If the Trail Blazers had been playing horseshoes or lobbing hand grenades, their performances last week wouldn't have been all that detrimental. But considering their primary stock-in-trade is NBA basketball, losing four games last week (we'll get to the SECOND loss to the Grizzlies on Sunday next week), albeit by a combined total of 12 points, greatly diminished their chances of ending the regular season in the Top 6, and thus, avoiding the play-in tournament. What's more, after spending the majority of 2021 in fifth or sixth, the Trail Blazers are a couple more losses away from dropping all the way down to tenth, which is the last spot included in the play-in.
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