Tim Legler

My guilty pleasure team in the West.

When they're on, it's kind of like how I feel about Charlotte in the East.

I just enjoy watching them.

They're just so fun.

Yeah, you don't even have to feel guilty about it.

They're mainstream pleasure now.

Portland's the new guilty one.

You don't have to secretly watch them.

That's very true.

But it showed you those two games, the Denver game and then the one that I called last night against San Antonio, who, by the way, didn't have Wemby, didn't have Stephon Castle, who's one of the elite perimeter defensive guards in the league.

The difference between those two teams defensively, Denver and San Antonio, because like nothing really came easy for Portland in this game.

They had a couple of pockets of time where they kind of look like themselves in the regular season.

But overall, there was just very little space to be had against the Spurs.

And the one thing, and they didn't play as well as they can offensively.

It was amazing.

San Antonio had a very difficult time ending the game.

They go up 12-14.

Then it was eight.

And you're like, okay, if Portland gets a couple stops here, this is going to get interesting.

And they couldn't do that.