What seed would Portland be in the east?

celticfan42487 · Post #22 » by **celticfan42487** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:12 am

I think 4th. Over/Under one seeding.

dundundun · Post #23 » by **dundundun** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:19 am

CounterLead wrote:
LeBron
Wade
Howard
Arenas
Bosh?

The players he listed currently have higher ceilings than the ones you listed, most notably Oden and Durant.

you've gotta be joking

Lebron and Howard easily have the highest ceiling in the league

FANOFNBA · Post #24 » by **FANOFNBA** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:38 am

worse case senario would put them at #3. best case would be at #2. they are definitely not as good as boston, i think that detroit is better, but a case can be made that if portland had an east heavy schedule that they can compete with the pistons record for a #2 seed

FANOFNBA · Post #25 » by **FANOFNBA** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:58 am

CounterLead wrote:
LeBron
Wade
Howard
Arenas
Bosh?

The players he listed currently have higher ceilings than the ones you listed, most notably Oden and Durant.

no they dont. oden had micro fracture surgery. do people not understand how serious a surgery that is? and take into account by the time he plays an nba game it will be about 2 years since his last college game, so he will not be in game shape. oden might be able to be a stud center, but it wont be for a while atleast 3 years imo.

I think it will atleast take that much time to get the experience, and gethis strength and athletism back, and to be honest I dont think he will ever be as explosive as he was. I just can not see it after that type of surgry.

I hope Im wrong cuz I love this trend of young TRUE centers coming into the league with yao, bynum, and oden. dwight is better as a center then the guys I listed. but I dont know if I consider him a true "back to the basket" center. but the guy is IMO the best big man in the game with out a dought.

BillessuR6 · Post #26 » by **BillessuR6** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:20 am

3rd, just like in the west.

farzi · Post #27 » by **farzi** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:27 am

thebirdman wrote:3rd, just like in the west.

Actually we're 4th after tonights win. We're a division leader, so we're guaranteed top 4, but dallas currently has a slightly better record, so we drop to 4th

High 5 · Post #28 » by **High 5** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:40 pm

Didn't take long for Portland to become the most overrated team in the league. They're ridiculously hot right now, let's see how they do when the schedule gets tougher and it gets later into the season.

EFx2 · Post #29 » by **EFx2** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:37 pm

High 5 wrote:Didn't take long for Portland to become the most overrated team in the league. They're ridiculously hot right now, let's see how they do when the schedule gets tougher and it gets later into the season.

I agree the team is on a hot streak but people have been saying that exact thing for weeks now .. stuff like the Blazers will come back to earth and stuff. The thing is the team just keeps on winning despite what people predict. I think it has gotten to a point where people need to concede that this team is not as bad as some people originally thought. Don't get me wrong I do think things will get tougher but there is no indication the Blazers won't rise to the challenge .. win or lose they will fight for every game.

hoops4life · Post #30 » by **hoops4life** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:04 pm

Blazers are last year's Jazz.

hermes · Post #31 » by **hermes** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:05 pm

3-5 range if they continue playing at the level they are now

NetsForce · Post #32 » by **NetsForce** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:10 pm

The Blazers are the Raptors of last year. They have a nice young core but are overachieving. Some of the threads being made by Blazers fans are on the level of the dumb threads certain Raptors fans made last year.

BiggieSmalls · Post #33 » by **BiggieSmalls** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:52 pm

of course raptors fans say they dont make the playoffs, why do peope keep doubting the blazers, i mean they gotta turn the corner and become a good team sometime, why cant this success be them finally turning the page and are back to making the playoffs 21 years in a row. thats what happens in the nba, teams go through rebuilding and thats what they have been doin the past 4 years now they have a good team thats ready to make a run at the playoffs, they wont win in the playoffs but i have no doubts that they will make it
they have a 7 game east coast trip starting on sunday in toronto. if they can go 5-2 or 4-3 on that trip it will be considered succesfull and probably get them into the playoffs if they continue to play good at home.
And everyone says portland is a horrible road team because they are 5-10 on the road, but in there last 6 road games they are..........................................5-1. that right there should put those bad road team comments to sleep at least for the time being. wait till after there road trip than make ur assesment.

Wizenheimer · Post #34 » by **Wizenheimer** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:55 pm

NetsForce wrote:The Blazers are the Raptors of last year. They have a nice young core but are overachieving. Some of the threads being made by Blazers fans are on the level of the dumb threads certain Raptors fans made last year.

I'm a blazer fan and I agree that a few other blazer fans are getting carried away in some of the general threads. I wouldn't quite assign them to the level of some of the toronto threads though...

Anyway, it's been a great run for Portland...winning 17 out of 18 games...but 12 of those 18 games were played in portland. And the one loss was on the road. Sunday morning Portland begins a very difficult 7 game road trip in Toronto. In a couple of weeks, it will be a little more evident just how good portland truly is this season.

CounterLead · Post #35 » by **CounterLead** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:43 pm

o they dont. oden had micro fracture surgery. do people not understand how serious a surgery that is? and take into account by the time he plays an nba game it will be about 2 years since his last college game, so he will not be in game shape. oden might be able to be a stud center, but it wont be for a while atleast 3 years imo.

I think it will atleast take that much time to get the experience, and gethis strength and athletism back, and to be honest I dont think he will ever be as explosive as he was. I just can not see it after that type of surgry.

I hope Im wrong cuz I love this trend of young TRUE centers coming into the league with yao, bynum, and oden. dwight is better as a center then the guys I listed. but I dont know if I consider him a true "back to the basket" center. but the guy is IMO the best big man in the game with out a dought.

Jesus . . my original point was that Oden and Durant have more room to improve than Lebron, Bosh etc. unless you people honestly forsee Lebron eventually averaging 45 and 15 or something. But yeah, I know, it's ridiculous to think that landing 2 of the best draft prospects the NBA's seen in a long time might strengthen the western conference . . . [/quote]

RTM · Post #36 » by **RTM** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:22 pm

My guess is 4 or 5.

It's a conservative guess, I know.

Mateen Cleaves · Post #37 » by **Mateen Cleaves** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:21 pm