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Are you ok with a 50 win season?

  • Yes

    Votes: 29 87.9%

  • No

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Total voters
    33
KingSpeed said:
Another one of our 32 losses tonight. Can’t win em all. Let’s win out the month and put this loss behind us!
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To reach your goal of 50-32, we would need to go 31-17 the rest of the season. If you consider that even remotely possible - I just don't know what to say. The way they are currently playing, 24-24 would be optimistic.
 
oldmangrouch said:
To reach your goal of 50-32, we would need to go 31-17 the rest of the season. If you consider that even remotely possible - I just don't know what to say. The way they are currently playing, 24-24 would be optimistic.
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10-3 start with the continuity edge over everyone else. Now 9-12 since teams have caught up. Which one is more representative? Probably somewhere in the middle....which is pretty much where they are with their current #6 seed. #NBAPurgatory
 
TBpup said:
10-3 start with the continuity edge over everyone else. Now 9-12 since teams have caught up. Which one is more representative? Probably somewhere in the middle....which is pretty much where they are with their current #6 seed. #NBAPurgatory
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9-12 it more likely than 10-3
 
oldmangrouch said:
To reach your goal of 50-32, we would need to go 31-17 the rest of the season. If you consider that even remotely possible - I just don't know what to say. The way they are currently playing, 24-24 would be optimistic.
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A horrible Miami team once went 31-10 in the second half of a season. Surely we can go 31-17. We haven’t played Bulls, Hawks, or Cavs yet. We have a game left against Knicks and a few against Phoenix.

The way we are “currently playing” is winning 4 of our last 6 games. That’s a 67% winning clip which evens out to 32-16 the rest of the way. So it seems the way we are currently playing gets us to 51 wins. We don’t play Utah every night.
 
I think I picked 42 wins at the beginning of the season. Not sure what we are currently on pace for right now.
 
KingSpeed said:
A horrible Miami team once went 31-10 in the second half of a season. Surely we can go 31-17. We haven’t played Bulls, Hawks, or Cavs yet. We have a game left against Knicks and a few against Phoenix.

The way we are “currently playing” is winning 4 of our last 6 games. That’s a 67% winning clip which evens out to 32-16 the rest of the way. So it seems the way we are currently playing gets us to 51 wins. We don’t play Utah every night.
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'A horrible team once...'? Talk about cherry picking.

Why stop at 4 of our last 6? How about 10 of our first 13? That is a .769 winning percentage? We should be on pace to win 63 games? 7 of our next 9 at home....we should win all of those games. I'm tired of the lack of faith in this team. Blazers can still finish with 67 wins.....let's Go! :breakdance:
 
ripcityboy said:
I think I picked 42 wins at the beginning of the season. Not sure what we are currently on pace for right now.
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on pace for 46 wins BUT we haven't played Bulls, Cavs, or Hawks yet. 50 wins is likely.
 
TBpup said:
'A horrible team once...'? Talk about cherry picking.

Why stop at 4 of our last 6? How about 10 of our first 13? That is a .769 winning percentage? We should be on pace to win 63 games? 7 of our next 9 at home....we should win all of those games. I'm tired of the lack of faith in this team. Blazers can still finish with 67 wins.....let's Go! :breakdance:
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The point is we had won 4 of our last 5 games before the Christmas Day game. Lose that one game and suddenly we've been sucking? No, we've been actually playing better lately. The win over Dallas was especially impressive.
 
TBpup said:
'A horrible team once...'? Talk about cherry picking.
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It's not just once. It happens all the time. Must I give out every single example? How about the 16-23 Indiana Pacers team that rallied all the way to the 1994 ECF and nearly won that?
 
KingSpeed said:
The point is we had won 4 of our last 5 games before the Christmas Day game. Lose that one game and suddenly we've been sucking? No, we've been actually playing better lately. The win over Dallas was especially impressive.
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No OT win over the Dallas Mavericks at Home when they came in losers of 5 straight and are a below .500 team is impressive.

KingSpeed said:
It's not just once. It happens all the time. Must I give out every single example? How about the 16-23 Indiana Pacers team that rallied all the way to the 1994 ECF and nearly won that?
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Only had to go back 24 years for that example. Nice pick. :confused:
 
TBpup said:
Only had to go back 24 years for that example. Nice pick. :confused:
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2016 Blazers were 24-35--finished the season 17-6
2017 Jazz were 19-28--finished the season 29-6

Not saying those situations are at all analogous to ours, or that we should be as optimistic as Eric, but his point that significant mid-season turnarounds are not all that uncommon is in fact valid.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
2016 Blazers were 24-35--finished the season 17-6
2017 Jazz were 19-28--finished the season 29-6

Not saying those situations are at all analogous to ours, or that we should be as optimistic as Eric, but his point that significant mid-season turnarounds are not all that uncommon is in fact valid.
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Much better examples....although the Jazz resurgence last year certainly comes with a caveat. The Jazz were decimated by injuries and then Gobert came back. Portland has no one of that significance showing up to make a difference. The Blazers rallied to....mediocrity and then promptly were swept in the Playoffs.

It's not that you can't go on a run, but outside of major injuries, if the team was that bad at some point and recovered, rarely does it lead to something in the Playoffs. Portland got hot! It was great fun and exciting to watch. And then....puff.
 
TBpup said:
No OT win over the Dallas Mavericks at Home when they came in losers of 5 straight and are a below .500 team is impressive.



Only had to go back 24 years for that example. Nice pick. :confused:
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You must be new around here. To actually take the time to respond to this.....cmon FAMS.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
2016 Blazers were 24-35--finished the season 17-6
2017 Jazz were 19-28--finished the season 29-6

Not saying those situations are at all analogous to ours, or that we should be as optimistic as Eric, but his point that significant mid-season turnarounds are not all that uncommon is in fact valid.
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No, they are not uncommon. I wonder, however, how many of these cases involve either injury or major line-up changes early in the season?
 
The answer for me is 54+ wins, and if we optimally use the talent, keep up intensity, get 36+ points per game from the bench, and maximize assist/turnovers, we can achieve it!
 
Our record is 39-25. I will not be happy unless we win 58 games.

(For the 99% of you imbeciles who are mathematically challenged, whoosh! Move on to the next post, nothing to see here.)

Damn, it's lonely at the top.
 
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