The Portland Trail Blazers no doubt woke up Saturday morning with a doozy of a hangover after ending up on the wrong end of a 141-99 blowout to the Utah Jazz on Friday night. For perspective, the victory was Utah’s 5th of the season in 22 tries. A 42-point loss to the Boston Celtics on the home floor would be embarrassing. We’d have to invent new adjectives to adequately describe dropping one like that to the Jazz. Getting bullied by Tuco is wholly understandable. At the hands of Badger? Not so much.
(I’m in Season Four, by the way.