PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – For the past two years, Brandon Roy has gone into the season with very specific goals.
First, it was to make the playoffs, then it was to advance out of the first round. But last season Portland was blindsided by an epidemic of injuries, including Roy’s own knee problems.
The experience struck Portland’s All-Star shooting guard, who says that this season the Blazers’ goal is to simply prepare for anything.
Roy’s sentiment doesn’t necessarily mean that he has lowered his expectations, it means he is more realistic. The Blazers won 50 games last season and went to the playoffs, but they did it with the league’s second-most games missed by players because of injuries.
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