Please win in 6. I will be out of my mind if there's a Game 7 and I don't get home until 4th quarter!!
This might be the most lazy prediction yet. Screams of a dude who was under deadline to finish a report and halfassed it. This team is nothing like the one in 2016.
WTF, really? Has this dipstick not seen a Blazers game in the last two years? That 2016 team was 20th in DEFrtg. This one is 8th. The big difference is Nurk, but we also added Turner, Collins and Napier - all solid defenders. BNM
MM is kinda right man. Every post in this thread was calling out anything negative written about us. I think that’s what he meant.
You may need to look up the definition of a few terms, such as "every", and "calling out". Most of the posts in this thread were simply providing the commentary from other writers. Those that did critique that commentary primarily focused on factual inaccuracies (such as one writer suggesting that this franchise "gets all the breaks", or [the same writer] saying that this is basically the same team as in 2016. The picks themselves were not decried or discredited. What was actually said about their picks? "I like this. More fuel for the underdog fire" "Looks to me like we are going to be the trendy upset pick by many analysts across the country." "[writers] spend most of their time talking about the Pelicans even though they begrudgingly pick the Blazers to win." "we clobbered them in the last game, we should get more respect." Exactly how does any of that (except maybe the last bullet point) fit with MM's claim that we think "They are not experts if they don't have Portland winning the title.," or your lazy narrative that forum members "call out anything negative written about us"? I know your schtick is that you're cooler and more objective than the rest of us "fans", but you should at least be intellectually honest with your attempted critiques.
You know this post was completely out of line and I am flagging it for the MODS to see how you are attacking me. Posting quotes to try and prove me wrong for example. And to dare question if I’m cooler than you guys? I thought we were boys.
And for your info, we DID get lucky by having Blake and CP3 go down with injuries. I’m quite sure the Clips would have beaten us had Dame and CJ got injured.
Colin Cowherd (on the radio) Blazers have a huge coaching advantage, Lillard is a dynamic star, Blazers are cohesive with continuity, and they have home court advantage. Blazers win comfortably, probably in 5, possibly a sweep. Him picking us concerns me...
I just want for some on here to agree with a post about our team that isn’t all rainbows. Or to admit that the other team beat us because they have more talent and it wasn’t the ref’s fault.
Nobody disagrees that the Blazers were recipients of some good fortune that year; it's the implication that the Blazers have "all the luck" that is ridiculous, because this franchise has much more often been on the opposite side of that coin, and it's highly disingenuous for an analyst to point out where we've benefitted and completely disregard where we've been negatively impacted.
