Portland Trail Blazers at Sacramento Kings
7 p.m. Pacific on Comcast SportsNet California
Let's engage in an exercise.
The Blazers are kinda bad on the road. The Kings are not as bad as they seem overall when they are at home. Science!
The teams play at identical paces: just over 93 possessions per game. Let's imagine this game has 93 possessions!
At home, the Kings average 1.03 points per possession. On the road, the Blazers allow 1.01 points per possession. A reasonable expectation for the Kings would be to score 1.02 points per possession, or in a 93-possession game, about 95 points.
At home, the Kings allow 1.06 points per possession. On the road, the Blazers score 0.96 points per possession. As such, the Blazers would be expected to score 1.01 points per possession, or in a 93-possession game, about 94 points.
Ergo, the Kings would be expected to win 95-94.
Ergo, victory!
Science!
Game's at 7. Game threads at 7 and 8:30.
1 recs | 37 comments
No Haiku?
prowseinthehouse - February 2, 2012
The deafening Arco thunder
Raising the hot hand
Kings double doubles will abound
Widowwolf - February 2, 2012
Science is magic!
LOUiECOG - February 2, 2012
wallywagon11 - February 2, 2012
section214 - February 2, 2012
Brought to you by the musical stylings of
Ahh Oingo Boingo.
Widowwolf - February 2, 2012
Danny Elfman is a genius
I bet he could play the 3.
adamsite - February 2, 2012
He could play all 5 positions
Widowwolf - February 2, 2012
shaq
anyone see shaq pick reke to be an all-star reserve?
Kingsfan916 - February 2, 2012
wow, i was watchin for a bit but a missed that
AnkleMan - February 2, 2012
Does anyone know why this site wasn’t loading? For like the past hour o_O
CousinsEvansDUO - February 2, 2012
The site probably knew how ugly the game would be and didn't want to see all our pessimistic posts
SPTSJUNKIE - February 2, 2012
Pookeyguru was getting his revenge
Slam_Dunk - February 2, 2012
Ziller finally let him out of the human hamser wheel powering the site?
nbrans - February 2, 2012
Power Outage at the 3 spot
sj60615 - February 2, 2012
GO KINGS
how about you actually beat the blazers for once in my f*#cking life
AnkleMan - February 2, 2012
They will. Once. In 2023.
SPTSJUNKIE - February 2, 2012
I was there firsthand
for the spanking in the Rose Garden last year. Felt so good.
nobodyinparticular - February 2, 2012
Poetic
logic! It’s a lock…now we kick back, enjoy and wait to find out who wins it for us.
zzsjolt - February 2, 2012
If we blowout the blazers I can’t wait to see the idiots @ blazersedge complain. Hopefully they will be sad and pissed off.
CousinsEvansDUO - February 2, 2012
I like the people at Blazersedge
ElRonToro - February 2, 2012
Why do they never take us seriously? It’s like they expect to win. And today I saw a post with someone saying trade tyreke for luke babbit…they have no respect for the kings its ridiculous.
CousinsEvansDUO - February 2, 2012
you should go ask for an apology
wallywagon11 - February 2, 2012
nay
demand
wallywagon11 - February 2, 2012
I live in Portland
And they give me a ton of shit. Many of them say the Kings are the worst NBA team of all time. They have a little bit of success now and love to shit on the teams that do worse than them. It gets annoying.
Portland's Cowboy fan - February 2, 2012
and their announcers are dicks too.
Bambooozled - February 2, 2012 via mobile
Saw the same stuff here in Sac when the Kings were rolling
When it’s good it’s good. When it’s bad it’s bad
wallywagon11 - February 2, 2012
The Blazers are a pretty decent basketball team right now, and the Kings are not.
All the same, I hope we kick their asses.
sj60615 - February 2, 2012
tyreke is better than anyone on their roster
we just so happen to suck…. horribly…..
AnkleMan - February 2, 2012
sleeping on Aldridge
wallywagon11 - February 2, 2012
ya i know, i just kinda am slightly 'meh' on aldridge
i have no right to be though
AnkleMan - February 2, 2012
I’m pretty sure that was a joke. Blazer fans are aware Luke Babbitt has no trade value and Tyreke Evans can ball.
jksnake99 - February 2, 2012
Me, too
Great site – great fans.
section214 - February 2, 2012
speaking of science
Hopefully Hickson doesn’t make every shot he takes rocket science.
Bambooozled - February 2, 2012 via mobile
Speaking of science
Ziller, your score predictions were not that far off.
jveezy - February 2, 2012
wizardy!
garylicious - February 2, 2012
well done, sir. well done.
jksnake99 - February 2, 2012
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