I just can't put a guy on here because he sucked, or was mediocre , playing wise ( Crawford, Dale Davis, Otis Thorpe). Or because of injuries ( Bowie, Oden). Nobody wants to be injured. It's the attitude, dislike of our city, whininess , that are turn offs. An extra guy who should be in here : Arron Afflalo. He gave zero F's when he was here.
As long as his hair doesn’t hit his shoulders. Don’t want to risk injury.
Should have played Jordan at center like Bobby Knight suggested.
He gave f's until he had to replace Wes instead of back him up
One the Clyde front. Years ago i was watching a Blazers / Rockets game on League Pass. I had the to listen to the Rockets Telecast. Now you can get your Home telecast on League Pass, but then it was different. The Rockets Telecast Team was considered one of the 3 worst in the League, along with Boston, and OKC at the time. All equally atrocious. Clyde was not very complimentary towards the Blazers. The thing that really was a turn off, is when he said "We're better than them". Them being the Blazers. I was like, you were them for the best years of your career. He was snarky through the game like Houston was all that. He became a douchebag to me that day. Like it or not, the Blazers did him a solid by trading him to Houston so he could win a ring. The Blazers got mediocre, long in the tooth, Otis Thorpe in return. Major fail by the GM of the Blazers. Oh well, is what it is. But i get where you're coming from. I will remember Clyde's days as a Blazer in fond terms. Dwight Jaynes says it's the Blazers fault for not having more to do with Clyde. Maybe so. But Bill Walton sure is involved and speaks glowingly about his days. And he didn't leave on the greatest terms either. I think Clyde just doesn't care. Kinda Sad.
The same year Steve Austin was on the team........Interesting, I wasn't aware he played for the Blazers. What year was that?
I've watched several Blazers/Rockets games that Clyde commented on and he did always (as the Rockets broadcaster) say "us" about the Rockets and "them" about the Blazers. A handful of times in different games I listened to he said great things about our team, about our city and how much he loved his time here but would always end with the fact that he always thought of Houston as his home.
I don't know if Ant can dunk on that high of a rim but Shaedon surely could and much much higher.
Yeah, not the kind of totally disparaging remarks that would turn me. I'm biased though. I was a kid that got to go to a lot of games and we would walk down onto the floor at the end of the game and almost all of the players were really nice to me when I'd talk to them. I only got autographs when I was really young but kept going down there after that. Clyde was always really really nice. So if he wasn't your childhood hero, I can see where our paths would diverge.
He’s basically lying. He says shit like it’s nobodies fault or that he won’t talk about Paul and then proceeds to bash on Paul.
Your feelings are fair. But having played his BEST years in Portland, he should never have referred to the Blazers as "them". The other teams in the NBA fine, not the Blazers. The times i listened to him in the telecast, he seemed indifferent to the Blazers. He did express praise towards Dame on multiple occasions . He is a Houston Fanboy, for sure. Like many of us are fanboys for PDX and the Blazers. Maybe it's just that he moved on once he left , and just didn't care. But it is cool that Bill Does, and many other Blazers have, and do as well. Love seeing Terry at the games, and a part of the Broadcast. So if the Blazers management is trying to right a wrong, it's certainly a good start. And also shows that Jody does care.
He basically said what all of us have said, that Paul and now Jody have tended to trust non basketball people about important basketball decisions. I didn't here him say that he didn't like Paul. The stuff about the Blazers not having former players back seems like it's an exaggeration of how Clyde sees it but again it's just not something big enough to where I'm going to start disliking Clyde, a guy who I loved when he was here and still has only said nice things about this place... in public, as far as I know.
I’m with @THE HCP on this thread. People are coming to their own subjective conclusion about young men that they don’t even know. For example, Arron Afflalo wrote an inspired letter in the Players’ Tribune about how excited he was to come to Portland and how we were championship bound. So, it didn’t work out, so he got injured, so be it. But this guessing of what players were thinking and feeling is weird to me.
Isn’t that the whole point of these kinds of threads?
Well then i owe Arron an apology. It just didn't seem like he played with the type of desire i saw in Denver. I was excited when the Blazers acquired him. Because, in Denver, he was a fantastic, play with intensity talent.
I agree. A lot of the threads in here seem to be based on how much i can push the blood pressure up. And then they come off like, "I'm just keeping it real". In your personal world maybe.
Things were actually looking up right before Sheed was traded. The Sheed/ZBo/Miles frontcourt was working. We had won like 8 of 10. We traded him and then had 5 straight years of no playoffs.
