The Portland Trail Blazers are still struggling for their place in the 2020 playoffs and with so much it is not all known as to whether they will make it in the end. Reportedly the Portland Trail Blazers itself will be a threat to the Los Angeles lakers.
If they could sneak in, many NBA insiders believed they posed a very real and significant threat to destroying the Los Angeles Lakers.
(via Marc Stein from New York Times )
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“I spoke with representatives of two teams, of aspiring sleepers at every conference and received very different predictions of how much impact they would make by having only three weeks of training at full speed before getting into eight games 16 days before the playoffs.
“One said that a team that comeback in a compact manner could be a threat. For example, some people in the league saw Portland as a threat that could destroy the Lakers in the first-round series after the return of Jusuf Nurkic and Zach Collins who were previously ill.
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“Other NBA executives are also the opposite, describing the eight seeding games all teams have to play before the postseason as a long runway that will give the Lakers, Bucks and Clippers time to regain their form in March when the NBA is on hold. “
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With Nurkic, Collins and Carmelo Anthony joining Dame and CJ, the Blazers have more talent than most other Western teams. In fact, many of the reasons for their struggles this season are undoubtedly due to injuries.
Rodney Hood, Zach Collins, Jusuf Nurkic, Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum have all missed this season. But whether they can really crush the Lakers is an entirely different conversation, but many experts seem to think it’s possible. It’s only a matter of time before we know it.