Upcoming road games look very winnable
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I think that with last night's ugly loss, the Blazers must win at least four of these road games to stay in the hunt for a playoff spot. Fortunately, I think that's do-able. Five would be gravy...and we could use some gravy after these painful losses.
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That's how I felt before last nights game. Now I will be surprised if we win one game. The loss last night could send us into a tailspin.
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Why, do you think they gave up?
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That matters what your goals for the season are. Making the playoffs is still always possible until mathematically eliminated. I personally gave up on everythign besides a playoff birth right after Oden went out, and wrote this season off as a developmental season hoping we would play the young players. That time is here. It's time to find out about them by end of year.
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sorry but thats such bullshit about losing oden.
IF this team cant make the playoffs with the rest of the core.... then we have a MAJOR issue here. getting camby makes it more disturbing. do you really think oden saves us next year? i understand we might not do much in playoffs but CMON DUDE.... this team has all streaky shooters and 1 (whos boderline injury prone) guy in roy who creates his own shot. thats a fucking problem. huge problem.
IF this team cant make the playoffs with the rest of the core.... then we have a MAJOR issue here. getting camby makes it more disturbing. do you really think oden saves us next year? i understand we might not do much in playoffs but CMON DUDE.... this team has all streaky shooters and 1 (whos boderline injury prone) guy in roy who creates his own shot. thats a fucking problem. huge problem.
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So because it happened to the Suns, it's going to happen to us? That's fucking stupid.
When Camby gets comfortable and adjusts to being on the team, I could see us doing well enough to make the playoffs.
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I hear the Lakers are a fun team to root for this time a year, Rudy.
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What The Fuck?
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sorry that was directed towards Mixum, not you. I justed used your quote.
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It is a problem, but it reality, and it is past the trade deadline. The facts are that with young players you often have to take lumps to get to the good times, and that is if those good times ever come. Are you going to tell me that OKC didn't go through growing pains to get Westbrook up to the level he is? Look at Golden State with Stephen Curry. Pretty painful earlier in the year. Getting better now. How about Memphis and OJ Mayo?
The facts are we have to give these young guys some minutes, and a lost season like this one is the best time to do such things. If we are fortunate, by end of year we have one of our younger players gain confidence and become a cog in the Blazer wheel.
They have a saying in drag racing. Run what you brung. This is what we have brung. So you better get used to it, because by end of year, nothing is changing. So all you can do is hope somebody steps up and becomes a good player, or, even shows a sign of becoming a good player. That means stepping up and gaining consistency.
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Tell that to OKC.
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I have to agree on this one. Batum and Dante are the only two young players in the lineup that are actually playing consistent and showing nice upside.
Rudy, Bayless and Webster will always be frustrating, middle-of-the-road players. You can't build a contender having to give those guys extended minutes.
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Saying that someone like Bayless doesn't have a chance to improve is just stupid.
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What evidence to the contrary do you have? He's certainly not playing well now that teams scouted him and took away his one offensive move, running full-speed at the hoop praying for a foul.
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Patience Grasshopper. How many teams gave up on Billups before he hit his stride? Billups was almost the exact same as Bayless out of college. No outside shot. Thought he was better than he was. Just put his head down and headed to the rim. It took him a while, but he got there. Right now, the only true weakness in Bayless game is his outside shot. That is nothing that taking 600 jumpers a day in the summer can't cure. His shot mechanics aren't bad. It's not like he has a horrible hitch in his shot. He just needs confidence.
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OKC has one of the top 3 scorers in the league to lean upon. Outside of Durant, my statement is still true. Durant = Freak.
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The fact that he's shown an ability to play at a high level, while not a consistent level, leads me to believe that if he continues to work hard he's just going to get better and more consistent. The guy is going to live in the gym this summer working on his jump shot.
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Wait one damn minute. In your post prior to the Jazz game, you said that even if we lost last night, we'd still be pretty comfortably looking at the 7th seed. We did lose last night, and now we're done?
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OKC just went to OT to beat the Knicks and followed that up with a two point win over the "mighty" Twolves. And they're completely healthy and supposedly on fire. Color me not impressed.
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That two more wins than we had this weekend. Plus they actually have been able to win at least 1 game from the Jazz this season.
This Blazer team is closer to the T-Wolves than the Nuggets.
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That's a fair question.
Last season, the Blazers tended to start slow and finish strong. This season, they have shown a tendency to fade out late. I believe part of the blame has to fall on Nate and his stagnant offensive schemes....but some of the blame has to fall on the players. Too often,the players just seem to give up when the other team mounts a late charge.
All teams have nights when they are just flat (eg the Celts game). This was different. The team was playing well - and then just checked out.
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Sorry, but the juxtaposition of your moniker with your post made me laugh.
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