I talked with a lot of people on the German nba Page about the Blazers and everybody, really everybody said Blazers overachieved last Season because of the injuries to Key Players outside of the Blazers. For example:
Minnesota: was ahead of us until butler got hurt and they fall from 3rd seed to 8th, and btw both Games we won were when Butler was out, so think about it
San Antonio: the whole Season without their best Player, Imagine Dame was out for the entire Season, and still spurs only 2 Games behind Portland.
Okc: started to play very well until Roberson got hurt, they had a crazy good net rating with him.
New Orleans: Boogie got hurt, you can say they still played good and Maybe even better without him but Boogie is probably the best Center in the League healthy, so they Maybe would have been also ahead of us.
Utah: Gobert missed almost 2 months or so and when he came back they made an insane run, without Goberts injury, they 100% would have been ahead of us.
We took Advantage, but the 3rd seed wasn't for real, that's the reality