Throughout the first two games the Portland Trail Blazers plan has been to get the ball inside to Rasheed Wallace.  So far the players have failed to listen to coach Maurice Cheeks? instructions, instead settling for jumpshot after jumpshot as the team dropped the opening two games to the defending two-time Champion Lakers.

"Jump shot after jump shot," Cheeks told the Oregonian newspaper. "For three days [between Games 1 and 2], we practiced posting up, then the day comes for us to actually do it and we don't do it. We shoot jump shots. That part is puzzling to me."

The team has made 62 of 162 shots (38.3%) with Bonzi Wells and Damon Stoudamire being the biggest factors.  Wells is seven for 23 in the first two games of the series and Stoudamire is two for 15.

"They have had wide-open shots, but they just haven't made them," Cheeks said. "All you can do is keep putting the ball in their hands and keep letting them take the same shots."