The Portland Trail Blazers came into their Tuesday night game versus the Phoenix Suns in need of a win. As anyone with a failed promposal story can tell you, needing something and getting it are two different things. The Blazers also learned that tough lesson, getting skewered on the defensive end all night on their way to a 127-110 loss. The game was Portland’s first to be televised on NBC in decades. Except in this case, “NBC” stood for “No Bloody Chance”.

Aside from a couple impressive scoring performances, the word of the night for the Blazers was “ineffective”. The Suns outshot them, outran them, and generally outclassed them. It was as weak of a game as Portland has demonstrated since they lost to a Los Angeles Lakers squad without LeBron James, Luka Doncic, and Austin Reaves earlie

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