The Portland Trail Blazers fell to the Los Angeles Clippers 117-109 tonight. It wasn’t the typical Portland loss, though. Those have come in two stripes: get blown out or get outworked. The Blazers did neither in a nip-and-tuck affair. Damian Lillard, Norman Powell, and Jusuf Nurkic all had big moments. Portland hustled on defense, patrolling the glass and the lane. Even with all that going for them, they looked like an 80%-complete squad. That’s about how much of the court they ended up covering on any given possession as well. Those open cracks allowed Paul George, Nicolas Batum, and friends to wriggle through to victory despite not playing their best game of the season either.
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