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Portland will try to bounce back from a loss at Minnesota when it travels to Indiana for the second game of a three-game road trip on Friday night. The Trail Blazers opened their road trip with Wednesday’s 113-106 loss to the Timberwolves, marking their fifth loss in their last seven games. Indiana had its four-game winning streak snapped in an overtime loss at Philadelphia on Wednesday.
Portland got off to a fantastic start this season, sitting near the top of the Western Conference standings with a 10-4 record. The Trail Blazers proceeded to lose seven of their next eight games and have not been able to maintain a level of consistency since then. They have dropped five of their last seven games coming into this matchup, with their two wins coming against Eastern Conference bottom feeders in Charlotte and Detroit. Their most recent outing resulted in a 113-106 loss at Minnesota on Wednesday, as the Timberwolves were able to overcome a 27-point performance from Portland’s Damian Lillard.
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Lillard scored 21 points in a win over Indiana on Dec. 4, marking his first game in over two weeks due to a calf strain. Jerami Grant paced Portland with 28 points in that 116-100 win. He is currently dealing with a left quad contusion, but that did not stop him from scoring 26 points against Minnesota his last time out—he is listed as questionable for this game. The Trail Blazers will be wanting to clean up some turnover issues in this contest, as they gave the ball away 18 times in the loss to the Timberwolves. They come into this game ranked No. 17 in the NBA offensively, averaging 112.8 points per game. This will be a favorable matchup, as Indiana is No. 21 in the NBA defensively (116.1).
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