The Sky Was the Limit...

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Ай бұрын

He was destined to be one of the few best players in the game, but disaster struck... A look at the incredible talent and short career of Brandon Roy.
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@jonnyarnett Ай бұрын

After injuries progressively got worse, dude retired for the first time AT 26!! Even guys like TMac and Grant Hill had more time to thrive than that! We were no where close to seeing this man’s full potential. How good to you think Roy could have been?? By the way, I'm currently writing the script for the Ultimate Trail Blazers Video, so stay tuned.

@MJIZZEL Ай бұрын

Hell, what if both he and Oden stayed healthy. Would've been a great duo. There was something to roy shot that just made it look perfect. Especially on game winners. Almost seemed like you knew it was gonna go in. I'll never forget watching that rockets game live. He had the clutch gene for sure.

@Davivd2 Ай бұрын

He could have been a hall of famer. Not only did he have game, but he had that killer instinct.

@ltrigga219 Ай бұрын

Hey for sure had the talent and attitude to be a Hall of Famer. And the knees of a Halloween decoration.

@futureDreamer4 Ай бұрын

Roy would won at three titles in the 10' and a couple MVPs.

@ThePeachTube Ай бұрын

He was called “The Natural” for a reason. He was so smooth and a phenomenal scorer. One of my favorite players ever. I wish B Roy had a healthy career.

@StrangeAquaticCow Ай бұрын

POV: it's been 30 seconds and you already know it's gonna be good

@donaldf9055 Ай бұрын

Holy d suck

@owensmith2137 Ай бұрын

BIG PAUSE

@StrangeAquaticCow Ай бұрын

@@owensmith2137 BRAVO!

@youwontlikethistake Ай бұрын

The group of Brandon Roy, Greg Oden and LaMarcus Aldridge went 50-24 in the games they played together (good for the 5th best record in the NBA today). No telling what they could have done together if they stayed healthy.

@ryanmontague3377 Ай бұрын

The trailblazers have to be one of the most cursed franchises. Bill Walton always getting hurt (even though they won one title), Brandon Roy, Greg Oden (and not drafting KD), and having Lillard on their team for a decade and still not accomplishing anything

@crackerjack9320 Ай бұрын

Sam Bowie too

@N.Y.A.Beat_Dump Ай бұрын

not cursed just terrible

@lilpenny1982 Ай бұрын

They got lucky too on how good their drafts turned out to be like Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter, Cliff Robinson, LaMarcus Aldridge, Jermaine O'Neal, Zach Randolph, Bonzie Wells, Jerome Kersey, Nicolas Batum, etc.

@supratrd900 Ай бұрын

Passing up on MJ was their biggest mistake.

@17thNO Ай бұрын

@@lilpenny1982They also had a team with Rasheed Wallace, Jermaine O'Neal, Damon Stoudemire, (although chunky) Shawn Kemp, older but still good Scottie Pippen, Brian Grant and Zach Randolph. They have had some players.

@erickleroux8357 Ай бұрын

IIRC Kobe said that BRoy was the hardest guy to guard in the league, with a complete offensive package but also added that his defense was... suspect... Roy was my favourite player not named Kobe at that time. I so wished he would come back from his injury.

@Hendrix.Robinson Ай бұрын

I was there! Seen many of his games.. dude was the real deal and just getting started when his knees went bad. Dammit man! He’s still one of my favorites

@markjackson6431 Ай бұрын

Brendon Roy and Bob Lanier are two players who did sooo well in the NBA despite their constant knee problems. if only they were 100% healthy

@brianjackson5541 Ай бұрын

Goosebumps man…goosebumps!! When I saw this drop today. Being from PDX and seeing him first hand you can’t underestimate his importance to the franchise. It’s not overstating that he saved it. Even in his brief career in PDX he is iconic and ranks in franchises top 5 all time on many people’s lists.

@williamgolston5399 Ай бұрын

He was CLEARLY on a Hall of Fame track.

@futureDreamer4 Ай бұрын

The second coming of Kobe Bryant but just more quiet. B. Roy is my third favorite basketball player of all time right after Kobe and Jordan. A healthy B. Roy would have won at least three titles.

@leptonparticle238 Ай бұрын

Injuries are the most evil thing in sports, especially when the player really works hard to take care of his body, but they keep coming.

@pnwsp21stcentury81 Ай бұрын

He was an awesome NBA player. My uncle went to school with him at the university of Washington and he was a dominating player both in college and the pros as well. And I think that is brutal that he had a career ending injury and I don’t like the blazers at all but loved Brandon Roy as well. Hopefully when the Seattle Supersonics come back and come back to the NBA. Hopefully Brandon Roy does become the new HC of the new Sonics when they come back.

@jk8190 Ай бұрын

One of my favorite players of all-time, even though he had very short career

@SlapJack2HD Ай бұрын

Brandon Roy was so fun to watch!

@potionz1733 Ай бұрын

Great video! I can’t wait to see how the ultimate trail blazers team will look 👀

@icefloresta2576 Ай бұрын

The game winning shot of roy and lillard against the rockets is very identical.

@maxdobasquete Ай бұрын

1:55 I was thinking: dude was... ... 2:00 Mr Arnett: he had a SILKY SMOOTH game... Excellent superb video as always 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪🏼🏀

@user-nj3df6ey6h Ай бұрын

I live in Seattle and met Brandon Roy when he came into my store a couple of times. I didn't let on that I knew who he was and he was very nice. I'm glad he stayed local and is coaching at Garfield High School (where Jimi Hendrix went). The bright side is at least he made it, even if it was short lived. Most of us never even get that far, so overall I would say his career was a triumph.

@bortonshort3761 Ай бұрын

So painful to see his career being cut short! Hopefully we'll hear about him in the Blazers' Ultimate Team

@bigpharmasports9120 Ай бұрын

Dear Jonny, As a long time Blazer and Cleveland fan, you have no idea how much this video means to me. I am typing this before even having watched the video out of sheer excitement of seeing the thumbnail and title. Between those two franchises, we have had some sad draft, trade, and bust stories, but perhaps none as tragic as B-Roy. He is our Derrick Rose. Aside from AI, I truly feel that B-Roy was the only guard that could truly keep kobe up at nights during his late prime. He was clutch, talented, athletic, smart, and and all around great guy and pulled us out of the jail blazer era and gave the Portland area some hope during the 08 recession. He truly is my favorite blazer amongst a catalogue of greats.

@GoodOmali Ай бұрын

Bout time a B Roy vid

@camronmoses8956 Ай бұрын

Living in the Portland area, Roy was something special. Unfortunately a lot of people didn't realize it until he was out of the league.

@wedabestradi096 Ай бұрын

That sequence vs the rockets that began at 3:30 is incredible 😲

@jeremycrumpton7881 Ай бұрын

Man, this video is well deserved, haven’t even started yet, but my man B Roy needs some respect out on his name!

@ATroubledGreensLibrary Ай бұрын

🎉❤

@TwentyGrand Ай бұрын

Love the video and the knowledge you spread and the instrumental is great too🎉🏀🥇🏆

@pasigiri Ай бұрын

Brandon Roy was scary good. Thanks for doing a video on him and putting some shine on his career. Imagine if he stayed healthy or fully recovered his knees AND Portland got Dame still.

@mykronesian4430 Ай бұрын

Bro..Roy was very good..imagine he stayed healthy along with a healthy Greg Oden and waiting on Dame to join the league too??Blazers would've been a dynasty if they kept them all

@tonyt3197 Ай бұрын

If that really happened the trailblazers most likely wouldn’t be in position to draft dame because they would’ve been a higher ranked team going into the offseasons

@jichaeljacksoniv310 Ай бұрын

Brandon Roy is definitely loved by his fans

@wedabestradi096 Ай бұрын

Brandon roy and d rose are my favorite could have beens but they were the dopest back in the day

@tommythomasson1 Ай бұрын

If he had a long and mostly healthy time in the NBA, he would have definitely become a Hall of Famer.

@the_Sage71 29 күн бұрын

I liked Roy. He was humble. Unselfish and he was the goods.

@OnlyGoodSHHH Ай бұрын

as one of the biggest fans of the late 2000s blazers...I can confidently say, had Roy and Oden stayed healthy and reached their full potential; Blazers, with Roy leading the way, would have won at least a couple titles. And along the way, Roy would have shown just how clutch he truly was...making bigger and bigger shots in the biggest moments of the biggest games. Would Roy be considered the GOAT? Eh, tbh, probably not. But, I do believe he would prove himself to be one of the greatest clutch players of all time, and find himself in that discussion being compared to only Jordan.

@74205gb Ай бұрын

A healthy Brandon Roy & Greg Oden is one of the biggest What-Ifs in Basketball history. #MambaForever

@JB-mb6lm Ай бұрын

excellent video

@crackerjack9320 Ай бұрын

One of the all time prettiest jumpers.

@alejanoelallen1952 Ай бұрын

🏀

@chiefs816kc Ай бұрын

Minor critic: At the start of the video, you were mentioning greats of the late 2000s. Dirk & CP3's names deserved to be mentioned.

@graysonkiser8042 Ай бұрын

Melatonin kicking in. Time to get a pop tart and turn on johnny Edit: mid pop tart and really sleepy but he seems like 75% kyrie and 75% Luka. All such unique talents in their own right

@axelgiosido4997 Ай бұрын

Maaan B-Roy was HIM!!!! Imagine if that blazers team with Oden, Aldridge and B-Roy? That would be pretty dope.

@evanhayes5891 Ай бұрын

I was there, and it would've amounted to deep playoff success but (IMO) no 'chip.

@brettreynolds1976 Ай бұрын

Potential top 5 SG had he stayed healthy. 🏀

@lilpenny1982 Ай бұрын

My Top 5 biggest "what if's": #1 Penny Hardaway #2 Grant Hill #3 Ralph Sampson #4 Brandon Roy #5 Len Bias

@lilpenny1982 Ай бұрын

I thought Roy was as good as Dwayne Wade.

@emekaamerican863 Ай бұрын

Brandon Roy would've at least a Finals appearance or a championship with Portland at most. He would have been a league MVP in my opinion.

@jamiekelley4076 Ай бұрын

He was an amazing talent. I think that being said he would have ended up being similar to Dame. The reemergence of Kobe's Laker's were coming. The Miami Big 3 were around the corner. And the GSWs were coming up along with a talented young OKC Thunder team with Durant, Westbrook, Harden. So I think he would have been a star struggling with getting talent to help him compete.

@gotwobag7876 Ай бұрын

👋👋🤗

@rig-zag Ай бұрын

I always associate Brandon Roy with Michael Redd, Ben Gordon and Rashard Lewis as dynamic wings from the 2000s that seemed destined for superstardom... Only to be derailed by injuries.

@deonlepharaoh Ай бұрын

Skip over Durant and draft Oden because you have Roy and both are done before Durant wins his mvp...

@jeromecruz3237 Ай бұрын

My favorite type of players Just like MJ, Kobe, Tmac and then BRoy. Who else? Did I forgot someone

@hodcor Ай бұрын

Can we get a video ranking all time layup packages?

@justincarreras7753 Ай бұрын

SGA reminds me of an upgraded version of Roy.

@JackTrusel Ай бұрын

My favorite Blazer ever

@nvm9040 Ай бұрын

Probably dame Brandon Roy was their best star plus his duo with Aldridge was a good one two punch of offense to make those blazers teams interesting and he led the blazers to prominence since probably bill walton and like bill Roy had injuries and bad knees

@antinapay Ай бұрын

I honestly believe if he was healthy, he would be what Ginobili would be in a starring role. A shooting guard with absolutely no weakness.

@MJIZZEL Ай бұрын

The same thing happened to my knees during the army. Here I am years later and can barely walk most days due to the arthritis from bone rubbing bone. Used to get my elbow over the rim at 5'11". Hard to believe the difference of then til now. Roy was a dog for a lil bit.

@viktorkopinc4055 Ай бұрын

So you basically had a 48 inch vertical, because that's what is required to get the elbow over a 10 foot rim. I'm your height and I can only put my hand above the rim, I can't dunk. Nate Robinson is that height and had a 44 inch vertical just for reference. Must have been an amazing feeling.

@pep2st8p64 Ай бұрын

I'm from Seattle B.Roy's big brother Ed was one of my YBs understudy "Young Ballers" back in the day...

@lilfolkes Ай бұрын

B. Roy was a dawg.....

@fortnitejake850 Ай бұрын

Him and Greg oden. Portland should have won a championship 😢

@999lilo Ай бұрын

I don't know about winning one but for sure could have been title contenders at least

@airvigs Ай бұрын

I truly believe Roy would’ve been the 3rd greatest shooting guard of all time behind only MJ and Kobe

@elreiec1 25 күн бұрын

Roy had next after Bryant and Wade for title of best SG in the league. His body betrayed him. 😢

@hardwoodgems Ай бұрын

Roy was TheTruthWest, but only craftier!

@PetouKan Ай бұрын

True story: I came on your channel to pitch you an video idea about how the phrase "the sky as the limit" is overused and false... I think I'm going to pitch it to jimmyhighroller instead lol. Fun fact aside, when a genius like wemby or luka comes to the league with early dominance, we keep hearing "imagine him in his prime", or "in 3 to 5 years" without taking into account that basket ball is a finite game, with phisical thresholds that can't be broken. In that regard I think I once heard of a study that proved that 95% at the FT line was not humanly possible for example. Well it bugs me that the progress curve is assumed to be the same for everyone... we need a statistical analysis over this... ok, I'm definitely pitching this to Jimmy😅

@olajawanmagee768 Ай бұрын

He didn’t look 6’6 he looked more like dwade height

@FoxUnitNell Ай бұрын

Yet 1.2 blocks in a playoff series is pretty tough for a guy not 6'6".

@Kennyisdarkvanilla Ай бұрын

At some point with all the injuries, you have to start questioning the Blazers medical staff and trainers. To this day, Portland has yet to play with a healthy roster. They have been cursed with injuries since Bill Walton. I mean yeah it was nice Walton got Portland a title, but if injuries didn't derail his career, he could have been up there among the greats with Kareem.

@Kennyisdarkvanilla Ай бұрын

Also it makes me sad everyday that we never got see a backcourt of Roy and Lillard. That would have rivaled the Warriors for best backcourt of 2010s.

@Blackenedification Ай бұрын

Great prospect indeed but Penny Hardaway had a lot more potential, he could have been alongside the likes of Kobe if not for injuries

@SwagnerCountsThings Ай бұрын

Is Brandon Roy the best player to never make a conference finals?

@17thNO Ай бұрын

Jayson Tatum if he had that dog in him.

@MarkLaw13 Ай бұрын

Kawhi Grant Hill Bill Walton Derrick Rose Kemba Walker* Isaiah Thomas* Boogie Cousins* *ruined by injuries but perhaps weren't gonna be an alltime great. Kawhi is the biggest what if in history, that man is the only player where his prime has been riddled with injuries. Everytime he plays, there's hope for a championship, there's light at the end of the tunnel only for a blockade to come out of nowhere with injuries upon injuries. He'd probably have 4 rings by now if not for injuries. He knows his legs cant take it so he thinks superstars will step up but the likes of PG, Harden, Westbrook are known for the being the worst playoffs performers with 14+ games shooting below 35% which is the most amongst active players and they are all in the top 3 and Lowry is the 4th who Kawhi also played with.