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The Blazers have had their fair share of ups and downs through 41 games. In this second of a two-part mid-season recap, I’ll break down Portland’s best...
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My first round of player capsules sprawled a little, so I decided to break part one of my two-part mid-season recap into two parts of its own. Since I star...
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Monday night's heartbreaking 98-95 loss to the Washington Wizards, the worst team in the NBA record-wise, marked the exact mid-way point in the 2012-1...
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The better team walked off the floor of the Rose Garden Monday night with a victory, there's almost no way a sane person could disagree with that. Sad...
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The Blazers are right now mired in their worst losing streak of the season. They've failed to show up in the first halves of their last two games. The...
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Last season, or maybe the season prior, I wrote a recap following a Blazer loss with the thesis that as fans, our reactions to Portland losses can tell us ...
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The story on the Blazers right now is that a week ago they were winning close games and this week they're losing them. I wrote about it my recap of Po...
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Rip City Project is a part of the FanSided Network and today we are proud to announce the release of our brand new customizable daily newsletter, <a hre...
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I bring this quote to you from Wikipedia: <blockquote>In statistics, regression toward the mean (also known as regression to the mean) is the phenome...
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There is something conspicuously absent from Portland's 2012-13 season. The blow-out victory. As it has been noted, the Blazers are the only top-eight...
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Well you know what they say, nothing lasts forever. A 5-0 record in overtime games was nice. A 6-0 record in overtime games would have, of course, been bet...
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There is one thing to never take for granted about the NBA season, and that's the pace at which everything happens. It has been less than a week since...
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There's a moment in my time as a Blazer blogger that I sometimes revisit in my mind. That moment came during my first season writing the Rip City Proj...
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Motivation is a hard thing to pin down, especially when applied to professional basketball players. Some are motivated by money; those guys tend to come on...
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About halfway through Friday's fourth quarter in Golden State, I was planning to start my recap with this: In the near to not so distant future, after...
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There's a team out west led by an All-Star power forward and a hot shooting young point guard that has taken the NBA by storm. They're the fastes...
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The game of basketball is strange, to say the least. Thursday the Blazers got a huge win 92-90 over the defending NBA Champion Miami Heat. That in and of i...
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I came to this conclusion the other day: there is absolutely no better time than right now for  the Blazers first match-up with Miami Heat in the 2012-13 ...
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Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski breaks so much NBA news that he's become basically the only national basketball writer everybody absolutely needs to p...
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<blockquote>Anybody can win a five-minute game -- Terry Stotts</blockquote> The above is the sentiment of the Blazers' head coach when he ...
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