Denver finished their season series with Sacramento.

Gm 1 = Nov 04
Gm 2 = Nov 12
Gm 3 = Nov 23
Gm 4 = Dec 12

They have already played each other 4 times. We are barely past the 25% mark for the regular season. Most teams have played 25 games. They have already played each other 4 times. 4 times in abou 5 weeks. Why is the schedule getting clustered together like this?

Portland falling off lately. Looks like injuries are playing a big role in their downturn.

They had no centers and no PGs in their game this night against NOP. They pretty much started 5 SFs.

G: Avdija
G: Shaedon Sharpe
F: Kris Murray
F: T Camara
C: Jerami Grant

No D Clingan. No Rob Williams. No Yang Hansen. No Jrue Holiday. No Scoot Henderson. Scoot still hasn't played yet this season. Jrue has played in only 50% of their games. 12 of 24, well 25 now. POR are 6 wins 6 losses in the games Jrue has played versus 3 wins 10 losses in the games he has missed. Scoot also not being available has made the loss of Jrue hurt much more as it has left the team without any legit PG on the roster.

The Blazers are also without Blake Wesley who was their main backup guard in the early part of the season. He was playing very well for them. Their best defensive guard. A broken bone in his foot. So they lost their replacement backup PG (really a SG pretending to be a PG) as well as their starting PG (Jrue) and their reserve PG (Scoot).

JB got his 30, but he really didn?t have a good game. 3ast/3rebs and 4TOs.  I mean, Pritchard had 5rebs.. Need Brown to do more than just score.

The issue I had with him isn't his production but that he got sucked into a couple of personal battles that took the team away from what it had been doing, in the 3rd. First he got into a contest with KPJ and kept trying to iso him and score on him, then he got sucked into another battle with Portis who then lit us up. Passion is great but I think we got taken away from what we were doing by falling into their trap to get him off his game.

JB got his 30, but he really didn?t have a good game. 3ast/3rebs and 4TOs.  I mean, Pritchard had 5rebs.. Need Brown to do more than just score.

Lock him up!!

Truly can?t remember a case like this where a guy has gone from ?pretty likely to be cut? to ?seems like a core piece? in a matter of days. Amazing.

Same here.  I've really been trying to think of a comparable situation and have come up with nothing.  We've all seen an end-of-bench player have a few good games out of nowhere, but this has been pretty sustained already.