Typically losing two games in a row, especially on the road, isn't all that much, if anything, to get too concerned about, especialy less than a month into the season. But when you start the year playing as well as the Trail Blazers have, losing back-to-back games to the Lakers and Timberwolves is more noticable, even with those losses coming during the first two games of a six-game trip that will take the team from one side of the country to the other and back before they return to Portland the day after Thanksgiving.
So despite currently sitting at the top of the Western Conference standings (along with a few other teams), the Trail Blazers dropped a few spots or remained unchanged in this week's Power Rankings, which speaks more to how highly they were already ranked than their performance in the last seven days.