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don't you know Durant is the second coming of Lebron!?! :crazy:
 
Looks like we are ranked 11th to me. With that said, absoultley no reason Houston should be ahead of us currently. Blazers "if healthy" are dangerous. Same goes with Houston and besides, both teams fully healthy, I think we are better. Could be a homer, but that is what I think.
 
We're #11.......... We're #11!
 
The thing that stands out to me are the teams at the bottom. Those teams improved. i think the days of eight 50 win teams in the west are over.
It should go back to normal.
 
jlprk said:
Why did OKC jump from 11 (Finals week) to 5 (last week)? What great picks or moves did they make?
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OKC added Cole Aldrich and all get a year older. Almost all their young players should improve, mainly Ibaka.
 
J_Ray said:
OKC added Cole Aldrich and all get a year older. Almost all their young players should improve, mainly Ibaka.
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We shouldn't improve or at least be in the top 10 (the very least)? Yes, health is an issue, but if we can get past that hurdle we are at least better than Houston and possibly OKC, who we tied with last year with a depleted team...
 
J_Ray said:
OKC added Cole Aldrich and all get a year older. Almost all their young players should improve, mainly Ibaka.
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Is Cole Aldrich any good? If so why didn't you guys take him? I have never seen him play.
 
Last year's team was weaker than the season before, and this year's team looks to be much weaker than last year's team.

We should be about 18-20, with only an outside chance of seeing the playoffs.

It's going to be a brutally disappointing season.
 
MARIS61 said:
Last year's team was weaker than the season before, and this year's team looks to be much weaker than last year's team.

We should be about 18-20, with only an outside chance of seeing the playoffs.

It's going to be a brutally disappointing season.
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Don't know much about basketball?
 
EGame said:
We shouldn't improve or at least be in the top 10 (the very least)? Yes, health is an issue, but if we can get past that hurdle we are at least better than Houston and possibly OKC, who we tied with last year with a depleted team...
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Houston is actually pretty stacked if you looked at their roster right now and Yao should improve their team. Oklahoma City is also actually pretty good and gave the Lakers a run for their money, so watch out for Russell Westbrook and Ibaka to have "breakout" seasons. Blazers are good but they haven't exactly made any jaw dropping moves that are going to improve them, while there's a good chance Pryz and Oden might still be getting their legs under them after their horrific injuries.

Pinwheel1 said:
Is Cole Aldrich any good? If so why didn't you guys take him? I have never seen him play.
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Cole Aldrich is a decent Center that should be a nice player. Size is something they didn't have up front, and by adding a efficient big like Aldrich, they should be improved. They also took an athletic 7-footer named B.J. Mullens last year that has looked much improved in summer league, so keep an eye out for him to emerge too.
 
J_Ray said:
Houston is actually pretty stacked if you looked at their roster right now and Yao should improve their team. Oklahoma City is also actually pretty good and gave the Lakers a run for their money, so watch out for Russell Westbrook and Ibaka to have "breakout" seasons. Blazers are good but they haven't exactly made any jaw dropping moves that are going to improve them, while there's a good chance Pryz and Oden might still be getting their legs under them after their horrific injuries.



Cole Aldrich is a decent Center that should be a nice player. Size is something they didn't have up front, and by adding a efficient big like Aldrich, they should be improved. They also took an athletic 7-footer named B.J. Mullens last year that has looked much improved in summer league, so keep an eye out for him to emerge too.
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I guess Cole Aldrich is jaw dropping then? Sure it could pay off, but that is ridiculous to call it jaw dropping at this point and leaps them to top 5. Yes, they have tons of improvent, Blazers do to. No way they should be much higher than us.
 
EGame said:
I guess Cole Aldrich is jaw dropping then? Sure it could pay off, but that is ridiculous to call it jaw dropping at this point and leaps them to top 5. Yes, they have tons of improvent, Blazers do to. No way they should be much higher than us.
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Not only did we overcome a horrific slate of injuries to finish above them in the standings, but we still beat them 3-1 head-to-head. Their only improvement was drafting a stiff center from Kansas and getting a year older, and somehow that translates into a contender? Am I missing something? Did our young team not just become a year older as well? Bunch of nonsense. They add Cole Aldrich, we add Greg Oden - advantage, Portland.
 
EGame said:
Don't know much about basketball?
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Miller and Roy didn't play together much last season. Miller played well when Roy was out, and Roy played well when Miller was on the 2nd unit. This season, they will be expected to start together. It may not work--it didn't last season. The only other PGs available to play with Roy have a combined 1/2 year of experience, Mills and Johnson.
 
EGame said:
I guess Cole Aldrich is jaw dropping then? Sure it could pay off, but that is ridiculous to call it jaw dropping at this point and leaps them to top 5. Yes, they have tons of improvent, Blazers do to. No way they should be much higher than us.
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I didn't even say Aldrich was a jaw dropping. Oklahoma City has younger products than the Blazers at this point, and should improve much more than the Blazer's players at this point. Blazers are a year or so ahead of OKC in the building process, which is why they should improve. Also they don't have so many key players coming off major injuries. When you look at OKC, you should expect great leaps in improvement from Westbrook, Ibaka, Mullens, and then an NBA ready prospect like Aldrich is coming in.
 
jlprk said:
Miller and Roy didn't play together much last season. Miller played well when Roy was out, and Roy played well when Miller was on the 2nd unit. This season, they will be expected to start together. It may not work--it didn't last season. The only other PGs available to play with Roy have a combined 1/2 year of experience, Mills and Johnson.
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Okay... How exactly does that make us a "weaker" team and should drop us to 18th-20th as far as rankings go again?
 
J_Ray said:
I didn't even say Aldrich was a jaw dropping. Oklahoma City has younger products than the Blazers at this point, and should improve much more than the Blazer's players at this point. Blazers are a year or so ahead of OKC in the building process, which is why they should improve. Also they don't have so many key players coming off major injuries. When you look at OKC, you should expect great leaps in improvement from Westbrook, Ibaka, Mullens, and then an NBA ready prospect like Aldrich is coming in.
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I was unaware Blazers are not still young. Thanks for clearing that up.

owait.
 
J_Ray said:
I didn't even say Aldrich was a jaw dropping. Oklahoma City has younger products than the Blazers at this point, and should improve much more than the Blazer's players at this point. Blazers are a year or so ahead of OKC in the building process, which is why they should improve. Also they don't have so many key players coming off major injuries. When you look at OKC, you should expect great leaps in improvement from Westbrook, Ibaka, Mullens, and then an NBA ready prospect like Aldrich is coming in.
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Mullens is not good and will not even play. That is ridiculous.
 
J_Ray said:
OKC added Cole Aldrich and all get a year older. Almost all their young players should improve, mainly Ibaka.
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OKC might be a little bit better than they were last year. But, Cole Aldrich certainly won't be the reason for it.
 
jlprk said:
Miller and Roy didn't play together much last season. Miller played well when Roy was out, and Roy played well when Miller was on the 2nd unit. This season, they will be expected to start together. It may not work--it didn't last season. The only other PGs available to play with Roy have a combined 1/2 year of experience, Mills and Johnson.
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Three of the four most used lineups last year involved both Roy and Miller: http://www.82games.com/0910/0910POR2.HTM
And they actually worked pretty well together.

The two guys who didn't ever get to play together were Miller and Oden, because Nate was too dumb to try it. I've got a pretty good feeling about that one.
 
mook said:
Three of the four most used lineups last year involved both Roy and Miller: http://www.82games.com/0910/0910POR2.HTM
And they actually worked pretty well together.

The two guys who didn't ever get to play together were Miller and Oden, because Nate was too dumb to try it. I've got a pretty good feeling about that one.
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Yeah I do to. But that 82 winning percentage wasn't too dumb: Blake-Roy-Webster-Aldridge-Oden
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Yeah I do to. But that 82 winning percentage wasn't too dumb: Blake-Roy-Webster-Aldridge-Oden
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That was pretty sweet. Oden was such a beast before he went down, and Blake actually did do a nice job of spreading the floor. I just always felt that Miller should have had his chance to play with Oden, as he's an awesome lob passer.

I'm more excited about this single aspect coming into next season than anything else. I just can't wait to see what Miller and Oden can do together. And the idea of Roy, Aldridge and Batum feeding on the open spaces they create--oh man oh man.

The more I think about it, the more I wonder how anybody can rank this team so low.
 
If healthy the Blazers are one of the top 3 teams in the league. OKC is nowhere near as good as us. They don't have the necessary size to compete.
 
mook said:
That was pretty sweet. Oden was such a beast before he went down, and Blake actually did do a nice job of spreading the floor. I just always felt that Miller should have had his chance to play with Oden, as he's an awesome lob passer.

I'm more excited about this single aspect coming into next season than anything else. I just can't wait to see what Miller and Oden can do together. And the idea of Roy, Aldridge and Batum feeding on the open spaces they create--oh man oh man.

The more I think about it, the more I wonder how anybody can rank this team so low.
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Oden has been under rated ever since his second NBA injury. That's fine let us be under the radar and then beast out on them.

Unfortunately, professional scouting teams and coaches won't be fooled by dumb ass rankings.

Portland IMO is a top 5 or 6 team when healthy which we will be.
 
J_Ray said:
OKC added Cole Aldrich and all get a year older. Almost all their young players should improve, mainly Ibaka.
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Except I watched Ibaka during the summer league. He looked like the same old Ibaka to me.
 
I don't see why this surprises anybody. You can only have so many ho-hum years before you become a ho-hum team until you show somebody otherwise.
 
Remember how Qyntel Woods and Nic looked in summer league? Crazy how that shit turned out!
 
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