One week ago, the Portland Timbers crashed out of the MLS Playoffs in humiliating fashion, losing 5-0 to the Vancouver Whitecaps in a game in which neither the offense nor the defense remembered that the season was not over yet.
It was a brutal ending to the season for a team that had shown glimmers of its future potential all season. The Timbers had not been to the playoffs in three years, were in the first year of a new coaching regime, and had spent much of the season trying to find their identity at both ends of the pitch. Making the playoffs in-and-of-itself was an accomplishment, but instead
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