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That schedule is pretty easy early on. Portland could/should go 13-5 or 14-4 out of the gate. That is the type of start they need.
Then comes a 6-game road trip but against the dysfunctional Rockets, hapless Bulls, legit Bucks, remade 76'ers, lost Knicks, and clueless Hornets, even that trip could/should be at least 3-3.
The next 13 are a little tougher and projects to around 7-6.

That could/should be 23-14 or maybe a little better over the first half. At that rate, that gets Portland to 44-45 wins for the season. The 2nd half of the schedule might be tougher though.
 
TBpup said:
That schedule is pretty easy early on. Portland could/should go 13-5 or 14-4 out of the gate. That is the type of start they need.
Then comes a 6-game road trip but against the dysfunctional Rockets, hapless Bulls, legit Bucks, remade 76'ers, lost Knicks, and clueless Hornets, even that trip could/should be at least 3-3.
The next 13 are a little tougher and projects to around 7-6.

That could/should be 23-14 or maybe a little better over the first half. At that rate, that gets Portland to 44-45 wins for the season. The 2nd half of the schedule might be tougher though.
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Wow, I'm thinking just the opposite. I could easily imagine starting the season 2-4.
Utah
Houston
@LAL
@LAC
@GS
@GS
 
Wizard Mentor said:
Wow, I'm thinking just the opposite. I could easily imagine starting the season 2-4.
Utah
Houston
@LAL
@LAC
@GS
@GS
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I don't have them much different in that first 6 games...3-3 instead of 2-4. But after that, it gets quite easy for the rest of the 1st half of the schedule.
 
TBpup said:
That schedule is pretty easy early on. Portland could/should go 13-5 or 14-4 out of the gate. That is the type of start they need.
Then comes a 6-game road trip but against the dysfunctional Rockets, hapless Bulls, legit Bucks, remade 76'ers, lost Knicks, and clueless Hornets, even that trip could/should be at least 3-3.
The next 13 are a little tougher and projects to around 7-6.

That could/should be 23-14 or maybe a little better over the first half. At that rate, that gets Portland to 44-45 wins for the season. The 2nd half of the schedule might be tougher though.
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I'm thinking about 24 wins for the first half of the season
 
Rastapopoulos said:
You mean people pay to watch basketball online???
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I'm starting to wonder if i am the only guy that pays for and watches the Blazers through Comcast. Yes it's a little more but i know i can watch every game. I know the quality will be good. I know that i can record any game if need be. I also have stats on the screen as the game is being played. I can open a second window and watch the end of another game. I can also record multiple games if need be like this year when NFL,NBA,NCAA, are all going to be a jumbled mess through make up times.
Yeah It's a bit more and we have 3 TV's but i really got tired of working to save a few bucks and not being happy with the quality or availability.
 
THE HCP said:
Just don’t see it that way. DirecTV here. Had it for at least 15 years and it’s amazing. Feeds are top notch quality. I can record 6 games at once on our home DVR. Love the streaming on my MacBook/iPhone/iPad. get it every season and write it off.
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I was thinking DirectTV for a bit but you have to admit when the feed goes down it's frustrating. Also wind and weather take a toll. You also have to make sure that dish is pointing the right direction or you do not get great pictures at all. And i'm guessing you could write off any service you get being you can write off DTV?
Oh and not to go all political but how are those new tax codes working? Can you still write that off?
 
BonesJones said:
We shouldn't go worse than .500 there. Should probably go 4-2.
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So win the first two home games, lose the two in LA, and sweep both road games against the Warriors? We had trouble against their G-Leauge edition last season. I'm crossing my fingers for a split. It we open up 4-2, I'm extatic! :blazerwookie:
 
Orion Bailey said:
Am I the only one reading this as, him saying a .649 win percentage? He would be happy with a .542 win percentage?
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Nah. I screwed the pooch on the math. But yes .542 would still be pretty good and .6487 (which is the actual) would be awesome.
 
kjironman1 said:
Nah. I screwed the pooch on the math. But yes .542 would still be pretty good and .6487 (which is the actual) would be awesome.
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If they hit that 2nd number by the break, I'm guessing we are all taking Mrs HCP to a halftime celebratory dinner. :smiley-vampsmoke:
 
OK, any help on this? Fucking Comcast is killing me, gets more expensive all the time. I can't ditch it entirely because it's the only internet service where I live but want to cut to lower tier. Problem is that would eliminate NBA TV. I checked all kinds of streaming services (Amazon Prime, which I already have, Peacock, included in Comcast, Disney+, which includes ESPN) and can't find anything that includes NBA TV. Unless I get Blazers NBA League pass (which I might) I lose most Blazers games. So, any way to watch in real time? Don't want to watch on phone, tiny screen OK for a replay but I can't hunch over it for 2-3 hours. Merci.
 
Tyrant of Ants said:
Get YouTube TV. It's got NBC Northwest Sports which show all the Blazers games (excluding when the games are on TNT and ABC). Unlimited DVR storage.
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I just checked and it's 65 dollars a month. But I have to have comcast cable in order to stream anything because we live a little out in the country. Which also means we need to bundle TV-Internet-phone (landline)

might save a little by cutting some channels off the comcast TV, but in order to keep HBO?Showtime, I'm not sure Youtube TV will save much money at all

and how does it work anyway? They say unlimited DVR, but if you don't have a Youtube device, where is the DVR?
 
wizenheimer said:
I just checked and it's 65 dollars a month. But I have to have comcast cable in order to stream anything because we live a little out in the country. Which also means we need to bundle TV-Internet-phone (landline)

might save a little by cutting some channels off the comcast TV, but in order to keep HBO?Showtime, I'm not sure Youtube TV will save much money at all

and how does it work anyway? They say unlimited DVR, but if you don't have a Youtube device, where is the DVR?
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Cloud DVR
 
Tyrant of Ants said:
But if you have bundle TV-Internet-phone (landline, really?).
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we live in the West Salem hills, out in the country a little, and the cell service up here is pretty bad. Kind of a void in reception around here. Even people who visit and have various providers usually can't get anything better than poor signal

TBpup said:
Cloud DVR
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lol....yeeeeeesh. I get dumber and dumber about technology the older I get. Never heard of that. I mean, I know about the cloud and I know about DVR's since I have one in the modem. But combining the two concepts hadn't occurred to me
 
TBpup said:
So win the first two home games, lose the two in LA, and sweep both road games against the Warriors? We had trouble against their G-Leauge edition last season. I'm crossing my fingers for a split. It we open up 4-2, I'm extatic! :blazerwookie:
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This years team isnt last years team. And I'm a bit hopeful Stotts will improve.

We should be favored in 4 out of those 6 games.
 
wizenheimer said:
I just checked and it's 65 dollars a month. But I have to have comcast cable in order to stream anything because we live a little out in the country. Which also means we need to bundle TV-Internet-phone (landline)

might save a little by cutting some channels off the comcast TV, but in order to keep HBO?Showtime, I'm not sure Youtube TV will save much money at all

and how does it work anyway? They say unlimited DVR, but if you don't have a Youtube device, where is the DVR?
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DVR in the app itself, essentially.
 
BonesJones said:
This years team isnt last years team. And I'm a bit hopeful Stotts will improve.

We should be favored in 4 out of those 6 games.
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Of course it is different....but the Warriors were fielding a G-League squad and they will be much better as well. So both teams will be better. As for being 'hopefuly Stotts will improve'. That has been being hoped on for years now it seems. Maybe at 63 he magically finds better defensive schemes, can figure out how to attack when knowing Dame is going to be trapped, and will move from the bottom basement in terms of forcing turnovers and creating easy baskets. The upgrade in talent should help, but will he adjust his coaching to the talent available?
 
I could see us with a huge range of possibilities to start the season. 1-5 is possible as the only game we should be heavy favorites is HOU who is a mess. UTH LAL LAC could all be very strong. Maybe the Lakers start slow or maybe they pick up strong where they left off and will ease up later in the season. GS is a wild card, if Curry is hot with starters playing well they could be tough. Or if their depth, shooting, new faces, defense is slow to come together they could be bad.

So honestly anywhere from 1-5 to 6-0 to start the season is possible even if the Blazers are playing decent. The Blazers have brand new starting forwards, two backup away for a year, and Melo reduced role to mold into an effective team rotation. That's over half the rotation players. Normally the teams hard work, Dame's organizing groups prior to the season, prepares them for the start of the season better than other teams. But with Covid that advantage is gone.

After the first 6 games the following 15 games are more critical must wins, if the team can't bank a lot of wins on that easy stretch they won't have a good season.

I look at the first 6 games as an opportunity to get out of the gate with a chance on having a great season, but failing doesn't doom the team to a bad season, it just removes the chance of an amazing start and puts their backs against the wall.
 
wizenheimer said:
we live in the West Salem hills, out in the country a little, and the cell service up here is pretty bad. Kind of a void in reception around here. Even people who visit and have various providers usually can't get anything better than poor signal



lol....yeeeeeesh. I get dumber and dumber about technology the older I get. Never heard of that. I mean, I know about the cloud and I know about DVR's since I have one in the modem. But combining the two concepts hadn't occurred to me
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You're fucked if it's sunny out!
 
TBpup said:
Of course it is different....but the Warriors were fielding a G-League squad and they will be much better as well. So both teams will be better. As for being 'hopefuly Stotts will improve'. That has been being hoped on for years now it seems. Maybe at 63 he magically finds better defensive schemes, can figure out how to attack when knowing Dame is going to be trapped, and will move from the bottom basement in terms of forcing turnovers and creating easy baskets. The upgrade in talent should help, but will he adjust his coaching to the talent available?
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Stotts has more pressure on him than ever though. No more personnel excuse for him to fall back on.
 
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