{"id":718191,"date":"2026-04-26T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/718191\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:09:09","slug":"blazers-vow-to-up-the-physicality-play-more-together-in-game-4-vs-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/718191\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers Vow to Up the Physicality, Play More Together in Game 4 vs Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Portland Trail Blazers suffered a deflating 110-98 defeat to the San Antonio Spurs Friday night at the Moda Center in Game 3 of the NBA Playoffs first round. With Game 4 fast approaching on Sunday afternoon, the Blazers will have to turn the page quickly if they want to even up the series at 2-2 before flying back to Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">About 12 hours after that crushing defeat, they were right back to work at the team practice facility in Tualatin on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe put the game behind us,\u201d Blazers All-Star Deni Avdija told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s one game. We watched film. We talked as a group. \u2026 Definitely, we understood that we got punched in the mouth yesterday, and we just gotta respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Along with Avdija, Blazers acting head coach Tiago Splitter and forward Toumani Camara spoke with media after practice. Here are some quick insights from the conversations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Game 4 is set to tip off on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers suffered a deflating 110-98 defeat to the San Antonio Spurs Friday night at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,28794,1617],"class_list":["post-718191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-practice-report","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116468577989692526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718191","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=718191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}