PHOENIX -- The Portland Trail Blazers moved to 0-3 in preseason play with a 119-74 loss to the Phoenix Suns Wednesday afternoon in front of a crowd of 9,772 at Footprint Center.
“It was a horrible effort, I thought, by us,” said Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups. “You know the preseason, you’re always trying to work on something. We’ve talked as lot about trying to create a defensive mentality here and that takes time, right? But you’ve got to keep getting better and I just felt like our urgency on the defensive end from the very start of the game wasn’t there.