PORTLAND -- One of the purposes of preseason games is to figure out what areas you need to work on before the start of the regular season. And in that regard, Saturday night's game versus the Phoenix Suns was a success for the Trail Blazers, inasmuch as they now know of at least one facet they need to improve before the games start to count.
The Suns, despite playing without Devin Booker, Ricky Rubio and Deandre Ayton, shot 51 percent percent from the field and made 24 of 45 attempted three-pointer on the way to besting the Trail Blazers 134-118 in front of 18,468 at the Moda Center.