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It's time to knock off that 1990-1991 team.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/1991_games.html

I've been looking at their schedule. The earliest we could pass them would be if we went 28-4. That sounds pretty daunting. To tie we would have to go 27-4.

The 90-91 team got their 4th and 5th losses on December 30th and January 3rd.

To reach 28-4, we would have to win these games:

Cleveland
Minnesota
New Orleans
LAC
Miami
New Orleans
OKC

That seams nearly impossible.
 
Pretty improbable, but I've stopped betting against this team.
 
Nikolokolus said:
Pretty improbable, but I've stopped betting against this team.
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Indeed. Funny enough, it's New Orleans that scares me the most. They gave us trouble last year, and they have a better roster with Holiday.
 
New Orleans blows without Davis.
 
I'm glad you started this thread; I was going to last night when I started looking up the exact same thing as you, but didn't want to jinx it :ghoti:
 
Aren't we past the start of the season yet?
 
That LAC Miami and OKC 3 out of 4 is daunting. If we go 2-1 in those three that would be phenomenal!
 
Strenuus said:
That LAC Miami and OKC 3 out of 4 is daunting. If we go 2-1 in those three that would be phenomenal!
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Yes, but not as hard as the Jan 17th four games in five nights next month @SAS @DAL @HOU @OKC.

We’ve definitely started the year with the easier portion of our schedule. After tomorrow we’ll have played 10 bad teams on the road but only have 7 bad teams on the road the entire rest of the season. We’ve played our toughest 5 opponents all at home. Its great that we’ve got so many wins in the bag, we’re beating every single team we should beat, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this team plays just a bit over .500 until the end of March. Hope fans don’t turn on the team when those tough stretches hit us.

On the plus side we don’t have any road trips or back to backs the final 3 weeks of the season so that should let us get wins and well rested for the playoffs.
 
Draco said:
Yes, but not as hard as the Jan 17th four games in five nights next month @SAS @DAL @HOU @OKC.
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Damn--the dreaded Texas Triangle, with a Thunder chaser!
 
Natebishop3 said:
It's time to knock off that 1990-1991 team.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/1991_games.html

I've been looking at their schedule. The earliest we could pass them would be if we went 28-4. That sounds pretty daunting. To tie we would have to go 27-4.

The 90-91 team got their 4th and 5th losses on December 30th and January 3rd.

To reach 28-4, we would have to win these games:

Cleveland
Minnesota
New Orleans
LAC
Miami
New Orleans
OKC

That seams nearly impossible.
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I don't see Phoenix on the list, so it is possible.
 
Flat out, we are winning the games we are SUPPOSED to! That hasn't been the case recently.
 
Just to give an idea of how ridiculously easy our road schedule has been to this point compared to what it will be like the remainder of the season:

10 Bad teams played on road after tomorrow=SAC, BOS, TOR, BKN, MIL, LAL, UTH, PHI, DET, CLE
7 Bad teams we get to play the rest of the season = SAC, WAS, NYK, CHA, ORL, LAL, UTH

4 Good teams played on road so far = PHX, DEN, GS, PHX
20 Good teams we have to play on the road the rest of the season = MIN, NOP, OKC, SAS, DAL, HOU, OKC, GS, IND, MIN, LAC, DEN, MIN, HOU, MEM, SAS, NOP, MIA, ATL, CHI

So we've played 59% of our road games we get to play against the crappy teams
We've only played 17% of our road games we have to play against the good teams.
 
I hope they finish the season better than the 90-91 team did.
 
Honestly, I would be thrilled if this team made it to the WCF. We're young enough that I think just making it that far would be a huge accomplishment.
 
I'm more tired of having the second best record of the league (behind the Pacers).
 
That schedule looks rather easy. I think we can sweep. I'll do my part by attending the LAC, Miami, and OKC games.
 
I remember that team. the thing about it, it was a bunch of guys I cheered on for years and years. This blazers team just kind of jelled out of nowhere, so I hold more memories with that early 90s team. wouldn't mind beating the record, but shit, I remember fam shelling out like $30 a GAME to watch that shit on Blazers cable...such an exciting time....the perfect quarter!
 
The 1990-91 Blazers had a record of 27-3, entering the 4th game in 5 nights on the road (2 back-2-backs).

Portland lost their 4th game to the Bucks, and returned home to face the Fakers 2 days later, who they lost to.

For this year's Blazers to pull ahead of the pace set by that 1990-91 team, they need to go 7-0 starting tomorrow night:

@ Clev
@ Min (2nd of a b2b, 4th game in 5 nights)
- (2 days off)
NO
- (4 days off)
LAC
- (1 day off)
MIA
- (1 day off/travel)
@NO
@OKC (2nd of a b2b)


That 1990-91 team finished 63-19, ironically perhaps losing their last game of the season @ Phx.
 
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