The Family Twine household is only interested in one thing this season, making sure it is not the last time Damian Lillard wears a Portland Trail Blazers jersey.  To do that, it seems the team will need to beat expectations.  So we looked at what has to go right for the Blazers (not as much as you'd think) and what has to go wrong for their conference foes (maybe more than is realistic) for the Blazers to at least be one of the last four teams standing in the Western Conference at the end of the season.

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Special thanks to Andreas Moll for the intro and outro music, https://pixabay.com/music/alternative-andreas-woll-onionizer-2005/