To be fair, I would’ve loved to have Randle if the Blazers could afford him. I think he’s pretty good, but I agree with you.
So...the logic is Portland is trash because they got swept and is not worth shit, but New Orleans swept them (and lost 2 starters) and won 1 game against the Warriors...so...never mind they'll obviously be a playoff team? Anthony has lead his team to the playoffs *twice* in 6 seasons. And arguably the biggest reason he did last year was because of Rondo.
Who cares. Chicken chokers that they are. They can analyze all the numbers they want. They can't measure heart, especially the heart of one Damian Lillard.
I'm not trying to pick apart each win or loss, just saying that the win streak was more of an anomaly than anything. I bought into it at the time, I thought we might have caught fire in a bottle. Looking back though I am not surprised we were swept, actually I am surprised we were swept but I'm not surprised we were bounced in the first round. Our off-season has banked on developing talent to improve so looking forward I can see why were are getting such low expectations and I have to agree, even if I don't like it.
I can’t believe how far this off season has gone to now I’m defending the Blazers, please October come soon... The Blazers won 49 games, and the way I see it they had some stretches of playing really good and some where they played really bad. They frustrated me so much... However it was 49 games and everyone including the Blazers dealt with injuries, and sure maybe the Blazers were more fortunate than others but nothing about this off season has made it look like they’re 12 games worse... Could I see them going down to 44-45ish because the West got even tougher, I could even see them missing the playoffs but literally if ANY of these pop Simon / Trent / Collins / or Curry they will be probably win about 49-50 games again next year.
The same people that said Rondo isn’t that good after he joined the Lakers, to support their opinion the Blazers are still better than Lakers, are now making him out to be a superstar to support Their opinion that Blazers are better than Pelicans because of Rondo leaving...
I dunno what the logic is, I was throwing out a hypothesis as to why they aren’t getting crapped on as much.
If he ended up here, the same fans who seem to think he's a stud in New Orleans, would be like *snort* lol, stupid blazer fan. neil olshey wasted money on him! He's not going to lead them to the title!" etc. It's the same dog and pony show that has been done for decades now.
Maybe? I dunno I know I crap on NO more than I should, but I try to be fair minded about it. The mind is a tricky thing though so, maybe?
On topic though. I’ll be frustrated if NO doesn’t do anything with TPE (shallow maybe!), and if this is the roster going into the year, but I don’t think the Blazers 12 games worse, maybe a few because of Phoenix, Dallas, Memphis and the Lakers and really just the West in general getting better, but 12 seems like a lot...
That's someone prediction it doesn't mean anything. I guess people forgot that we beat a hot Utah twice in the second half. We swept Oklahoma. Minnesota we play even same with Denver. I think we actually might have improved over last year team. If we get the 2nd half Nurk and upgrades our shooting with Curry Trent and even Nik. Can Harkless keep his head on straight for full season. Can Zach improve from last year. You know what your going get from Dame CJ Aminu every night. If this all happened we will be better.
The thing I don't get about the whole "other teams had injuries" excuse for our 49 win season - we weren't the only ones who played these teams minus their "star" players. Every other team in the West got to play UTA without Gobert, MIN without Butler and SAS without Kawhi. So, why didn't all those other teams win 49 games or win 13 games in a row? I get so tired of hearing this "excuse" for our team overachieving. BNM
San Antonio with 38.5 wins.....when they replaced their MVP who didn't play last year (still only 2 games behind the Blazers) with someone who will actually be productive. They have reason to complain as well.
