PORTLAND -- The Trail Blazers could have made things a bit easier on themselves Monday night versus the Rockets, but it wasn’t all that hard either.
Portland put up 50 points in the first quarter, the most any Trail Blazers team has ever scored in any quarter, while making 12 three-pointers, tying the NBA record for threes in a quarter, before going on to defeat a woefully undermanned Rockets team 140-129 in front of a sellout crowd of 1,939 Monday night at the Moda Center.
“I think it was not surprising, but it would have been nice if we could have built a bigger lead going into the fourth quarter,” said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts.