Thanks. Yeah, I think we all freaked out just a little bit more because those two losses were at home, but they were also to two of the hottest teams in the league at the time.

I wrote something about a week ago about how the teams that kept continuity in their core had an advantage in the first few weeks. I put up Denver and Atlanta as primary evidence (Crawford is an add, but he’s the 6th man, not a new starter). I really think that Portland was in an adjustment phase, and still will be, to some degree, for a while.