Portland Trail Blazers: 3 takeaways from Game 2 vs. Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans left no doubt Thursday night, beating the Portland Trail Blazers 119-102 in Game 3 of their playoff series and taking a commanding 3-0 lead in their first-round NBA Playoffs series. Anything can happen for any team, especially a quality team like the Trail Blazers, but it would be hard to bet against a team headed home having just taken games 1 and 2 on the road. "I'm just trying to play simple". The Trail Blazers fell behind early in part because CJ McCollum went scoreless in the opening period, although his 14 points in the second quarter couldn't stop the deficit from swelling. The dynamic duo combined for just 39 points on 16-of-39 shooting. Although, they did have other members step up. Rajon Rondo repeatedly pushed the pace, dishing out 11 assists and keying most of New Orleans' 32 fast-break points.
The Pelicans made plenty of shots all game long, hitting 52.9 percent from the field and 40.7 percent from 3-point range.
Trail Blazers: The third seed in the West has won its first-round series for the past four seasons. There were a couple times where we may have lost a little bit of focus, but I thought I took a timeout and before I said it on the bench, they said it, 'Hey. They will also have to be willing to beat him to a spot and take a charge when he decides to put the ball on the floor.
Mirotic scored 30 points and grabbed eight rebounds, and Davis collected 28 points and 11 boards for New Orleans, which will try to sweep the best-of-seven series at home on Saturday. Lillard will need to come out playing like he has for most of the season of the Blazers are nearly certainly going out in the first round.
The volume was high early with the crowd revved up for the first playoff game in New Orleans since 2015.
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It was, without doubt, the franchise's most invigorating night since it was re-branded to the Pelicans in 2013.
But they got off to a horrific start, losing two straight at the Moda Centre in OR, with free-scoring backcourt duo Lillard and CJ McCollum failing to find their groove against a defensively-astute Pelicans team.
Blazers fans looking for a silver lining will have a tough time finding one. He recorded three steals on Thursday and had one sequence where he blocked a shot, contested the follow-up shot and then buried a 3-pointer on the other end within a matter of seconds.
They also outscored opponents by 14.5 points ber 100 when he appeared next to Moore and Mirotic. After that, Portland let the game slip and spent all game trying to make it up. Establishing the inside presence with an absolute wrecking ball like Davis can open up the outside shots for Guards like Jrue Holiday and forward Nikola Mirotic. "Let's go.' I think when you have that kind of leadership that it's going to be great".
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