For whatever reasons, opinions about teams this season seem to varying widely from game to game based on results. Win and you're on the primrose path to the championship, lose and the entire thing should be blown up posthaste. Whether that's a function of so many blowouts in the first few weeks of the season, the effects of spending much of the last nine months dealing with the stress of a pandemic, the toxic nature of social media or something else entirely, who is to say. But it's noticeable across much of the NBA landscape.
The same can be said for the Portland Trail Blazers.