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  1. Hoopguru

    Hoopguru Well-Known Member

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    Good you imagine PDX fans watch 162 MLB games and missing the offs by 1 game or 10 years?
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Damn! This streak of 30+ scoring has really boosted Harden’s PPG!!!

     
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    Without taking the Road vs Home schedule into account, given how poorly Portland has done on the road, the S0S means little to me.
     
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    A small market team like the Padres just signed superstar Manny Machado. Would be nice if Portland could make a move even close to that.
     
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    After the OKC game the schedule starts really start get easy. We could go on big winning streak. If I counted right we could between 47-49 by the end of the season.
     
    James lamphear, Feb 19, 2019
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    What a list of 10 poor efforts. Only 10 lines for the 43 years they've had the 3-point shot to pad their stats?

    If you add the 16 years before that, you'd add 14 lines...7 lines for Chamberlain, 3 lines for Baylor, and 4 lines for other players. You'd see 24 lines instead of only 10...and that was without the 3-point shot.

    http://bkref.com/tiny/SPy1Z
     
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    Before looking below, Im expecting the classic Wizenheimer "But...But...Road games!".
     
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    Oh, something different!

    We play a lot of weak Eastern teams during this stretch, which are worse than their record indicates. A Western team with a 32-25 record is better than an Eastern team with a 32-25 record.
     
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    How good is his low post game and his pick n roll defense?
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    That's already factored into SOS. Read the definition of Strength of Schedule.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I do wish at some time we could make the playoffs one big pool 1-16 instead of by conference.
     
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    This just shows how the 3p line effects scoring. Micheals best two seasons were the two seasons he took the most 3's, as was Iversons, Bryants and Gervins. Hardin has already taken more 3's this year then last year when he shattered his 3 record for a season.
    5 Jordan seasons: 692 3's take
    KB: 518
    Gervins: 102
    Iversons: 223
    King: 10
    Bryant: 518
    Hardin: 733 with 25 games left. If he continues to shoot his avg of 13.6 a game he will end with 1073
    If this continues then Hardin will shoot over 2/3rds of the amount of 3's combined by the other 9 players seasons on that list which add up to 1545
     
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    Boo, horrible idea in my opinion.
     
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    Having the weather, women, and night life of San Diego would help:)
     
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    It's nice when there's no salary cap. Things like that can happen.

    Can't compare the two.
     
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    A lot of our road games are against legitimate bottom feeders though, and/or teams that don't really have a HCA. Part of the reason our road schedule isn't better, and part of the reason it's not indicative of the stretch to come.

    Out of our 16 remaining road games, we play:
    True bottom feeders: CLE, ATL, CHI, MEM, NOP
    Borderline Playoff Teams: CHA, DET, MIN, LAL, LAC, BKN, SAS
    Though Games: TOR, PHI, BOS, DEN

    This stretch isn't tough at all, especially after the 4th game on this upcoming trip. Even with how bad weve played on the road, I don't see us finishing worse than 8-8 over that stretch, and we should go 10-6 (Win ever game verse bottom feeders, 4-3 against borderline playoff teams [3 of them are Eastern], and steal 1 of the tough games. Go 6-3 at home and we're at 50 wins.

    The over/under should be around 50.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    ... which may well be just good enough for the 5 seed and a matchup with the Rockets.
     
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    That works out for me.
     
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    Wow. You said something about baseball that wasn't immediately derogatory. I should give you a cookie for that!
     
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    They're on pace for 47 wins.
     
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