Sean SweeneyofDimeMag.com predictsthat the Portland Trail Blazers will place third in the Northwest Division, behind the Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets. ----------------------------- So how is it that a team with Ray Felton, Jamal Crawford, Wesley Matthews, Gerald Wallace and LaMarcus Aldridge can be taken as only first round fodder for some elite Western Conference team? That’s a big-time list of players, at least compared to Denver, who march out no names (and hard to pronounce names) all over the court. Well for one, Portland has way too many swing players and not enough power. Get past Aldridge and you’re left with a decomposing Camby, Kurt Thomas (too old) and Craig Smith (too small). ----------------------------- -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter