Portland's Magic Number: 1

[Tince]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 4

Yup! Always try to make it to the last one at least!

I wonder how many days it'll be after that until the first playoff game?

Games will probably start that weekend...

 

[cdub503]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 4

how big of a chance does pheonix have at the ping pong balls if they dont make playoffs?

 

[MAS RipCity]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

can we start a magic number thread for dallas now and staying away from the 8th seed?

 

[Tince]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

can we start a magic number thread for dallas now and staying away from the 8th seed?

I'll start it up once we clinch....

...or just modify this thread accordingly.

 

[Entity]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

I wonder how many days it'll be after that until the first playoff game?

I looked back at last years 2007 - 08 teams. Looks like the teams start the playoffs on the Saturday (april 19) when a teams last game is Wednesday (april 16).
So the blazers play the Nuggets april 15 and play again on april 18 of this year!

Yep, the NBA has been advertising April 18th as when the playoffs start.

how big of a chance does pheonix have at the ping pong balls if they dont make playoffs?

They'll get 0.5% of the ping pong balls, or 5 in 1000.

 

[Natebishop3]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

Yep, the NBA has been advertising April 18th as when the playoffs start.



They'll get 0.5% of the ping pong balls, or 5 in 1000.

Ouch... that means the pick they sell us this year won't be that great.

 

[mgb]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

Yep, the NBA has been advertising April 18th as when the playoffs start.

If we don't have HCA that won't be a problem, but if we do, which we might not find out until the last game of the season, then it'd be tough for me to make the last game of the season and then the playoff games. I don't want to miss a playoff game so I'm not sure what'll I'll do yet.

 

[BlazerBeliever]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

Lets get this number to two tonight.

 

[BlazerBeliever]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

We did it! Two it is. Phoenix plays Houston on ESPN tomorrow night which they can lose. So if that happens We can clinch Friday and Brandon and Steve can shave those god ugly beards!!

 

[Minstrel]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

We did it! Two it is. Phoenix plays Houston on ESPN tomorrow night which they can lose.

Hopefully the Suns win, though. The Suns aren't relevant to the Blazers anymore. The Blazers are making the playoffs. A Rockets loss would help Portland much more.

 

[alex42083]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

Hopefully the Suns win, though. The Suns aren't relevant to the Blazers anymore. The Blazers are making the playoffs. A Rockets loss would help Portland much more.

I agree. Maybe before we played Phoenix, I got a little hesitant about the Suns creeping back up. But now, they need to take care of business and beat teams ahead of us. We can surely win two games the rest of the season to clinch our playoff berth. Go Suns!

 

[Natebishop3]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 2

Yup, I'm rooting against Houston, San Antonio, and Denver from here on out.

 

[gatorpops]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

Ouch... that means the pick they sell us this year won't be that great.

Any Milsap type players out there that the Blazers could draft at late lottery?

 

[gatorpops]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 2

I guess that we could just bring over Freeland.(sp)

 

[BlazerBeliever]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 2

Tonight might be the night we clinch and demolish this magic number. However I don't see Phoenix losing to Sac town again.

 

[Freshtown]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

I agree. Maybe before we played Phoenix, I got a little hesitant about the Suns creeping back up. But now, they need to take care of business and beat teams ahead of us. We can surely win two games the rest of the season to clinch our playoff berth. Go Suns!

Word. If I'm being honest, I wouldn't mind the Suns winning out the rest of the season. It's almost a certainty that Portland will win at least 2 of the next 8 (barring a complete meltdown), so for the rest of the way, I'd like to see the Suns keep winning.

Also, seeing as how Dallas is in that 8th slot and we always have trouble with them, I'd rather see Phoenix take it and leave out Dallas and any chance we would have to meet them in the second round.

 

[BlazerBeliever]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 2

We got the number to one. Now lets find out if the guys will be clean shaven on Sunday. Go Sac-town!

 

[mgb]

Looks like the Suns are going to win so it's going to remain at 1 for now.

 

[BlazerBeliever]

Yea, they are pulling away big time. Oh well, looks like Sunday will be the day!

 

[alex42083]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

Word. If I'm being honest, I wouldn't mind the Suns winning out the rest of the season. It's almost a certainty that Portland will win at least 2 of the next 8 (barring a complete meltdown), so for the rest of the way, I'd like to see the Suns keep winning.

Also, seeing as how Dallas is in that 8th slot and we always have trouble with them, I'd rather see Phoenix take it and leave out Dallas and any chance we would have to meet them in the second round.

That's quite the avatar you got there.

 

[gambitnut]

Re: Portland's Magic Number: 3

Yep, the NBA has been advertising April 18th as when the playoffs start.



They'll get 0.5% of the ping pong balls, or 5 in 1000.

Has anybody seen anything like Team 1 hosts Team 8 on this date and Team 3 hosts Team 6 on that date?

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

Just curious - how is it that the standings show us having a 1/2 game lead on the Rockets and yet they've clinched a playoff spot and we haven't (at least Yahoo shows it that way). Makes no sense to me.

Gramps...

 

[Entity]

Just curious - how is it that the standings show us having a 1/2 game lead on the Rockets and yet they've clinched a playoff spot and we haven't (at least Yahoo shows it that way). Makes no sense to me.

Gramps...

Houston won the season series against the Suns, so they have the tie breaker. Portland merely split with them, so they have to rely on conference record in the unlikely event of a tie, and their conference records are too close to call at this point in time. If Houston or Portland lost every game, and Phoenix won every game, they'd have identical records regardless of where they show up in the standings at this time.

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

Houston won the season series against the Suns, so they have the tie breaker. Portland merely split with them, so they have to rely on conference record in the unlikely event of a tie, and their conference records are too close to call at this point in time. If Houston or Portland lost every game, and Phoenix won every game, they'd have identical records regardless of where they show up in the standings at this time.

Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated.

Gramps...