Exactly one year ago today, the Trail Blazers defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 105-76 to kick off a thrilling stretch of basketball that saw them finish the season 33-18 after only winning 11 of their first 31 games. This year, Portland has started comparably slow—winning 13 of their first 32. Are there parallels between the two seasons?
Blazer fans are aware that this is virtually the same roster as last season; essentially swapping out Gerald Henderson for Evan Turner and Chris Kaman’s DNPs for Festus Ezeli’s. They started slow last season and are simply doing so again, some might say.
然而,这可能不是这种情况。上赛季,波特兰在其名单上有很多新面孔 - 包括六名旋转球员,我的数量 - 这些家伙需要时间以最基本的方式凝胶。需要学习倾向,优势的球员,在本赛季的人喜欢捕获球等。这个借口根本不持水。
So what is it?
这可能是这支球队并不擅长参加期望。我认为大多数球员都同意,当Pundits公开呼唤你是可怕的时候,它更容易被击球并在肩膀上玩芯片。你看到了多少次#they去年?我们今年没有看到它,因为波特兰现在预计将成为一个中间季后赛球队,展示了轻微的内部改善。粉丝和分析师questioned the Evan Turner contract,但如果你把钱拿出了等式,他对杰拉德·亨德森进行了很好的替代品。
This team was expected to be able to manage the meager expectations of having won a playoff series and having a young core return with little shakeup. Clearly, things haven’t worked out the way. It’s possible that this group of guys—many of whom being castoffs from others teams—don’t know how to不tbe the underdog.
另一个潜在的差异是上赛季,艾伦·克拉布,CJ麦考罗姆,Moe Harkless和Meyers Leonard正在为合同而竞争。这是一个微妙的观点,所以我想清楚 - 我认为这支球队的任何人都在雪地。然而,在一个非常基本的水平上,为您的职业生涯中唯一的大发薪日玩耍是一个大型动力,而且反转,获得安全可能会导致气体宽松,所以说话。再次,这不会是球员中的有意识的事情,但我们看到它在合同年份与球员再次发生的时间和时间。
另一种变化是缺乏一个将“像他看到它一样称之为”的退伍军人。克里斯卡曼显然是去年的那个人;我们甚至看到他在媒体中发表评论,有关一些人如何不应该努力工作。兽医已经了解了联盟如何工作,并知道成功需要什么,这就是为什么您看到由退伍军人组成的伟大团队的关键支持作用。
今年,最贫富的球员是Ed Davis,Al-Farouq aminu和Evan Turner。在那里肯定有一些经验,但没有人在很长时间才能实际上被视为助理教练 - 卡曼或多或少地认为他同时与年轻球员同时工作并拿起多个DNPS。
最终,有时间为燃烧器转身,但是每个通过游戏都看起来更像是一个失去的季节。作为Evans Clinchy pointed out last week, the Blazers are basically in a tier all by themselves as the eighth best team in the conference. They could still end up being leapfrogged by Sacramento or Denver, or they could reasonably finish as high as seventh if Memphis or Oklahoma City fall off somehow. As things stand, the most likely ending to this season is a first-round matchup with The Golden State Warriors, and I don’t think many would be predicting this team to become a giant-killer in that scenario.
All of this is assuming that the right deal doesn’t fall into place before the trade deadline, of course. Portland does have assets and, though some of them are difficult to目前搬动改变原因,NBA贸易市场上可用件的流动性可以改变波特兰的财富。无论你如何切成它,说“可能会有一个交易”,这是西装外套球迷挂起希望的艰难的事情。
由于它看起来像是从上赛季的任何真实进展的希望都是一个丢失的原因,我在这一点上,我正在接近本赛季的其余部分在较小的迭代中寻找任何进展;一些坚实的防守财产串在一起,闪烁着自信的戏剧和决策从Meyers Leonard和Noah Vonleh,以及哈克的发展。否则,本赛季禁止主要转变或震动,这一季节可能会以1977-78,1988-89,2011-12和2011-12季节为单位,作为西装外套历史上令人失望的季节之一。
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