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Mediocre can be 45-52 games....

I'll guess at least 4 years from now through 8 years from now. Don't forget Im the guru!
 
LOL, stupid thread is stupid. Anything else you’d like to extract from your colon!?

“Don’t forget Im the guru!”:mook:

Thanks for the laugh(s)!
 
In 52 full seasons the Blazers have won 50 or more games 14 times.
 
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In 52 full season the Blazers have won 55 or more games 5 times.
 
By the time trump is president once more, we should be a 50+ win team. Should have a trip to the Finals and maybe a championship before his term concludes
 
Hoopguru said:
Mediocre can be 45-52 games....

I'll guess at least 4 years from now through 8 years from now. Don't forget Im the guru!
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Mediocre, by definition, means "in the middle". In the middle would basically mean play-in team. I think the Blazers can be a play-in team as early as next year.
 
We really could be a play-in team by next season. There are just a lot of moving pieces. Do we make trades at the deadline and if so what are the returns? How much do guys develop? Where do we land in the draft both our pick and the Warriors'? How ready are our draft picks to contribute to winning?

I could easily see us as a .500 team next season and I could easily see us with one of the worst records in the league again.
 
We've been mediocre to terrible for quite some time. I would imagine with the youngest roster in the NBA, it will take a bit.

Not like we haven't been mediocre or less for a while though....
 
I don't quite agree with the definition of mediocre as being a play-in team. Play-in is too broad a spectrum, and one season in the play-in can be 10th in the lottery the next season and the one after that. Meaning that NBA mediocrity is better defined by occasional playoffs with first round exits, IMO

Prior to Dame's injury year, over 6 seasons, the Blazers averaged a 46-36 record and I know for certain that a hell of a lot of posters here believed that was the very definition of NBA mediocrity

might all be semantics though. And there might be two or three levels of mediocrity.

in any event, I think Portland will generally be lottery level for 2-3 more seasons, at minimum. It's going to be a while before they get to the 45-46 win level
 
blazerkor said:
We really could be a play-in team by next season. There are just a lot of moving pieces. Do we make trades at the deadline and if so what are the returns? How much do guys develop? Where do we land in the draft both our pick and the Warriors'? How ready are our draft picks to contribute to winning?

I could easily see us as a .500 team next season and I could easily see us with one of the worst records in the league again.
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Last years #10 teams were Thunder & Bulls @ 40 win seasons.
I guess thats why there is now a play in and in season tourney so that fans can still get excited about mediocre teams. I thought The RCT congregation didn't want anything to do with mediocre teams? Its contender or nothing?
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Mediocre, by definition, means "in the middle". In the middle would basically mean play-in team. I think the Blazers can be a play-in team as early as next year.
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“Although some dictionaries accept the meaning of this word as “medium” or “average,” in fact its connotations are almost always more negative. When something is distinctly not as good as it could be, it is mediocre.”

The Blazers are currently not as good as they could be if Ant, Scoot, Brogdon and Williams weren’t injured. So maybe the Blazers are mediocre now. OTOH, even with those guys, the Blazers would still be on the lower end of average, so maybe they would be mediocre then as well. Seems like kind of a shifty term. Kind of like @Mediocre Man
 
e_blazer said:
“Although some dictionaries accept the meaning of this word as “medium” or “average,” in fact its connotations are almost always more negative. When something is distinctly not as good as it could be, it is mediocre.”

The Blazers are currently not as good as they could be if Ant, Scoot, Brogdon and Williams weren’t injured. So maybe the Blazers are mediocre now. OTOH, even with those guys, the Blazers would still be on the lower end of average, so maybe they would be mediocre then as well. Seems like kind of a shifty term. Kind of like @Mediocre Man
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Elaborate burn. Love it
 
e_blazer said:
“Although some dictionaries accept the meaning of this word as “medium” or “average,” in fact its connotations are almost always more negative. When something is distinctly not as good as it could be, it is mediocre.”

The Blazers are currently not as good as they could be if Ant, Scoot, Brogdon and Williams weren’t injured. So maybe the Blazers are mediocre now. OTOH, even with those guys, the Blazers would still be on the lower end of average, so maybe they would be mediocre then as well. Seems like kind of a shifty term. Kind of like @Mediocre Man
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In the NBA it's always seemed that maybe 6 teams are deemed contenders each years, so 24 other teams or either mediocre or lottery laggards.
The league knows this thus playin and in-season. It's a way to create excitement for all the fans of mediocre teams and now the lottery laggards even get excited.
 
I would say 2025-26 is the year I think we break through. But there are so many moving parts, as others have said, that make it hard to predict the roster.

We drafted two lottery guards who will have another two seasons of experience. DA will be in a contract year. Camara and Walker are both high quality bench forwards who will keep getting better. There are enough vets on the team that should be able to return a young forward when we trade them. If we bring in a few more guys from the draft (two of them will likely be lotto talents) over the next 2 years, I don’t see why we wouldn’t have the talent to be a lower tier playoff team by Shae’s fourth season.
 
Last year average season wins per conference:
East - 41.7 wins
West - 40.3 wins
 
wizenheimer said:
I don't quite agree with the definition of mediocre as being a play-in team. Play-in is too broad a spectrum, and one season in the play-in can be 10th in the lottery the next season and the one after that. Meaning that NBA mediocrity is better defined by occasional playoffs with first round exits, IMO

Prior to Dame's injury year, over 6 seasons, the Blazers averaged a 46-36 record and I know for certain that a hell of a lot of posters here believed that was the very definition of NBA mediocrity

might all be semantics though. And there might be two or three levels of mediocrity.

in any event, I think Portland will generally be lottery level for 2-3 more seasons, at minimum. It's going to be a while before they get to the 45-46 win level
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The mediocrity level to which this thread pertains, however, is single-season rather than multi-season. How, precisely, would you define mediocrity for a team in a single-season?
 
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