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That's our path to the Finals. If we play tough the rest of the season, we can snag home court in the first round. With home court and health, I'm supremely confident we can beat the Thunder. It will be a great series and everyone will be talking about how we could've drafted Durant all series long. It will be fun. The Spurs are beatable. We showed that in our last meeting and we didn't even have Gerald Wallace (or Roy or Camby?) The key in that series is LaMarcus Aldridge. He has the tools to outplay "All Star" Duncan. He just has to do it in the limelight. Finally, if we beat them, we get the Lakers. We scare the shit out of the Lakers. Kobe called their OT victory over us the toughest and biggest win of the season and of course, we didn't have Gerald Wallace for that game. Phil Jackson and Kobe are killers though and they're out for blood. It would be every Blazers fan's dream to knock them out of the WCF. What a series that could be.

The Finals? Well... we can worry about Rondo and the Celtics if and when we get there.
 
Bro let's make the playoffs first! Suns are 1 game behind us.
 
MIXUM said:
Bro let's make the playoffs first! Suns are 1 game behind us.
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Or 3 games behind us. But who's counting...?


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5	Denver	        37	27	.578	14*½
6	Portland	37	27	.578	14*½
7	New Orleans	37	29	.561	15*½
8	Memphis	        36	29	.554	16
	Phoenix	        33	29	.532	17*½
	Utah	        33	31	.516	18*½
	Houston	        33	33	.500	19*½
 
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Suns won last night

With that said... Rockets seasonnlikely ended yesterday.
 
Suns have two more losses than us AND they lost the season series to us. We will finish ahead of Phoenix.
 
It would take an act of god for the suns to beat us out for a playoff spot. With that say "starts praying for that not to happen".
 
We just need to win games. Win as many as we can and let the pieces fall where they may. Hopefully we can win enough to snag the 4th seed away from OKC. That would be big.
 
Phoenix is doing their yearly too late in the year run. We haven't been on a bad run ourselves. I think teams like New Orleans who are getting late season injuries are in more danger than we are.
 
i just want playoffs. then worry about opponent.
 
MIXUM said:
hornets might not make it.
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You better watch it there. That might be construed as a positive thinking. Mixum are you crossing the line? :ohno:

You know, the best thing that could happen to Portland was if New Orleans didn't make the playoffs, and then that lotto pick hit the jackpot.
 
we traded that pick. was it protected?

seriously hornets might not make it.
 
hasoos said:
You better watch it there. That might be construed as a positive thinking. Mixum are you crossing the line? :ohno:

You know, the best thing that could happen to Portland was if New Orleans didn't make the playoffs, and then that lotto pick hit the jackpot.
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Why? We no longer have that pick. It was traded in the Joel/Wallace trade.
 
MIXUM said:
we traded that pick. was it protected?

seriously hornets might not make it.
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Protected top 7 in 2011, top 8 in 2012-14, after it morphs into 2015 second round pick and 2016 second round pick.
 
hasoos said:
Phoenix is doing their yearly too late in the year run
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Huh? Too late? Suns reached the WCF last season. An Artest rebound was maybe the only thing that got in their way of reaching the Finals. Is tgat a yearly run? WCF every year? I hope thats not the case this year.
 
KingSpeed said:
Huh? Too late? Suns reached the WCF last season. An Artest rebound was maybe the only thing that got in their way of reaching the Finals. Is tgat a yearly run? WCF every year? I hope thats not the case this year.
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Yes and the season before they didn't. Phoenix makes a run every year. The difference between this year and the previous years is there is no Amare. Maybe if they didn't stink it up the first half of the season every year, they wouldn't have to.
 
hasoos said:
Yes and the season before they didn't. Phoenix makes a run every year. The difference between this year and the previous years is there is no Amare. Maybe if they didn't stink it up the first half of the season every year, they wouldn't have to.
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But last season, they started the season 14-3. Get your facts straight.
 
If Blazers made the finals with all the injuries you've had, that would be very successful for your franchise. I'm rooting for you guys!!!
 
I love it and I was just talking to sly about this. My dream playoff series is SAS. I think that is the team we match up best with.
 
magnifier661 said:
I love it and I was just talking to sly about this. My dream playoff series is SAS. I think that is the team we match up best with.
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I was thinking Dallas as well. We have had success against them the last few years, which is basically the same team it is now, and we have had success on the road against them. The reason I think the Blazers do well against those teams overall, is unlike other western conference teams, they don't swap an elite defender on to Miller and hide their worst defender on Batum, because they don't have the elite defender to pull it off.
 
hasoos said:
I was thinking Dallas as well. We have had success against them the last few years, which is basically the same team it is now, and we have had success on the road against them. The reason I think the Blazers do well against those teams overall, is unlike other western conference teams, they don't swap an elite defender on to Miller and hide their worst defender on Batum, because they don't have the elite defender to pull it off.
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True. As much as I hate to say it. Only the Lakers would be the team I would worry about in the playoffs. If we could make it to the WCF against Lakers, then I love the chances. But 1st or 2nd round would be tough.
 
hasoos said:
I was thinking Dallas as well. We have had success against them the last few years, which is basically the same team it is now, and we have had success on the road against them. The reason I think the Blazers do well against those teams overall, is unlike other western conference teams, they don't swap an elite defender on to Miller and hide their worst defender on Batum, because they don't have the elite defender to pull it off.
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That and Kidd isn't an explosively fast guard like others around the league and Miller can hang with him. Barea is Mills on steroids. Camby is a veteran version of Chandler. Batum can match Dirks flopping.
 
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