Sorry, but I fail to see how snarky comments about semantics advance the discussion. Nor do they refute anything he said.
This post isn't meant as an excuse but what other team has to go on a 6 game road trip starting on the West coast, go to the Midwest, go to the East coast, come back to the Midwest on a double-header, and then come back to the West coast for another road game? 6 games in 10 days with the Thanksgiving holiday mixed in at the end is kind of BS and I don't think some are accounting for that when considering how bad they looked the last two games. I've said it before and I'll say it again here, the formula for the Blazers is simple in my opinion. Dominate at home and go .500 on the road. So far they are 5-5 on the road so they are fine. Sure, it would be nice to be awesome on the road too but that just isn't realistic. Last year they had a stretch where they lost something like 6 straight at home (I can't remember the exact number). They are okay as long as they play well at home and average on the road. Right now they are on pace to go 31-10 at home and either 21-20 or 20-21 on the road. Until those paces get worse I'm not going to panic as that is still a 50+ win season. I went and looked at GS's schedule. They have a 5 game trip in late January that starts off with two games in LA and then they go to the East coast for 3 games. They play those 5 games over 11 days! Twice they have 3 days in between games and no back-to-backs on that trip. They have one other 5 game trip next week in which there is a day off in between every game and it is all on the East coast or Midwest cities. All other road trips for them are 4 games or shorter. The Blazers still have a 7 game road trip after the All-Star break. The scheduling doesn't favor the Blazers at all, not that it's surprising. Now before anyone says anything, I realize that there needs to be some sort of playoff success and that winning 50+ games isn't enough if they get blasted in the playoffs again. My hope is that at some point they'll realize there is a common theme in the games they play well in and that is ball movement At some point they'll learn, right?
And I fail to see how anything said by a phony Blazers fan trolling for emotional responses constitutes a discussion worthy of advancement.
No! Not until they are shown the way. This is not a basketball team, on offense they are venue to allow the guards to star. Then when the real play begins, in the playoffs, teams orient the defense to stifle the ball handler, which will also stifles their leading scorer. They will not know a play to make the defense pay. They will not have developed any others players to bring the energy to lead the team even for a few moments. Likely 4 losses and out. Yes I watch the game last night on CSBA. Same team, same play, as the past 5 years. BTW! They should make better use of Leonard. And that other big kid.
We played 6 road games in 9 nights as well as traveled 8000 miles. I read a tweet that said it was the longest per mile a team would fly in a road trip this year. That is going ot take a toll at whatever time of the season it comes so make overreactions about a road trip is the same as making overreactions after a good home stand.
This. The overall ceiling of the talent on this team has to get higher if we are able to take the next step. There is jut no other way around it. I think a new coach might pull a couple more wins come playoff time, but in order to take the next step we need some better players.
