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Portland Trail Blazers vs. Denver Nuggets Game Five Preview

Forget best of seven, this series is now a best of three proposition with the Denver Nuggets owning 66.7 per cent of the remaining home games. This is out and out the Blazers most important game this season. Win, and they come back to Moda looking to close out in six games. Lose and they face the threat of elimination in Game 6. Portland blitzed the Nuggets behind behemoth efforts from Jusut Nurkic and Norman Powell. Damian Lillard, however, shot a miserable 1 for 10 from the field. If the Blazers can bring the same intensity with 50 per cent of Lillard’s regular production then Portland will be in the hunt.