Around the NBA: April, 2026!

[wizenheimer]

Any way you cut it our team has posted a record above expectations and that is a good thing. Do I want a lot of different guys from this draft? Yeah but I can't be mad at our roster for overachieving.

I'm not sure whose expectations. I said 40-41 wins before the season started. Think I settled on 40. Obviously the Blazer front office led by Cronin had pretty high expectations when he called this coming season "winning time now" last summer. 41 wins and being 19th in the NBA does not seem like any significant overachieving.

 

[wizenheimer]

with Phoenix winning today, the 7th seed pre-play-in seems out of reach for Portland. It's down to 1....1 more Phoenix win or 1 more Portland loss and 8th is the best the Blazers can do in play-in seeding. Suns own the tiebreaker

 

[KingSpeed]

with Phoenix winning today, the 7th seed pre-play-in seems out of reach for Portland. It's down to 1....1 more Phoenix win or 1 more Portland loss and 8th is the best the Blazers can do in play-in seeding. Suns own the tiebreaker

We’re about to clinch no worse than 9th since Warriors are losing.

 

[KingSpeed]

I'm not sure whose expectations. I said 40-41 wins before the season started. Think I settled on 40. Obviously the Blazer front office led by Cronin had pretty high expectations when he called this coming season "winning time now" last summer. 41 wins and being 19th in the NBA does not seem like any significant overachieving.

You have to take into consideration the injuries we played through. Then 40 wins is incredible. We went months without a PG. Scoot and Shaedon never played a game together. It’s incredible.

 

[wizenheimer]

You have to take into consideration the injuries we played through.

I've considered it. After consideration I think a lot of Blazer fans are exaggerating Blazer injuries compared to the rest of the WC