So NOW do you understand what I'm talking about??? We are a better team this year.

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  1. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Does that mean they're 1-4 against Baseball teams?
     
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    We're better than our record suggests, and that's a great thing this year.
     
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    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    I'm sticking to my 34 win prediction.

    But this team, even at their best, is extremely mediocre.

    This frontcourt is killing us.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    The trouble with this team as currently constructed is that their "full stride" is probably 42 wins max . . . MAX! That might even get us to an 8th seed in the new weakened western conference and a monkey stomping by the Warriors next year. Well fuck that! And for those saying, "look at all of our cap space!" I say to you, what high end free agent would pick a shitty small market team in a year when almost every team is flush with cap room?

    The only way this team will get significantly better and have a shot at deep playoff runs in future seasons is to hit a homerun in the draft and orchestrate some sort of impact trade(s).
     
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    We have a terrible team. And the worst part is they aren't quite terrible enough. We'll probably get the 6th or 7th pick in the draft which isn't going to net us a difference maker. We are screwed.
     
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    There is no way this team could win 42 games. No way.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    I don't 42 wins would be likely, I said it would be their absolute ceiling.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I predicted 32 and so far my breakdown has been 100% right.


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    The chance to play with Kyrie Irving, a young supporting cast, and cap space was enough of a draw for LeBron in Cleveland and also convinced Love to sign an extension there.

    Cleveland has a population of 309,000. Portland has a population of 609,000.
     
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    They can still win 50% if they make some kind of run and I think if the team stays intact their worth at leasst 50% nexr year depending on how they use the cap-room
     
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    LeBron is from Akron. He went home.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    If the Blazers win 50% they will be in a perfect position to draft Jack Squat.
     
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    He left home for Miami Beach, and took less than MAX to do so.

    Love isn't from Cleveland.
     
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    What's Love got to do got to do with it?
     
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    CJ was drafted 10th. Lillard and Roy 6th.
    Bobby Portis went one place higher than where we picked last year and if the Bulls hadn't taken him we wouldn't either. Tanking is lame, it's bad karma. We could somehow make the playoffs against all odds, get the 16th pick and draft the next Kobe. It's bullshit to wish on your own team to lose
     
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    Pun aside, he was a FA and re-signed with the Cavs.
     
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    Nice Play there Tlong! :)
     
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    I'd like to compare the amount of people who leave Cleveland to live in Portland to the people who leave Portland to live in Cleveland..I think it's really no contest..I've seen the rust belt and it's a dump
     
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    Exactly! We KNOW Dame can score. We KNOW CJ can score. We don't need further proof of this, and them scoring to bulk of the team's points isn't going to lead us anywhere but the lottery (with this roster). We we need to do is develop new skills in our players, rather than just having them do what we know they can do. So far the only development I've seen is:

    1 - Dame is attempting more high-risk passes.
    2 - CJ is attempting to be a play-maker (sometimes).
    3 - Aminu is attempting to handle the ball (and we should just cut our losses on this one - he's not going to develop into a good ball handler).

    Aside from that - and the token minutes Vonleh is getting - there really isn't anything new that's being worked on with any of our players. And that's a shame, because the ONLY thing that matters this season is development.
     
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    Not usually one to throw this around, but we don't know that. It takes a while for guys to actually show what they're working on in practices and warmups in real game time.
     
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