波特兰开拓者队周二在加时赛中以120-115击败密尔沃基雄鹿队，将战绩提高到44胜24负。波特兰开拓者队在周二的加时赛中以120胜115负击败密尔沃基雄鹿队，将战绩提高到44胜24负。开拓者队所做的唯一的好事就是拥有开拓者队所做的所有坏事。

早在20世纪，他们就有这些叫做百科全书的书，它试图收集关于我们所知道的所有与生命有关的最重要主题的全面、重要的信息。开拓者队试图写下《坏篮球大英百科全书》，与NBA最差的球队雄鹿队对抗，他们没有一页关于篮圈的愚蠢的文章没有被遗漏。

不要把球放在自己的篮筐下：这会给你的对手带来一个轻松的得分机会。

对外线传球施加适当的力量：不这样做会给你的对手带来一个过渡的机会。

试着不要给你的传球打电报：出其不意篮球生活。

当你在露天场地运球时，保持对身体周围360度的意识：盲点可能会导致尴尬的抢断。

试着不要爱上你自己的运球动作：看着你的跳投在与某人分手后发出叮当声，你将获得“百万美元的动作，10美分的完成”标记。

当有疑问时，向一名正在排队投篮的无防守球员跑去：任何程度的分心都比没有分心要好。

如果可能的话，在从外线投篮时至少尝试击中篮筐：你的队友很难调整自己的位置来追踪空中球。

如果可能的话，尝试不要在扣篮时击中篮筐：砰击运动的力量会导致球越过篮板出界，给予对方控球权。

在你尝试扣篮之前接住球：正确的操作顺序在篮球中与数学和烹饪一样重要。

不要在没有充分理由的情况下用高命中率换成低命中率：一次干净的上篮尝试几乎可以击败一次干净的中距离跳投每种情况。

当有高百分比的外观时，不要满足于低百分比的外观：传球可以让生活更轻松。

不要犯不必要的犯规：罚球是罚球。

罚球释放前不要进入跑道：这是违反规则的。

调整：击败你的东西不要低估你的对手：那会欺骗你，欺骗他们，球迷和比赛。

不允许理论上的天赋优势表现为实际的能量劣势：当天赋不努力时，努力工作战胜天赋。

这场比赛的报告实际上不是一本完整的百科全书，但希望一系列困难都能迎刃而解。达米安·利拉德以20分（21投7中）和4次助攻结束比赛，他说：“如果我们输掉那场比赛，在场的每个人都会生病。”。“他们的战绩是联盟中最差的，我们可能会出来想，‘我们会赢这场比赛。’在比赛中感觉自己应该赢没有什么错，但那是一支NBA球队。”

韦斯利·马修斯补充道：“[雄鹿队]应该把我们关起来。我们应该在更衣室里生气。但是他们没有。”除了其他怪癖之外，上面提到的所有事情都出了问题。里拉德在深洞11投1中，多雷尔·赖特在弧线后7投0中。开拓者队主教练特里·斯托茨赛后讲话时，麦克风从支架上掉了下来。一个骑独轮车的小学生在中场休息时被淘汰了。法雷尔的热门歌曲《快乐》在公共广播系统播放，没有一个人被感动鼓掌，仿佛他们觉得自己像一个没有屋顶的房间。数百名球迷在比赛结束时离开了赛场，而不是坐到最后。尼古拉斯·巴图姆在得到21分（15投7中）、9个篮板和9次助攻后说：“这是一场奇怪的比赛。”。“我不想谈论这件事……我想忘记那场比赛。”

也许唯一能真正为自己的表现感到骄傲的人是罚球手，他在比赛的最后两分钟单枪匹马让雄鹿队四次从慈善条纹中脱颖而出。

我很高兴我是在赢了而不是输了之后站在这里的。”斯托茨说，一点也不高兴。“我们没有拿出那样的紧迫感we needed. ... I hope we understand that we were very fortunate to win the game tonight."

Milwaukee's free throw line misses set the stage for Lillard to force overtime with a late running layup. That basket provided the first real emotional payoff of the entire evening for the crowd, as it eased a tension that had built up during a lackluster night, piled on top of fresh memories of previous late-game failures. It was a hard, aggressive take, and he made no mistake, as they say during soccer broadcasts.

"We were down two, and we spaced the floor and let me go isolation," Lillard explained. "It didn't really make sense for me to settle for a jumper when we were down two and I felt like I could get to the rim."

Ramon Sessions was unable to deliver a game-winning three-pointer on the other end, and the Blazers opened overtime with their first real, sustained flourish of activity of the evening. The game blew open for good when Matthews completed an and-one basket and then stepped in for a steal on Milwaukee's next possession, turning defense into offense by laying off a nifty behind-the-back pass to Lillard for a thunderous dunk. Both players stomped and flexed afterwards, as if exorcising their own exasperation, and the Blazers did what they needed to do from there on out to protect the four-point lead.

"We're happy with the win, always going to take a win, ugly, pretty, doesn't matter," Matthews said, after finishing with a game-high 26 points (on 8-for-15 shooting), two rebounds and two assists. "We're not happy with the way we played. ... We put ourselves there and we got ourselves out of it. ... We know we have to be better to start the game off. More intense, more urgent, more efficient."

Escaping with the victory didn't erase the annoyances or forgive the mistakes, but it should provide some measure of relief. Had they not gotten out of it, Portland would have become the first Western Conference playoff team to lose to Milwaukee all season. They would have dropped to just one game in the loss column ahead of Golden State. They would have been royally pissed off -- as Matthews noted -- and they would have faced a whole new level of questions about their aptitude, focus, and ability to put together complete performances.

"The game completely changed once we realized this could be a horrible loss for us," Lillard said.

Those are words that I imagine no athlete really expects or wants to say and, not coincidentally, they are words that appear in the Britannica of Bad Basketball's third chapter, "How to play down to the level of the competition."

Random Game Notes

• The attendance was announced at 19,572. Generous.
• Here are the game highlights via NBA.com.
• Here's the Wesley Matthews to Damian Lillard dunk mentioned above via YouTube user PortlandTrailBlazers.

• On a night when everything else went wrong, the Blazers were able to show off this new mural near the media room, which is even cooler in person than it looks in photograph form.

• I mentioned in Sunday night's game write-up that the back of the 200 level had been painted black. Similar lettering to the sign above now appears in that space too.
• The Blazersedge NCAA bracket contest is right here. Sign up soon! (I've received some valid complaints about Yahoo's new bracket format. I hear you guys loud and clear. It's too late to change for this year but we'll swap it out next year.)
• The Blazers posted this photo of a new mural that's outside the Fan Shop that features Lillard and LaMarcus Aldridge.
• "Dr. Jack's" -- the new restaurant adjacent to the fountain outside the Moda Center -- continues to get good reviews. Even on a Tuesday night against the Bucks, the place was busy and had a good vibe, according to one person who enjoyed pre-game drinks there.
• His full name is O. J. D. N. P. C. D. Mayo. They just call him O. J. for short. Mayo was recently included on my All-Tank Team.
• Very cool that just a few days after "Nicolas Batum vs. Wesley Matthews" was debated on the Blazersedge Videocast, the two players apparently decided to set a one-on-one game for Wednesday morning.
• Bucks coach Larry Drew coached all the way to the very, very end of overtime and used all of his timeouts, even though the game was out of reach. Good for him for rewarding his team's effort. Whenever NBA commissioner Adam Silver makes another speech claiming that there's no tanking in the NBA, he better name-check Drew, or it will be a little disappointing.
• "We fought all the way through, even though it's midnight in Milwaukee," said Zaza Pachulia. I wasn't aware that time zone differences were a factor.
• Here's a GIF of Meyers Leonard missing his dunk.
• If you were at the arena and confused by the public address announcement, Tuesday night was not actually Blazersedge Night. The real Blazersedge Night is set for Thursday against the Washington Wizards. It will be awesome as always. Perhaps every night is Blazersedge Night if you think about it.
• A few positive Blazers highlights: Thomas Robinson skying for a block and Robin Lopez throwing down a putback dunk right before the halftime buzzer.
• Signs: "Happy B Day T Rob," "Damian: Marry Me in 8 years" (she was 10 years old), "Buck Williams > Bucks," "Bomb the Bucks," "Wes is the best," "My fave heroes: Batum and Robin," "Put me on the big screen," "Get the buck out of here, this is our house," "Don't mess with Mo," "It's Lillard Time," "No. 0 is our hero," "Get Well L-Train," "Dame got game," "If you don't have a Dame, we don't give a buck," "Go Blazers, Hello Philippines," "Hi Mom, I'm at the game," "I'll bet you 12 bucks we win."
• Robin Lopez on the overall effort: "It was important for us to do all the little things down the stretch to secure that win. It would have been nice to see that the whole game long."
• Matthews on what went wrong early: "It's a little bit of sloppiness. We were kind of nonchalant, out there going through the motions, overconfident. Not necessarily cocky but we didn't play up to our par and our standard of what we need to do."
• Lillard on what went wrong early: "We haven't secured a playoff spot so we still have a lot to play for. If we want that to happen we've got to make sure we come out to play every night. ... We didn't come with energy. Loose passes, not rotating fast enough. It was a lot of things."
• Matthews on whether the absence of LaMarcus Aldridge -- and the extra burdens being carried by the other guys -- contributed to the quality of play: "We started off the season extremely healthy. As of late, we've played a lot of games with weird lineups. L.A. has been out, Joel [Freeland]. Mo [Williams] was out. We don't want to get used to playing unconventional but we have been. That's not an excuse, we just have to play with urgency from the jump ball, regardless of who we're playing."
• Nicolas Batum admitted that there was a letdown factor from Portland's tough loss to the Warriors on Sunday: "Maybe the last game affected us a little bit. We could play anybody tonight and it could be the same. I'm glad we got the win."
• Lillard on his poor shooting night: "The ball wasn't going in. [The shots] felt good coming off my hands. I just wanted to stay with it. I knew there would come a point in the game where I needed to make a shot, or I was going to need to do something. I didn't have my greatest shooting night but we won the game and when the game was on the line I was able to get it done."
• The first thought whenever Lillard struggles with turnovers, settles for shots, and doesn't shoot well is that perhaps fatigue is catching up, considering his minutes load, the defensive attention he commands, and the absence of Aldridge. Lillard didn't admit to fatigue after this one, saying: "I feel fine. A lot of times, [coach Terry Stotts] is taking me out of the game and giving me enough time to recover. When I'm on the floor, Mo is doing a great job of taking over the point guard, so I don't have to do run around through as many pick and rolls, getting on the ball so I get off the ball and don't have to do as much on offense. Everybody is doing a good job of helping me and making it as easy as possible."
• No update on the Chalupas/McMuffins. Maybe next time.

Terry Stotts' Post-Game Comments

Opening Comments

I'm glad I'm standing here after a win instead of a loss. Give Milwaukee a lot of credit. They've had a long season. [Bucks coach] Larry [Drew] has done a great job of keeping them competing and playing hard. They played a great game. I certainly don't want to take away anything from what they did. They played hard the whole game.

That being said, we didn't come out with the urgency that we needed. I thought our bench did a very good job in the first half of giving us a spark. We struggled to shoot the ball from three. Obviously a couple of guys struggled to shoot. I hope we understand that we were very fortunate to win the game tonight.

Nicolas Batum

Nic kept us afloat in the first half. We didn't have a lot of offense really going in the first half. He was making his jump shots. He was looking to be aggressive. I hope that makes everybody happy since everyone wants Nic to be aggressive. We needed his offense in the first half. He continues to fill in the gaps. In the second half, his shot wasn't going, he rebounded and assisted. Again, Nic did a little bit of everything.

Damian Lillard's last drive

They were trapping pick and rolls, I thought he could get to the rim. We had good spacing. If he missed, Robin was active on the offensive glass. He came close the first time, and I thought -- Damian is good in those situations and I trust him.

Mo Williams

With the style of play, we're playing more of a spacing lineup and he excels in that style of play. He was good with the second unit in the first half. He kind of steadied the ship in the first half, when the bench guys were out there. We need Mo. For him to be able to come in and play the minutes he was playing, that's why we got him.

Damian LIllard

He wasn't playing his typical game but I don't think he was ill, he just didn't have it going. Struggled a little bit. He turned it on when we needed him to. He made big plays at the end of regulation and in overtime and that's what we've come to expect from him.

Goaltending call on Robin Lopez

I thought it looked good but you know what, that's why you have replay. If they said it wasn't good, it wasn't good. I don't know, I haven't seen the replay. I glanced at the scoreboard. To me it was a good basketball play. They know the rules better than I do.

Takeaway from win in close game

Well, we won a close game in New Orleans. It was a two point game with two minutes. We made plays down the stretch to win that game. I guess your definition is a close game -- if it's coming down to the last possession or whatever. I'm glad we did. The only thing I take away from winning close games -- we've won our share of close games this year, I don't think our confidence has waned. We just have to keep putting ourselves in position to win those games.

Wesley Matthews

He made big shots, particularly the threes. It's good to see his three ball come back. That was a big part of our success early in the season. We need that. Like most good shooters, the shot comes back.

-- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com | Twitter

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波特兰开拓者队在今晚对阵NBA的Cell-Wellar密尔沃基雄鹿队时几乎没有出场。但是卫斯理·马修斯在加时赛中表现出色，波特兰队几乎没有赢得一场他们期待轻松取胜的比赛。

开拓者队由尼古拉斯·巴图姆、罗宾·洛佩兹和卫斯理·马修斯领衔。

我打断这篇回顾，提醒你开拓者队的优势有自己的NCAA挑战在这里查看它

禁区得分

上半场：这是那些“你很幸运错过了”的半场之一。雄鹿队表现出了一点活力。。。还是比波特兰多一点。开拓者队两头都懒散，落后8分。除了巴图姆外，他们没有获得多少能量。他在第一节拿下16分，让开拓者保持紧密的联系，威廉姆斯和罗宾逊在板凳上为开拓者增添了活力。很快，波特兰队以8领先，似乎已经准备好离开。但是没有。波特兰队的失误还在继续，他们放弃了多个三分球给了可怜的雄鹿队，让他们在中场休息时无所事事。

波特兰52，密尔沃基47

嗯，嗯。。。刚到电视机前。很高兴看到开拓者队领先5分钟，但我有一半的人希望在领先优势上再领先0分。
-Dave
第三节：如果你眨眼，错过了前6分钟，你什么也没错过，因为开拓者队的先发球员无法阻止雄鹿队，而雄鹿队在中场还不到5分。一分钟后，来自密尔沃基的4分跑动迫使开拓者暂停。他们以3:30的上篮领先，而开拓者则一个接一个地错失了空位投篮。雄鹿队又一次错失射门，又一次轻松射门，使他们领先三分。

根据埃利亚斯体育局的说法，这是密尔沃基队全年的第一次领先。
大卫·德卡德

莫·威廉姆斯再次活跃起来，尽管他把开拓者队带回来了，而整夜错失射门的利拉德，最后一场三分制的比赛让开拓者领先。

波特兰75，密尔沃基72

莫达中心的观众听起来很低水平的愤怒。
戴夫·德卡德

第四节：密尔沃基花了两分钟半的时间才从垂死的开拓者手中领先。很快他们以三人领先，观众感觉很像今晚游戏日帖子中的戴夫。

观看这场比赛就像是在凌晨3点出现在Craigslist上安排的一次相亲。
戴夫·德卡德（Dave Deckard）

“天啊，我希望结果会是……哦，奥乌！不！出口在哪里？！”
戴夫·德卡德

然而，开拓者队连续两次三分领先。然后投篮停止了，雄鹿队在还剩4分钟的时候领先一分。观众听到了呻吟声，尤其是开拓者队对“高质量投篮”的评价。新婚之夜的新娘们比今晚波特兰队的防守更具抵抗力。
大卫·德卡德

波特兰队在还剩3分钟时以一球领先，但两支球队都无法转换。在错过了整晚比赛后，利拉德在洛佩兹的屏幕上打出了三分，并以四分领先。雄鹿队打出了一个罚球，在莫的三次绝望失误后，利拉德的一次犯规使雄鹿队在比赛还剩一分钟的时候站到了底线。他们错过了第二个三局，但抢到了篮板，在还剩48秒的时候扳平了比分。不出所料，开拓者队错过了一次跳投。。。但洛佩兹透露了。或者我们是这么想的，因为重赛显示了进攻性干扰，没有篮筐。

雄鹿队在还剩35秒的情况下取得了胜利。莫言犯规了塞申斯，他在还剩18秒的时候击中了雄鹿队领先的两个球中的一个。里拉德没有上篮，开拓者被迫犯规。塞申斯投了一个罚球，雄鹿队领先三分。在比赛的另一端，利拉德在还剩5秒的时候，奋力冲向平局，上篮时几乎没有上篮。雷蒙·塞申斯有一次三分的尝试，但结果糟糕透顶，开拓者队在主场加时迎战NBA最差的球队。

这是你永远不想结束的经典比赛之一。加时赛。
莫蒂默

加时赛：波特兰领先四分，并迅速放弃了一个三分球。波特兰队丢了三分，雄鹿队领先。但是马修斯在ot被犯规时进球了her end. On the next possession, Matthews stole a lazy pass, behind-the-back to Lillard, DUNK. Six point Blazer lead with 2 minutes left. The Bucks cut it to 4 with 1:30 left, so Matthews stepped back for three. Swish for a 7 point lead. The Bucks scored and got the ball back, down by 5 with 30 seconds left. But they turned over the inbound pass, and after a long, long night, it was all over except for-- oh, the Blazers promptly gave up a three-pointer and nearly turned over the inbound pass.

Are the Blazers TRYING to lose this?
by Dave Deckard

Nonetheless, the Blazers had the ball with 16 seconds left, up by 4. They hit free throws, then promptly gave up an open three-pointer at the other end. Cue Dave above. Nonetheless, the Blazers held on for what was arguably their worst win of the season.

What's Next:

A day off for the Blazers to re-evaluate themselves, then a big game, Blazer's Edge Night on Thursday against the Wizards

Stay tuned for more tonight from Chris and Ben!

Gameday Thread Comments of the Night:

Thanks to everyone who participated in tonight's Gameday Thread! As always, here are the most popular comments, based on the number of Rec's from their fellow fans:

# Recs	Commenter	Comment Link
5	SlickRick1987	His brief stint with the Rockets paid him dividends
5	Corvid	Oh deer, people are breaking out the bad puns . . .
4	Dave Deckard	According to Elias Sports Bureau
4	Timmay!	Meyers LOLnard.
4	Timmay!	THESAURUS ALERT
3	Corvid	Go Portland Trail Blazers!!!
3	KingWes	Go Trail Blazers!!
3	williamswonder	Go Your Portland Trail Blazers!!!!
2	KingLamarcus	It's kind of funny to have a player as bad as Meyers Leonard though.
2	Dave Deckard	I will be passed out
2	Dave Deckard	What you doing
2	KingWes	Oh my god Meyers Leonard is the worst basketball player in the NBA
2	Timmay!	It's not the PA's best night either.
2	KingWes	D'oh!
2	KingWes	Bucks "on tap"
2	KingWes	No. They. Didn't.
2	bustabucket	Go Blazers!
2	mittsabishy	Le-mey
2	occassia	Sounds disdainful...
2	Tyler Durrden	I will smash my face right through my fist so hard I won't even know what hit me!!!
2	Timmay!	I love Meyers' outlet passes.

//www.chasebar.com/2014/3/18/5520234/final-bucks-blazers 蒂姆梅！ 2014-03-18T20:03:44-07:00 2014-03-18T20:03:44-07:00

欢迎来到开拓者边缘的游戏日开放线程！这是一个和你的粉丝们一起出去玩和享受今晚庆祝活动的地方。把它当作你在当地的水坑看比赛，但希望没有语言。预计会有一些分歧，以及相当数量的情绪变化。但是我们会一起度过难关的。

看：CSN NW | NBA联赛传球
听：NBA音频联赛通行证620am
链接：媒体笔记="//www.chasebar.com/2013/10/29/5044302/the-2013-guide-to-watching-the-blazers-on-tv-and-online“target=”new“>查看指南推特上的更新

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伤害：拉马库斯·阿尔德里奇（背部挫伤）已经出局，而乔尔·弗里兰（膝盖）至少在常规赛的剩余时间里仍然出局。

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通常的比赛日线程规则适用：

1。禁止骂人
2。没有图片
3。没有讨论未经许可的互联网流媒体
4。彼此保持冷静

出去玩，享受游戏吧！——提姆

//www.chasebar.com/2014/3/18/5520206/gameday-thread-bucks-vs-blazers 蒂姆梅！ 2014-03-18T17:30:02-07:00 2014-03-18T17:30:02-07:00

欢迎来到开拓者边缘的游戏日开放线程！这是一个和你的粉丝们一起出去玩和享受今晚庆祝活动的地方。把它当作你在当地的水坑看比赛，但希望没有语言。预计会有一些分歧，以及相当数量的情绪变化。但我们会一起度过难关。

比赛时间：7:00 pm
观看：CSN NW | NBA联赛通行证
收听：NBA音频联赛通行证620am
链接：媒体笔记查看指南推特上的更新

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伤害：拉马库斯·阿尔德里奇（背部挫伤）已经出局，而乔尔·弗里兰（膝盖）至少在常规赛的剩余时间里仍然出局。

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通常的比赛日线程规则适用：

1。禁止骂人
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3。没有讨论未经许可的互联网流媒体
4。彼此保持冷静

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