where portland stands....

but i just dont seem to be in panic mode because we have been on this road trip with injuries to two of our core guys in big games and we lost but we lost close games they werent blow outs…. if we had nic and camby healthy i think we win all the games. portland cant afford to lose anyone this year from their core camb has to stay healthy for us to have a shot

against a dallas team that was in the second night of a back to back, utah will slip once they hit the road. denver well they can be awful one night good the next, houston once again hit the road they lose. lakers lose on the road and they are old. clippers will get better. dallas again old will get worse. san antonio terrible on the road.. will get worse they are old

they could fall off too, im just making a point where portland is not falling off they are just on a long road trip but once they hit this next part of the schedule they can jump up the charts

It’s easy to conclude that the Blazers current level of play dooms them to a forgettable season. To Blazer fans their flaws stand out in sharp relief. It is harder for us fans to put their play in perspective with the rest of the League and the Conference, as this post does. Like the last lockout season, this one will be weird and difficult for every team – and we are seeing every team go through stretches where they stink . The effect of injuries is magnified so luck & timing will play a big role in the final rstandings as will a team’s ability to develop cohesion on the court over the course of the season.

The teams that will rise in the regular season are the ones whose injuries don’t cluster or target their most important player(s), who fine tune their roles during real game “practices”, who learn to play together so their team play is better than their individual talents, who develop their bench over the course of the season, and who make strategic roster moves to fill in the areas that prove lacking. The Blazers are positioned to do well this season, as long as we don’t have horrible injury luck (there I said it). Barring that, I still believe we’ll be 4/5 in the West.

Postseason success, however, reverts more to the norm except for the greater effects of injuries and the fact that ordinarily great older teams (Boston? LA?) may find themselves either out of the playoffs or struggling from a lower seed.

I base this on my closely watching the Spurs during their first (lockout) championship season.

thats all i have to say but its whatever blazers fans are all butt hurt when they lose lol its funny you know teams lose it happens. people just dont get that yeah portland sucks man they suck so much… shoot if they suck so much why dont all the whinny blazer fans stop watching them so we dont have to listen to you anymore