Well the NBA's first ever play in game is in the books and the Portland Trailblazers take it

126122 just an awesome game as every game including Portland seems to be in fact

John Schumann had the stat that eight of their nine games so far have been within three points in the last three minutes of the game

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So much to get to with this one we did it for international league pass that actually and stay tuned for potentially more

announcements on that sorry for you domestic people but for our international listeners

It was a push to be able to have you guys join us for that so

Let's start here from the Blazers perspective. It's basically been a nine game playoff run

That's what Terry Stott's likened it to after the game and I think what ultimately sealed it was CJ McCollum going to

Against John Moran at the end. Yeah, I mean we wondered how

Memphis was going to handle the dangerous guards of Portland

You know what where they were going to put John Moran in a particular

He's not the greatest at getting through screens and in some of those key moments

Yeah, they chose to put jaw on CJ McCollum and how he has thrived as a player is really

Making those tough shots at a higher rate than most and he really did that here 11 of 19 from the field a lot of them

Two's and really just getting to his spots. Yeah, particularly at the end

He attacked Barant and isolation three possessions in a row basically hit two threes on him

and then scored on him for a long two and just

Morant is really thin

CJ just has that strength that little push off move which is legal the high release on his jump shot and Morant could not do

Anything with him and he was trying to get to that jump shot

He hit three in a row got very good looks put him in the mix

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