2015-16 Trail Blazers Schedule

[Blazer509]

Cool thanks.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Just in terms of home/away, it's a brutal schedule.
We have TWO five-game homestands, and ONE seven-game homestand. Compared to...
THREE four-game road trips, ONE five-game road trip, and ONE six-game road trip (which is followed by a HRH before a four-game trip).
That's only three significant stretches at home, verses five significant stretches on the road.
Seven of our home games are on the second night of a B2B coming off the road.

Perfect schedule for developing young players while trying to get the worst possible record for a good lottery pick.

 

[blue9]

Perfect schedule for developing young players while trying to get the worst possible record for a good lottery pick.

Very true.

 

[santeesioux]

Perfect schedule for developing young players while trying to get the worst possible record for a good lottery pick.

I want them to beat the Spurs, Thunder, and Lakers, they can be an entertaining team that loses every other game like the Warriors a few years back after that.

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

Once everyone gets their season ticket allotment, there will be plenty of tickets on the market. I would not sweat any of the games this year, especially the pre season.

Personally, I plan on upgrading more than usual. Use my tan tickets to get in. Use the ticket upgrade app to sit in the 100 level.

How does that work?

 

[BonesJones]

Just in terms of home/away, it's a brutal schedule.
We have TWO five-game homestands, and ONE seven-game homestand. Compared to...
THREE four-game road trips, ONE five-game road trip, and ONE six-game road trip (which is followed by a HRH before a four-game trip).
That's only three significant stretches at home, verses five significant stretches on the road.
Seven of our home games are on the second night of a B2B coming off the road.

The B2B home games mean we should likely have a better records in B2Bs, compared to tears that have to travel for them.
You take away the 4 game road trips and the stretches favor the home team. The thing with more 4 game road trips is that there's more 3 game homestands.
So you can spin it any way you want, but its not brutal.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Just in terms of home/away, it's a brutal schedule.
We have TWO five-game homestands, and ONE seven-game homestand. Compared to...
THREE four-game road trips, ONE five-game road trip, and ONE six-game road trip (which is followed by a HRH before a four-game trip).
That's only three significant stretches at home, verses five significant stretches on the road.
Seven of our home games are on the second night of a B2B coming off the road.

It's almost like the NBA is in cahoots with Olshey.

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

How does that work?

http://www.expapp.com/partners

You still need tickets to get in. Once you are in the Moda Center, you use the app to move to seats that went unsold. The usual was $40 to move to an 100 level seat. Costs the same to upgrade no matter what seats you are changing with tans being the cheapest.

Higher demand games made it tough some nights. Had luck when going by myself. Will try it more often looking for a pair this year with lower demand.

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

http://www.expapp.com/partners

You still need tickets to get in. Once you are in the Moda Center, you use the app to move to seats that went unsold. The usual was $40 to move to an 100 level seat. Costs the same to upgrade no matter what seats you are changing with tans being the cheapest.

Higher demand games made it tough some nights. Had luck when going by myself. Will try it more often looking for a pair this year with lower demand.

Very cool man

 

[BonesJones]

A $40 upgrade seems expensive this year. There will be games where you can get 100 level tickets for $10-$20 on StubHub a couple hours before the game.

 

[santeesioux]

This is one of the few years where the Kings might actually be better than us and it might not be pertinent for us Southern Oregon bros to go down there for games to save money.

 

[KingSpeed]

I like that we close the season with 3 straight home games. We'll finish strong going into playoffs.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I like that we close the season with 3 straight home games. We'll finish strong going into playoffs.

There's going to be playoffs for lottery teams this year?!?

Cool!

 

[HailBlazers]

This is one of the few years where the Kings might actually be better than us and it might not be pertinent for us Southern Oregon bros to go down there for games to save money.

Sad @$$ dayz

 

[maxiep]

Looks like LMA comes back to PDX on Nov 11th.

http://forwardcenter.net/

I hope everyone ignores him. We don't boo him, we just move on. He never gave two shits about our city or our team. I plan to offer him the same courtesy.

 

[HailBlazers]

Just in terms of home/away, it's a brutal schedule.
We have TWO five-game homestands, and ONE seven-game homestand. Compared to...
THREE four-game road trips, ONE five-game road trip, and ONE six-game road trip (which is followed by a HRH before a four-game trip).
That's only three significant stretches at home, verses five significant stretches on the road.
Seven of our home games are on the second night of a B2B coming off the road.

Brutal is good. Let's pull a Spurs, hit the lottery big, then vault back into contention.

 

[maxiep]

How difficult is it to get single game tickets? Me and my buddy are trying to go this year.

I see March is when we're mathematically eliminated from playoff contention... no point in having drama around the 8th seed in April.

I think it will be before the All Star break (roughly the 50 game mark).

 

[riverman]

I hope everyone ignores him. We don't boo him, we just move on. He never gave two shits about our city or our team. I plan to offer him the same courtesy.

I think we should either give the number 12 to Meyers before the season or retire Adelman's jersey which I believe was also number 12..on the night LA returns to Portland. Raise the Adelman jersey to the rafters before the game and have a huge ceremony

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Fuck LaMarcus Aldridge.

 

[THE HCP]

Dec 20th Sunday @ Miami @ 10:00am (PT). That's odd.
Jan 18th MLK Day game @ 11:00am (PT) @ Washington Wizards! That's cool!

http://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule

We've had 1 o'clock games before. In Atlanta and a few in Toronto.

 

[riverman]

We've had 1 o'clock games before. In Atlanta and a few in Toronto.

I'm guessing a one o'clock game probably doesn't sell many seats?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I'm guessing a one o'clock game probably doesn't sell many seats?

That 1pm EST game is on MLK Day, yeah? So I bet it sells out since it's a holiday.

 

[Reep]

LMA returning to Portland made #7 on Yahoo!'s top 10 games to see:

7. LaMarcus Aldridge returns to Portland, Nov. 11
Aldridge was one of the franchise's greatest players. Portland Trail Blazers fans, however, will also remember that he didn't give the team much of an opportunity to re-sign him during the past offseason. During the previous two seasons, Aldridge seemed to already have one foot out the door.

 

[Draco]

Does any other team have two sets of 4 games in 5 nights like the Blazers? There is all this talks about how they reduced so many of those and theres only 28 in the league this year which is less than one per team. We shouldn't have two. I don't really understand why the league has any of them, seems something that could be eliminated fairly easily.

The Blazers have 19 back to backs while the league average is 17. Not a huge difference but seems like we always have a more difficult schedule than the rest of the league. Then being way up in the NW we also have to fly far more miles.

I do think it helps our home court advantage that teams are traveling so far to play us. East coast teams aren't used to games starting at 10pm.

 

[blue9]

I hope we rest some players on these B2Bs and 4-in-5s. There's no reason to be putting that much pressure on their bodies this season. Make some roster changes on those nights to spread some playing time around.