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Not part of the cap calculation, just a hit on Daddy Warbuck's checking account.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
LA had plenty of love in Portland. He had MVP chants, he would have gone down as the greatest Blazer in team history had he stayed, he would have had a statue in the Rose Quarter, yet he chose not to so his career on the Blazers was bullshit. He was an "also ran" as far as I'm concerned.
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Not even close! He's not even the best PF in Blazer history.
 
magnifier661 said:
No that's not true. Remember when we tried to medically retire Miles so we could get more cap space? It fucked us because he signed a couple of 10 days with Memphis and his contract came back on our cap space.
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Im not sure if they're the same scenario here. Brandon found out he had to retire, the Blazers then amnestied him. Him playing for the Wolves didn't impact the salary cap.
 
Both were fantastic - LaMarcus was around much longer, but for me, it was always Roy - While LMA was the best player on the team in the last couple of years, he needed Dame to shine for the Blazers to really succeed. Roy's teams were dragged by his dominant play, he was a true Alpha dog.
 
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