Yeah, I don't feel safe for the playoffs yet. If we make a good trade in the morning locking in a good SF then I'll feel better. But as of right now I say its probably a 45% chance we'll make the playoffs. Just because the current team that we have "as is" is not experienced enough. THey are not very good at destroying teams...they make some of the easy games look tough, and thats going to tire them out down the stretch. We need a VC or someone to pick up some of the scoring slack, and make it so we don't have to win games at the buzzer. Lets run people out of the Rose Garden...and embaress teams in there houses.
I agree I don't think the playoffs are a lock by any means. I think we'll make it, but you never know. I also don't think a trade will make it a lock to make it to the playoffs. Sometimes a new player takes a while to get use to their new team. It might disrupt team chemistry if only for the rest of the season. Perhaps the trade deadline coming and going without us making a trade will help the team focus with the task at hand. It'll be interesting to see how the team plays from here on out! GO BLAZERS!!!!
CP3! Some say "bake it" I say "CP3" trade Oden, I don't care - just get me CP3! He and Roy together would become the NBA's most forbidable backcourt in its history.
Any of the current 4-9 Western Conference teams can play their way out of the playoffs with a small losing streak. This will be good stuff.
