His first justification for the score was:
Everything starts on offense with LaMarcus Aldridge (17.5 pts) as Portland always works it inside-out …

WHAT? LA usually turns to the fadeaway jumper, oden rarely gets the ball. We work outside-out.

We regularly dig ourselves a big hole in the first quarter and the first half of the second quarter. We come out hesitant on offense and we lack intensity on defense. We are just kind of standing around trying to figure out what to do. After everyone gets warmed up and into the flow of the game we play fine (except for a couple players D), but by then we are often way behind.

We need to figure out how to come in and play good ball right from the tip.