Blazers vs teams ahead of them in the Western Conference: Sacramento 1-0 Phoenix 2-1 (won series) Denver 1-3 (lost series) Memphis 1-1 New Orleans 1-0 Dallas 2-2 (tied series) Utah 2-1 Clippers 0-1 Minnesota 2-1 Golden State 0-1 That's 12-11 against teams ahead of us in the conference standings. If the team were truly "bad" in their conference, they wouldn't have a winning record against teams that are supposedly better. My takeaway is that those teams overall are only better in the standings (by beating those other teams the Blazers have trouble with) until proven otherwise. It'll be interesting to see what happens against the Warriors (in the western conference ahead of the Blazers in the standings) , a team that has a times looked pathetic in road games.
'bad' is a pretty subjective word unless you're talking about my mom's split pea soup...it was objectively bad Portland is bad in this way: what has got Portland into the playoffs so much over the last decade is that they were able to win most of their games against the teams they were ahead of. They beat up the lottery teams. This season they are not winning those games at a good enough rate, and I think it's because this current team has no identity and they have nothing they can rely on. Chauncey, in my view, has not done a good job of establishing any foundation of scheme it also doesn't help their cause that there are a bunch of teams about at their level. There are no easy wins another thing that's bad is this post because I'm just pulling it out of my colon
You kids and your slang, I take it that bad doesn't mean good anymore and now means sexy. Yes, the Blazers are sexy!
We’re really badly constructed both from the standpoint of dispersal of size, talent and skill and then compounded by the way that fits in the system our coach insists on using. So we are bad and we’re worse than we have to be. I’m not holding my breath but with a couple of Olshey like trades and staying healthy we could be mediocre. If Joe swung for the fences we could even be good but not great and we would have very few draft assets for the foreseeable future.
The Blazers are not bad. Bad is what the second half of last year looked liked. Or what the 04-05 and 05-06 teams looked like. We're just below average.
No, the Blazers are not "bad"...they are inconsistent and have been pretty banged up so far. What they are not as constructed would be contenders. This team would not win most 7 game playoff series against the competition in the west. They don't close out games enough to pull that off.
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