Portland Trailblazers:The Road Trip Ahead

November 10th, 2009 by Busta Bucket Leave a reply »
A quick look at the upcoming 5 game road trip.  

Tue 11/10 at Memphis (Last year 4-0)
Wed 11/11 at Minnesota (Last year 4-0)
Fri 11/13 at New Orleans (Last year 2-2, teams split their home games)
Sat 11/14 at Charlotte (Last year 1-1, lost at Charlotte in OT)
Mon 11/16 at Atlanta (Last year 1-1, lost at ATL)
 

This will be a good/tough test for the Blazers as they go on their first extended road trip of the season. The good news here is that the opponents are more of the lower tier variety (except ATL...okay New Orleans too), so the schedulers were relatively kind to the Blazers for this early season trek. Charlotte has been tough at home so far (3-0), and New Orleans should be better than their 3-5 record lets on. 4 wins on this trip is possible, but 3 would be acceptable on this long of a trip early in the season. There are some interesting match-ups coming up too. A few that I'm looking forward to....
ZBo vs LA: Zach always has something to prove when he meets up with his old team, and he has played well against us. LaMarcus needs to take this matchup to heart and not let Zach get the best of him.
Chris Paul vs the 3 ...

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