Short 7 players for the 2nd game in a row against against HOU (beat them Wed behind Deni's 42 and some really good team Defense), POR faced Ime's squad against a plan if attack to double Deni at halfcourt forcing what's left of POR's roster to come through. They did with a dominating 4th quarter in a more comfortable 6-pt win.
Despite these back-to-back losses (Ime and half his coaching staff are from POR), HOU will still get the 2-seed just as MIN will get the 3-Seed. I think DEN gets the last Home-court 1st Round seed in the West.
Someday POR will start to get some players back. In the meantime, they have a huge goal in their next game that didn't remotely seem possible 10 games ago...get to .500.
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