After going over a month without taking a loss, the Trail Blazers had their 13-game winning streak snapped Tuesday night in a 115-111 loss to the Houston Rockets in front of a soldout crowd at the Moda Center. While it was a loss, the way the Trail Blazers competed with the team with the best record in the NBA, despite both Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum turning in poor offensive performances on the same night (the Rockets obviously had something to do with that), was surely a good indicator of their postseason worthiness with 11 games to play.
And even though the Trail Blazers did lose, they remain in the same position after the loss as they were the last time we checked in on the Western Conference playoff race.