Today's Poll - March Record

Every loss takes me further and farther away from my pre-season prediction. If we win every game in February, and only 8 more in April, then we’ll be good to go. I think the Blazers need to go on a winning streak anyhow.

I looked at them in bunches. If we can win three of the last four home games we’ll win ten total in March. If we only win two of the last four home games, then we’ll win only nine.

end the month 45-29. Eight games to get to 50 after that.

3-3 on the road, 7-3 at home, not sure who they will fall to, just as likely to lose to the pacers on the road as beat the l@kers at home it seems like.

I’m batting 1.000 so far.

The stakes are high. The competition is stiff. The games are… winnable.

Spurs – Won
Pacers – Should win
@ Nugs – Loss (Home team always seems to win)
T’Puppies – Should win
F*kers – Winnable (Same as Nugs, home team winner… plus we’ve seen LA not look great on the road lately… plus K*be hates playin’ in Portland… something about the rain)
Mavs – Winnable, also losable
Nets – Should win
@ Hawks – Winnable
@ Grizz – Should win
@ Pacers – Should win
@ Cavs – Loss
@ Bucks – Should win
Sixers – Should win (though I could see a loss)
Suns – Winnable (Near the end of the month… they could need this game worse than the Blazers)
Grizz – Should win
Jazz – Winnable (Same as Nugs and F*kers… home team winner)

So, we have 8 should wins, 5 winnables, 2 losses, and the 1 win we already have.

I doubt we go 14-2. 13 seems ambitious given the time of year and the number of games against playoff teams. 12 is still really good, and maybe a bit much.

Realistically, there’s 8 games we should win plus the win we already have. I don’t think it’s too much to ask, to hope, or to think that we’ll win 2 of the other 7 games, especially with the plethora of home games.

I voted 11 wins.

Losing 1 game to a scrub team will probably happen, but voted 12 pretty much on jscot’s logic.

Loss to Cavs
Loss to Lakers
Loss to Hawks/Pacers/Bucks
Loss to Denver

I could see us dropping a second one at home, but optimism ftw!

Last month I said 8 or 9, but voted 9. I was wrong there. I did say that we’d pass Denver if we won 9, which I was almost right about. (We’d have tied them, then taken the lead with Spurs win.)

Without Oden, the Blazers will have problems with some of the better teams. I don’t look for him to be back before the playoffs. Channing is doing a good job and Nate has made a good decision to play him. However, you just can’t replace that huge body of Odens in the middle.

The win against the Spurs was very convincing (and rather surprising in that fashion), but for the rest of the month I feel more like .500 than anything close to a sweep.

Spurs Win – so nice to see that they wiped the floor with the SA Spurs
Pacers W
@ Nuggets L
Timberwolves W
Flakers L – I think they will be ready for us and they aren’t too happy losing 2 games in a row on the road
Mavericks L (I was tempted to say Win b/c it’’s a b2b for Dallas, but we haven’t beaten them yet this year!)
Nets W
@ Hawks L
@ Grizzlies W
@ Pacers L (I wanted to say win since the Pacers are below .500, but they just won against Denver at home, so it may be very hard)
@ Cavs L (hopefully they won’t wipe the floor with the Blazers and then throw them away afterwards)
@ Bucks W
Sixers W
Suns W (this one will be tough with how Shaq & co. have been playing as of late…)
Grizzlies W
Jazz W (could be tough though…)

So that makes it 10-6, but I think that’s the worse they will end up with for the month ( I was listing worse case scenario above). I am 85% confident that we can win both Dallas and the Flakers at home. If that happens then it’s 13-4! That would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night’s big win followed several weeks of looking tired and confused. I think they COULD be capable of like 14-2, but I think they’re a little worn out and I’m saying 9-7.

Remember, they’ve already been clobbered by the Sixers, and the Suns and Mavs are playing well lately. Nuggets in Denver is tough, Lakers at home is tough. If the Blazers are playing down to the level of the competition, then a lot of people in this space are overoptimistic.