PORTLAND -- Playing in their third game without Damian Lillard (right groin strain), the Trail Blazers fell 118-106 to the Boston Celtics in front of a sellout crowd of 19,460 Tuesday night at the Moda Center.
"Boston’s a really good team," said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts. "Sometimes we look at the box score, we outscored them in the paint, outscored them in second-chance points, outscored them from fast break, outscored them from the free throw line, and still lost by 12. I liked the way our guys competed, we didn’t take advantage of some of our opportunities, but other than that I thought we gave a good effort.