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The Blazers have been pretty bad. Portland has lost five in a row, and are 5-13 in their last 18 games. Dallas is 6-6 in their last 12 games. They are playing better than they were, but not as good as they should be. LA is 8-4 in their last 12, winning games that they should be winning...but struggling to finish, and they rely on Kobe way too much to carry them through OR come back (like against Charlotte). -------------- A 41-41 season to get the 8th seed? Nah. Utah is still doing okay, playing .500 ball right now, BUT they are 30-24. They have some wiggle room. Houston is playing .500 ball right about now, which is actually worse than their record shows (of course, I'm talking the last 8-10 games for them). LA will need to flip the switch quick, and beat everyone that they SHOULD beat, in order to make the playoffs. They don't necessarily need to knock off the elite, but just win most of the games that we should be able to win based on talent alone. I don't know why Dwight is playing in the All-Star Game, by the way. Kind of makes me a little upset, since he has been complaining about his shoulder quite a bit.

shitty luck

Here are the crazy videos. One or two get pretty loud, so don't have your headphones on with the volume really high. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 Glass shatters here... This one probably won't parse, so you'll have to click on the link. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a98_1360908156

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Yes, he's in his 9th game back. They also don't know when he'll regain form, it might not be until next year. At that point, Amar'e's another year older, the vets are all another year older, we didn't make a full run this year, and we're a year closer to blowing the thing up and starting fresh. That is their thinking. If Shumpert isn't the focal point of a rebuild when Melo/Amar'e/whoever is up, why not improve the team for the now? If you think Shumpert is a top 10 player in the league at any point, I'm sorry, but you're on crazy pills. 20/5/5 with amazing defense.. I just haven't seen anything to suggest he's a top 10 player at any juncture moving forward.