If The Blazers Had Remained Totally Healthy This Season...

Maybe for you, but shockingly you do not speak for all of us or how we really feel.

 

Not really if your knowledgeable about the game. Not if you realize that us not having a healthy Travis, Greg, Joel and others this season hindered us from playing at a level we are capable of. Not a low point whatsoever.

 

BRoy and LMA are always hurt? And what's this WE business? You aren't a fan. Lets make a bet. If the Blazers make the playoffs, you NEVER post here again. If they don't make the playoffs I will gladly delete my account. Deal?

 

The "title hunt" is sort of vague. Had the Blazers remained healthy, I'm expecting that McMillan would've helped Roy and Miller, and Aldridge and Oden, to have found ways to play together.

As others have implied, there would've been a real question about playing time among the reserves. Blake, Bayless and Fernandez competing for minutes behind Roy and Miller... Webster and Batum battling over SF minutes... And with Outlaw taking up most of the reserve PF minutes, we wouldn't have seen much at all of Pendergraph or Cunningham. Howard's the only guy who probably wouldn't have cared about riding pine.

With a healthy squad, I think the Blazers would've been vying for #2 in the West, behind the Lakers. Would they have been better than the Nuggets? Not head-to-head when they play in Denver. Better than Dallas? Utah? Would've been close.

Personally, I'm excited about next year, when hopefully, this won't be a theoretical discussion.

 

No doubt they'd be a top 4 seed at worst. Dallas is the #4 seed right now and the Blazers are only 2.5 games back from them.

And yes, they would be in the title hunt.

 

Definitely. No question about it. At full strength we will just overpower teams inside.

 

Wow. You say some dumb shit sometimes, but...

Healthy, Miller, Roy, Batum, Aldridge, Oden is worse than a team led by Bonzi Wells, Detlef Schrempf, Brian Grant, Greg Anthony and Jermain O'Neal? Really? I know you like to say outlandish shit, and any time you are calle don it, you just ignore the conversation as if it never happened, but really?

 

I think a healthy Trail Blazers would have challenged for 60 wins and the #2 seed. My expectation would have been reaching the Western Conference Finals and losing to the Lakers there in 6 games or so. But they would have been good enough where if everything fell together, they could have made a dark horse run to the title. But I'd have put that chance at around 10-15%.

 

What a crock of BS.

We have had so many key injuries that it would be nearly impossible for ANY team to even stay at .500, let alone contend for a playoff spot. This team is to be honored whether they make it or not.

 

You're forgetting Stacy "Gamechanger" Augmon!

 

Loved Augmon. (Very) mini-Pippen!

 

You forgot about Sabonis, Damon, Sheed, Pippin and Augmon.

 

They were starters, other than Augmon. Hasoos was comparing the current starters to the 2000/2001 bench.

 

No team stays COMPLETELY healthy, but if we were relatively healthy I think we would be.

 

I predicted 60+ wins (depending on health). Given that they have been far from healthy and yet are on pace to win 46 games, it's not an unreasonable projection of where they'd be if things had gone smoothly.

That pace would have them at roughly the same as the West leading Lakers, so to answer the OP question... yes

STOMP

 

Ahhhhh, my bad, nevermind!

 

They would have gone 18-0

 

It is hard to tell. Everyone knows we had a horrible start to the season with a near fully healthy team (had Oden, Roy, Pryzy, and Outlaw for awhile). For some reason, we weren't winning. Roy was looking awful when he played with Oden and when Nate eventually started Miller, which should have happened from day 1, but Nate was an idiot. Oden was looking much improved, but this team had chemistry issues and how to use everyone effectivley. I think as the season would have went on that would have solved itself and everyone could adjust to playing with one another (Miller and Roy did adjust and I have no reason to doubt they could adjust to playing with Oden while he still would be getting his own offense and looking efffective). Now here is the problem, since that was not fully worked on once Oden went down, I think we will see the exact same thing next season, how does Roy look like Roy while we try and get Oden into some sort of groove? We will have big growing pains again next year, but hopefully the team works it out relatively quickly.

 

I was in favor of the 18-0 before I was against it?