{"id":704070,"date":"2026-04-07T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704070\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:42:05","slug":"what-the-blazers-learned-from-getting-schooled-by-the-nuggets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704070\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Blazers Learned from Getting &#8216;Schooled&#8217; by the Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers are learning a valuable lesson after their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/trailblazers\/onsi\/news\/portland-trail-blazers-drop-ot-heartbreaker-nuggets-fall-behind-clippers-west-standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overtime loss against the Denver Nuggets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Portland didn&#8217;t just lose a 16-point lead in the fourth quarter, they witnessed the clinical efficiency of a team that doesn&#8217;t panic. Following the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/blazers\/2026\/04\/we-just-got-schooled-blazers-stunned-with-mile-high-misery.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blazers acting head coach Tiago Splitter didn&#8217;t mince words<\/a> about the gap between a rising roster and a finished product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them at halftime they\u2019re going to come back, they\u2019re going to make a run,\u201d Splitter said h\/t The Oregonian&#8217;s Joe Freeman. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very experienced, vet team that has been in this situation 100 times or more. So, yes, it\u2019s a learning experience. We\u2019re going to have those games coming up \u2014 the Clippers, San Antonio, Sac, and then the play-in \u2014 and we\u2019ve got to finish those games. This is where you learn from it. We just got schooled by one of, if not the, best team in the NBA right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How the Blazers Got &#8216;Schooled&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers are learning a valuable lesson after their overtime loss against the Denver Nuggets. Portland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-704070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116365606493686163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704070","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=704070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}