Re: Blazers open season vs Houston AT MIAMI Last time I checked, there was already a thread about the season schedule.
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... Are you just giving us the Laker,Cleveland and O-Town games?
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... At home, yes. Especially with having a six game win streak going into the game against the Lakers.
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... Wow... looking at the number cheezy poof opponents in October and November (Artest-less, Yao-less Houston; Minny, Memphis multiple times each, GS, OKC, CHA)... we have a realistic chance of being 15-4 at the end of November. Okay, my wide-brush predictions, just by skimming the opponents: October: 2-1 November: 13-3 December: 12-3 January: 11-4 February: 10-3 March: 10-3 April: 6-1 Total: 64-18 Wow... I didn't realize I was feeling that optimistic! Interesting that it's also a +10 game improvement... hrmmm....
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... The crazy thing is that your prediction is not really that far fetched. Schedule makers did us good.
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... I didn't pad any "losses we should have won" in there, so it is indeed more like a ceiling than a floor. But otherwise, I thought I was conservative about which "great" teams we could beat and where.
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... Man.. this schedule is great. I can totally see us getting more than 54 wins if we just continue to see the progress of our players. Getting out to a great start is going to be key though.
Well looks like a fairly easy start followed by a BRUTAL January and then a fairly easy close up. The league really spread out the beat down this year. Not bad at all! http://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule/index.html
We basically have a 8 game road trip in November. I think it is ridiculous that you send a team on a 5 game eastern road trip and bring them home for 1 game and then send them back on the road followed by a home game the next night. That is bullshit and no it does not happen to every team. The Blazers get penalized by their geography.
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... We basically have a 8 game road trip in November. I think it is ridiculous that you send a team on a 5 game eastern road trip and bring them home for 1 game and then send them back on the road followed by a home game the next night. That is bullshit and no it does not happen to every team. The Blazers get penalized by their geography.
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... I like this. We only play at the Lakers and Spurs (almost certain losses) once each. They each play on our court twice (probable wins for us). That alone should help our record. How weird is it seeing the Cavs referred to as "LeBron and Shaq-led"?
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... The L*kers open the season with 17 of their first 21 at home. WTF?
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... It is because they have long road trips in the later part of the season.
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... Favorable schedule. Maybe Stern wants us to become the real deal!
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread......... I don't really mind that. I expect them to jump out to a nice start anyway, amped up from the championship. I also expect them to get kind of flaky by midseason, losing some games they shouldn't just because they just don't care about some January road game against Chicago. Beyond Kobe, it's just not a team with a lot of mental focus, considering it just won a championship. A tougher mid and late season schedule probably plays into that a little.
You can tell when the league knows you are the real deal. We are only 1 of 6 teams with the max of 10 games on ESPN. Lakers, Cavs, Celtics, Spurs, and Suns the other. SUNS? Nevermind!
