I see March is when we're mathematically eliminated from playoff contention... no point in having drama around the 8th seed in April.
Dec 20th Sunday @ Miami @ 10:00am (PT). That's odd. Jan 18th MLK Day game @ 11:00am (PT) @ Washington Wizards! That's cool! http://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Just in terms of home/away, it's a brutal schedule. We have TWO five-game homestands, and ONE seven-game homestand. Compared to... THREE four-game road trips, ONE five-game road trip, and ONE six-game road trip (which is followed by a HRH before a four-game trip). That's only three significant stretches at home, verses five significant stretches on the road. Seven of our home games are on the second night of a B2B coming off the road.
Once everyone gets their season ticket allotment, there will be plenty of tickets on the market. I would not sweat any of the games this year, especially the pre season. Personally, I plan on upgrading more than usual. Use my tan tickets to get in. Use the ticket upgrade app to sit in the 100 level.
Perfect schedule for developing young players while trying to get the worst possible record for a good lottery pick.
I want them to beat the Spurs, Thunder, and Lakers, they can be an entertaining team that loses every other game like the Warriors a few years back after that.
The B2B home games mean we should likely have a better records in B2Bs, compared to tears that have to travel for them. You take away the 4 game road trips and the stretches favor the home team. The thing with more 4 game road trips is that there's more 3 game homestands. So you can spin it any way you want, but its not brutal.
http://www.expapp.com/partners You still need tickets to get in. Once you are in the Moda Center, you use the app to move to seats that went unsold. The usual was $40 to move to an 100 level seat. Costs the same to upgrade no matter what seats you are changing with tans being the cheapest. Higher demand games made it tough some nights. Had luck when going by myself. Will try it more often looking for a pair this year with lower demand.
A $40 upgrade seems expensive this year. There will be games where you can get 100 level tickets for $10-$20 on StubHub a couple hours before the game.