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Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread.........

Schedule said:
Dec. 25 Denver @ Portland, ESPN
Dec. 28 Philly @ Portland
Dec. 30 Clippers @ Portland
Jan. 2 GS @ Portland
Jan. 4 Clippers vs. Portland
Jan. 5 Memphis @ Portland
Jan. 8 Lakers @ Portland
Jan. 10 Cleveland @ Portland, ESPN
Jan. 13 Milwaukee @ Portland
Jan. 15 Orlando @ Portland, ESPN
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Looks like a 10 game win streak.
 
Re: Blazers open season vs Houston AT MIAMI

Last time I checked, there was already a thread about the season schedule. :devilwink:
 
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread.........

Wow... looking at the number cheezy poof opponents in October and November (Artest-less, Yao-less Houston; Minny, Memphis multiple times each, GS, OKC, CHA)... we have a realistic chance of being 15-4 at the end of November.

Okay, my wide-brush predictions, just by skimming the opponents:

October: 2-1
November: 13-3
December: 12-3
January: 11-4
February: 10-3
March: 10-3
April: 6-1

Total: 64-18

Wow... I didn't realize I was feeling that optimistic! :cheers:
Interesting that it's also a +10 game improvement... hrmmm....
 
Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread.........

BlazerCaravan said:
Wow... looking at the number cheezy poof opponents in October and November (Artest-less, Yao-less Houston; Minny, Memphis multiple times each, GS, OKC, CHA)... we have a realistic chance of being 15-4 at the end of November.

Okay, my wide-brush predictions, just by skimming the opponents:

October: 2-1
November: 13-3
December: 12-3
January: 11-4
February: 10-3
March: 10-3
April: 6-1

Total: 64-18

Wow... I didn't realize I was feeling that optimistic! :cheers:
Interesting that it's also a +10 game improvement... hrmmm....
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The crazy thing is that your prediction is not really that far fetched.

Schedule makers did us good.
 
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yuyuza1 said:
The crazy thing is that your prediction is not really that far fetched.

Schedule makers did us good.
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I didn't pad any "losses we should have won" in there, so it is indeed more like a ceiling than a floor. But otherwise, I thought I was conservative about which "great" teams we could beat and where.
 
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Man.. this schedule is great. I can totally see us getting more than 54 wins if we just continue to see the progress of our players. Getting out to a great start is going to be key though.
 
Idog1976 said:
Well looks like a fairly easy start followed by a BRUTAL January and then a fairly easy close up. The league really spread out the beat down this year. Not bad at all!

http://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule/index.html
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We basically have a 8 game road trip in November. I think it is ridiculous that you send a team on a 5 game eastern road trip and bring them home for 1 game and then send them back on the road followed by a home game the next night. That is bullshit and no it does not happen to every team. The Blazers get penalized by their geography.
 
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We basically have a 8 game road trip in November. I think it is ridiculous that you send a team on a 5 game eastern road trip and bring them home for 1 game and then send them back on the road followed by a home game the next night. That is bullshit and no it does not happen to every team. The Blazers get penalized by their geography.
 
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Portland will take on 10 of 14 Western Conference opponents twice at home and twice on the road, while playing the L.A. Lakers, New Orleans, Phoenix and San Antonio only three times apiece. Of those matchups, the Trail Blazers host the L.A. Lakers and San Antonio twice, and New Orleans and Phoenix once. The club will face each Eastern Conference team twice.
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I like this. We only play at the Lakers and Spurs (almost certain losses) once each. They each play on our court twice (probable wins for us). That alone should help our record.

How weird is it seeing the Cavs referred to as "LeBron and Shaq-led"?
 
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The L*kers open the season with 17 of their first 21 at home. WTF?
 
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Favorable schedule. Maybe Stern wants us to become the real deal!
 
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SodaPopinski said:
The L*kers open the season with 17 of their first 21 at home. WTF?
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I don't really mind that. I expect them to jump out to a nice start anyway, amped up from the championship.

I also expect them to get kind of flaky by midseason, losing some games they shouldn't just because they just don't care about some January road game against Chicago.

Beyond Kobe, it's just not a team with a lot of mental focus, considering it just won a championship. A tougher mid and late season schedule probably plays into that a little.
 
How many National TV games did we have last year?

We have 24 this year, 17 without NBATV.
 
You can tell when the league knows you are the real deal. We are only 1 of 6 teams with the max of 10 games on ESPN. Lakers, Cavs, Celtics, Spurs, and Suns the other. SUNS? Nevermind!
 
HispanicCausinPanic said:
You can tell when the league knows you are the real deal. We are only 1 of 6 teams with the max of 10 games on ESPN. Lakers, Cavs, Celtics, Spurs, and Suns the other. SUNS? Nevermind!
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Suns will always have a lot of national games until either Nash or Amar'e are gone, and they'll be put up against other run and gun teams. People like the dunks and high scoring games and under-appreciate teams like San Antonio.
 
We get a game on ABC this year! As opposed to the ZERO last year!

Thats pretty cool and its a big game too!
 
i think there's a pretty decent chance the blazers end november with the 2nd best record in the league(the lakers only having 4 road games in that span makes them the team with likely the best record).

it seems like december, january, and february will be tougher before an easier march and april which should have the blazers confident going into the playoffs.

the blazers really only have one stretch that is incredibly difficult. home to phoenix, at orlando, at miami(back to back), at dallas, at san antonio(back to back), then home to denver. that 6 game stretch in december is really hard with 6 probable playoff teams, 4 road games, and 2 back to backs over 9 days.
 
Seriously does everything remotely the same need to be merged?? FFS, it's annoying clicking this and then only find posts talking about where to find the schedule..
 
Thought this was an interesting little nugget from MB's blog:

Even though this schedule, at first glance, as a whole, seems much better than last year's, there is one major difference. And, it's a big-time disadvantage for the Blazers.

Last season you probably heard us talk so often about Portland constantly catching teams on the second of back-to-back sets. This happened 27 times, and the Blazers were a staggering 23-4 in these games. Needless to say, it's a huge plus to catch a team that is tired. This season, the Blazers will only meet teams playing the second of a back to back 14 times. That's a huge difference.

Also, the Blazers played 16 sets of back to backs last season, and in this new schedule that number is up to 19. Of those sets, 12 are road-road back to backs. So, that's three more the Blazers will face, and 13 fewer times they'll catch opponents on the backside of back to backs.
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Re: 2009-10 season schedule thread.........

yuyuza1 said:
Looks pretty good to me. Easy start to the season (we can go 9-0), and no extended stretches of games vs. good opponents.
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home to phoenix, at orlando, at miami(back to back), at dallas, at san antonio(back to back), then home to denver. that 6 game stretch in december is really hard with 6 probable playoff teams, 4 road games, and 2 back to backs over 9 days.
 
My 2010 Schedule Breakdown

Here's a snippet
Overall Analysis
There is great balance to the 2009-2010 schedule for the Trail Blazers. Each month there is only a difference of 1 game between home and away games. Also, being the outlier geographically, the travels further than nearly any other franchise, but a break does come with the schedule as the Blazers don't have to travel east past a February 26th encounter with the Bulls. The days of 6-8 game road trips are over, as this year, Portland's longest venture away from home is only 5 games, which occurs twice. After last year's first 16 of 24 away from home, the NBA gave Portland some huge breaks. As mentioned, the 4 teams we only play 3 times are all very, very lethal and, in the last 3 months of the season, we play against more teams who didn't make the playoffs last year than those who did on average. If we can attack the front end of the schedule and be in contention for home-court advantage, the back end could allow us to only enhance our playoff position.
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That January five-game homestand with orlando, LA, and cleveland... followed by a four-game road trip (and then two more western conference foes at home) will be tough. You could be looking at a 2-3 homestand followed by four games on the east coast.
 
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