Is Portland for real? (Playoff Team)

Can Rip City Be Redeemed?

 

I think we're a playoff team, but I think it's too early to tell if we'll make any kind of push out of the first round.

 

I said this awhile back and I'll say it here again. I think we're going to be better than we were last year and finish with around 42 wins +/- 4. So that looks to me like a 9-7 seed, which means their chances are "decent." I'd call it a 55-45 proposition in their favor right now, but it's way too early to tell.

 

Please define "legit playoff team".
Also, based on the article linked to, there seems to be an implied question about sustained success. So, "legit playoff team" this season? Or for the foreseeable future.
Based on my personal definition of "legit", I would have to answer no. But that doesn't mean I don't think there's a reasonably good chance that we make the playoffs this season.

 

No not unless they make a trade. With the current draft class.... Making playoffs bad idea anyway.

 

An injury away from being pretty bad. WAY too early

 

What team in the west isn't this true for?

 

Good point. To clarify, when I say legit playoff team I mean one that has a good shot of progressing past the first round.

This season.

 

None. My point is it's game 7 tonight, not game 77

 

A trade for what? Where do you see a weakness that desperately needs to be addressed?

 

And to further clarify, the poll is about gut instinct, based on the pieces we've added over the offseason and the potential of this team as is come playoff time. Not to be confused with facts but instead empirical evidence.

 

Thanks. With that I vote for "first round fodder". Although based on the options, and your added definition, "fat chance" could also apply - as in, "fat chance of progressing past the first round".

 

I think Lopez will prove to be one of the best "off-season" moves Olshey made this summer

 

Dorrell Wright was also a solid move. It's way too early to tell if Robinson will ever be anything special. I consider him a longterm investment that could take years to pan out.

 

Oh, getting out of the first round is the criteria? In that case it's somewhere between




AND

 

Wright was way solid, but the difference lopez has on the team is astronomical. When you watch the game tonight. Notice when Lopez sits. Our defense becomes stagnant and we usually have way more problems defending the paint

 

It all depends on the matchup. If we got San Antonio in the first round, I would actually think we had a good chance because of how we play them. If we got Houston, I don't think we'd do well.

 

Exactly.
San Antonio = first picture
Houston = second picture

 

My gut instinct says someone or a couple players will miss time due to injury and hurt our playoff chances