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Road record is a good indicator of playoff viability. Teams with a winning road record have a chance of succeeding in the playoffs: you almost always have to win on the road against good teams in the playoffs.

Remember -- painfully -- that the Blazers started off 0-9 on the road. Since that time, we are 13-14, which is not bad.

Compare the Blazers to the rest of the Western Conference contenders over that time span, and we come out pretty good.

Since December 2 (the last of the 9 road losses to start the season), our road record is better than that of Utah (11-17) and Denver (10-16), our division competitors. This bodes well for next year's divisional race.

Our 13-14 record is also the same as San Antonio (13-14) and better than that of Dallas (12-14). Golder State (13-12) is barely ahead of us. The best teams are the Lakers (21-9), Houston (16-7), Phoenix (14-10), and New Orleans (12-9).

With the addition of Oden and hopefully Rudy, it's reasonable to think that the Blazers will not only be in the playoff hunt next year, but will have a good chance of moving into this upper echelon of strong Western Conference road winners.

BDraft....solid point and thanks for the comparo. Elite teams play .500 ball on the road and around .800 at home. That would give them aroun 55 wins and should give your team home court advantage for at least the 1st round.

BlazerDraft2006 wrote:Road record is a good indicator of playoff viability. Teams with a winning road record have a chance of succeeding in the playoffs: you almost always have to win on the road against good teams in the playoffs.

Remember -- painfully -- that the Blazers started off 0-9 on the road. Since that time, we are 13-14, which is not bad.

Compare the Blazers to the rest of the Western Conference contenders over that time span, and we come out pretty good.

Since December 2 (the last of the 9 road losses to start the season), our road record is better than that of Utah (11-17) and Denver (10-16), our division competitors. This bodes well for next year's divisional race.

Our 13-14 record is also the same as San Antonio (13-14) and better than that of Dallas (12-14). Golder State (13-12) is barely ahead of us. The best teams are the Lakers (21-9), Houston (16-7), Phoenix (14-10), and New Orleans (12-9).

With the addition of Oden and hopefully Rudy, it's reasonable to think that the Blazers will not only be in the playoff hunt next year, but will have a good chance of moving into this upper echelon of strong Western Conference road winners.

Yeah, and don't forget that we are (13-0) in the road games that we have won, which also bodes well for next year when Greg Oden will be ready to play.

I think I read somewhere that we are undefeated when we score more points then the other team..

^^^Another interesting stat: We are undefeated when our defense holds the opposition to less points than us.

48.1 % of the time we win every time on the road. I like our chances.