Beating the Golden State Warriors at home is tough for any team. It’s even tougher for a team playing without the majority of their regular rotation.
The Trail Blazers, despite playing without Damian Lillard (abdominal tendinopathy), CJ McCollum (right pneumothorax), Anfernee Simons (right ankle sprain) and Cody Zeller for the game and Nassir Little (left calf cramp) for most of the second half, hung tough with the team with the best record in the league before eventually falling 104-94 in front of a sellout crowd of 18,064 Wednesday night at Chase Center in San Francisco.
“I just thought as a team, we played hard man,” said Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups.