NEW ORLEANS -- After Sunday night's victory versus the Suns in Phoenix, Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts said point guard Damian Lillard "willed us to the win." The 6-3 point guard in his fifth season out of Weber State tried to do the same thing Tuesday night in New Orleans, though there's only so much one will can do.
Lillard finished with 29 points on 8-of-18 shooting, but only one other Trail Blazer managed to score in double figures (and in garbage time at that) as Portland fell 100-77 to the New Orleans Pelicans in front of a crowd of 15,530 Tuesday night at Smoothie King Center.