Derp! We are losers! I dont care if we are in first place! We are scum! Oden is a bust! KP is trying to sabotage the team! 41-25 is better than 41-24! Derp! Team planes are gonna have to crash if we are going to win one game in the playoffs! Derp!
I think instead of "earn it" Mixum probably meant "Prove it" like you have to do to finish out a game of HORSE.
HAHAHA... can we clinch a playoff birth before I change signatures? Lets see how we do on this little road trip before celebrating first place and a playoff birth. and kingspeed... yes we beat the lakers and spurs and yes we whipped miami in november wout marion or oneal BUT we also have lost twice to GS TWICE, Clippers AT HOME and OKC where "we got whipped"....not to mention cant win on the road vs good teams in the west. Oh wait beat the Hornets wout Paul. my bad. and you really were satisfied with our wins vs Indi, Minny, and NJ? Those should have been EASY wins. The nets are only a game out of teh 8th seed. I doubt they are too upset about a loss to us at home. How can they ever make it up with 17 games left?? Thats a lot to ask anyone. good god... Learn the game then post.. is worse then the cake baking crap from our gm
What the hell were your expectations for this season? Title contender, WCF appearance? This team is playing exactly like we hoped they would which would be to dominate at home, win around 50% of your road games (still needs a little bit of work admittedly) and improve on last year's record. Check, check and check. Here's a newsflash: most playoff teams don't win on the road against other playoff teams, unless they are a top 4 franchise, and everybody in the league drops a few games they shouldn't in an 82 game season. Get over it.
Let me try to bring you back to reality... Lakers losses this year: IND SAC CHAR Combined record 70-127
A fortune cookie for MIXUM: You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistency. -Gibran
We did beat a full strength Orlando, in Orlando. Dallas has lost to GS and the Thunder (without Durant, no less), the Lakers have lost to the Kings, Boston has lost to the Clippers.... Every team has bad losses.
Actually, I completely agree with this. Win your own games, and you don't have to sit around rooting for other teams to lose. Put it this way: if it came down to the last game of the season, would you rather have the Blazers clinch the division by winning a game - or clinch the division by having Utah/Denver lose?
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I LOVED that series of commercials. I was in Southern California back then, so I saw them constantly on FOX Sports.
This is purely a matter of fan perspective. Every team is going to win or lose a certain number of times at the end of the season -- the final records don't care whether the games were played in November or March. As a fan, yes of course I prefer to clinch playoff berths early and often, but like it or not, this has a LOT to do with the strength of other teams in the conference. I really don't understand all this "only what the Blazers do matters" griping. That's ONLY true if we win every single one of our games! If the season were an exam, it would be graded on a kind of curve -- only the top eight scores earn passing grades. This means that the performance of the competition is VERY MUCH a factor in determining our eventual success or failure. A simple examination of the playoff race in the East vs. the one in the West should be enough to confirm this. Yes, of course we can make things easier on ourselves by winning out. Duh. However, realistically, the best any of the 2-8 seeds can hope for is to have MORE success than their rivals. I wouldn't be surprised at all of the final seeding shuffles completely over the course of the last few days of the regular season, and I won't be disappointed in the slightest if I find myself rooting for a Houston loss right alongside a Blazer win.
