Prior to Robert Covington finding his groove midway through the season with the Portland Trail Blazers, things had a tendency to get rocky. Never mind the failing to score in double figures in 15 of his first 17 games after perennially being a double-digit scorer in each of the previous six seasons; never mind the struggling to crack 30 percent shooting from the field over that said stretch. It merely appeared Covington didn’t appear at ease as he once had.
One play in particular from his first road trip as a Blazer sort of encapsulates that most effectively: Covington found himself quarterbacking a 3-on-1 fast break, a godsend of an opportunity to score an efficient bucket in what had been a tough shooting stretch to that point.