Which playoff series do you think we had the better roster and should have won but we didn't?

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    KSF-ERIC Well-Known Member

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    The Pelicans were not one of the top 2 or 3 teams in the league when he was healthy lol.
     
    KSF-ERIC, Apr 3, 2021
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    FIFY
     
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    Yes, that season, they were.
     
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    lakers won’t beat a healthy Blazer team in 7. Nor will the Clippers.
     
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    That's bold.
     
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    I need to stop participating in conversations about coaching that's based on things anyone could come up with without ever watching the team play, so I'll pass.
     
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    They werent...
     
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    The Clippers and Bucks had more talent than the Nuggets and Heat last year, but those teams got outcoached...
     
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    Yeah they were. When healthy only the Warriors were much better.
     
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    The Houston series when we had a healthy Oden. But of course that was McMillan. Still, it puts a dent in the old "if those teams had been healthy we would've won X championships" narrative.
     
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    are you saying Sly never watches the team play?
     
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    I don't see anything in his sentence which implies this
     
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    In this century, I don't think we've beat any team in a series that was significantly better than us. Likewise, I don't we've been beaten by a team significantly worse than us. Talent has a weird way of working itself out in a 7 game series for the most part.

    All the more reason to become more talented I guess.
     
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    I wouldn't call winning all the playoff series Lillard has done mid level mediocrity. Mid level was the 15 years of often making it to the playoffs but never out of the first round.

    Fact is Neil Terry and Dame have got the Blazers more success than this franchise had since Drexler Adelman. None of those three are the best GM, coach, or player in the league but they're all much better than the worst teams have, or this franchise normally has.
     
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    Stotts outcoached Kevin McHale, Doc Rivers, and Billy Donovan.
     
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    And Mike Malone
     
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    Portland has averaged 46 regular season wins in the Olshey/Stotts era. They have a .357 winning percentage in the playoffs and haven't won a single game in the conference finals. That looks like mid-level mediocrity to me. Portland certainly isn't alone on that level, but having plenty of company on the treadmill is small consolation
     
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    I'd say 6 franchises have been clearly better the last 9 years and about 20 worse, so that puts the Blazers clearly above mid level mediocrity.

    These franchises have been clearly better:
    Lakers
    Spurs
    Warriors
    Cavs
    Heat
    Raptors

    Franchises that have been slighty or much worse
    Wolves
    Nuggets
    Jazz
    Grizzlies
    Pelicans
    Suns
    Clippers
    Mavs
    Kings
    Bucks
    76ers
    Hawks
    Bulls
    Hornets
    Magic
    Pacers
    Knicks
    Nets
    Wizards
    Pistons

    About the same:
    Rockets
    Thunder
    Celtics
     
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    yeah, you're probably right. I didn't follow the thread...just saw Sly ask several questions and bones say he didn't want to engage with people who never watched games. doesn't make much sense the way I first saw it
     
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