Serious question: do we want to make the playoffs?

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by Rastapopoulos, Dec 20, 2022.

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Want to make the playoffs?

  1. YES! Just win, baby!

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  2. No - we're sweep material at best so why not get a shot at a great pick

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  1. PDXFonz

    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    I’d like our chances against the Nuggets or the Grizzlies in a playoff series, if that answers your question.

    “Sweep Material” … lol

    We aren’t getting Wembanyama.
     
    PDXFonz, Dec 20, 2022
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    It's December lol
     
    Strenuus, Dec 20, 2022
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    The NBA is all about Playoff Basketball. Thats why the Blazers have existed for so long.
     
    Hoopguru, Dec 20, 2022
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  4. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    I need some clarification:
    1. Am I predicting if we will make the playoff or am I giving my opinion if we should tank or not?
    2. Does making the play-in games count as making the playoffs or do we have to win their play-in game?
     
    Tince, Dec 20, 2022
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    If it wasn't for NBA playoffs and Portland being part of them for so many years, is why there are multitudes of Blazer podcasts and this forum has stuck for many moons.
     
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    Chip and a chair.
     
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    Of course we want to make the playoffs...Chauncey has never coached a playoff series. We should be better as a team in the spring than we are now in the fall. I expect to see a better team after the deadline.
     
    riverman, Dec 20, 2022
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    If there ever were a season to push your chips all-in to win a title, this season is it. There is not a dominant team in the league, especially in the West. The leader in the West has changed 3-4 times in over a week.
     
    OneSport3, Dec 20, 2022
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    That’s what I’m talking about.
     
    KSF-ERIC, Dec 21, 2022
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    It’s almost February lol
     
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    ....and a 20ppg SG and an all-out hustle SF, a center who can be good when he wants to be, a back up 'big' that might be the most efficient in the NBA, a defensive genius with a ring.....and we are 3rd from the bottom in the Western Conference.

    The total isn't adding up to what it should. Not expecting them to be at the top, but this is downright embarrassing.
     
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    A constant with the Stotts years is I would look at the roster before the season and think, "welp, we're not making the playoffs!" and we would always overachieve and make the playoffs. Before this season I thought "this is a play-in team". Let's just say we haven't overachieved.

    Now, that's not to say that, when this team plays the way Chauncey wants them to play, they're not fun. God knows there was nothing like the second quarter of last night's game when Stotts was coach. So I guess we don't get the wins now but we do get some fun times sprinkled in with the misery?
     
    Rastapopoulos, Jan 23, 2023
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    Stotts years were more fun. 13 game win streak. Long win streak versus Lakers. 30 point win vs 73-9 Warriors. Two #3 seeds. 4 playoff series wins. Game 7 win in Denver. WCF.
     
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  18. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Nope….already setting up work dates in the offseason.
     
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    portland trail blazers seems to be clueless about in which direction they want to go

    they better make a decision soon or they could become sacramento kings of the future
     
    Mr. Robot, Jan 23, 2023
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