NBA Legends Explain Why Clyde Drexler Was A Monster
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you should do one on Vernon maxwell
Those who watched him don’t underrate him, but I think it’s his quiet and reserved personality, like Robinson, combined with the small market/lack of endorsements, that keeps him out of the all time greats discussion.
Marketing is indeed one key factor for most people to rate the players. A big overrated factor.
Small market true but wasn't he sponsored by puma
It is a style of Portland's loses during 1990-1992 span. Drexler and the Blazers were hyped as a spectacular, high-flying, transition offence team, but showed none of that. From 1992 Finals people remember MJ shrugs, while 1993 Finals are remembered as one of the best in NBA history, despite a fact, that both ended with the same 2-4 result. It's a question of style of play of Bulls' opponents, which decides if you are respected and well remembered or quickly forgotten.
He was too nice..great but too nice and he couldnt maintain it
same thing with Stockton, dude was bad, but looked like a dad.
I'm a little old lady (78). I lived in Portland for a number of years in Clyde's
era and found him to be SO amazing. I only watched the games when the Blazers played and will never forget him. I even have a Clyde Drexler T-shirt I got at a thrift shop 5 or 6 years ago. I'll never give it up, tho a few people have tried to buy it from me. Clyde still rocks!! 🎉
I remember a game where Clyde went off against the Celtics. He fouled out in overtime I think but the Boston crowd gave him a standing ovation. The BOSTON crowd!
@Alejandro Cuellar Clyde wasn't a "self serving" player, fans can see through everything and Bostoners recognize that. Clyde ain't a player anyone boo's. ....Domimique on the other hand lol
I remember, 3-15-1992. Bird had 49 points and Drexler had 41 points and you're right he fouled out and the Boston crowd gave him a standing ovation. It was a great game!
@@ktapreswreckd921v9 That was a double overtime game where Bird hit this weird game tying 3 with 2 seconds left in regulation and Kevin Gamble hit a game tying jumper on the final play of the first overtime to force the second overtime where Boston won 152-148. It was a Sunday NBC game.
@@michaelsloane9955 Yeah. That Bird 3 was left-handed, too I think.
@@michaelsloane9955 I remember 3-15-1992. Robert Parish and Kevin McHale also received a standing ovation along with Drexler in a losing effort. Larry of course received a standing ovation as well. One of the best regular season games of the 90's
Clyde deserves a lot more credit than he gets. Thanks for spotlighting this amazing player!
I'm a huge Clyde Drexler fan. Thank you for posting this! Such a class act too!
Clyde the Glide is criminally underrated.
He was chosen to the 1st Dream Team, and to a list of Top 50 in NBA history, so where is he underrated?
@@dewygreen4646 He's forgotten in some 'pundits' eyes when best SG is mentioned.
He should be mentioned more when people talked about the best SG of all time. As he carried his teams to the finals and conference final as number 1 players in his team. @@dewygreen4646
Grew up and still live in Oregon. Clyde was our Jordan. The Rip City era was awesome. Thank you for this!
I met Clyde at a grocery store and again at a hotel lounge. He is one of the nicest and humble people ive ever met.
He did getting a Standing Ovation from the Boston Garden in 92!! When he fouled out in OT. In an epic dual with Bird.
Clyde The Glyde one of my super favorite players of all time💪🏻 Specially when he played for my Old School Rockets 90s 💪🏻💯
A guy that led two different teams to the NBA finals, losing to 2 of the greatest of all time, and then being the 2nd best player on a chip team, being this underrated is crazy. Being a quite guy in a small market didn't help Clyde either. Plus, Magic, Jordan, the bad boys, and others took a lot of the spotlight. But if Clyde had been an outspoken guy, he would be talked about much more
It was very hard to catch Blazers home games back then that often started 10pm on the East coast here.....unless you were rich and had a Satellite dish lol.
A lot of his Blazers career I'm only seeing on retrospect on UA-cam for the first time.
Damn! Clyde Drexler was one of the guys when I was growing up in the 90s! Dear Clyde! Thanks for the memories! I enjoyed watching!
Clyde Drexler is my favorite player.
There is no doubt that Drexler is a great SG.
It's amazing that the Rockets in the 1995 playoffs ran up to the championship despite being seeded 6th.
The slam dunk while gliding was dynamic and really cool
Drexler was a beloved player for both the Blazers and Rockets.
Truly amazing to watch dunk.
Total class act on and off the court.
Lifelong Portland fan . Clyde will
Always be my favorite player
Back in 1992, I was one of the few in Tampa, Fl who was with Clyde "The Glide" Drexler. I had a Trailblazers jacket....
Another forgotten player was Terry Porter. He was a solid contributor in Portland and really complimented Clyde's play style
Terry didn’t come up big in the 91 finals. He had the advantage in his matchup and came up small
those 2 really were our Jordan/pippen. Such an underrated duo on nba jam too
@@edscottable which series u referring too? Portland didn't make .....the 91 Finals
@@FuShengAlex 92 sorry
@@edscottable yeah....thanks for the clarification. You're right. Clyde had his hands full with Jordan and Pippen. Horace was better than any Blazers interior player.
Porter was the only clear positional advantage the Blazers had that was much better than BJ Armstrong or John Paxson.
Clyde Drexler is the most under rated legend in NBA history. He's a top 5 SG all time easily and it'd be absurd to say other wise but most don't even have him up there which is so dumb.
I remember reading about a former NBA executive used to invite players over and his wife would cook for them, especially around the holidays. He said Clyde was the only player who ever mailed him a hand written thank you card. Pure class.
I remember a Video they used to show on Inside Stuff back in the day, " Are your Ready to Fly!", Clyde Jumped out the Gym in that 🎥
Clyde the glide
In the 80s and 90s era (the golden era) Michael Jordan cast such a shadow over the league, but people forget to realise that within that eclipse resided some monsters of the game. Clyde the Glide was one of those forces to reckon with.
Loved Cylde. The thing that made the biggest impression on me with Cylde was, he didn't do anything to be unnecessarily flashy. He did what was expedient to score points. It didn't matter if he was hitting jumpers or passing off to Clifford Robinson on the break, the number one priority was getting points on the board by any means necessary. That was a big deal to me. During an era where trying to outdo the other guy for ESPN shoutouts and attention, here we have a star player that put his team first, before personal accomplishments.
Clyde was not underrated at the time as he was chosen to be on the first Dream Team. He is a beloved HOFer.
More like under appreciated.
My man Clyde "The Glide." Him, Porter, Williams, Kersey and... Duckworth... LIVED on the fast break. Man, I loved my Blazers back then.
I would have rather seen him win a championship in Portland. But nobody outside of Houston was rooting for the Rockets to win a championship more than Blazers fans. We wanted him to win one so bad. Because he was a great player who always carried himself well. You couldn't help but love him as a fan.
Grew up in Portland listening to the Blazer games in the 80's and 90's. Some great memories.
It is very interesting to think about how many underrated big time players MJ's career overshadowed. Especially when pretty much all the big time players today have flaws in their game.
MJ Overshadowed Drexler? Drexler simply wasn't good enough to win the championship as his team best player, simple as that. He even played another finals against the pistons and he lost....Jordan just eliminated drexler one time in the playoff. Drexler also had flaws in his game.
@@leonardoyi3183 Very unpopular but also very true observation. Since a dawn of YT, Clyde in 95% of comments is cliche overrated. People see only his virtues without his weak sides as a player, especially during Portland carrer. I don't really underestand where these constant cryings about him being forgotten and underrated come from!
@@leonardoyi3183 total nonsense. He was skilled enough to lead a team to a title. He just didn't have future HOFer help that the other 80s to early 90s teams that won titles during that era did.
@@FuShengAlex Olajuwon didn't have any hall of fame teammates or all stars during his first championship, so stop with the excuses. Drexler did have a hall of fame teammate during his 1990 nba finals encounter against Isiah Thomas, it was drazen petrovic. Besides that, portland had the deepest team in the league with a lot of all stars and borderline all star players in terry porter, kevin duckworth, jerome kersey, Buck Williams, Danny Ainge, Cliff Robinson, and drazen Petrovic (hall of famer) in the 1990 finals. In the 1992 finals were the same players minus Petrovic. They were good to have the best record in the league so, he had enough teammates to win it all. Against the bulls not only Jordan had a lot better numbers than drexler, Pippen also had better numbers than drexler.
@@leonardoyi3183 LOL Bringing up Drazen is just desperation. He was a rookie glued to the bench when they made the 90 Finals. He was long gone by the 92 Finals. Drazen wasn't anything until he left Portland. Please just stop dude.
We're not talking about what Olajuwon did years later. The topic is the casts that Drexler led to the Finals. Both the Bulls and Pistons had more talented rosters alongside their superstars those years.
Drexler shot 54% FG and 26 ppg vs the Badboys in the 90 Finals.
We need to bring real basketball back, I like 3's but not all the time.
He was a selfless player who was more interested in getting the whole team involved, than pumping up his stats. He could easily have been at the top of most statistical categories if he wanted to be.
What a great player. He's up there with the best of them.
Clyde and the 5 slama jama Great memories~I used to call him Mr. smooth back in the day~simply awesome he was~
Clyde Drexler...so elegance gliding the court!!
I like to play basket because I watched him.
Great vid as usual. Drexler was my fave player and a huge inspiration when i was in junior high, loved watching the Blazers '90-'92.
This channel earns its likes! Great show as usual brother.
The beat in the background of cereal advertisement was genius. Made me watch the entire thing lol. Good choice brother
Shaun or Shawn David
They say never trust a man with 2 first names
I say they made an exception in your case
Lmmfao
I remember before Jordan won his first, it was a legit debate if he was better or Clyde
Clyde was great but, underrated no. Now Dominique Wilkins, “The Human Highlight Film” he is underrated. I remember when they announced the 50 greatest players in 1996. I couldn’t believe they left him off the list. The fact he ruptured his achilles and worked to get back and put up the stats he did is, to this day, one of the most impressive achievements by an athlete.
That argument is tired as Barkleys last year on the Rockets ha
@@monolithgeometry3221 There is no argument. What I stated is a fact. I’m sorry you don’t understand the game of basketball and what an athlete has to go through to overcome an achilles injury.
@@Kashed That was no doubt something special, coming back from that, but he wasn't a top 50 player in 1997, unless...yu know what....im gonna give you the win. I'm gonna concede my point. Dominique should've been a top 50 player of all time .....and someone might say, who would he replace tho, the answer is Shaquile O neal. In 97 Shaq was nothing yet. It was a good guess tho
@@monolithgeometry3221 I gotta say, I have never seen anyone reason with the original statement and change their opinion as you have. Much respect. And you are right, yes, it was a great guess but, at the time Shaq had only been in the league 4 years and hadn’t really achieved much plus there was always a question whether Willis Reed was a better player. Of course my original statement is only my opinion but, respect to you hearing me out. 👍🏻
Clive the nicest NBA player ever! Never let no one get to him and definitely sooo underrated
This man was on another level when he was on the basketball court and he could do everything so well it was scary and he deserves more credit overall. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017 to find me.
Not probably one of the most underrated players of all time probably the most underrated player of all time great vid thanks for giving the glide some love and respect
Other than dunks, I like his jumper too, unorthodox but smooth
Top five in game dunk drexler in the red blazer uniform against the Lakers. My man jumps from damn near the left elbow.
Clyde the Glide. The most fitting nickname you would ever find for a player
Drexler was the number 2 SG behind MJ in their days
We really remember Clyde a pain in the butt in Chicago 😂 thanks 👍
That Game 6 4th quarter collapse against the Bulls will haunt me forever.
Up 15 points!.....ironically that's the exact amount of points that they were up by in the 4th quarter 8 years later vs Los Angeles too in game 7.
1/4 of this video is self-promotion and not about the glide EDIT
Portland could have won the 92 Finals; they had to use a Celtics approach! They probably did not have a defender that could keep Jordan below 40 if he wanted that. But, the Bulls provided a golden opportunity in spite of that: the rest of the Bulls were very guardable!
Houston shut Chicago's other players down! They slowed Jordan down, but that's not required! They blowed the Bulls out multiple times and Hakeem had some of his worst offensive games against them! They won offensively as a team by beating the Bulls! So, even if Jordan averaged 50 in the series with Portland(probably won't get that high) and if you averaged 85 points as a team, you still win--if you also stop everybody else! Jordan: 50 + Bulls: 30 < YOU WIN! Pay no EXTRA attention to Jordan, only do your best to stop him. You won't succeed and Jordan likely gets the MVP, but he loses the Finals! WHAT YOU CANNOT HAVE IS JORDAN PLAYING WELL AND GETTING HIS TEAMMATES INVOLVED OFTEN...
We accidentally found his house on Halloween when I was 8. I was a HUGE Drexler fan, and I kept the O-Henry bar he gave me for years. He was one of the kindest people I ever met.
Jordan 6 7 Clyde 6 7 both shooting guards both best scorers on their team! It makes sense why they compare them
Clyde was awesome! I enjoyed doing his foul line dunk in Bulls vs Blazers on the Sega Genesis. ~_~
Which one did he have ? Barkley had Gorilla dunk, Jordan had kiss the rim , Kemp had off the backboard, I don't remember Clydes. That isiah spin move 360 lay up was tight and KJs finger roll too
I don't think that what I'm about to say could ever be said enough.
Scottie Pippen's voice is insanely deep...
That is all...
Not sure I'd consider him underrated. I remember watching his entire career. I enjoyed him a bit more than Jordan. He carried the ball a bit like Dr. J. Big hands and very intentional with the way he scored and moved. Looked a lot like 'Nique too. Jordan was fluid and bendy like water... Drexler was like a hammer and nail and it was going to fit no matter how he swung the hammer... YET.. he had grace and beautifully soft hands at the same time. Amazing man to watch and in my top 10 faves of all time easily.
Bird, Kobe, The Glide, Human Highlight Wilkins, Jordan, Miller Time, Magic, Dr. J, Stockton, Nowitzki....
Nash, Petrović, Mullins, Pippen.. all up there for me too.
Only player that was 23 looking 45 his hole career lol
90s best NBA era
80's and 90's that is.
Yep no question
clyde drexler is really underrated
Hard not to be, when you and your team blew golden opporunities three years in a row, with the same limited, careless and self-destructive style of play
@Oliver M. If you could look closely not superficially, the Pistons and the Lakers were well within their reach, but typical Blazers unreformable, one dimensional, sloppy style of play prevailed, and... old school fans can only complain about how the Blazers and Drexler are underrated, forgetting that the Blazers themselves did the most about it
@Oliver M. Portland was better than the 1991 Lakers. Portland played foolish in game 1 and never got that game back. They forgot how to play halfcourt basketball
@Oliver M. Right!!!!
@Oliver M. they weren't gonna beat the Pistons....especially if Jordan and Pippen couldn't beat them the same season.
In 92 it was basically Clyde vs Jordan and Pippen. The only postional advantage Portland had was Terry Porter.
Horace Grant was better than any Blazers frontcourt player as well. Duckworth (RIP) had started having problems with his weight and conditioning and regressed from the past season....the main reason he died so young.
My "favorite" players were Larry Bird, Larry Nance, "Pistol" Pete Maravich and Clyde "The Clyde" Drexler.
Clyde was the most fun to watch because of his seeming effortless gliding and acrobatic moves.
Pete Maravich was the most marvelous to watch because of his constantly surprising skills.
Larry Nance kept me entranced with his dominant presence in the paint.
Larry Bird was the most cerebral and amazing to watch.
There's NO ONE like him!
I could watch him all day, every day.
But Clyde, was less intense and more entertaining. A GREAT player! And a real gentleman!
I hope Clyde is as nice of a guy as he seems. I was a kid when he was in college and that was a fun team to watch. I'm glad he got to get the ring eventually too. I wish there were more like him today.
Clyde was a beast fuck what the hatters say
Just watch him run the floor at "normal speed," wide angle. Bob Cousy compared him to a water spider moving across the surface of the pond without getting wet. It was like the defenders were standing still and the floor was moving under him. Unreal
Drex is one of my faves.. that return to the Rockets was all time, swept Shaq's Orlando in the finals.. Drex was one of the greatest..
The third greatest 2 guard of all time.
Top 3 SG AllTime
Kobe Bryant
Allen Iverson
D-Wade
Behind Jordan & Kobe. Agreed
Eddie Johnson always talking crazy 😜
Dude looked like he was 50 years old at 27…🤣
Played defense that way too
@@EmperorNerox
Clyde 2x Dpoy
There was quite a lot of players back then that looked older than they really did, Robert Parish, James Edward's, Bill Cartwright to name a few, they looked they were in their 50's and 60's.
@@loganblack4885 Hey just in case Clyde might someday scan some of this , I'm just gonna let you keep thinking that
@@monolithgeometry3221 Hey just in case Clyde doesn’t care about what I said
"But Jordan played against plumbers" lol
He was like the poor man's version of MJ
all because of Jordan same position, he is top5 SG all time and even then in the 90s was not much appreciated
A little trivia for the folks here. One of the reasons Jordan took offense to Clyde was because Clyde was sour about "attempting" to play in a similar style, but not getting the same attention. Case in point, watch the dunk context of 85 and also 86. Clyde literally followed every Jordan dunk and tried to do the same dunk and got worse scores. His dunks were not as aesthetic acrobatic and his imagination wasn't on par with Jordan, although he could complete the same dunk. The eye test of the judges kept giving him lower scores and he was sour about it. Jordan noticed Drexler try to keep mimicking his dunks like a parrot. Inside I am sure this was the very beginning of Jordan thinking get off my back and do something of your own. This little aura followed them into the 92 finals where Jordan dismissed comparisons for good.
Not true at all, nothing to do with the dunk contests. There was mutual respect between them. Clyde supported Mike for year end MVPs and said that Mike got passed over because Magic played on a better team. Jordan admitted that Clyde was somewhat a mirror image of himself. See the interview "Michael Jordan on Clyde Drexler (1992.03.01)" on UA-cam where he said that. Craig Hodges echoed similar statements in another interview. See where Jordan got upset about the comparisons was during the 1992 finals, the televised games would pit their stats against each another.. like it was some kind of a horse race. Jordan scored more points obviously while Clyde edged him in rebounds, and it was a toss up when it came to assists and steals.
Drexler wasn't underrated - at least not back in the day.
Why the media nowadays choose to focus on one player rather than another is quite a different story, so yes, perhaps nowadays not much light is shone on him as on other 90's players but it definitely wasn't the case back then.
I'd say that him and MJ were, if not the two most dominant, at least the two most fun to watch players in that era.
I LOOOOVED watching Clyde the Glide back in the day. Here was great!!!
The Billy Dee Williams of the dunk
The only man to ever beat my Dad one on one when they were at the University of Houston.
larry micheaux, hakeem olajuwon, michael young, i am so curious, sry, who is your father ?
@@weedydays5718 Braxton Clark 1984 Houston Cougars. Clyde beat him as a rookie for the Portland Trailblazers coming back to his Alma Matar for Summer run.
@@gabriel1095 interesting, thank you. together with benny anders your father had some bad luck. would be interesting to see how your father judged these days in retrospective.
@@weedydays5718 I should do a podcast interview with him and get his prospective on it. I’ve been looking for something to post on my channel. He’s definitely got an opinion
@@gabriel1095 great idea
Is it just me or does Clyde look down a lot when dribbling and also uses his right hand a whole lot more than his left. My coach would’ve yelled at me if he sees me dribble coast to coast looking down and then only using my right hand the whole time and yet somehow, it worked for Clyde.
Why does it flash “sinister” at 9:56??
Those were some classics with Terry Porter
I notice when you're a Jordan bandwagon fan, everyone else is overrated. Clyde Drexler just happened to be drafted by a crappy team in Portland.
A class act
I always felt if there wasn't a Jordan, Clyde would've been thee man
I love this NBA channel
The hell with the code words, trying to dismiss The Glide
Clyde was good in the 80s/90s..Top 6 greatest sg...1mike2kobe3west4iverson5wade6clyde....facts.
Yes Coach Larry Brown changed Iverson to the shooting guard position for a season or two. Overall Iverson was a ( scoring) point guard through out his career and in college as well. So technically he doesn't really qualify.
For me Dominique Wilkins was more spectacular to watch. Said that Clyde reached 3 finals with one title so respect
One man fast break machine. You would have a tough time finding a player who got through the court quicker in league history
In NBA history....Only Julius Erving could rival him in terms of being a transition scorer. They both thrived off of that!
Loved Clyde. It was great when he got on Houston with fella phi slamma jamma alum Hakeem the dream. They were a nasty combo
He was always my favorite player! Nobody is smoother. The Terry Henry of Basketball!
Good Video about a underrated Player.
Because of the fact that I grew up in Oregon and have lived in Portland my entire adult life I was raised to be a loyal Portland Trail Blazer fan. if I had the rank the top five Portland Trail Blazers of all time it would fit in this order. Bill Walton #1, Clyde Drexler #2, Terry Porter #3, Jerome Kersey #4 and Damian Lillard #5
Clyde used to ruin my Lakers! Great player!!!!
The Jordan segment 🤣🤣🤣
Every time I see Jordan talk it just reminds me how much a POS he was . Yes he was a good player but as a person nope. I wouldn't even want to meet him. His words speak for themselves . I was a huge fanboy if his when I was a boy in the 1980s but wants you get order you see how he is.
Fax reason why Lebron is the best ever king and GOAT
Jordan and clyde
Had portland not been ignorant they could of had a Jordan and Drexler starting back court but drafted a fragile 7'1 Sam Bowie instead. Would of been the most intimidating back court in history to this day and likeley several titles, especially if a young Sabonis had come over a few years earlier. Could of been up there with the 60s celtics
Awesome.
I just redid some rankings. And Clyde ended up number 5 on my SG list
MJ Kobe West Wade
Clyde
Moncrief
Iverson
Gervin
Harden
TMac
lol @ harden being that low with his mvp and scoring titles
@@crazydr1 Harden just cared about stats..I don't think he was actually as valuable as his accolades make it seem..he played half court and would wait till he had to pass the ball to build up his assists. He never really tried to make plays.
@@crazydr1 MVP and scoring titles.. in a league where no one can touch their pretty little selves. The game now rewards shooters and chuckers
@@monolithgeometry3221 i get it man, yall hate modern players in this channel .
@@crazydr1 it's not hate....its NOT hate ..Nah...its something different. They were given advantages other players in other era's didn't get. Basketball is a 'physical' game. There's "touching " . One motto there used to be " Don't settle for jumpshots". I couldn't make you understand where were coming from
He's a Hall Of Fame balla,need we say more.
My favourite player, Class!
its like this i loved careem magic bird and many others but since then till now my fav team is blazers, guess why.
The fact that he was put at the same balance and was even compared with MJ indicates his talent