Wizenheimer wrote:zzaj wrote:The Blazers have lost 7 games this season by 4 points or less. Currently, if they'd have won those games they'd be tied w/Houston for 2nd place in the West. If they would have split those games (3-4) they'd be in 4th place in the West.
Crazy, with how poorly it seems the team has played up to this point.
wut?
Portland has also won 7 games by 4 points or less. If they would have lost all 7 games they'd have the 4th worst record. Splitting those games they'd have the 10th worst record
the Blazers are .500 on games decided by 4 or less, a 7-7 record. Just isolating the losses without the context of the win is an incomplete picture. Portland's SOS ranges from 25th-27th depending on where you look. They are 2 games above .500 having played 2 more games at home then on the road. They have exactly 1 win against the top-10 teams (top 5 in either conference).
I keep waiting for some kind of positive trend to develop but I haven't seen any yet
Hehe, yeah I didn't mean it in a way that was supposed to glorify what the Blazers have done. I think we all know the mediocrity the Blazers have been mired in. I meant it more as shining a light on the weird parity/mediocrity in the West. I thought that the projected top 6-7 teams would have much better records to this point.
