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On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• Portland blowing out the Nets and Bucks before losing to the Mavericks

• Finishing a four-game homestand with another blowout victory, this time versus the Wizards

• Big games for Toumani Camara and Scoot Henderson

• Tiago Splitter saying that Tuesday's game versus the Clippers is "the most important game of the season"

• Not only standings but tiebreakers are up for grabs in Tuesday's game versus the Clippers

• The current status of the race for position in the play-in tournament and how it very well might not be decided until the last day of the regular season

• Moving up into eighth would be great, but the Blazers also have to be concerned dropping down to tenth

• Breaking the remaining scheduled for the Clippers, Warriors and Trail Blazers

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On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers holding on to beat the Pacers in Indianapolis on Wednesday

• Donovan Clingan gets a new career high in scoring and Deni Avdija returns to form

• Portland's bad habit of letting teams back into games

• The Trail Blazers getting one of their better wins of 2026 Friday night versus the Timberwolves in Minneapolis

• Jerami Grant saves the day in the final minutes of the fourth quarter

• Jrue Holiday just keeps turning in great yet quiet performances

• The Trail Blazers are now in eighth in the Western Conference standings with 11 games to play

• The difference between getting the seven/eight matchup versus the nine/ten matchup in the play-in tournament

• Donovan Clingan's elite performance since the All-Star break

• How Clingan leading the league in offensive rebound is integral to the Trail Blazers offense

• Clingan is arguably the best player from his draft class and is already one of the NBA's best centers

• Trail Blazers wrapping up a five-game trip Sunday afternoon in Denver (it's a 2 p.m. tipoff in Portland) before playing the second game of a back-to-back versus the Nets Monday night at Moda Center

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On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers getting a five-game road trip off to a disappoint start with a loss to the 76ers in Philadelphia

• Turnovers are an issue yet again

• If neither team is playing well, the home team is usually going to win

• Taking a bus from Philadelphia to Manhattan

• Portland bouncing back with a blowout victory versus the Nets in Brooklyn

• Blazers lead by as many as 31 (good), give up a 16-0 run (bad) but do enough to get the comfortable win (good)

• Jrue Holiday the cooler

• Deni Avdija has fans everywhere, but it was on a different level Monday night in Brooklyn

• Kris Murray backs up Donovan Clingan at center

• Toumani Camara shakes off a tough game in Philly to play one of his best this season in Brooklyn

• The Trail Blazers remain a half game behind the Warriors in the race to host a play-in game

• The trip moves on to Indianapolis on Wednesday, Minneapolis on Friday and wraps up in Denver on Sunday