Notice This is the worst Blazer team I have seen in my lifetime.

I aim to please.

 

There is no 7-10 or 8-9 play in game. 7 plays 8 for 7th seed. 9 plays 10, winner of that plays loser of 7/8.

 

Is that real? I thought 9/10 seed had to be 7/8 seed 2 games to the higher seed’s one win.

 

https://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/nba-announces-structure-and-format-2020-21-season

"At the conclusion of the regular season, the team with the seventh-highest winning percentage in each conference will host the team with the eighth-highest winning percentage in its conference in a Play-In Game (the “Seven-Eight Game”). The winner of the Seven-Eight Game in each conference will be the seventh seed in the playoffs for its conference.

The team with the ninth-highest winning percentage in each conference will host the team with the tenth-highest winning percentage in its conference in a Play-In Game (the “Nine-Ten Game”). The loser of the Seven-Eight Game will host the winner of the Nine-Ten Game in a Play-In Game, and the winner of that game will be the eighth seed in the playoffs for its conference."

 

The reality of this season so far is that we have no idea who the best teams are if we're going solely off of records or performance. It takes a little more than just looking at what has happened. We need to be able to look at who is on these different teams and how those personnel combinations go together. In other words, you can't just look at stats right now, you have to use your understanding of the game and what you've learned about all of the players out there.

Our team is going to be very competitive because the offense is going to be great... like it has been for a while. It's also going to perform well because we have the most disruptive defense we've had in decades. RoCo and DJJ are amazing. They both can actually defend 1-5 at an elite level... it's great to see. Nurk will get better on both ends. We have really good bench pieces if they'll play their roles. That being said, we start two guys who are not good defenders and play those two guys more than anyone else. Also two of our main bench players (Melo and Enes) are also definite defensive liabilities. This will prevent us from being an elite defense. Hopefully disruptive is enough because lock down isn't happening.

The rest of the league is like us. You have to look at the rosters and figure out that Milwaukee is still a top two or three team in the East. You have to look at the Lakers and realize that they're still the best in the league despite being tied for the sixth best winning percentage in the league. Miami has the same record as the Knicks, I'm not saying the Heat will make the finals again but they'll make the playoffs and definitely end up with a better record that the Knicks... unless they are decimated by injuries. The point is, any solid conclusion that any of us draw is just pure conjecture but we can look analytically without analytics to make sense of the things that aren't going to end up the way they are now.

 

So the team with the 7th best record can be ejected from the playoffs by losing a single game???? That's crazy.

EDIT: Oh... no... they have to lose two games I guess. Ok, I guess that's ok.

 

Could they make it more complicated? Why not have the two higher seeds have to win one game at home or the lower seed has to win two games on the road.

 

Still 2 games ahead of the real worst Blazer team in history and 13 wins away from clinching at 2nd worst team in history!

 

Don’t hate on @Natebishop3 he was absolutely right

 

Every OTHER night.

 

Something to strive for!

 

Baby steps!

 

Blazers only 1 game out of the #4 Lottery slot.

 

Bump

 

The Telfair/Ha Seung-Jin/Monia/Khryapa/Webster teams wouldn't have given us a quarter like that first quarter.

Swayed?

 

I think that Telfair team wins this game lol.

 

I think the stress is getting to you.

Stress over what, I don't know. But it's definitely getting to you!

 

We've got a nice BMW M340i. It's not the fastest car on the road but it's pretty nice.

But it's being driven by an 8 year old.