Playoff winners and losers

[Minstrel]

I think the Blazers and Rockets were largely evenly matched. I think inexperience cost Portland game 1, and games 3 and 4 could have gone either way, but happened to go against Portland. Some of it may have been lack of poise, but most of it was probably just the nature of close games between evenly-matched teams.

Now that Portland has experienced playoff intensity, I don't anticipate that being an issue again.