When did the Blazer season turn? For me, my vote is for Washington at home. http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201202140POR.html At the time, we had the best three-point defense in the NBA. Remember back when? Anyway, up until this point, I believed the season could still be salvaged. I still believed Nate was an okay coach. And I think the players were still on board. But Nate's gameplan failed, and failed BIG. His gameplan was to pack the middle against Wall and McGee, and make them beat us from outside. And they did. Nick Young torched us. And the players, I think, revolted when Nate's strategy backfired so spectacularly. It's after this loss that our losses start to get really large. We only had one blowout loss before this game. In the month after this game, we'd lose big 4 times. I think this was when the Blazers stopped trying. When do you think the season turned? When did the players give up?
No offense BC, but I want to put this season as far behind me as possible. Other than assessing who we should keep, everything else should be wiped from the history books. There was almost zero positives this season.
The straw that broke the camels back was the OKC goaltending call. Up until that point we were fighting the adversity and there was a lot of hope and positive vibes going into that game. Afterward that game the optimistic outlook turned pessimistic real fast.
Agreed. I've stated this on several occasions, and I've seen another poster or two say the same thing. The thing is, as I look at this.... it just shows how fragile this team was. We win that game, and perhaps we figure it out and we continue to roll and make the playoffs. But it could also be said, if we were that fragile, something else likely would've happened later to derail everything. Maybe we'd have had enough games to limp into the playoffs as the No. 8 seeed. But I'd rather be where this year than just "one and done". But we'll never know what could have, or would have, happened. Because, as the NBA admits, we got screwed. Little consolation on this season - thanks David Stern.
Legend has it, the season was destroyed by the blown goaltend call that cost us the second OKC game. I say it turned with the Andre trade. For the first 8 games we were in remission, but didn't know it.
I don't know exactly when it took a turn for the worse this season, but it took a 180 degree turn in the right direction after last night. Six months until Blazers Reloaded 2012/2013.
Didn't you hear? It's already been derailed! The best the NJ pick can be is #6 now, since they lost the toss. And the prospects drop off after the 5th pick! Screwed again!:MARIS61:
Agreed. I think that win would have given us hope and strengthened our resolve. Even though we had lost a few close games we could go toe to toe with the best and beat them. Instead the refs gave us a loss and it was pretty obvious every time after that the game was close the players had no faith they could win it.
To me it turned in the 7th game of the season. We had just beaten the Lakers and Barkley said we were the best team in the West. Then we went to Phoenix and got completely destroyed. Then it was the Rockets loss that set us back to 8-6, having lost 4 of 5 games that made me realize we weren't a contender and I posted such on this board. Our playoff hopes went up in smoke when we lost two games to the Timberwolves in about a week's time. We dropped out of the top 8 and it was over.
yup, though my guess is that Wesley was not physically right this year which added to it. In general the Blazer backcourt play was, not good. STOMP
The day we got the bad news about Brandon, Greg and LA........ knew it was going to be a tough season.
When we traded our best PG in years along with the Manimal we needed to pair next to LA, in exchange for Nolan #%^$%# Smith. Chad and Co got a huge hole to dig out of, kinda like the Blazers under McMillan. Here's to the balls bouncing are way, and no more draft busts. Go Blazers
I guess Aldridge playing only the first 1:55 off the game before getting injured wasn't a big enough factor to mention. Roy missed most of 2010-11, but Andre Miller bailed us out. He was strong at game ends far more often than Aldridge ever will be. Losing the underrated Miller was the crucial event.
I'm going to go with this one. We sunk our own boat while it was still in dry dock. No Roy and No Oden might be 1B, but those were forgone conclusions. Our early wins were a mirage.
