Is Portland beginning its tank in earnest?
The Portland Trail Blazers appear to be embracing the tank in earnest at this stage of their 2024-25 season.
After a surprisingly strong 6-8 start to the year, Portland has gone just 2-8 across its last 10 contests. The Trail Blazers are currently on a four-game losing streak, which includes three straight defeats last week. The most egregious of those losses, of course, was its 141-99 blowout defeat to the lowly Utah Jazz, who at 5-18 are one of the few teams actually below the Trail Blazers in the Western Conference standings. Utah is the No. 14 seed to Portland's No. 13 seed.
The New Orleans Pelicans, though fresh off a 49-33 season, are stunningly the worst team in the West by record, at 5-20.has subsequently penalized Portland for its lackluster week, dropping the club a whopping five spots in his league power rankings, from No. 23 to No. 28, sandwiched between the No. 27 Jazz and the No. 29 Pelicans.
"The Blazers ranked 17th defensively through Nov. 30, a nice improvement for a team that ranked 23rd on that end of the floor last season and no higher than 27th in the four seasons before that," Schuhmann writes. "But they allowed an amazing 135 points per 100 possessions in their first three games this month to fall back into the bottom 10.
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