When asked what the Trail Blazers did to trigger a fourth-quarter rally that came up just short in their 121-115 loss to the Utah Jazz Thursday night in Salt Lake City, second-year guard Anfernee Simons noted the approach wasn’t all that complicated.
Said Simons: “We just stayed positive, took it one possession at a time.”
He could have just as easy been referring to the way he’s approached the last two and a half weeks, a stretch in which the 20 year-old has struggled, at least relative to the lofty expectations he entered the 2019-20 season with, to find his rhythm on the offensive end and defend without fouling on the other.