Only 10 games left? Crazy. It’s been a long season, but at the same time, seems to have just flown by with ups and downs creating a mixture of emotions. “Your” Portland Trail Blazers sit in 6th place in the Western Conference, just 1 game back of the Northwest leading Denver Nuggets and just a half a game in front of the Utah Jazz. This conference is as predicted, going to come down to the last couple of games or possibly, THE last game of the season.
So here is the deal…after plugging all teams and remaining games into the “Blaze of Love Fantastical Playoff Simulating Box”, I came up with some not so jolly results. After looking through the remaining games of the 8 teams jockeying for playoff position, I attempted to pick winners, based on nothing other than how I felt about the match-up. I of course, gave plenty of favor to home teams but also tried to look realistically at the timing that each team faced one another. You definitely can’t assume that all home games or all games against non-playoff teams will be won. I’ll definitely be looking forward to these pre-playoff performances between potential playoff teams. It’ll be fantastic.
With all of that nonsense spewed, here are my final Western Conference standings:
Position Team W L 1 LA Lakers 66 16 2 San Antonio 56 26 3 Denver 53 29 4 Houston 52 30 5 New Orleans 52 30 6 Dallas 51 31 7 Portland 51 31 8 Utah 49 33
Now I know that’s not necessarily what you wanted to see from a Blazers blog, and I hope more than anyone that they prove me wrong, but their schedule is brutal. I have them hitting a rough patch against Memphis which drops them into a 4 game slide ending with a crucial home loss to the Lakers and possibly drops them out of a chance for the top spot in the Northwest. In fact, in my scenario, by the time they get to the game with the Nuggets, they’ll be 3 games back and the game won’t end up being a factor. (Shiver now.)
Your thoughts?
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So here is the deal…after plugging all teams and remaining games into the “Blaze of Love Fantastical Playoff Simulating Box”, I came up with some not so jolly results. After looking through the remaining games of the 8 teams jockeying for playoff position, I attempted to pick winners, based on nothing other than how I felt about the match-up. I of course, gave plenty of favor to home teams but also tried to look realistically at the timing that each team faced one another. You definitely can’t assume that all home games or all games against non-playoff teams will be won. I’ll definitely be looking forward to these pre-playoff performances between potential playoff teams. It’ll be fantastic.
With all of that nonsense spewed, here are my final Western Conference standings:
Position Team W L 1 LA Lakers 66 16 2 San Antonio 56 26 3 Denver 53 29 4 Houston 52 30 5 New Orleans 52 30 6 Dallas 51 31 7 Portland 51 31 8 Utah 49 33
Now I know that’s not necessarily what you wanted to see from a Blazers blog, and I hope more than anyone that they prove me wrong, but their schedule is brutal. I have them hitting a rough patch against Memphis which drops them into a 4 game slide ending with a crucial home loss to the Lakers and possibly drops them out of a chance for the top spot in the Northwest. In fact, in my scenario, by the time they get to the game with the Nuggets, they’ll be 3 games back and the game won’t end up being a factor. (Shiver now.)
Your thoughts?
Original Story:
http://www.blazeoflove.com/2009/03/fi...
