The Portland Trail Blazers kept the game close all night, but never got over the hump against the defense and inside presence of the Orlando Magic.
In a running theme for the season, the Portland Trail Blazers were good enough to stay close to the Orlando Magic all evening, but not good enough to beat them. Orlando used their inside dominance to get easy points for most of the evening, and their burgeoning defense gave the Blazer offense fits, with the exception of the red-hot CJ McCollum.
The Blazers were led by McCollum (29 points on 11-19 shooting), plus Damian Lillard (17 points), Al-Farouq Aminu (16 points), and Allen Crabbe (14 points) off the bench.