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31 wins, over or under?

  • Blazers will win Over 31 wins

    Votes: 41 65.1%

  • Blazers will win Under 31 wins

    Votes: 18 28.6%

  • Blazers will win Exactly 31 wins

    Votes: 4 6.3%
  • Total voters
    63
BonesJones said:
HAH I never said Dame wasnt at a higher level...
A good piece wins you games
Dame certainly wins games

Every player plays better with good players around them. That's basic basketball. The thing is these guys aren't coming from great teams as it is anyway. You're completely overanalyzing the situation.

If we make the playoffs then we're fewer pieces away from contending, so we wouldn't need the pick (especially in a shallow draft). If we make the playoffs with a cheap and young group like this will attract a solid free agent or two, and our players trade values will be a lot higher. It's not like theyre all 29 and overpaid.
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I'm not sure if I agree that the Blazers making the playoffs means they're closer to contention. In my mind it makes me think they're gonna be stuck in mediocrity for a long long time with no hope of escape.
 
ebott said:
I'm not sure if I agree that the Blazers making the playoffs means they're closer to contention. In my mind it makes me think they're gonna be stuck in mediocrity for a long long time with no hope of escape.
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With the cap expanding... We make the playoffs with this young core, it will attract actual free agents.
 
ebott said:
I'm not sure if I agree that the Blazers making the playoffs means they're closer to contention. In my mind it makes me think they're gonna be stuck in mediocrity for a long long time with no hope of escape.
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oh yeah, the 24/25 year olds won't improve...
 
ebott said:
Don't put Dame on a list with those guys. It's rude.

good = winning games

All those guys might be decent players in a couple years and we'll be a winning team. Right now they're not. We need two more guys as good as Dame if we're ever going to be a contender. Nobody on that list is gonna do that and we don't get free agents. So our only hope is that we hit the lottery the next two years and get guys as good as Dame. So I don't want them to win games. I want them to spend the next two seasons losing all 82 games by 1 point.
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From my perspective, making the playoffs would be great. For us to make the playoffs it would most likely entail having 1 or 2 of our non-Dame players to break out. I share Riverman's skepticism for acquiring two Dame level guys through the draft. Firstly because there is luck involved with drafting, but also because I don't see us being worse than the Lakers, Kings, Tpups, Nuggs, Magic, Hornets, or Knicks in the least. If we make the playoffs (which I doubt will happen) it will mean that either CJ, Biebs, or Vonleh is really good. That would heighten the trade-value of our players and could result in something like Boogie if he were to be available or just keep our dudes because they would be good.
 
I think this crew will win about 38 games, which is a big accomplishment in the West.
 
CJ and Leonard are really the tipping point though. Will Meyers' great efficiency translate upwards with a bigger role? Was CJs performance in the Memphis series a temporary hot streak? If those two revert back to the their prior version, this team will a basement team.
 
There is no way this team wins over 30 games. No way.
 
riverman said:
but really we don't know what these guys are, so to project there aren't 2 guys playing at Dame's level this season isn't a factor yet. I want balance on both sides of the court and 6-7 players in double digits every game..make the playoffs, tweak the roster at the deadline a bit, next season have more chemistry, deeper playoff run, 3rd year, contender..I don't trust the draft like most fans..you use the draft but don't build around it
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Riverman that is how Imagine it will be this year, with 6-7 guys in double digits with everyone contributing something. We are going to be vastly underestimated, we already are, we need to use that to our advantage on the court.
 
ebott said:
I'm not sure if I agree that the Blazers making the playoffs means they're closer to contention. In my mind it makes me think they're gonna be stuck in mediocrity for a long long time with no hope of escape.
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I hate what's in your mind.
 
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LaMonster All-Star said:
I hate your what's in your mind.
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As do I. Ebott its that kind of thought process that has kept the Blazers in mediocricty...Blazers need to think like winners to be winners. They need to have confidence in themselves and each other. They need to stop listening to naysayers like you and letting doubt creep into their minds....basketball is as not just a physical game, its a psychological one too.
 
I think playoff experience is a school of it's own for young players like we have and probably more beneficial in the long run to the team than a few draft spots with no playoff experience
 
riverman said:
I think playoff experience is a school of it's own for young players like we have and probably more beneficial in the long run to the team than a few draft spots with no playoff experience
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If we make the playoffs, that means our young players are that good. With the added experience that's a decent substitute for a lottery pick.
 
Chris Craig said:
As do I. Ebott its that kind of thought process that has kept the Blazers in mediocricty...Blazers need to think like winners to be winners. They need to have confidence in themselves and each other. They need to stop listening to naysayers like you and letting doubt creep into their minds....basketball is as not just a physical game, its a psychological one too.
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None of that matters if they don't have the talent. The best way to get talent is via high draft picks. The best way to get high draft picks is by having a bad record.
 
This roster has zero chance in the west of making the next playoffs. The only way to be an 8th seed would be to pull off a trade for a good player for cheap, such as Joe Johnson for a young Blazer with potential. Due to Johnson’s age and expiring contract, he would be a short term fix, and probably not what Mr. Allen has planned for this roster.

I doubt a trade that would get the Blazers into the playoffs will happen this season. Maybe next off-season when some of our project players hopefully build more trade value.

This roster is at least three seasons away from making the playoffs in the west.
 
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oldfisherman said:
The only way to be an 8th seed would be to pull off a trade for a good player for cheap, such as Joe Johnson...
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Iso-Joe? Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllll nah! Not now... not ever.
 
ebott said:
None of that matters if they don't have the talent. The best way to get talent is via high draft picks. The best way to get high draft picks is by having a bad record.
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This is soo not true... The best way to get talent is to trade your whole team for one HOF.

Its already been posted the lottery picks of past years and how many many many of them were busts or role players at best. The draft is as much luckl as it is having a player take that next step to become an allstar.

Ive asked it a couple times and no one has been able to give a valid answer. What improvement does this team make if we end up in the lottery when we already have 8 lottery picks on the team????????

Some one. Anyone who thinks we should be in the lottery, please debate.
Ive been busy, but I have also stopped posting as much because of all this bs about being a cellar dweller and us not going anywhere unless we hit the lottery.

AGAIN WE ALREADY HAVE 8 LOTTERY PICKS!!! what the hell is one more that is 4 years younger than our core gonna do for us?

Nothing is the answer...If we make the lottery that means we just lost out on at least one of our 8 lotteries already on the team, because they didn't make that next stop. Odds are just as great, we make the lottery and the person we pick doesn't make that next step as well..
Aiming for the lottery for this team is about as foolish as not accepting an advanced class for overachieving students.
Okay, Im reading at a 6 grade level, but lets still just stick with 2nd grade books.... because there is no hope to actually jump ahead.

We are already ahead of the game as far as being a lottery team. This team is now built as if we were in the lottery the last 3 of 5 seasons based on our current roster.


AGAIN. what the hell does one more lottery pick do for this team? Nothing....
Guys need to start thinking outside the box, have a bit of optimism and look at the big picture, not just the last two seasons records vs our predicted record by the masses.
Anyone who says we should tank is just wrong. Period.
 
I see what ESPN is doing. Even if we got 82-0 we still technically won 31 games. Price is right rules.
 
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