Ok you will probably get out of the 1st round but this year you never know. You are going to play Dallas or better and anything could happen.
because its young, energetic teams like the Blazers that always seem to shock a team in the first round in the playoffs.
If you look at the playoff seeding and matchups, the blazers are probably one of the teams the lakers would have trouble with compared to Denver or Phoenix or Houston. Just that energy and the different matchups and the hype of being back in the playoffs.
We could end up the 8th seed and face each other in the first round. That is more likely than us advancing and facing the Lakers in the 2nd round or the WCFs.
If I was a Laker's fan(God help me) I would want nothing to do with the Blazers especially in the first round maybe WCF if they made it that far.
But we dont matter to them.. because we have 0 experience in the playoffs we should be taken lightly. we are an insignificant blip on their radar.
Yup. The Lakers shouldn't fear the Blazers at all until we can prove we can beat a western conference playoff team on the road. Without home court advantage the Blazers are going to have a tough time winning in the 1st round.
I was really checking all the teams schedule and I was even counting less wins for the Blazers then I think they will get and I think we are going to be a 6th seed now unless Roy/LMA or Joel gets injured.
I think the most likely situation for a Portland-LA series would be Portland finishing with the 4 seed and HCA in the first round. They beat the 5 seed, LA beats the 8 seed, and then Portland and LA play each other in the second round. Not that Portland would be certain, at all, of beating the 5 seed. But I think if a Portland-LA series happened, that's the likeliest route.
well with how lightly you and the rest of Laker nation take the Blazers.. probably the Lakers in a game 1 scenario. to be honest.
I'm really not sure and I'm pretty sure you are not either. We have played terrible at LA but the Lakers have played just as bad in the Rose Garden. I could possible see the Blazers pulling off a small miracle in LA being the first time for many in the playoffs and playing out of the minds. I really don't think we will meet unless we get at least to the 2nd round or maybe even WCF which isn't going to happen IMO but there is always the chance that is why we play the games.
Maybe the Lakersground fans want to play us but I would bet the Laker players and coaches don't want to play the Blazers in the 1st round.
No but it just seems that most Laker nation has the attitude of Blazers are insignificant to them, they dont matter... its the NBA any team can win on any night. Just show some respect and class to your opponent, as opposed to this self sense of superiority. Especially when a team just handed your ass to you.
