Bucks just beat the Nuggets. So, we are now tied with them for 1st place in the Northwest Division at 6-3. BNM
Yeah, but unlike last year when we caught them, there's a whole lot of basketball to be played. 6 days ago, they were 3 games ahead of us. They've lost 3-4 (and were within 0.1 sec of losing 4 in a row) and we've won 4 in a row. BNM
I heard on the post game show that tonights win gives us the best nine game start to a season since 1999-2000. And so many of you where all freaked out when we where 1-2.
When CoolStandings.com updates after the last game tonight ends in an hour, it will show the expected wins as about 55.0 (.671) Portland 51.4 (.627) Denver A 3.6 game lead. We are on track to take this thing easily. No tiebreaker necessary.
Better yet, our defense is looking nice. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/stand...lumn=avgPointsAgainst&order=true&seasontype=2
funny how they mentioned in the tv cast hwo this is the best start in like 9 years including last year. which is funny with all the bitching and ledge jumping that was going on. edit.. crap Beer Boy already mentioned it.. fast Taco bell working M f'er he is!
It's nice to be ranked #1 in "Points Against" but I have to doubt the relevance of that statistic when I see that the Oklahoma City Thunder is ranked #2. It's too early in the season and the sample size is too small for those numbers to matter much. One or two really low-scoring games, and the whole thing is thrown. That said, I think the Blazers and Nuggets will be close throughout the season. Denver has had a tough stretch, while the Blazers have had a favorable schedule and gotten a groove going. (By the way - what's gotten into Milwaukee? All of a sudden they're unbeatable at home!)
I think Miluakee just gives Denver fits.. like Houston to us at their place. I thought I read on the bottom of espnews that Denver has lost in Milwaukee the last handful of times.
We could so easily be 8-1. Glad to be where we are though. Only 5 teams in the league have better records than us. Only 1 game behind the champs. I'll take it. Are the Bucks for real? How bout the Kings?
Third-best record in the conference, and No. 1 in the West in point differential. Sounds good to me so far considering the panic that was around here.
it helps to have played the Wolves twice. 6-3 is nice, but I want to see them prove it vs some of the league's better teams STOMP
Really? I didn't know that. I thought last year's team got off to that surprisingly fast start. They had more than three losses through their first 9 games last year? (Yes, I'm too lazy to look it up.)
