The Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets are tied 1-1 in their best of seven NBA first-round playoff series. Aaron Fentress, the beat reporter who covers the team for The Oregonian/OregonLive, joined me for a conversation about Thursday’s Game 3.
Particularly, we talked about how an undersized Portland team must come up big at home.
Listen to the full conversation with Fentress here.
“The one thing that is going to be really, really difficult for (the Blazers) to solve is the size issue,” Fentress said. “Clearly, you’re already at a size disadvantage. If the other team is being physical and aggressive and coming at you, it’s difficult to combat and overcome that in any sport.”
On freeing up Damian Lillard:
“Lillard played as well as he could possibly play in the first half and they were still down 11. Because they had no answer for stopping Denver. They contained Denver a little bit because they didn’t let other people get involved... but I didn’t think their defense just suffocated Denver. It’s a hard, this is a hard predicament for them to be in because they have to be able to get Lillard (2 for 9 in the second half) free.”
On the Nuggets being more aggressive in Game 2:
“It’s really fascinating. It’s something that people who follow the NBA playoffs know... if you lose Game 1, you’re going to come out like your hair is on fire in Game 2... and I do think there’s a sense for an underdog who won Game 1 that, ‘Hey, we won Game 1.’”
Really good talk with Fentress, who is still picking the Blazers to win the series. For the record, I am, too. It’s Portland in seven games for me. I like the Blazers to win Game 3 at home.
Listen to the full conversation with Aaron Fentress here:
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