After two brutal losses, where are your expectations?

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  1. Strenuus

    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    These fucking sucked. This one hurt more than any other game this year, IMO.

    Right now, I'm just happy if we get a playoff seed and take our chances...

    I'm highly doubting that this year is a year we make a run.

    Next year? I have more hope for that.
     
  2. B-Roy

    B-Roy If it takes months

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    The team needs to find its identity again.

    And for the love of god Batum, enough with the awful passes.
     
  3. chris_in_pdx

    chris_in_pdx OLD MAN

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    yeah this loss is really hard to swallow. first round and out at this pace.
     
  4. Strenuus

    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I wonder if there is a stat for inbound %... because he has to be one of the worst.... I know of 4 times this game he made a stupid mistake on an inbounds.
     
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    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    No more wins. 42-40. No playoffs.
     
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    1 and done after one of the hottest starts in Blazers history is hard to take
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    The houston game notes were correct. lol.
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Yep. I almost want the 7-8 seed and match up with SA... It's really the only team I feel comftorable facing.
     
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    Just prove Nik and MM right. It was a gimmick offense and if the playoffs means flopping fests like tonight, we don't belong in it.
     
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    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    I didn't see them.
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    There were some ATROCIOUS ones that really swayed the game tonight... I mean, it wasn't basketball, it was a night at the theater.
     
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    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    The blazers didn't make a FG in the final 7-8 minutes of the game

    That's lack of execution on offense

    As bad as the refs were, the Rockets/Harden took that game. Blazers just can't finish as we've seen numerous times this season.
     
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    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    Rockets lived by the jumper.
     
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    PapaG Banned User BANNED

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    It drives me nuts that Beverley is allowed to bump opposing PGs on the perimeter. He's the new Avery Bradley. He fouls every play, and figures the refs will start not calling the fouls because he does it every possession.
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Blazers don't lose for the rest of the regular season, get number 1 seed, win the playoffs, championship!
     
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    Harden being Harden

    We need a real star player

    I hate Harden, but there's no doubt he's going to get any shot he wants. It's just a matter if it goes in or not.
     
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    oldmangrouch persona non grata

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    Time to ask what is happening in the locker-room.

    Gimmick offense that has been exposed, or do the problems run deeper?
     
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    It was funny. They called EVERYTHING in the 1st quarter, then just let them pretty much do whatever they want... then those 2 phantom calls in the 3rd.... it was wildly inconsistent... it was like Batum was refereeing!
     

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