To understand how crazy this serie has been. Here is an interesting stat.

But when you add in the "points refereential", you will see that Portland has a sizable advantage.

 

Let's see FT disparity

 

4Q collapse. We finally beat them in 4Q scoring, in G5. Moving away from forcing it too much (ISO against very good defense) to more movement was the answer.

 

If I remember it correctly we were up considerably in every game (haven`t seen game 2). The games I´ve seen we were the better team in every one of them. What we have been really bad at is putting them away and executing when it counts. How many 4th quarter collapses have we seen?

There is really no excuse for us losing game 1 or game 4. I have been one of the few McHale supporters, but I think he is getting outcoached this series and that`s the biggest problem. Howard is showing some leadership and Asik is coming up big, as is Parsons for the most time.

We still have a good shot if we just start executing when the game is on the line.