In his most recent blog entry Henry Abbot  talked a little about pace and used Portland as an example:

Last night, with 9:26 left in a game against the Lakers, Travis Outlaw made a 3-pointer for Portland. He is credited with 3 points for that one possession, and Portland cements its reputation as one of the slowest-paced teams in the NBA. Thanks to four consecutive offensive rebounds, that shot came at the end of a possession that lasted an entire minute.

My question is: Is this accurate?  Do they really count that whole trip down as one possession when the shot clock reset every time the ball was rebounded?  I'm not a statistician, but if I was the one deciding when a possession starts and stops I would certainly have counted that as 4 (or maybe five) possessions.  So does anybody know for sure?  Is The Blogfather wrong on this one?  Is there a universal  way that this stat is kept, or does it vary from source to source?

This really has seemed like one of the longest off-seasons ever.  With the promising increase in wins from the season before, and the addition of some exicting new talent in the season to come, I have been chomping at the bit for them to tip the darn ball already and actually WATCH some new blazer games.  But, since we are just under two months still till the first preseason game, all we have for now is speculation and discusion.  So here is a topic I have been kicking around a little lately:

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