{"id":527928,"date":"2026-01-10T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/527928\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:46:12","slug":"ime-udoka-makes-salty-postgame-remarks-following-blazers-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/527928\/","title":{"rendered":"Ime Udoka Makes Salty Postgame Remarks Following Blazers Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After beating the Houston Rockets twice in four nights, the Portland Trail Blazers remain undefeated in 2026. The Blazers have won five in a row for the first time since May 2022. seven of their last eight contests. Even after back-to-back losses to Portland, the run isn\u2019t enough to earn the respect of Houston\u2019s head coach, Ime Udoka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Having just witnessed a herculean effort by a team of emerging players just daring to dream of what their season could become. Udoka gave the Blazers no praise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In post game comments to reporters, the Houston head coach fiercely ripped his team, saying:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201dYou took a 37 year old out of the game for 2 minutes and you lose a 13 point lead &#8211; 11-0 run. Don\u2019t play with any aggression, confidence. Mentally weak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers and Rockets will resume this budding rivalry March 6 in Houston. You know Udoka and company will be itching for revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After beating the Houston Rockets twice in four nights, the Portland Trail Blazers remain undefeated in 2026. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,37660,292,194,4066,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-527928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers-news","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-houstonrockets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115873001393134664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}