Charlotte: Wesley Matthews said he had a funny feeling on the way to the arena that his shooting slump might be coming to end.Call it a shooter’s instinct.
Matthews scored a season-high 28 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the<\/p>\n
Charlotte Hornets 105-97 on Wednesday night for their ninth consecutive victory. The fifth-year NBA veteran was 10 of 15 from the field and 6 of 9 from 3-point range as Portland (12-3) improved to 7-0 against Eastern Conference teams.<\/p>\n
Over the previous five games, Matthews was 25 of 57 from the field and just 8 of 25 from 3-point range.Matthews said he never put pressure on himself during that stretch.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers have been getting production from up and down the lineup and that continued against Charlotte.<\/p>\n
Even with LaMarcus Aldridge struggling through a 3-of-18 shooting night, the Trail Blazers prevailed, getting 22 points from Damian Lillard and 15 points and 10 rebounds from Robin Lopez.
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Brian Roberts had a career-high 24 points for the Hornets, who have lost seven straight and nine of 10. Al Jefferson had 21 points and 14 rebounds for his fifth double-double.<\/p>\n
The Hornets led 56-45 at the break behind Roberts, who made his first six shots and had 15 points.Portland outscored Charlotte 34-20 in the third quarter and took the lead for good with 4:07 left in the period when Lopez scored on a layup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charlotte: Wesley Matthews said he had a funny feeling on the way to the arena that his shooting slump might be coming to end.Call it a shooter’s instinct.
Matthews scored a season-high 28 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the<\/p>\n
Charlotte Hornets 105-97 on Wednesday night for their ninth consecutive victory. The fifth-year NBA veteran was 10 of 15 from the field and 6 of 9 from 3-point range as Portland (12-3) improved to 7-0 against Eastern Conference teams.<\/p>\n
Over the previous five games, Matthews was 25 of 57 from the field and just 8 of 25 from 3-point range.Matthews said he never put pressure on himself during that stretch.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers have been getting production from up and down the lineup and that continued against Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world-basketball-news"],"yoast_head":"\n