Regular Season Review: Game by Game

by PDXBuckeye on Apr 16, 2010 9:01 PM PDT

There is a lot of things to talk about the regular season about. Andre Miller's 52 point game, Batum's improved offense, Aldridge coming on in a big way at the end of the season, Mar-Cus Cam-Bee, a hot and cold Rudy, the rise and fall of Bayless, the Blake Outlaw era closing, Old Man River's mentoring, Webster's Rise fall and resurgence, Oden's rise, Pryzbilla stepping up, Cunningham and Pendegraph impressing. But honestly the most dominating aspect of the season have been the injuries.

It has been a truly amazing regular season. These guys stepped up at every opportunity and turned in a 50 win season despite player games missed totaling a staggering 308 games. Has this ever been done before? A team with 308 games missed due to injury registering 50 wins and/or a playoff berth? That is 25.2% of potential games played where guys could not go. An average game this season Portland was missing 4 people per game due to injury (actual average 3.75 per game). The most players out at any 1 game was 8 on Jan 2, 2010 in a victory at home against Golden State. We never had fewer than 2 players out due to injury this season.

Anyhow, to get an idea of how this amazing season played out I have provided a game by game summary of team played - result - players out due to injury. This gives kind of an interesting visual representation of what was faced and overcome by this team.

RESULT	W-L	player	player	player	player	player	player	player	player
Houston	W 96-87	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
Denver	L 94-97	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
@ Houston	L 107-111	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
@ Oklahoma City	W 83-74	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
Atlanta	L 91-97	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
San Antonio	W 96-84	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
Minnesota	W 116-93	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
@ Memphis	W 93-79	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
@ Minnesota	W 107-84	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
@ New Orleans	W 86-78	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
@ Charlotte	W 80-74	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills
@ Atlanta	L 95-99 OT	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw
Detroit	W 87-81	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw
@ Golden State	L 94-108	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw
Minnesota	W 106-78	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw
Chicago	W 122-98	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw
New Jersey	W 93-83	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw
Memphis	L 96-106	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw
@ U tah	L 92-108	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw
Miami	L 100-107	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw	Aldridge
Houston	W 90-8 9	Batum	Pendegraph	Mills	Outlaw	Fernandez
@ NY Knicks	L 84-93	Oden	Batum	Mills	Pendegraph	Outlaw	Fernandez
@ Indiana	W 102-91	Oden	Batum	Mills	Pendegraph	Outlaw	Fernandez
@ Cleveland	L 99-104	Oden	Batum	Mills	Pendegraph	Outlaw	Fernandez
@ Milwaukee	L 101-108 OT	Oden	Batum	Mills	Pendegraph	Outlaw	Fernandez
Sacramento	W 95-88	Oden	Batum	Mills	Pendegraph	Outlaw	Fernandez
Phoenix	W 105-102	Oden	Batum	Mills	Pendegraph	Outlaw	Fernandez
@ Orlando	L 83-92	Oden	Batum	Mills	Outlaw	Fernandez
@ Miami	W 102-95	Oden	Batum	Mills	Outlaw	Fernandez
@ Dallas	W 85-81	Oden	Batum	Mills	Outlaw	Fernandez
@ San Antonio	W 98-94	Oden	Batum	Mills	Outlaw	Fernandez	Pryzbilla	Roy
Denver	W 107-96	Oden	Batum	Mills	Outlaw	Fernandez	Pryzbilla
Philadelphia	L 93-104	Oden	Batum	Mills	Outlaw	Fernandez	Pryzbilla
LA Clippers	W 103-99	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw	Fernandez	Mills
Golden State	W 105-89	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw	Fernandez	Mills	Blake	Aldridge
@ LA Clippers	L 95-105	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw	Fernandez	Blake	Aldridge
Memphis	L 105-109	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw	Fernandez	Blake
LA Lakers	W 107-98	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw	Fernandez	Blake
Cleveland	L 94-106	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw	Fernandez
Milwaukee	W 120-108	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw
Orlando	W 102-87	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw	Roy
@ Washington	L 92-97	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw	Roy
@ Philadelphia	W 98-90	Oden	Pryzbilla	Batum	Outlaw
@ Boston	L 95-98 OT	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
@ Detroit	W 97-93	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
New Orleans	L 97-98	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
Utah	L 95-106	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
@ Houston	L 100-104	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
@ Dallas	W 114-112 OT	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
Charlotte	W 98-79	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
@ Utah	L 105-118	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
San Antonio	W 96-93	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
LA Lakers	L 82-99	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
Oklahoma City	L 77-89	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
@ Phoenix	W 108-101	Oden	Pryzbilla	Outlaw	Roy
LA Clippers	W 109-87	Oden	Pryzbilla
Boston	L 76-96	Oden	Pryzbilla
Utah	L 89-93 OT	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ New Jersey	W 102-93	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Toronto	W 101- 87	Oden	Pryzbilla	Cam by
@ Chicago	L 111-115 OT	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Minnesota	W 110-91	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Memphis	W 103-93	Oden	Pryzbilla
Indiana	W 102-79	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Denver	L 106-118	Oden	Pryzbilla	Camby
Sacramento	W 88-81	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Golden State	W 110-105	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Sacramento	W 110-94	Oden	Pryzbilla
Toronto	W 109-98	Oden	Pryzbilla
Washington	W 76-74	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Phoenix	L 87-93	Oden	Pryzbilla	Fernandez
Dallas	W 101-89	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ New Orleans	W 112-101	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Oklahoma City	W 92-87	Oden	Pryzbilla
NY Knicks	W 118-90	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Denver	L 92-109	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ Sacramento	W 98-87	Oden	Pryzbilla	Howard
@ LA Clippers	W 93-85	Oden	Pryzbilla
Dallas	L 77-83	Oden	Pryzbilla
@ LA Lakers	W 91-88	Oden	Pryzbilla
Oklahoma City	W 103-95	Oden	Pryzbilla	Roy
Golden State	L 122-116	Oden	Pryzbilla	Roy

Here is a graph of the above, blue = injured players, red = available players.

Blazers Injury Graph

Great job team. I know it has been tough but you guys really pulled together and gave us all an amazing regular season.

Now let's keep it rolling into the playoffs with a victory over Phoenix.

Go Blazers!!

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Cool

If you turn it on its side…it is a Pyramid. Which reminds me.. I am thirsty.

RoadBlazer

by Roadblazer on Apr 16, 2010 9:04 PM PDT reply actions

yeah

graphs often do…I think that is why happy hour is so popular…

"Oh Yeah!" ~ Kool Aid Man

by PDXBuckeye on Apr 16, 2010 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Magic saying Phoenix runs out of the building

just adds to the drama

"Oh Yeah!" ~ Kool Aid Man

by PDXBuckeye on Apr 17, 2010 11:55 AM PDT reply actions

Nice effort

- In Spain there is the impression that you have to butter McMillan up to play in Portland ..."

"I do not know. I don´t think so. McMillan has a philosophy of play and I don´t think that will change by giving him a hug." - Rudy Fernandez (compliments of Amlmart1)

by lee3022 on Apr 17, 2010 8:33 PM PDT reply actions