The Portland Trail Blazers have lost eight of ten games after a blazing 30-8 start to the 2014-15 campaign, and shooting guard Wesley Matthews says there's not one easy answer for what exactly has gone wrong over that stretch.
"To me it's a lot of everything. It's turnovers, it's offense, it's defense, it's intangibles," Matthews said at Blazers practice on Monday, via Mike Richman of The Oregonian. "But, like I said, it's only glaring right now because we're not winning games."
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Riding a three-game losing streak into Tuesday's matchup against the suddenly pesky Utah Jazz, Matthews says getting back to the elite squad that dominated over the season's first half will take some soul-searching.
"It's about getting better, It's about winning, it's about playing the right way, it's about getting back to what we were and who we were when we were feared," Matthews said.
"We're not feared right now. I don't think teams come into the Moda Center and fear a game," he added. "I don't think teams know that when they wake up and have shootaround at their place that the Trail Blazers are in town. That was like that earlier in the season. We've got to get that back and we can."