Will tonight's game change your viewpoint if we win handily?

[BigGameDamian]

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Last night was really just a microcosm of the season. They can compete with good teams but in the end, they have 5 wins against teams with a >.500 all season......FIVE, and all of those are at home. So they are beating the bad teams for the most part (a good thing) but only beat the good teams once in a great while. MEM, LAC, IND, CLE and OKC and now articles have come out that Cleveland basically went on strike against Blatt in the game against Portland.

The Blazers are better than many of us thought they were but their SOS ranks 25-29 depending on who you look at and winning streaks need to be put in perspective. https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/ranking/schedule-strength-by-other

I totally get what you're saying, and in a vacuum, I'd agree. However, we have a lot of Debbie Downers on this board, and the logic tends to go like this:

If we have a good, but not great record with high SOS: "Our record sucks and I am smart to figure it out and brave to mention this, while the rest of you are homers."

If we have a very good record with a low SOS: "Our SOS sucks and I am smart to figure it out and brave to mention this, while the rest of you are homers."

As for our current situation, I'm still singing the same tune as I've been:
Utah will finish ahead of us. I think we'll finish ahead of Sac. We'll battle valiantly all season long, but ultimately fall short. However, there is still some drama: We could catch Houston. If we lose both games to Houston, it'll be very hard to make the playoffs. OTOH, if we win both games, they could very well go into free fall.

 

[THE HCP]

Last night was really just a microcosm of the season. They can compete with good teams but in the end, they have 5 wins against teams with a >.500 all season......FIVE, and all of those are at home. So they are beating the bad teams for the most part (a good thing) but only beat the good teams once in a great while. MEM, LAC, IND, CLE and OKC and now articles have come out that Cleveland basically went on strike against Blatt in the game against Portland.

The Blazers are better than many of us thought they were but their SOS ranks 25-29 depending on who you look at and winning streaks need to be put in perspective. https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/ranking/schedule-strength-by-other

You might almost say we covered this in the Jan vs Feb thread?

 

[Denny Crane]

You might almost say we covered this in the Jan vs Feb thread?

+1

and counting.

 

[Strenuus]

I do like that there was no option for what we would think if we lost.

#bothsidesbruh