We’re undefeated against teams with losing records. Haven’t the Blazers proven trap games don’t apply to them? Giving effort hasn’t been a problem at all this year.
Playing the same team so close together is extremely difficult. We got the Sac back-to-back, and I think we might have had a game and game with Utah, but it's one of the hardest things to do in the NBA.
I expect us to lose tonight, lose against Miami and lose against OKC. Both Pelicans games will be easy wins but the Clips will be a tough win so we go 3-3 which still gives us an awesome 12-4 record in December. January starts very easy, CHA, PHI, @SAC, ORL, BOS, CLE. Right now we are 11-0 against the East and they have to travel far out west to play late games? Those teams are screwed. That streak is hitting 16-0 ignoring the Miami game. We win all six of those to pad some wins before the brutal Texas 4 games in 5 nights road trip.
We hate the Twolves, and Aldridge is going to be pumped to play Love. Plus, do you think Ruuuuubio can stop Dame?
The only times we’ve done it this year we are 4-0, so no I don’t agree. Those Pelicans games are 9 days apart. Its far more difficult to play good teams than playing bad teams multiple times. Its hard to play 4 games in 5 nights with travel. Playing a bad team with days off before both game is not difficult.
Our team is going to be very tired, 4 games in 5 nights. 5 games in the last week. The Twolves are rested at home and want to make a statement against the best record in basketball. As important as this is to us its more important to them. We’ve proven ourselves, they haven’t. I’d love to see us win and Love lose but I don’t like our chances in this one. Rubio is a hell of a defender. Love and Pek are horrific defenders. We need to attach their bigs. Going after Rubio is the last matchup I would target.
Denver was a mess trying to play JaVale in the post when we beat them on the road. So the only impressive road win we have is against a Golden State team missing Iggy. We’ve been taking care of business against the rest of the league on the road which is awesome, but I’m not going to start inventing unrealistic expectations for this team. Outside of that GS game a win tonight would be our best road win of the season.
McGee only played 13 minutes against us that night. He was neither a positive or a negative that night. But I agree with what you are saying, there are going to be nights on the road when we will get killed. It only takes one guy to go off. It can happen any night. Tonight though I think it will be another nail biter.
Well we lost tonight and Anthony Davis came back. I expected him to be out for both those games against the Pelicans, this'll make our schedule much more difficult to close out this month. They were missing the sharp shooting Ryan Anderson before, that team is intimidating. We could play very well over these final games of the month and still easily go 2-4 for this stretch.
Wanted to reiterate this post here in this thread as well I am pretty confident this team has a rough ending to December. Minny exposed a lot about us last night. In fact I read somewhere minny scouted our three previous games. They basically showed the league how to destroy us. With the solid teams on tap.... It's gonna get ugly. Minny is the worst team we will face till January that's the scary part.
So glad you came back to earth and starting your string of reverse jinx threads and posts. Last time you did, we went 11-0. We really need to buy you a Blazer fan shirt!
