DENVER -- After the three-seed Trail Blazers fell 121-113 to the two-seed Nuggets Monday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals, the two Northwest Division teams meet again in the "Mile High City" for Game 2 Wednesday night (tipoff scheduled for 6 p.m. on TNT). Some notes going into Game 2...
• Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts often notes there typically isn’t just one factor that is the difference between a win and a loss. A host of different issues play out throughout the course of a 48-minute game, so there usually isn’t just one variable that dictates the result.