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What's going to happen?

  • We make the playoffs

    Votes: 11 28.2%

  • We miss the playoffs

    Votes: 28 71.8%
  • Total voters
    39
If Blazers lose tonight, they will be 5 games back in the loss column, with Memphis holding the tie breaker... so essentially 6 games back with 26 games to play. Tonight’s game is the season.
 
I think the team will fight for the 8th, but finish 9th.
 
illmatic99 said:
The poll results are a bit surprising.
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Why? Post a poll like this after a horrendous showing by the Blazers last night and you were expecting people to be excited about their chances? This place is only consistent at being over-reactionary.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
They are. So is New Orleans. Probably better than Memphis (Pels are 2-0 v the Grizz so far). And NO's schedule is massively easier.
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Both of those games were at New Orleans and Memphis is playing very well at home now. I think they've won 12 of their last 14 at home or something like that. From what I've seen I think Memphis is a better team than New Orleans.
 
tlongII said:
Both of those games were at New Orleans and Memphis is playing very well at home now. I think they've won 12 of their last 14 at home or something like that. From what I've seen I think Memphis is a better team than New Orleans.
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The 1/20/20 game Grizz vs Pelicans (Pelicans won) was at Memphis actually.

The Grizz have a 4 game trip coming up (after ASB). Kings, Lakers, Clippers and Rockets.

Then have Kings and Lakers @ home then another 3 game trip (including Mavs), and still have road game against Utah, Milwaukee, Portland (2), Spurs, Toronto, Denver and Rockets.

They also have back to backs against Toronto (wtf?) and New Orleans, with only one day off between games.

They also have home games against the Nuggets, 76ers, OKC, Mavs(2), Thunder.

They have a brutal end to the year playing @Dallas, @Portland, Denver, OKC, 76ers and @rockets.

If they finish with the 8th seed, it's going to be a really good finish for them.
 
e_blazer said:
Why? Post a poll like this after a horrendous showing by the Blazers last night and you were expecting people to be excited about their chances? This place is only consistent at being over-reactionary.
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I kind of "gave up" on their chances to make the playoffs a while ago. Yes Dame is incredible when he's got it going, but it just doesn't seem like it's their year. I'm still enjoying watching the games for the most part. It's not really an over-reaction to look at it and say they not only have to make up ground but hope that other teams either fall off or don't makeup ground faster than they do. I want them to make the playoffs, just if I had to "bet everything", I would bet they don't. Even a win tonight, the battle is still an uphill one.
 
julius said:
The 1/20/20 game Grizz vs Pelicans (Pelicans won) was at Memphis actually.

The Grizz have a 4 game trip coming up (after ASB). Kings, Lakers, Clippers and Rockets.

Then have Kings and Lakers @ home then another 3 game trip (including Mavs), and still have road game against Utah, Milwaukee, Portland (2), Spurs, Toronto, Denver and Rockets.

They also have back to backs against Toronto (wtf?) and New Orleans, with only one day off between games.

They also have home games against the Nuggets, 76ers, OKC, Mavs(2), Thunder.

They have a brutal end to the year playing @Dallas, @Portland, Denver, OKC, 76ers and @rockets.

If they finish with the 8th seed, it's going to be a really good finish for them.
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Yeah I missed that one game was in Memphis. However, I still think they are better than New Orleans and will slide into the 8th spot.
 
julius said:
I think the team will fight for the 8th, but finish 9th.
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I think that's a reasonable take. I'm not worried about the Grizzlies. They have a really tough schedule and they're young. I think that they fade pretty quickly after the All Star break. The Spurs will hang around, but they feel like they're running on fumes. The Pelicans have the easiest schedule, but it's easy to overreact to the pasting that they put on the Blazers in the 3rd quarter last night. That was the worst of the Blazers against probably the best of the Pelicans. They're young and I don't think they play at that level with consistency. The Blazers have a relatively easy remaining schedule too, and they have a lot more experience on their side. They also have the probability of more reinforcements coming. I'm sticking with the Blazers.
 
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e_blazer said:
I think that's a reasonable take. I'm not worried about the Grizzlies. They have a really tough schedule and they're young. I think that they fade pretty quickly after the All Star break. The Spurs will hang around, but they feel like they're running on fumes. The Pelicans have the easiest schedule, but it's easy to overreact to the pasting that they put on the Blazers in the 3rd quarter last night. That was the worst of the Blazers against probably the best of the Pelicans. They're young and I don't think they play at that level with constancy. The Blazers have a relatively easy remaining schedule too, and they have a lot more experience on their side. They also have the probability of more reinforcements coming. I'm sticking with the Blazers.
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I think the problem with those reinforcements is rust and bringing them back I think will make the team for a short time at least worse as they try to get guys up to speed, get roles re-sorted out and all of that. I love that your sticking with your team though. I think Ja Morant is incredible and they have a really solid team coming around, I would've taken him #1 overall, though I realize the pels kind of "had" to take Zion that kind of athlete doesn't come around often. I'm somewhat surprised that Ja's taken off so quickly but I think Memphis will only get better even with a tough schedule. The Blazers have proven to me they can lose to anyone, so the "easy" schedule doesn't really do much for me. I hope Nas is back soon as outside of Dame my favorite part of the season has been he and Trent's development.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
I think the problem with those reinforcements is rust and bringing them back I think will make the team for a short time at least worse as they try to get guys up to speed, get roles re-sorted out and all of that. I love that your sticking with your team though. I think Ja Morant is incredible and they have a really solid team coming around, I would've taken him #1 overall, though I realize the pels kind of "had" to take Zion that kind of athlete doesn't come around often. I'm somewhat surprised that Ja's taken off so quickly but I think Memphis will only get better even with a tough schedule. The Blazers have proven to me they can lose to anyone, so the "easy" schedule doesn't really do much for me. I hope Nas is back soon as outside of Dame my favorite part of the season has been he and Trent's development.
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I think that they bring both Nurk and Collins back slowly by playing them with the second unit. I have to think that even rusty Nurk is better than Swannigan and Collins is way better than whatever other options we have at backup PF. I hope Little gets back too, because he's just fun to watch play.

I understand your skepticism about the Blazers' chances, but the fun thing about sports is seeing teams take a negative season and turn it around. Dame has lead such turn-arounds before. None of the other teams competing for that 8th seed have someone like that. But, the best part is that nothing depends on what any of us around here think about the situation. We get to sit back and watch it unfold.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
What kind of board is this that rather than discuss the topic of a thread, we end up talking about the eventual direction of the thread? This is why Jody is unwilling to spend money on this team!
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generally, threads unravel, whether it's here or on my underwear....which kind would you rather be in?
 
I hate to say it, but I'd rather the Pelicans face the Lakers as the #8 seed.
 
I'm starting to believe they will not make the playoffs.
But, if they do.....
Ah, who am i kidding, they'll get swept.
Tonight's game is extremely important.
 
I didn't have a chance to keep up with the game thread live last night and was reading through it this morning. Some of you same posters who are complaining in this thread were talking about how we're good again and raving about the team in the 1st quarter.
 
hoopsjock said:
I didn't have a chance to keep up with the game thread live last night and was reading through it this morning. Some of you same posters who are complaining in this thread were talking about how we're good again and raving about the team in the 1st quarter.
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Your memory is better than mine I don't remember at all what I was thinking during most of that game last night. heh.
 
julius said:
I think the team will fight for the 8th, but finish 9th.
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Finishing 8th is better than 9th. Finishing 15th is also better than 9th. Ending the season in the 9th-11th range is a total failure. Amongst other things, it shows that your "brain trust" doesn't have a good grasp on your talent level.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Isn't that exactly the kind of thing you bet on?
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No, I like an edge. Even playing games at the carnival. I was 16 and I noticed a couple of the bottles were really close together so I put my quarter out there. Knocked down both those bottles with my first throw and got another one with the second throw. won the prize. Didn't need the third ball. Only game I played the whole time I was there.
 
I think they will. I don't think it's much of an accomplishment, but they will.
 
This thread is a knee jerk reaction to last night’s loss.
 
Man all this hassle to make the 8th seed to face Lebron James and Anthony Davis on the road in a series? Has Lebron ever even lost in the 1st round? Let alone upset by an 8th seed? That alone has happened like twice in history. Get fucking real about this bullshit playoffs for THIS YEAR. Let’s run it back next year healthy
 
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