The Portland Trail Blazers, to use a common contemporary parlance, are going through it.
Having lost six-straight, their longest such streak since the 2016-17 season, and nine of their last 10, no one inside of Portland’s locker room has cause to be content. Does that long of a stretch of poor play produce some grumbling? Most likely, but that’s hardly specific to the Trail Blazers. Just as winning cures all -- or at least something close to it -- losing tends to magnify every issue in a way that can make even slight annoyances feel outsized.
“Nobody likes losing,” said Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups prior to Portland’s overtime loss to Phoenix Tuesday night.