The disastrous season... 2013-2014

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Natebishop3 said:
Read it and weep bitches. I called 5th place. I called 50+ wins. I should have put some fucking money on it.





The wins prediction was made in July!
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That's awesome. First time you were ever right!
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
The only thing that matters is if we get out of the first round of the playoffs. If we get swept out, its a disaster. If we get past the first round, its a success.
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how do U figure it's a disaster if we lose 1st rd? we have already overachieved almost anyone's expectations for wins this season, we still are thin and need a better bench which can be addressed this summer, I actually expect a first rd loss and even with that will think of this as a good year - I hope we win a rd and will be ectastic if we do. It will also give Olshey impetus to improve the team this summer as we were better this yr than either he or PA thought. The "disaster" IMO is your thought process on this
 
Blazinaway said:
how do U figure it's a disaster if we lose 1st rd? we have already overachieved almost anyone's expectations for wins this season, we still our thin and need a better bench which can be addressed this summer, I actually expect a first rd loss and even with that will think of this as a good year - I hope we win a rd and will be ectastic if we do. It will also give Olshey impetus to improve the team this summer as we were better this yr than either he or PA thought. The "disaster" IMO is your thought process on this
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I'd be happier if we were a 7th or 8th seed and got out of the first round versus being 82-0 and being bounced in the first round. The regular season doesn't mean anything to me, its a conveyance to the only matter of franchise success = winning in the playoffs. How many times have we "come back" in the last 10 years to make the playoffs only to have the team fall apart through injury or trade?

The Blazers are a team that are frequently mentioned for not getting out of the first round of the playoffs since the Game 7 2000 Disaster. Like I said, the sooner we get past that the faster we'll be on the way to winning a ring.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
I'd be happier if we were a 7th or 8th seed and got out of the first round versus being 82-0 and being bounced in the first round. The regular season doesn't mean anything to me, its a conveyance to the only matter of franchise success = winning in the playoffs. How many times have we "come back" in the last 10 years to make the playoffs only to have the team fall apart through injury or trade?

The Blazers are a team that are frequently mentioned for not getting out of the first round of the playoffs since the Game 7 2000 Disaster. Like I said, the sooner we get past that the faster we'll be on the way to winning a ring.
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it's a process, if we get out of the 1st rd we will be lucky no matter who we play. The success we had this yr IMO should be viewed a stepping stone to getting out of the 1st rd next year and being legit contenders - that IMO falls directly on Olshey and his staff to add the necessary pieces to get that done, we will see
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
The only thing that matters is if we get out of the first round of the playoffs. If we get swept out, its a disaster. If we get past the first round, its a success.
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It's a disaster if a team, one year out of the lottery, with key new component parts playing together for the first time, and most of its principal players with little or no playoff experience, loses in the first round? Surely you jest?
 
Told me in October we'd win 20 MORE games than last season AND make the playoffs, I'd take it in a heartbeat!
 
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If they had amassed this record through a more even W/L distribution throughout the course of the season I'd feel better about the team. But because they built it up quickly during the beginning of the season and then mostly sucked for all of 2014 I can't say I'm impressed with what they accomplished.
Prior to the start of the season I saw us as a one-and-done team, and they'll definitely fulfill my "statistical" expectation. But they haven't met expectations when it comes to how they play, and that is far more important to me than fulfilling the one-and-done.
 
It was a good regular season, happy we made the playoffs, now we need to play the games. We're not favorites and even just being competitive would not be considered failure but I would like us to give our best effort, I want to see our best lineups, I want to see us build on the lessons and acheievements of the regular season, I want to see us play as a team defensively, be able to make adjustments defensively, do our thing on offense and mold into the right formation, if we do so and lose, I would applaud Houston and get ready for next year but If we do this we can beat Houston or any team. If we don't do this it'll be a failure, at least in specific areas.
 
Blazinaway said:
it's a process, if we get out of the 1st rd we will be lucky no matter who we play. The success we had this yr IMO should be viewed a stepping stone to getting out of the 1st rd next year and being legit contenders - that IMO falls directly on Olshey and his staff to add the necessary pieces to get that done, we will see
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Losing in the first round has been Blazers basketball for the last decade+. Sorry, anything less than that is less than acceptable to me at this point. We have 2 all stars, we shouldn't be aiming so low.
 
BBert said:
It's a disaster if a team, one year out of the lottery, with key new component parts playing together for the first time, and most of its principal players with little or no playoff experience, loses in the first round? Surely you jest?
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2 all stars. We have the ability to get out of the first round, so yeah, I'll be really disappointed if we don't. I don't care about the new players, we have a good squad with core players that have been here a while. Every close loss we experienced in the end of the season, I hope they learned from and translate that to playoff wins now.
 
I treat the playoffs as the 'second season'.

The first season started off great, then fizzled for a while with some minor injuries, then picked up a bit. Overall, a very successful season when compared to pre season expectations.

Because of the inconsistency of the first season, it's hard for me to solidify my expectations of the second season. I'd like to see the first round matchup, the injury reports, player matchups, and consider each team's recent performances before getting my expectations up too high.

Of course, regardless of expectations, my hopes are always sky high, so there's that.

:cheers:
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
2 all stars. We have the ability to get out of the first round, so yeah, I'll be really disappointed if we don't. I don't care about the new players, we have a good squad with core players that have been here a while. Every close loss we experienced in the end of the season, I hope they learned from and translate that to playoff wins now.
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I like your optimism! :cheers:
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
The only thing that matters is if we get out of the first round of the playoffs. If we get swept out, its a disaster. If we get past the first round, its a success.
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That's how I look at it to. I'll even take it one step further by saying if we don't get out of the first round we might want to look at upgrading our SG position or maybe seeing if Deng might be available and willing to sign long term.
 
BigGameDamian said:
I'll even take it one step further by saying if we don't get out of the first round we might want to look at upgrading our SG position ...
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Yeah, you sing this song regardless of what happens. You've been singing it for a while now. Still haven't heard where this upgrade is suppose to come from.
 
This season has been a huge success. That doesn't change even if we don't make it to the second round. If we didn't make the playoffs it would be fairly certain that we'd be having a LMA fire sale because he would want out of here. You trade away LMA and Lopez would be thinking about going elsewhere when his contract is up. The franchise is better for making the playoffs. This 2nd round or it's a failure is bullshit.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
This season has been a huge success. That doesn't change even if we don't make it to the second round. If we didn't make the playoffs it would be fairly certain that we'd be having a LMA fire sale because he would want out of here. You trade away LMA and Lopez would be thinking about going elsewhere when his contract is up. The franchise is better for making the playoffs. This 2nd round or it's a failure is bullshit.
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No it isn't. We've been here several times. I remember the first time with Roy and Co we made the playoffs. I was SUPER pumped, we had won 54 games, I cleared my calendar that day and was looking forward to the playoffs and we laid a big fucking egg and the summer sucked.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
No it isn't. We've been here several times. I remember the first time with Roy and Co we made the playoffs. I was SUPER pumped, we had won 54 games, I cleared my calendar that day and was looking forward to the playoffs and we laid a big fucking egg and the summer sucked.
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This is the first time that this coach and this GM have made the playoffs with the Blazers. You can't put past records and disappointments on them.

And if summer sucked because of a couple of basketball games it wasn't that much of a summer anyways.
 
I agree it was disappointing but that all sounds like a personal problem to me.
 
Saying this team is/isn't a failure is philosophical. We are now in the playoffs, we want to win this right now, one game at the time, playoffs baby.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
This is the first time that this coach and this GM have made the playoffs with the Blazers. You can't put past records and disappointments on them.

And if summer sucked because of a couple of basketball games it wasn't that much of a summer anyways.
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Sure you can. Franchises get labels and they supercede GMs and head coaches. Our label right now is we can't get out of the first round of the playoffs.
 
blue9 said:
Yeah, you sing this song regardless of what happens. You've been singing it for a while now. Still haven't heard where this upgrade is suppose to come from.
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Why keep the same starting five if your just going to get bounced in the first round all the time?
 
BigGameDamian said:
Why keep the same starting five if your just going to get bounced in the first round all the time?
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I know. This starting five keeps getting bounced in the first round. I'm sick of it.

Blow it up, Neil!
 
BigGameDamian said:
Why keep the same starting five if your just going to get bounced in the first round all the time?
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It's posts like this that make me think you don't actually follow basketball, and just use this site to promote your IGN posts to get pagecount.
 
First half of the season I was on cloud 9. Second half of the season I fell back down to the ground.

Making the playoffs makes the season a success, IMO. Winning a playoff series would make the season special.
 
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