Though the Portland Trail Blazers enter the 2019-20 NBA season fresh off a trip to the Western Conference Finals, expectations for the year are mixed. Partisans claim the team got better by adding center Hassan Whiteside, swingman Kent Bazemore, and veteran Pau Gasol. Most national experts remain cautious, with oddsmakers pegging mid-40’s win totals and pundits forecasting a low- to middling seed in the 2020 NBA Playoffs. That variance provides the soil from which these two Blazer’s Edge Mailbag questions spring.
Dear Dave,
We made the conference finals this year and we haven’t gotten any worse, right?