From The Rafters - Auditing The Blazers 2007-08 Season

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 From The Rafters - Auditing The Blazers 2007-08 Season
Authored by Christopher Reina - 13th May, 2008 - 2:46 pm The Blazers are my alternative favorite team (behind the locational Warriors), and I still haven't taken an NBA loss quite as hard since they lost to the Lakers in that 2000 Western Conference Finals Game 7. So it pleased me a great deal when Portland consecutively had the ROY in Brandon Roy , won the lottery (made the right ... [link]

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Published 5/14/2008 by Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com at Blazers Blog - OregonLive.com
There are a few items of Blazer-related interest today to link up before I dive head first into high school playoff brackets ... RealGM audits the Blazers 2007-08 season , taking a look at each player's rank, value and some other crazy numbers I don't understand: How did Roy make such a significant improvement? It wasn't through FG% (that dropped ever so slightly from 45.6% to 45.4%), nor was it through 3-point% (drop from 37.7% to 34.0%), and it wasn't due to an increase from the line (drop from 83.8% to 75.3%); it is extremely rare for a player to decrease his efficiency in ...

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Published 5/16/2008 by Dave at Blazer's Edge: Front Page Posts
Here are some links to make your Friday go quicker. RealGM takes a look at the Blazer season. The AP looks at Greg Oden. Kerry Eggers talks about the draft and a bunch of other stuff. Dwight Jaynes argues for acquiring a pure point guard. Joe Freeman tells us all about next week's lottery party. ...

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