How Sustainable Is Portland’s Hot Start?

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  1. HailBlazers

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    Zing! How Portland
     
    HailBlazers, Nov 20, 2013
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    Blazers PR Machine - Get to work!
     
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    Weren't folks asking this question last season? And the season before? :dunno:
     
    oldmangrouch, Nov 20, 2013
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    100% sustainable.

    It's not like they can take back our wins.
     
    MARIS61, Nov 20, 2013
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    50-32 is a very good record 57 wins would be inconceivable
     
    cmeese47, Nov 20, 2013
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  6. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    .800 winning percentage sustainable? Ummm ... no.
     
    Nikolokolus, Nov 20, 2013
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  7. BlazerCaravan

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    One game at a time...
     
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  8. PapaG

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    I've been searching for a database that lists every team to go 10-2 to start a season, and what their final result ended up being.

    Can't find any, though. I would have thought that BBR.com would have it, but nope.
     
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    It's so sustainable that the state legislature approved a special BETC exception for it, and PGE is giving the standard 50% discount.
     
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    I do not think it means what you think it means.
     
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    Ask in the Blazer Employee thread to ask the Elias Sports Bureau.
     
    SlyPokerDog, Nov 20, 2013
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    No, he pretty much got it right.
     
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    I guess I can just imagine bigger than you guys then. To me 72 wins would definitely be inconceivable but I can grasp or imagine 57 wins.
     
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    In my opinion, there is no way Matthews can keep up his currently level of play. And his current level of play has been responsible for several of our wins.

    When Matthews starts to come back down to Earth, our record will start to more resemble what the rest of the season will look like.
     
    blazerboy30, Nov 24, 2013
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  18. BlazerCaravan

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    When hot water is mixed with cold, the result isn't cold or hot but somewhere in between. And the more hot water that's already in the cup when you pour the cold in, the warmer the mixture remains... What I mean is, eventually, we'll have won so many games waiting to cool off that our season will be much better than people keep saying is our normal.
     
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    What's nice about a hot start like this is that every win makes it less necessary to sustain the hot level of play. At 12-2, the Blazers have 68 games left in the regular season. Going .500 would give them a total of 46 wins, which would likely be enough for the 7th seed. Every win now means less need for heavy lifting later.
     
    e_blazer, Nov 24, 2013
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    This is exactly what I'm thinking
     
    Strenuus, Nov 24, 2013
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