New Orleans destroyed the Trail Blazers in Game 3. No team has ever come back from down 3-0.
The Trail Blazers lost the first two games of their first-round series to a supposed lesser opponent on their own home floor. Portland’s urgency level was supposed to be a 15 out of 10, especially hitting the road for Game 3. It wasn’t.
Instead, the Pelicans punched the Blazers in the mouth, repeatedly. They blasted the Trail Blazers, defending home floor for a convincing 119-102 win to seize a fatal 3-0 series lead.