The Portland Trail Blazers will be at home, and that's a start.
Free from the Oracle Arena din, where delirious Golden State Warriors fans revel in triumphing over perceived vulnerability, the Blazers get a chance to steady themselves in Game 3 on Saturday.
Portland was 28-13 at home this season but just 16-25 on the road, with the latter representing the worst mark of any playoff team. To make this a series, the Blazers must hope their familiar confines produce better play, though their survival may depend just as much on foreign concepts.
The Blazers need to adjust, even if they're not talking that way.
"I think that you have to evaluate how much you actually want to change, because of the good basketball we played for a long stretch," Portland head coach Terry Stotts said after Game 2, per David MacKay of Blazer's Edge.
Leaning on the status quo will be tempting, particularly after Portland outplayed the Warriors for all but about six minutes of a 110-99 Game 2 loss.
Golden State blitzed the Blazers in the fourth quarter, and it will make its own tweaks, a ...
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