I quite possibly could have a third eye for spotting Rockets and former Rockets players, but I was drving down Post Oak today going home from work, and I pulled up behind a very classy looking BMW 745 I sedan http://www.bmwusa.com/vehicles/7/745iSedan/, and the license plate said "Drex 22". I pulled up along side him, started waving like a mad man, and he rolled his window down, gave me a thumbs up, and smiled. I gave him the cougar paw, considering this is my grad school , and he smiled at that too. All I must say is, Clyde is da man.
Cool sighting man. I have seen him a bunch of times with his Son when i play basketball at the Houstonian and he is always really nice and sometimes plays but just stays outside and shoots and he still has his stroke. Of course we are all playing hard and he is just stroking from anywhere and not coming inside at all lol.
agreed. clyde is a quitter, and for him to be even mentioned in the same breath as many of the all-time great rockets is a travesty. i can't believe they retired his number. we might as well retire t-mac's right now then. don't get me wrong. one of the best players ever. rather, the best TRAILBLAZER ever. his rockets career was forgettable except four months in 1995 when he was the third best player on his team (Dream, Horry precede him).
Horry better than Clyde? I'm not getting on him for he tenure as a Rocket, just his coaching stint at UH.
ya i know...i was just getting on my soapbox.... ...and i'm off! oh btw, i meant horry was a better player during the playoffs in 1995...
Clyde the Glyde was at the W. Holcombe/Buffalo Speedway Barnes and Nobles a few days ago signing his new book. I saw him there, although it seemed like very few people were interesting in getting his autograph.
It's pretty cool running into old Rocket players. I pulled behind Drex in the vale line at Papa's stake house a couple of weekends ago. I was wondering what his licence plate ment also until he got out with his wife. Real cool guy,.
Being an UH alum I am over the Clyde's quitting coaching at UH. I guess time heals all. As for him not being the best or 2nd best player in our 2nd championship campaign he was coming to the end of career however he was an important factor and u can't take that away. I remember him skooling Del Negro all day time long. So for the time he was a Rocket I didn't expect him to rewrite the records books. So if I see him I will shoot him Coog sign at him.
DREX 22 Is what is on my plates, but Im in another state. Clyde is my all time favorite player, if I would have saw him I think I would have soiled myself. I envy you!
Clyde is not a quitter, he left the game knowing he could still play it if he wanted.....Maybe one day the basketball gods are not actually done with him just yet...... Comeback? stranger things have happend
He's a "quitter" as a college coach, not a player. You ask anyone who knows and they'll tell you he was a joke of a coach, many nights showing up just minutes before the game.
I saw him at the airport once, he was riding the lower level train and I was in it also, he was playing with his PDA the whole time to avoid eye contact with anyone. When we got off at Terminal C, he was avoiding people big time, no hellos or even eye contact. He was going up on the elevator and some people were also including me but he walked away like he wasn't. The elevator came and he got in, everyone ignored him, which he probably wanted anyways. I got off the same floor as him. He finally said hello to some old ladies. Even though I noticed him and he realized it and that's why maybe the aloofness, it's not like I was thinking "Wow, it's Clyde the Glide!"...more like "Ehhh, he's no Jordan."
