Blazers are team everybody wants in first round!

Green font (I hope)?

 

chris_at_pdx wrote a fabulous post afterwards basically saying the Lakers reign was finally over.

 

True sarcasm doesn't need green font.

 

If MEM doesn't make the Playoffs can we sell them our spot for their lotto pick? Good move for both teams, good for the league.

 

If we could sell our spot in the playoffs I'd rather sell it to the Lakers. We watch LA get swept, and get a great lotto pick.

 

Well DUH! But the Lakers would never buy.

 

Trail Blazers playoff hopes feel built on wishing and hoping

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/04/canzano_trail_blazers_playoff.html

Go ahead, give me heat for posting a suckzano article!

Do you all see us getting out of the first round? I personally only see it if we play HOU and if they aren't healthy by then. An other potential matchup? We go home early.

 

Of course, we put up a 17 point lead on HOU on their own floor. They were damn lucky to win that game. Come the playoffs, who knows? All I know is I don't fear them anymore.

 

Everybody wants a first round exit? Doesn't make sense to me. Longer summer break perhaps?

 

I follow the team because I enjoy it, and it's a diversion to things the really matter. Calling a playoff appearance a "failure" is something that would never cross my mind. To each their own, though!

 

Those fish aren't going to catch themselves.

 

Throughout 2014 we've looked very mediocre. It hasn't just been a "rough stretch" it's been over half the season.

 

Whichever team we face in the playoffs (Clippers/Rockets) are in no way locks for us to get "swept" or to lose. Both those teams have just as large holes in their rosters as we do in ours and there is no sub statue for playoff experience. Whatever happens in the future the first stepping stone to figuring out how to win in the playoffs is to lose in them, sure a lotto pick would be great but that is just pushing our inevitable loss from the playoffs and then getting a good idea of what the team needs to do that much farther away.
Also as a fan I cannot stand rooting to lose games and miss the playoffs on the VERY SLIM chances that lottery pick we get is an amazing player, which if it isn't top 5 the likelyhood isn't very good that they will be a starter let alone a franchise player. Shit look at the last two drafts, how many Starter quality players were drafted in the lottery the last two years, not many.