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who cares, nobody is eating them

and mad turtle feet sell for the same price as regular turtle feet

its the economy, stupid
 
3RA1N1AC said:
who cares, nobody is eating them

and mad turtle feet sell for the same price as regular turtle feet

its the economy, stupid
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This sounds like the start of a brain eating turtle zombie movie.
 
If we go 4-8 in our last 12, the Suns would need to be 9-4 in their last 13 to tie (Phx would win tie breaker in that scenario, either by head to head or conf record) Unfortunately it's not too difficult to imagine a 4-8 finish for us. But the Suns play 9/13 on the road. Their home games are Mem, LAC, SA, and NYK. Hard to imagine they go 9-4 or better, but they are streaky. In December Suns went 10-3 with wins over Hou, GS, Dal, LAC, & Tor. If we can go 2-3 on this trip it would help immensely. But if we go 0-5 or 1-4 and Phx pulls within a game or 2 of us, the pressure would be overwhelming on our guys considering the hot start. You're talking about the biggest collapse in the history of the NBA. The 2004/5 Cavs were 30-21 at AS break and missed the post season. We were 36-17. Bellow are 12 worst collapses in NBA history. We would be #1 on this list, and by a landslide. It would be nice to get some wins and clinch a playoff spot early and avoid all of that.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1092086-the-12-worst-second-half-collapses-of-all-time/page/6
 
Tell you what, my preseason prediction of 50 wins is starting to look good.
 
Will we make the playoffs?
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Yes, the Blazers will make the playoffs.

If not, then you KingJinxed the team by starting this thread.
 
Worst collapse was the George Karl Bucks team that led the division in March and then missed the playoffs. 07-08 and 12-13 Blazers had massive collapses too. Worse than the ones at the link above.

07-08 started 22-13 and then went 19-28. 12-13 Blazers were 20-15 and then went 13-34.
 
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I'm not feeding the "collapse" fire. I will say we probably won't recover home court advantage but we're making the playoffs.
 
Is it too late to jump into the NCAA tourney?
 
To make the top 8, we must do better than #9 Dallas, which is 42-29 now. We are 45-26. So in the 11 games left, if we keep playing under .500, like say win 5 of 11, Dallas must win 8 of 11.

Probably not, but possible, so it will keep us nervous to the end.

http://espn.go.com/nba/standings
 
riverman said:
I'm not feeding the "collapse" fire. I will say we probably won't recover home court advantage but we're making the playoffs.
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Hahah HCA is loooong gone when we choked against Houston. We have no chance at that. But of the 5th thru 9th teams, we stick out as the team that is playmg awful. We are 3-7 in last 10.

Warriors 7-3
Memphis 8-2
Phoenix 6-4
Dallas 6-4

One of these things is not like the other. I hope it doesn't come down to games against GS and LAC in the last week of the season to make the playoffs. That would be too much pressure for our team to handle.

We MUST win tomorrow.
 
I smell a serious Blazer win streak comin' on myself..that's what I look forward to.
 
jlprk said:
To make the top 8, we must do better than #9 Dallas, which is 42-29 now. We are 45-26. So in the 11 games left, if we keep playing under .500, like say win 5 of 11, Dallas must win 8 of 11.

Probably not, but possible, so it will keep us nervous to the end.

http://espn.go.com/nba/standings
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But we could easily go 3-8 the way we are playing. Then Dallas would only have to go 6-5, very doable for them.
 
riverman said:
I smell a serious Blazer win streak comin' on myself..that's what I look forward to.
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We've been playing playing badly ever since the last game OKC beat us and it has been a gradual deflation ever since. Nothing has slowed down that deflation. Nothing has stopped it.
 
You are right. It will be close.
 
PapaG said:
Yes, the Blazers will make the playoffs.

If not, then you KingJinxed the team by starting this thread.
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Actually he jinxed them by starting the "contenders" thread. Which was really predictable at the time, so I had to go in and get my words in. :MARIS61:
 
KingSpeed said:
We've been playing playing badly ever since the last game OKC beat us and it has been a gradual deflation ever since. Nothing has slowed down that deflation. Nothing has stopped it.
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I thought we played an incredible 4th qtr against the champs on the road tonight. We were a stop and a bucket from beating the heat tonight..that, in my view is a far cry from playing badly.
 
I still have faith in this team. Now the Charlotte game was horrible...this game tonight was far from horrible.
 
riverman said:
I thought we played an incredible 4th qtr against the champs on the road tonight. We were a stop and a bucket from beating the heat tonight..that, in my view is a far cry from playing badly.
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We fell behind by 17. That is why we lost. Dug too big of a hole. We are not playing well. Moral victories won't get us into the playoffs. We need actual Ws regardless of whom we play.
 
riverman said:
I still have faith in this team. Now the Charlotte game was horrible...this game tonight was far from horrible.
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It's horrible because we are heading in the wrong direction. We've put ourselves in a tough spot where we need to actually win some of these.
 
on the other hand, as I've mentioned in another post...the 8th seed against the Spurs looks better than the 5th against the Rockets now. That could spell being headed in the right direction from some perspectives.
 
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