The Remaining Schedule and the Drive for #5 (Column)

I think it'll catch up even more after the break

 

I think you misread me bro. (That's what I said.)

 

Yes...that was one miracle. Buster would have had to do that 4 out of 7 fights for it to be a good parallel.

 

How about when Denver knocked the Sonics out of the first round when the Sonics had the best regular season in the league?

I think many of us have forgotten about that....

 

I remember it well. The big difference is both SA and GS have won Titles....Seattle hadn't won anything so didn't have that experience going into those playoffs.

 

Not winning it all doesn't mean you don't gain experience.

They had just lost to MJ and the Bulls the year before in the finals. How is that not experience? Then lose the first round to the nuggets the next season? They were experienced. Don't fool yourself.

 

I think every player on our roster would rather play a 7 game series against the Spurs than go 10 rounds with Mike Tyson

 

I just thought about the funniest scenario for this season:

Blazers finish 7th and meet the Spurs, they lose 4-0 to the Spurs (of course), BUT LamarCooch gets a season ending injury because Mayers Damage kicked him really hard in the knee without even noticing (cue Leonard's clueless face\expression).

That would be the funniest thing ever, to see that the Blazers worked hard for 82 games just to get Lamarsha out of the playoffs, nothing more.


*Yea, i have a dark sense of humor. Really sorry if this offended the PC people.

 

Against Orlando Lamarcus choked in the endgame...Leonard bailed them out..I was checking the game thread and LA must have bricked 7-8 midrange jumpers in a row which kept Orlando right in the game..I'd love to see him do that in a playoff series with the Blazers

 

I don't believe in voodoo like karma, but if I did . . .

 

Yeah, he owes us that much.

 

BIG difference between winning a title and not. Blazers came close twice but still didn't have that experience of what it took to win it and then the confidence going forward to bury pipsqueak #8 seeds. Indiana, Utah, New York, Seattle....this list goes on for teams since the 90's that came close but didn't win it. Blazers were no where near Detroit or Chicago in terms of title experience. And that carries over....and Seattle didn't have it.

 

In the words of then Knicks coach Pat Riley...until Michael Jordan retires we're all playing for second place

 

So how do you get from getting to the finals and not winning to getting to the finals and winning?

There is no difference really. Your saying you don't get experience until you win, but you cant win until your experienced. Makes no sense.....

So how did GS win last year when the year before they were ousted and they have not won prior?

Your arguement has too many holes bro. Teams that make it to the finals and lose still gain major experience and can easily win it all the following year if basing it ON that experience.

 

That's not even what TBPup is saying. He's saying teams with recent titles just don't get bounced in the first round.

 

Easily? There are so many examples of that not being the case as listed above. Yes GS won it without having been to the Finals before but that is a rarity. As a Blazer fan, I'm sure you remember the Blazer winning their title having never been to the playoffs at all. Rare exception.

Also, I think you're misconstruing my use of 'experience'. Of course going to a title provides some experience but saying there is "no difference really' between winning a title experience and just going experience seems a bit naive and that is what I was saying was the difference between teams like GS and SA now and the Seattle team that was a #1 seed and got beat by a #8.

Having played on nationally ranked teams in a couple of sports, I can tell you how much more confident our teams were after winning at certain levels and how much more poised we were in following seasons then we had been before having that confidence of winning a Title. Any player in the league will tell you how different their confidence is after winning a title versus before and how it makes a difference going forward.

 

Thank you...exactly right.

 

Ahhhahahahahah Really?

How so? Spurs were bounced last year in the first round after winning it all the year before?

 

Sorry guys, but debunked by the Spurs just last year. Read above.