"About 45 minutes before tipoff, Nate McMillan was grumbling about the Trail Blazers' lack of consistency, bemoaning their road woes and dissecting the fact that the lockout-shortened NBA schedule allows no practice time to fix any of the ailments.
Right about then, during his pregame meeting with reporters, someone asked the Blazers coach if he had any idea when his team would put it all together.
"I think we have a lot of work to do," McMillan responded.
It didn't look like it Friday night.
In their most complete and dominant performance of the season, the Blazers ran over, around and through the Phoenix Suns, winning 109-71 before a sellout crowd of 20,664 at the Rose Garden.
The 38-point blowout is the Blazers' largest win over the Suns in franchise history and was the Suns' third-worst loss ever. The Suns' 71 points were their fewest in franchise history.
It added up to one gigantic dose of revenge for the Blazers, who suffered their biggest loss of the season (102-77) earlier this month at Phoenix. "