So depressing watching that clip. I remember running through my place with my roommate in college fist pumping and screaming when we won. I want to feel that elation again thinking we have a chance.
It was the closest thing I have ever felt to winning a championship. Just pure elation and joy. Some of dames shots have been amazing but winning the lottery is still the best feeling I have had as a blazer fan.
Dame .9 tops the lottery for me. So long since we'd won a playoff series. But those are the top 2. 2000 Blazers were great but never a single moment of happiness.
We may need to win to keep New Orleans out. Then we can lose the play-in games. Then trade both picks to move up??
I watched that final game to the end on a TERRIBLE reception TV in Guatemala. I was going nuts and all the Guatemalans, Europeans etc. thought I was crazy hahaha. Oh seeing Karl Malone, Kobe and Shaq all fail simultaneously was oh so sweet!
Yeah probably not. But you never know how many players might emerge in the next two months from the tourney and internationally.
Simons is playing like a franchise-calibre guard, Nurk is beasting, and Hart seems able to play the second option role at least so far. Teams with those kind of guys and a bunch of role players focused on defense don't tend to do well tanking.
The more you look at our schedule over the remaining 24 games, the easier it is. I just went through our opponents schedules. We have 2 back to backs and our opponents have 5.; we catch them on the second of the back to back all 5 times. Blazers back to backs; 3/20-21 @IND @DET 4/7-8 @NOP @DAL Blazers Opponent on back to back (Opponents schedule): MEM (2/15-16 @NOP POR) DEN (2/26-27 SAC @POR) MIN (3/4-5 @OKC POR) WSH (3/11-12 .@LAL @POR) ATL (3/13-14 IND POR) I disregarded March 25-26 as Houston plays us twice in Portland.
Again, players don't tank games. You don't want a player on your team that would intentionally lose a game. GMs build teams to tank. This team as currently constructed is built to tank.
