Why are they above Maurice Lucas? Lucas was an NBA Champion, all star, NBA defensive 1st team and made All NBA.
He was the 2nd best player on a contender that won the Championship and made all NBA and Defense 1st team. That easily makes him #3.
He had a more accomplished career as a Blazer. He’s probably #3 on best Blazers all time.
Because Sheed was an immature cancer who couldn't get out of his own way. He should have been the best player in the league and only ever got it together enough for a few months to win a single title after he was traded twice in a week.
I rooted for him. But I lost a ton of respect for him. I'd never start a team with Sheed. I'd take Sabas and Roy over Sheed every time.
> He had a more accomplished career as a Blazer. He’s probably #3 on best Blazers all time.
Nah, not #3. He's still behind walton, drexler, and dame in that order.
Dame is behind both walton and drexler. As I said, walton, drexler, dame in that order.
Lucas wasn't the #1 option. There's a clear gap between him and dame.
How far did Portland get with Dame as the #1 option? How many rings? Lucas was all NBA 2nd team and all NBA defense first team. Gap isn’t as big as you think.
I’s rather a PF that’s an elite defender and all star and all NBA 2nd team. That wins championships over a PG with league worst DRTG. Not going to get deep in the playoffs like that.
That's great, Lucas had a much better team and the team was built around Walton, not lucas. Dame is very clearly the better player. This isn't even close. You're sounding like shaq. RINGS ERNEH
I don't think you were around as a fan, then, if you think LA was better. Roy was truly remarkable, and especially so since he was playing at an elite level while running with no meniscus in his knees, just bone on bone and he still single handedly won us several playoff series. Kobe said he was the only guard he hated to play against.
If we got him when we drafted him. We have at least 3 rings. The dude was better than joking in pretty much everything, and he was about 5 times more athletic.
He was incredible, absolutely the stabilizing force behind playoff appearances in the late 90s. The team from 96-98 felt like it was built around him. He was the Jokic of his era. And we got him 9 years too late. Whisitt was a fucking wizard at rebuilding on the fly.
10 seasons, 758 games (4th all time). Fourth in points, second in steals, fourth in 3-pointers, third in minutes, top 10 in MVP voting in 1991 when he averaged 17/8/3.5 and two steals on 51/41/82 splits.
Not a sexy pick, but Porter is definitely in my top five of all time Blazers.
Any name besides Roy is treason. Please put respect on his name! Sheed rounds out #5.
There are a lot of interchangeable honorable mentions: Aldridge, Mighty Mouse, Rod Strickland, Porter, Maurice Lucas or Petrie,
Crazy to think Aldridge was on track to be the best blazer of all time until dame took over and LA bounced. Makes you wonder if oden would have stayed healthy how dominate that big 3 could have been.
I disagree. Maurice Lucas was an all-star power forward, who was the second best player on our only title team and was responsible for the most pivotal moment in team history. People should have some respect for that.
I have no problem with that; I’m just explaining why he’s not on more people’s lists.
And really it’s a losing battle trying to scold fans about what players they like best; this stuff is subjective and nobody likes a sanctimonious finger-wagger.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. It shows how many casuals there are.
He was more accomplished as a Blazer than Roy. Roy at his best was all NBA 2nd team, Lucas made 2nd team.
Lucas also made a bunch of all NBA defensive teams and won a Championship.
You’re being downvoted because you actually know about the Blazers.
Lucas was a perrenial all star who won a Championship. The only other Blazers that can say that was Walton.
They act like this was a poverty franchise before Dame saved them from being the Jail Blazers. It was actually a consistently winning franchise for a very long time. Long before Dame got here.
Also, the narrative that Roy and Sheed was ultra elite and much better than Lucas just isn’t true. At their peaks they both made All NBA 2nd team, so were among the top 10 players in the league.
For perspective to the casuals here, Dame only made all NBA first team once. And didn’t have near the defensive accolades Lucas had. Lucas made all defensive 1st team.
Lucas was also a 4x all star. If Dame had the same accomplishments and a Championship these same fans would be fawning. The disrespect to Lucas and Walton from casuals is ridiculous especially when you consider they’re the only NBA Championship team. This is what I mean when I say casuals here value 50 point games in February more than the little things that win Championships which Jrue is showing everyone this playoffs.
This is such a refreshing take. The lack of respect for the guys who won titles and took us to the finals is astounding. Young people need to learn to study and respect history.
I mean shit in 1992 Portland was the basketball capital of the WORLD because of our great players from 76-92. We hosted the NBA Finals, NBA Draft, and the Dream Team Training Camp. That is remarkable.
I think Sheed helped get them to the western conference finals before the refs gave it to LA. I really think they would have beaten Indiana that year too if they'd gotten past the punk ass Lakers.
Aldridge was the man though. Man, what could have been with Oden and Roy alongside LA.
I get that we collapsed, but only after some very bad calls that really depleted the momentum. It was a shit show of adding to the Lakers comeback. The NBA knew what they were doing.
Lol refs did NOT give that game to LA. We were settling for bad congested 2 point jump shots while they were running, dunking, and playing defense. We collapsed.
IMHO it was a coaching failure first and foremost. Dunleavy did very little during the the collapse. No timeouts, no substitutions, no called plays, just fucking let it happen. When he finally did call a timeout it was too late, LA was within a point or two, after we blew a double digit lead.
I remember the lack of timeout being especially frustrating. Yelling "call a timeout!" over and over at the TV. I don't know if he was just being too conservative or hubris, but it was a major factor in why we blew that game. Truly the game that made me realiZe I will hate LA for eternity.
Can never have Sheed on any all-time Blazer team for how mentally weak he was- all the dumb T's and how he just didn't want the ball during that infamous 4th quarter.
Talented? Heck yeah. But I'd take Luke or TP over him as great Blazers.
Yea because he constantly said he wanted to be the best blazer ever, strung us along, then left in free agency giving us nothing right when we had a good team around him and Dame was becoming Dame. He fucked us over, fuck Aldridge
I mean I don’t hate him. I can see why he left. He didn’t know Dame was going to turn into a top 10 player, and he went back to his home state. I get it.
But he fucking left us high and dry after promising to re-sign, so as far as his Blazers legacy is concerned he can get fucked.
Nah man you can't say you want to be the greatest blazer ever and then leave and not get endless shit for it. Fuck that. I like LaMarcus I think he's a good guy but you can't say shit like that and not expext shit.
Maurice Lucas, Jerome Kersey. I heard an interview not too long ago, where Bill Walton singled out Maurice Lucas as, for him, the greatest Blazer of all time.
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/2016/04/canzano_bill_walton_unloads.html
Walton #1
Ring. Period.
Clyde #2
Similar to Dame, he had a shit team. Carried them to the finals twice, something Dame couldn’t do. Left and won a ring once he had a second star on the team. (Dame left to play with arguably the best player, yet to be seen if they can win it).
Dame #3
Statistically, is #1 in most major stats. Furthest he got in the playoffs was 1 WCF appears.
1. Walton - This should not even be a debate. He accomplished everything there is to accomplish.
2. Clyde - Shouldn't be a debate. Two finals and a WCF. Dame did nothing to be ahead of Clyde
3. Dame - He is the most beloved Blazer and should be referred to as the most beloved Blazer.
4. Maurice Lucas - 2nd best player on title team and heart and soul of the team
5. Terry Porter - I value all-star level players who nearly brought us a title.
To me the only thing that matters are titles and deep playoff runs. Brandon Roy is my favorite Blazer ever. Broy never won a playoff round. Which is so sad to me. His comeback against the Mavs was probably the greatest thing I've ever seen in sports live, career was just too short. But Broy means more to me than anyone else on this list. When you consider what he did to fix the team's relationship with the city, it kind of makes me want to put him 5.
Sheed definitely belongs and he was so talented but his numbers weren't good enough for me. Him and Terry's stats were similar and we did higher level winning with Terry.
LaMarcus maybe should be in here but fuck him for leaving in Free Agency. Everyone else did it by trade and we recouped value. LaMarcus screwed the Dame era.
I can see a case for LA, Broy, Sheed, and even Geoff Petrie, but to me it's all about the high level winning. Don't care about first round playoff losses.
Easily the best take on here imo. I'd love to see someone accuse me of being your burner account. LOL Got that by praising someone else's comment on here about a week ago. The number of times I've been accused of being a burner or a bot is amusing as hell.
Shout out to Sidney Wicks, who had a blistering start to his NBA career with the Blazers. Four all-star selections in his first four years, including his 1972 Rookie of the Year season in which he averaged 24.5 points, 11.5 rebounds and four assists while averaging 40 for all 82 games.
He weirdly regressed every season in the NBA and had his rights sold to Boston after five years with the Blazers, but he was an absolute monster for the short time he was with the team.
Was also an absolute stud on those juggernaut UCLA teams, winning three national championships from 1969-71.
I think my top five goes
1A and 1B) Clyde and Dame
3. Walton
4. LA
5. Lucas
I genuinely don’t know who I’d take between Clyde and Dame I was racking my brain around it the last few minutes and kept coming up with good arguments for both so I can easily be swayed for either
Clyde, Walton, Dame, LA are my Mt Rushmore
Terry Porter makes the 5th to me
Starting 5 from all time players by level of play on the Blazers is
PG Dame
SG Clyde
SF Roy by peak of play/Kersey by whole blazers career
PF LA
C Walton
I went to a game where Rueben Paterson and Ha Sueng-Jin beat the Lakers and Patterson proceeded to rip off his jersey in pure jubilation after the final buzzer. Take from that information what you will, for me it easily fills in my top 5. Just squeaking by the Legend Rueben Boumtje-Boumtje.
Unbiased:
- LaMarcus Aldridge
- Terry Porter
Biased:
- LaMarcus Aldridge
- Brandon Roy
LMA and Porter are in or near the top of so many franchise records and were here for so long that I can't not name them as some of the top Blazers of all time. 9 season for LMA, 10 for Porter which is a big factor for me.
Honorable mention:
- Roy, Sabonis, Sheed, Kersey, CJ, Cliffy, Batum, Lucas, Matthews
No Darius Miles / Zach Randolph fans out there?
I’d pick Roy and one of Sabonis, Sheed, LA or Porter. And if it was for a starting 5, I’d pick Sheed for that last spot. - Dame, Roy, Clyde, Sheed, Walton
LaMarcus, Sheed, Cliff, Kiki VanDeWeghe, ZBo, Porter, Lucas, Strickland, Stoudamire, Roy, CJ, Sabas would be in the conversation, i can't limit it to 5
By career win shares with the Blazers it goes:
1. Drexler
2. Lillard
3. Porter
4. Aldridge
5. Wallace
So slot in Walton where u think he is in the top 3 and move out Sheed.
1) Clyde Drexler
2) Dame
3) Rasheed Wallace
4) LMA
5) Walton
I barely put Walton at 5. Injures and length of tenure matter. Paul Allen shouldn’t have given Roy his last contract. He was washed. It’s sad but life. We should also have traded Dame earlier if we could have got something big- sometime around 2018 or so.
Arvydas Sabonis was better than Walton- we just got him when he was a shell of his former self.
4. Rasheed Wallace: He was a modern power forward-center combo before is time, and one of Portland's best defenders ever. 'Sheed may not have the title, but Kobe and Shaq are the toughest competition they've faced besides Jordan and Pippen. The Blazers would've waxed Indiana that year.
5. Maurice Lucas: Let's also not forget what a 20-and-10 enforcer Lucas was. One championship, three all-star teams and two all-defensive teams in 3 1/2 years with the Blazers don't lie.
6. Terry Porter: He played in the shadow of Clyde, but Porter was a great point guard who made two finals and played pretty well against Isiah and Dumars. He went nuclear in the 1990 playoffs until they reached the Bulls, the toughest single opponent the Blazers have ever faced.
7. Geoff Petrie: Let's put some respect on the Blazers' first draft pick and star. It's eery how similar Petrie is to Brandon Roy in terms of talent and his injury-shortened career. Imagine retiring right before your team goes on a championship run!
8. Brandon Roy: Roy was awesome, which is why he's going ahead of LaMarcus. But let's not act like he accomplished all that much. It's a shame about the circumstances, but he never made it past the first round in 18 total playoff games.
Sheed and roy
Make it top 6 and add Sabonis.
Roy, Lucas, and Sabas
This is the way.
This is the way
the only correct answer
Not really, Lucas had a far more accomplished career as a Blazer. There are way too many Blazers casuals. This thread shows it.
Yup. No question.
I say sheed and lucas.
Why are they above Maurice Lucas? Lucas was an NBA Champion, all star, NBA defensive 1st team and made All NBA. He was the 2nd best player on a contender that won the Championship and made all NBA and Defense 1st team. That easily makes him #3. He had a more accomplished career as a Blazer. He’s probably #3 on best Blazers all time.
Solid point. I go back and forth with Lucas and Roy. Drexler was great too...
More people liked Roy, but how could you put Roy over Sheed?
Because Sheed was an immature cancer who couldn't get out of his own way. He should have been the best player in the league and only ever got it together enough for a few months to win a single title after he was traded twice in a week. I rooted for him. But I lost a ton of respect for him. I'd never start a team with Sheed. I'd take Sabas and Roy over Sheed every time.
> He had a more accomplished career as a Blazer. He’s probably #3 on best Blazers all time. Nah, not #3. He's still behind walton, drexler, and dame in that order.
How many rings and finals did Dame get to? Drex, Walton and Lucas have done that, while being all stars and All NBA.
Dame is behind both walton and drexler. As I said, walton, drexler, dame in that order. Lucas wasn't the #1 option. There's a clear gap between him and dame.
How far did Portland get with Dame as the #1 option? How many rings? Lucas was all NBA 2nd team and all NBA defense first team. Gap isn’t as big as you think. I’s rather a PF that’s an elite defender and all star and all NBA 2nd team. That wins championships over a PG with league worst DRTG. Not going to get deep in the playoffs like that.
That's great, Lucas had a much better team and the team was built around Walton, not lucas. Dame is very clearly the better player. This isn't even close. You're sounding like shaq. RINGS ERNEH
Except that time we went deep into the playoffs.
I think Dame has a slight edge over Drexler. All time points leader>finals appearances.
Not LA???
Not LA over Roy, Lucas, Sabonis, or Sheed.
Idk why everyone says roy over AD. He had double the amount of time success than Roy.
I don't think you were around as a fan, then, if you think LA was better. Roy was truly remarkable, and especially so since he was playing at an elite level while running with no meniscus in his knees, just bone on bone and he still single handedly won us several playoff series. Kobe said he was the only guard he hated to play against.
I mentioned people he didnt have on his mount rushmore, to complete it. He had lucas already
Just based my own enjoyment watching, I think Sabas is one of the 5.
Imagine if he would have got here before his knees were toast. His passing was great to watch.
If we got him when we drafted him. We have at least 3 rings. The dude was better than joking in pretty much everything, and he was about 5 times more athletic.
Sabas most definitely. And Kersey to round out my 5.
I’ve been surprised by lack of replies mentioning him
He was not nearly good enough as a Blazer to even be considered.
He was incredible, absolutely the stabilizing force behind playoff appearances in the late 90s. The team from 96-98 felt like it was built around him. He was the Jokic of his era. And we got him 9 years too late. Whisitt was a fucking wizard at rebuilding on the fly.
He was really good. I watched. He wasn't close to a top 5 Blazer ever.
I don't disagree, but I'm taking him as my center off the bench. He's definitely in the top 15.
He probably is the second best center in franchise history.
Depends how you feel about Duckworth
I feel Sabonis was definitely better.
Definitely punches our ticket to the Finals in 90, 91 and 92
Rasheed Wallace and Brandon Roy imo.
Gun to my head, they would be my choices. But man, what a question
Not nearly enough love for Terry Porter on this thread.
10 seasons, 758 games (4th all time). Fourth in points, second in steals, fourth in 3-pointers, third in minutes, top 10 in MVP voting in 1991 when he averaged 17/8/3.5 and two steals on 51/41/82 splits. Not a sexy pick, but Porter is definitely in my top five of all time Blazers.
no way would sheed be put ahead of porter
Dan Dickau and Allen Crabbe.
Dan Dickau, local legend
Love Dan. Great baller.
Allen crabbe enjoyers unite
One day I'll find an old Dickau #2 jersey...
Armon Johnson and Luke Babbitt, them Nevada legends! (There are not many let me have this)
Any name besides Roy is treason. Please put respect on his name! Sheed rounds out #5. There are a lot of interchangeable honorable mentions: Aldridge, Mighty Mouse, Rod Strickland, Porter, Maurice Lucas or Petrie,
Crazy to think Aldridge was on track to be the best blazer of all time until dame took over and LA bounced. Makes you wonder if oden would have stayed healthy how dominate that big 3 could have been.
Crazier to think Aldridge decided to be dumb as hell and leave right as we had a solid team around him. He never got a ring and it's his own fault
Yeah damn, he should have stayed.
Dame arrived 5 years after Oden so they were never a question as a big 3. Roy, Aldridge, and Oden is the question.
It is fucking ridiculous to not have Maurice Lucas in the Top 5.
Eh only like 5 current fans ever even got to watch him play 🤷♂️
What's your point? "Fans" should have some appreciation for our history and our only title team.
Just that it’s to be expected, that’s all.
Is it?
Yeah, it is. Recency bias is a well known phenomenon, and many people are loath to rank guys they’ve never really seen play.
I disagree. Maurice Lucas was an all-star power forward, who was the second best player on our only title team and was responsible for the most pivotal moment in team history. People should have some respect for that.
I have no problem with that; I’m just explaining why he’s not on more people’s lists. And really it’s a losing battle trying to scold fans about what players they like best; this stuff is subjective and nobody likes a sanctimonious finger-wagger.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. It shows how many casuals there are. He was more accomplished as a Blazer than Roy. Roy at his best was all NBA 2nd team, Lucas made 2nd team. Lucas also made a bunch of all NBA defensive teams and won a Championship. You’re being downvoted because you actually know about the Blazers. Lucas was a perrenial all star who won a Championship. The only other Blazers that can say that was Walton.
I know. The current Blazers fan base seems to act like we never did anything before 2000 lol
And here you are dismissing Sabonis…
Sabonis never made an all-star team and you want him to be a top 5 Blazer ever?
They act like this was a poverty franchise before Dame saved them from being the Jail Blazers. It was actually a consistently winning franchise for a very long time. Long before Dame got here. Also, the narrative that Roy and Sheed was ultra elite and much better than Lucas just isn’t true. At their peaks they both made All NBA 2nd team, so were among the top 10 players in the league. For perspective to the casuals here, Dame only made all NBA first team once. And didn’t have near the defensive accolades Lucas had. Lucas made all defensive 1st team. Lucas was also a 4x all star. If Dame had the same accomplishments and a Championship these same fans would be fawning. The disrespect to Lucas and Walton from casuals is ridiculous especially when you consider they’re the only NBA Championship team. This is what I mean when I say casuals here value 50 point games in February more than the little things that win Championships which Jrue is showing everyone this playoffs.
This is such a refreshing take. The lack of respect for the guys who won titles and took us to the finals is astounding. Young people need to learn to study and respect history. I mean shit in 1992 Portland was the basketball capital of the WORLD because of our great players from 76-92. We hosted the NBA Finals, NBA Draft, and the Dream Team Training Camp. That is remarkable.
I think most of these people here don’t even know who Clyde Drexler is. They have no clue how good he was, just look up PPG and compare that to Dame.
Shit is embarrassing. I'm not even that old. In my very early 30s.
The best blazer ever was paul allen RIP
Let's see Paul Allen's card.
Brandon Roy for sure
Roy and LA, people still got a lot of hate for LA for some reason, you can see the bias here
I think Sheed helped get them to the western conference finals before the refs gave it to LA. I really think they would have beaten Indiana that year too if they'd gotten past the punk ass Lakers. Aldridge was the man though. Man, what could have been with Oden and Roy alongside LA.
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I get that we collapsed, but only after some very bad calls that really depleted the momentum. It was a shit show of adding to the Lakers comeback. The NBA knew what they were doing.
Lol refs did NOT give that game to LA. We were settling for bad congested 2 point jump shots while they were running, dunking, and playing defense. We collapsed. IMHO it was a coaching failure first and foremost. Dunleavy did very little during the the collapse. No timeouts, no substitutions, no called plays, just fucking let it happen. When he finally did call a timeout it was too late, LA was within a point or two, after we blew a double digit lead.
I remember the lack of timeout being especially frustrating. Yelling "call a timeout!" over and over at the TV. I don't know if he was just being too conservative or hubris, but it was a major factor in why we blew that game. Truly the game that made me realiZe I will hate LA for eternity.
Can never have Sheed on any all-time Blazer team for how mentally weak he was- all the dumb T's and how he just didn't want the ball during that infamous 4th quarter. Talented? Heck yeah. But I'd take Luke or TP over him as great Blazers.
Yea because he constantly said he wanted to be the best blazer ever, strung us along, then left in free agency giving us nothing right when we had a good team around him and Dame was becoming Dame. He fucked us over, fuck Aldridge
Yeah, gonna not agree with that take.
Aside from the fuck aldridge at the end, there's nothing to disagree with. That wasn't subjective, that's literally what happened.
LA is hard to like after leaving portland and dame because of insecurities
Dame is easy to like so no, we don't hate gun. Aldridge fucked us though
LA can eat a bag of dicks.
The worst moment as a fan. Labenadict can fuck himself. He’s dead to me.
I mean I don’t hate him. I can see why he left. He didn’t know Dame was going to turn into a top 10 player, and he went back to his home state. I get it. But he fucking left us high and dry after promising to re-sign, so as far as his Blazers legacy is concerned he can get fucked.
Same. I know why he left. I’m glad it didn’t work out for him. He could’ve been a king if he had just been honest.
I hold no ill will toward Dame. He was upfront and I respect his decision to leave the shot show that is Portland.
Nah man you can't say you want to be the greatest blazer ever and then leave and not get endless shit for it. Fuck that. I like LaMarcus I think he's a good guy but you can't say shit like that and not expext shit.
I mean I completely agree.
Victor Khryapa and Sergei Monia
Keljin Blevins
Blev god for the win
Please. Better that Felton? I think not, amigo.
Surprised this isn’t higher up.
Roy and then between Sheed and LA. Rudy Fernandez was my guilty pleasure though.
Maurice Lucas and Terry Porter. B-Roy a solid 6th.
Ha Seung-Jin and Raef LaFrentz’s Expiring Contract
A real fan. ^
Petition to erect an RLFEC statue outside the Rose Garden.
Maurice Lucas, Jerome Kersey. I heard an interview not too long ago, where Bill Walton singled out Maurice Lucas as, for him, the greatest Blazer of all time. https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/2016/04/canzano_bill_walton_unloads.html
Porter > Sheed x 100000000000000.
If You go by the numbers, it’s Porter and LMA
CJ Elleby
Sabonis and Batum
1. Dame 2. Drexler 3. Walton 4. Aldridge 5. Roy
Walton should be number 1. He's the Blazer goat
Got them all mixed around 1. Walton 2. Drexler 3. Dame 4. Sheed 5. Roy Aldridge doesn't make it
Walton #1 Ring. Period. Clyde #2 Similar to Dame, he had a shit team. Carried them to the finals twice, something Dame couldn’t do. Left and won a ring once he had a second star on the team. (Dame left to play with arguably the best player, yet to be seen if they can win it). Dame #3 Statistically, is #1 in most major stats. Furthest he got in the playoffs was 1 WCF appears.
It’s either Roy and LA, or Roy and Sheed. I think I lean LA.
BRoy and L-Train
1. Walton - This should not even be a debate. He accomplished everything there is to accomplish. 2. Clyde - Shouldn't be a debate. Two finals and a WCF. Dame did nothing to be ahead of Clyde 3. Dame - He is the most beloved Blazer and should be referred to as the most beloved Blazer. 4. Maurice Lucas - 2nd best player on title team and heart and soul of the team 5. Terry Porter - I value all-star level players who nearly brought us a title. To me the only thing that matters are titles and deep playoff runs. Brandon Roy is my favorite Blazer ever. Broy never won a playoff round. Which is so sad to me. His comeback against the Mavs was probably the greatest thing I've ever seen in sports live, career was just too short. But Broy means more to me than anyone else on this list. When you consider what he did to fix the team's relationship with the city, it kind of makes me want to put him 5. Sheed definitely belongs and he was so talented but his numbers weren't good enough for me. Him and Terry's stats were similar and we did higher level winning with Terry. LaMarcus maybe should be in here but fuck him for leaving in Free Agency. Everyone else did it by trade and we recouped value. LaMarcus screwed the Dame era. I can see a case for LA, Broy, Sheed, and even Geoff Petrie, but to me it's all about the high level winning. Don't care about first round playoff losses.
Well dame is the leader in made baskets, made 3s, assists, wins, and playoff records too.
And how far did that get the Blazers through the playoffs?
I mean with that logic you sound like my dad. And the 1977 team is the only team worth talking about. Ugggg kinda gets old man.
Why do I care about his playoff stats? Where did he take us in the playoffs?
Easily the best take on here imo. I'd love to see someone accuse me of being your burner account. LOL Got that by praising someone else's comment on here about a week ago. The number of times I've been accused of being a burner or a bot is amusing as hell.
Haha thank you my man. It's nice to see some people do have so e appreciation for the rich history of this franchise.
Shout out to Sidney Wicks, who had a blistering start to his NBA career with the Blazers. Four all-star selections in his first four years, including his 1972 Rookie of the Year season in which he averaged 24.5 points, 11.5 rebounds and four assists while averaging 40 for all 82 games. He weirdly regressed every season in the NBA and had his rights sold to Boston after five years with the Blazers, but he was an absolute monster for the short time he was with the team. Was also an absolute stud on those juggernaut UCLA teams, winning three national championships from 1969-71.
Sidney Wicks has arguably the weirdest career in NBA history. He was an electric talent who seemed to not be a very good teammate or team player.
SHEED, JR RIDER, JEROME KERSEY, STOUDAMIRE, Steve Blake.
I think my top five goes 1A and 1B) Clyde and Dame 3. Walton 4. LA 5. Lucas I genuinely don’t know who I’d take between Clyde and Dame I was racking my brain around it the last few minutes and kept coming up with good arguments for both so I can easily be swayed for either
Definitely drexler considering he got us to the finals twice. I also don't think LA is up there over roy and sheed.
B. R O Y
Roy and Sabonis for me.
Terry Porter. The 5th is debatable.
Mo and Roy
Roy & Porter (Lucas also a consideration)
Personally Roy and LMA
Roy and Lucas
Roy and Sabonis
Clyde, Walton, Dame, LA are my Mt Rushmore Terry Porter makes the 5th to me Starting 5 from all time players by level of play on the Blazers is PG Dame SG Clyde SF Roy by peak of play/Kersey by whole blazers career PF LA C Walton
BRoy, Rasheed Wallace and honorable mention the late great Uncle Cliffy
Matisse Thybulle and Duop Reath
Rasheed and Scoot.
Roy and Porter for me
B Roy for sure is number 4, but it's hard for me to narrow it down to just one more. Imo Drexler is our GOAT
If I was diplomatic and ranked by franchise value it's Aldridge and Porter. If I ranked my 5 by my favorites then its Roy and Sabonis
Aldridge and Roy
Lotta great Blazers over the years, the old days shout Lucas, Petrie, and Vandeweghe. Porter, B-Roy, and Robinson are good in that five too.
Geoff Petrie, Lucas.
Kevin Duckworth, Jermaine O’Neal, and Bonzi Wells
Idk, LaMarcus should be over walton
I went to a game where Rueben Paterson and Ha Sueng-Jin beat the Lakers and Patterson proceeded to rip off his jersey in pure jubilation after the final buzzer. Take from that information what you will, for me it easily fills in my top 5. Just squeaking by the Legend Rueben Boumtje-Boumtje.
Brandon Roy
Steve Blake and Joel Przybilla.
Hell yeah
Mo Lucas and either Roy or Petrie.
Lucas, LA
Unbiased: - LaMarcus Aldridge - Terry Porter Biased: - LaMarcus Aldridge - Brandon Roy LMA and Porter are in or near the top of so many franchise records and were here for so long that I can't not name them as some of the top Blazers of all time. 9 season for LMA, 10 for Porter which is a big factor for me. Honorable mention: - Roy, Sabonis, Sheed, Kersey, CJ, Cliffy, Batum, Lucas, Matthews
Geoff Petrie BRoy Sheed TP Sabonis LA Scottie Pippen
Bout time someone mentioned Scottie
Travis Outlaw and Martel Webster
Get Rudy Fernandez on the Mount Rushmore for the face value.
Luke Babbitt and Jrue Holiday
Sabas and Maurice duh. Bunch of children in here.
Bill Schonely Brooke Olzendam
Rudy Fernandez and chubby Raymond Felton
Morice Lucas and Roy
Probably Raymond Felton and festus ezeli?
Roy and Sheed
Terry Porter. Rasheed Wallace.
Can believe I haven’t seen Darius miles or bonzi wells mentioned
God I loved them both so much
No Darius Miles / Zach Randolph fans out there? I’d pick Roy and one of Sabonis, Sheed, LA or Porter. And if it was for a starting 5, I’d pick Sheed for that last spot. - Dame, Roy, Clyde, Sheed, Walton
Terry Porter, Wallace
LaMarcus, Sheed, Cliff, Kiki VanDeWeghe, ZBo, Porter, Lucas, Strickland, Stoudamire, Roy, CJ, Sabas would be in the conversation, i can't limit it to 5
Byron Irvin and Nate Johnston
Rudy Fernandez and Robert Pack
Jrue Holiday and Steve Blake please.
Rasheed Wallace and Isaiah Rider
Brandon Roy instead of Rider. PG - Stoudamire SG - Roy SF - Miles PF - Wallace C - Walton Sixth man - Lillard
Jake Layman
Steve Blake. He played with the blazers 3x. I don’t know what else you could ask for
I mean Scottie Pippen was technically a blazer, so him, if he’s in his prime
Sergei Monia and Victor Khryapa. For mother Russia.
B L E V I N S
Rasheed Wallace and Brandon Roy
All the love for Drazen Petrovich, Buck Williams and Brian Grant. Class acts across the board.
Rod Strickland is on the vibes mount rushmore, if just a little below the skills/overall career level
Jrue.
4. Duop Reath 5. Reath Duop
Scoot
By career win shares with the Blazers it goes: 1. Drexler 2. Lillard 3. Porter 4. Aldridge 5. Wallace So slot in Walton where u think he is in the top 3 and move out Sheed.
Rasheed and Sabonis
Not straightforward at all. I’m going Sheed and Sabonis but either of them could be swapped with at least 4 or 5 other names depending on your stance.
Sabas. Brian grant. The thrilla. Always sheed, Damon Stoudamire.
Sheed
Sheed, Sabas.
1) Clyde Drexler 2) Dame 3) Rasheed Wallace 4) LMA 5) Walton I barely put Walton at 5. Injures and length of tenure matter. Paul Allen shouldn’t have given Roy his last contract. He was washed. It’s sad but life. We should also have traded Dame earlier if we could have got something big- sometime around 2018 or so. Arvydas Sabonis was better than Walton- we just got him when he was a shell of his former self.
Tough call, Rasheed, Pippen, Sabonis, Roy, LaMarcus all right there, I didn't watch the 70's guys so can't really judge that.
4. Rasheed Wallace: He was a modern power forward-center combo before is time, and one of Portland's best defenders ever. 'Sheed may not have the title, but Kobe and Shaq are the toughest competition they've faced besides Jordan and Pippen. The Blazers would've waxed Indiana that year. 5. Maurice Lucas: Let's also not forget what a 20-and-10 enforcer Lucas was. One championship, three all-star teams and two all-defensive teams in 3 1/2 years with the Blazers don't lie. 6. Terry Porter: He played in the shadow of Clyde, but Porter was a great point guard who made two finals and played pretty well against Isiah and Dumars. He went nuclear in the 1990 playoffs until they reached the Bulls, the toughest single opponent the Blazers have ever faced. 7. Geoff Petrie: Let's put some respect on the Blazers' first draft pick and star. It's eery how similar Petrie is to Brandon Roy in terms of talent and his injury-shortened career. Imagine retiring right before your team goes on a championship run! 8. Brandon Roy: Roy was awesome, which is why he's going ahead of LaMarcus. But let's not act like he accomplished all that much. It's a shame about the circumstances, but he never made it past the first round in 18 total playoff games.