PORTLAND -- Terry Stotts couldn't remember if it was Al McGuire or Rick Majerus who said it, but it was an aphorism he'd returned two several times since the Portland Trail Blazers dropped two games in Los Angeles:
What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
The author of the statement is actually Don Meyer, who won 923 games as a college coach at small schools in the midwest. Irrespective of origin, it was a sentiment voiced by Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum and several other supporting cast members of the Trail Blazers over the past week.