The Official Portland is only 8 1/2 games from missing the playoffs thread

Lighten up, people. Enjoy life how you want to enjoy it, and try not to force your views on other people. That's what got Hitler in trouble

 

I think we've got some glaring holes (that have been obvious to some of us for a while) that need to be addressed.

Interior Defense.

Bench scoring.

Those are the two bug-a-boos right now. Our starting five made up for a lot of our sins by playing out of their minds for 25 games, but we all knew that couldn't last forever. The starters get tired, they get injured, and they can't sustain that kind of play for 82 games. We need to play CJ to see if he can provide the bench scoring that we need, but I still think we should look at trading for a big.

 

Some of us mentioned the minutes and got run out of the thread, but oh well.

For those ready to jump on me, I'm not saying they aren't better than last year because they are

 

This is low MM. I do not appreciate it. Your post hurts, man.

 

Of course if you try to say that, you'll just be told what our record is, which obviously means we have no holes or weaknesses at all.

 

Well that record is quickly becoming less and less of an advantage.

 

The amount of "told you so" and playing the "don't criticize the team or the soccer moms will show up" posts have been ridiculous the past week or so.

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If we don't do something about our defense, we will continue to lose. It's just that simple.

 

Yes; this is basketball talk. Let's keep doing that instead of attacking each other.

 

Your semicolon is ugly.

 

I always seem to poop them out in the wrong spot.

 

We are 17 games over .500, and the 9th seed is .500, so its misleading to say we are only 8.5 games from missing the playoffs. The teams on the cusp of the playoff are not all going to go undefeated the next 9 games.

The teams at the edge of the playoffs would be expected to continue to be .500 level teams as they have been all year. So the Blazers are 17 straight losses from missing the playoffs.

 

The defense is the biggest concern for me. You just don't see a team with one of the 10 worst defenses have success in the playoffs. I'm not really sure what can be done about it. I wouldn't want to mess with our starting lineup but is bringing a defender off the bench for a few minutes really going to make that big of an improvement?

I think I'll just have to be happy with a playoff birth and hope this team can hit a hot streak in the playoffs. The Mavs got real hot shooting the ball and won a title. If we are draining jumpers it will mask a lot of problems on defense, lack of depth, or bench scoring.

 

So in the next 9 games, if we lost all of them and the teams in 9th and current playoff teams won all of theirs, we wouldn't be out of the playoffs by 1/2 game? Doesn't that mean 8 1/2 games?

#basicmathforthewin

 

10 I think

 

This is why I am still lukewarm about Ole'. He hit a HR with Lopez, but he just doesn't seem to put much attention into building a decent bench. Of course, if he hadn't whiffed on Leonar_, CJ, and Crabbe it would be a much better situation.

 

Yeah, but Hitler was a Lakers fan!

BNM