Mostly on the strength of margin of victory, which tends to be the most important stat for Hollinger's rankings. SOS will work against us, though our home/away splits are adequate.

Additionally, lots of Blazers talk on The Basketball Jones podcast, available on iTunes or the Ball Don't Lie website. I love their stuff.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/TBJ-Ep-473-Eating-Crow?urn=nba,204480

Hollinger's take. I'm particularly interested in Lawson, who I'm high on but I thought was slipping... anyone with Insider feel like reposting the pertinent parts?

Another in the Quick series.

Quickly (har har) becoming one of my favorite running newspaper segments evar.

Nene went down late in the Nuggets' loss to the Bucks today - looked like a knee. He's been great this season, and if he misses a big stretch of time, I think the division is back in play.