"It's all 'I haven't even tried hard, how come you've already fallen?' By the fourth quarter, there is basically no suspense about the outcome, only the game against the Knight made us break a sweat,"
Initially, the Trail Blazers were all tensed up, but to their surprise, they breezily made it through the first Eastern away trip of December.
However, during the post-game summary, Shalov rated the team's performance and shook his head in the locker room, saying: "Actually, our play wasn't good, we had more turnovers than in November, shooting percentage was lower than in November, assists, rebounds and other stats all clearly declined. Average points scored and shooting percentage have dropped significantly, and the games weren't played out that well either."
John Wetzell said: "But we won, and quite easily at that."
