The San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers are playing on the NBA playoffs schedule on Saturday night and the game starts up past 10:30 pm ET for the team in Game 3 and it will be streaming from ABC on the WatchESPN website from ESPN with the series 2-0 in favor of the Spurs and they have been dominant so far against the Blazers and this matchup will be at the Moda Center.
Portland dropped the first two games on the road in San Antonio and that puts the series in favor of the Spurs, as only 16 teams have come back from that deficit and the last time that happened was last year when the Grizzlies did it to the Los Angeles Clippers. The Moda Center has been a good venue for the Blazers this year and now they have the chance to take back some momentum from the Spurs at home and they really need this game to make it a series, as teams down 2-0 have lost over 90 percent of the time and the odds do not seem to be in the favor of the Blazers even after their heroics from Damian Lillard in the last series with the Houston Rockets.
The Spurs come into the game after the dominating matchup against the Blazers and Kawhi Leonard led the game with 20 points and Tiago Splitter had 10 rebounds, while Tony Parker had 10 assists and now those names will be asked to step up once again. The Spurs were one of the best teams in the league on both sides of the ball and they came in ranked sixth from the regular season in points allowed and points scored and now the Blazers will have to play their style in the matchup on Saturday night.
The Blazers won five in a row coming into the playoffs and after taking down the Rockets in six games they fell in the first two to the Spurs and so far LaMarcus Aldridge is leading the team in scoring through the postseason. Aldridge as broken out and he had back to back 40 point games in the first series and he led the team in scoring in Game 1 and was tops in rebounds in the last game and he will need to be back to that for the Blazers to make this a series and get it to 2-1. The Spurs are looking to get back to the finals after losing to the Miami Heat last season and now they have the chance to make quick work against the Blazers if they can get this win.
