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Today's Poll - March Record

The results from February are in: 7-5.  Here's February's poll so you can see how you fared.  

March features 16 games (10 home, 6 road). Obviously, the Blazers won last night's game so they are starting out 1-0. 

With a majority of April spent on the road, nowis the time to stack up some Ws.  But beware the lengthy road trip in the middle of the month, which features 2 of the month's 3 sets of back-to-backs. 

The full rundown (bold home)...

Spurs, Pacers, @ Nuggets, Timberwolves, Lakers, Mavericks, Nets, @ Hawks, @ Grizzlies, @ Pacers, @ Cavs, @ Bucks, Sixers, Suns, Grizzlies, Jazz 

Here's a calendar version for your reference.

Vote first. Then, in the comments, open the conversation all the way up... Can the team claim first place in the division this month?  How many wins do you expect at home? 8?9? 10?  Are you looking forward to drooling over Devin Harris in person? If you've got a question about the March schedule, feel free to toss it out there for everyone.

-- Ben (benjamin.golliver@gmail.com)

Poll
How many March wins (out of 16 games -- 10 home, 6 road)?
13 or more
82 votes
12
307 votes
11
435 votes
10
457 votes
9
130 votes
8
31 votes
7 or less
14 votes

1456 votes | Poll has closed

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We need to win all 16

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.

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by Dragline on Mar 2, 2009 8:15 AM PST reply actions  

nine or ten

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.

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by Love on Mar 2, 2009 8:24 AM PST reply actions  

nine

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

"I saw him in the face" Sergio's quote on the latest alley-oop to Rudy.

by blazermaniac32 on Mar 2, 2009 8:40 AM PST reply actions  

I think they will win 10

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.

by appel82 on Mar 2, 2009 8:48 AM PST reply actions  

12 wins

Spurs W
Pacers W
@ Nuggets L (back to back for us)
Timberwolves W
Lakers L
Mavericks W (b to b for them)
Nets W
@ Hawks W
@ Grizzlies W (b to b for us)
@ Pacers L
@ Cavs L (b to b for us)
@ Bucks W
Sixers W (b to b for them)
Suns W (b to b for them)
Grizzlies W
Jazz W (b to b for them)

12-4

I don’t like that road trip. Three games, Hawks, Pacers, and Bucks concern me. They are all winnable. We just seem to find our game and find a way to win against the Hawks. If Greg is healthy, I think we handle the Bucks. I’m not sure how the Pacers beat good teams at home, but they do, so I put it as a loss. We should win it. We could finish with between 10 and 13 wins. But I think we are getting going, so I think we get two of the three, which gives us twelve wins.

We should not lose any home games except perhaps the L@kers. Every other good team that comes in this month is coming in on a back to back. They would all have difficulty staying with us in Portland, anyway. On a back to back? We should give them a whipping.

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by jscot on Mar 2, 2009 9:00 AM PST reply actions  

When will the Blazers beat the Lakers?

They have to steal at least one at home. They always do. Same way that formers Sonics team always steals a game from the Blazers.

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by Dragline on Mar 2, 2009 9:09 AM PST up reply actions  

We'll beat them

the second time they come to town. Book it.

We might get them the first time, too, but I’m dubious.

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by jscot on Mar 2, 2009 10:40 AM PST up reply actions  

A win against

the L@kers would be sweeeeeeeeeet!!

by toolman on Mar 2, 2009 10:41 AM PST up reply actions  

I forgot to say

I bombed out on my prediction last time. Bad losses at OKC and G.S. — I expected Blake back. He probably would have been if he hadn’t played in that stupid Clippers game, too.

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by jscot on Mar 2, 2009 10:46 AM PST up reply actions  

This is the month where we find out if we're a playoff team or not.

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.

Give the man his "M"!!!

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Mar 2, 2009 9:08 AM PST reply actions  

We already found out we're a playoff team

Some people just weren’t listening last night….

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by jscot on Mar 2, 2009 10:42 AM PST up reply actions  

The West right now...

is like a city with 9 rival cartels all trying to do business.

Things could get ugly in a hurry.

We’re not out of the woods just yet. Phoenix is withing 3, and everyone else seems to be heating up, too (except for the STUPID F*kers… just another reason to hate them: they did us ZERO favors this weekend)

Give the man his "M"!!!

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Mar 2, 2009 12:37 PM PST up reply actions  

Check the Suns' schedule this week

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by jscot on Mar 2, 2009 2:18 PM PST up reply actions  

hmm...

Not a light week for them, no doubt.

I wonder how motivated Shaq is.

I wouldn’t put it past Phoenix to go 3-1 on that naaaaaaaaaaaaaasty road trip. I’m not sayin’ they will…

Give the man his "M"!!!

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Mar 2, 2009 3:31 PM PST up reply actions  

That would be amazing

and would make them favored over Dallas for the last spot, and a threat to move higher.

I don’t see them beating Orlando, and I don’t see them beating the Spurs. I think they’ll struggle at Miami on a back to back, but could win that one and at Houston. A 2-2 trip would be very, very good for them.

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by jscot on Mar 3, 2009 4:54 AM PST up reply actions  

Optimistic 12 vote

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.)

by Zaig on Mar 2, 2009 9:32 AM PST reply actions  

I picked 9

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.

by toolman on Mar 2, 2009 9:40 AM PST reply actions  

I have a bad gut feeling for this month

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.

Proud Odensheeple

by Norsktroll on Mar 2, 2009 10:04 AM PST reply actions  

Sandbagger.

OTOH, if they do well, we owe you one for being the anti-jinx.

by MiledAnimal on Mar 2, 2009 10:59 AM PST up reply actions  

Spurs, W
Pacers, W
@ Nuggets, L
Timberwolves W,
Lakers, Mavericks, split
Nets, W
@ Hawks, L
@ Grizzlies, W
@ Pacers, W
@ Cavs, L
@ Bucks, W
Sixers, W
Suns, L
Grizzlies W,
Jazz W

That adds up to 11-5, using my normal process of subtracting one, my prediction is 10-6. If we do that, we are at 47 wins, which means we likely need only a couple of April wins to make the playoffs. Even 8-8 this month would not be devastating, but it will make April all the more important.

Rule #1 of nitpicking is to get it right.

by douglast on Mar 2, 2009 10:06 AM PST reply actions  

We won't lose to the Suns

They’re coming in on a back to back after a tough game the night before. They are back to a running style, and that is tiring. We win that game.

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by jscot on Mar 2, 2009 10:44 AM PST up reply actions  

we'll see.

I think we should win, I think our odds are well over 50-50, but I gotta predict losses somewhere, and that’s one that I came up with.

Rule #1 of nitpicking is to get it right.

by douglast on Mar 2, 2009 11:31 AM PST up reply actions  

No you don't. 16-0.

I’ve lost some weight recently, so I’m not so afraid to go out on a limb.

by MiledAnimal on Mar 2, 2009 12:22 PM PST up reply actions  

If the Blazers keep playing like they did against the SA Spurs, they could win all the games in March....

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

by jenstcy on Mar 2, 2009 11:00 AM PST reply actions  

Unpredictable

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.

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by Kaboomm on Mar 2, 2009 2:09 PM PST reply actions  

Down to level?

We creamed the crap out of the last 2 bad teams we played.

by Zaig on Mar 3, 2009 12:31 PM PST up reply actions  

12?

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by Y5k on Mar 3, 2009 7:21 AM PST reply actions  

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