Portland came on strong in the second half in Milwaukee, carrying a 4-point lead into the final 30 seconds of the game. Then...
The Portland Trail Blazers have lost plenty of games in pretty-but-ineffective fashion this season. In tonight's game versus the Milwaukee Bucks they decided to invert the process by winning ugly. They managed the ugly part just fine, but forgot to win. In typical Blazers fashion, a dismal first half performance gave way to an inspired second-half run. But brain-dead execution in the final minute doomed Portland to a disheartening loss.
Game Flow
As former Blazers broadcaster Bill Schonely used to say, tonight was a Tale of Two Halves.