The Portland Trail Blazers returned home after finishing up one of the more brutal road trips in recent memory: a trip that consisted of six games in four different time zones over the span of nine days. The Blazers dropped four games, three of them by more than twenty. Then they followed all that up by blowing a double-digit halftime lead in a much anticipated return home. Let’s take a deep breath and see whats going on. Let’s dig deeper.
We are officially at the 20 game mark of the season. Meaning, we are finally at the point of the season where we can start to differentiate the contenders from the pretenders.