The Houston Rockets will try to even their Western Conference quarterfinal series with the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night when the teams play Game 2 at the Toyota Center. Cheap Jerseys UK . Portland snatched Game 1, 122-120, in overtime on Sunday night in Houston thanks to amazing heroics from its two All-Stars. Damian Lillard finished with 31 points, nine rebounds and five assists and LaMarcus Aldridge turned in a monster performance with 46 points and 18 rebounds before fouling out in the extra session. Aldridges 46 points set a Blazers franchise record for points in a postseason game. Down nine with less than five minutes to go in regulation, the Blazers employed the "hack-a-Howard" strategy. Dwight Howard, a 54.7-percent foul shooter, made his first two attempts, but missed the next four as the Blazers rallied with the next 11 points to tie the game on Aldridges two from the line with 2:46 left. James Harden got a tough jumper to fall just inside the final minute of regulation for a 102-99 lead and Aldridge cut it to one with a pair of free throws 13 seconds later. Jeremy Lin missed a runner on the other end, but Howard grabbed the rebound and was fouled. This time, Howard came through for his team and knocked down both free throws for a 104-101 edge. Lillard, however, buried a game-tying trey. On the inbounds pass, Lillard ran his defender Patrick Beverley into a brutal screen which sent him to the deck. Lillard then got Terrance Jones to bite on a pump fake before knocking down the triple. After Harden made it 106-104 with seven seconds left, Wesley Matthews attempted a three from the time out, but it drew iron. Lillard was there for the rebound, but his tip-in didnt fall. Aldridge, though, cleaned up that miss and tied the game again with 2.9 seconds left. Harden couldnt get a tough look from the corner to go as the horn sounded, sending the game into overtime. The Rockets scored the first six points of the bonus period thanks to three- point plays from Howard and Lin. Aldridge and Nicolas Batum, though, hit back- to-back treys and Matthews knocked down two free throws to give the Blazers their first lead since late in the first half. The teams traded blows until Lin blew by his defender and got a layup to fall for a 118-116 lead with 53 seconds left. Lillard, however, used a three-point play on the ensuing trip to put Portland in front. Garcia and Howard split from the stripe before Lillard made the go-ahead free throws. "That was a tremendous game. Obviously when we fouled Dwight he missed some of the free throws, that was a turning point," said Blazers coach Terry Stotts. "They came out and scored the first six in OT, but we responded. We had to win one here, we did it, but were not satisfied. Tonight is behind us, we have to keep going." Howard and Harden both finished with 27 points while Howard pulled down 15 rebounds. Chandler Parsons added 24 and Lin chipped in 14 off the bench. Jones registered a double-double with 12 points and 13 boards. Beverley injured his knee, but it wasnt as bad as originally diagnosed. Hes expected to play Wednesday night. "Woke up at home, tried to put some weight on it, felt good. Squatted and felt good, one-legged jump felt good," said Beverley. "I did this all at home. I just have an ability to heal quicker than others I guess." Game 3 will be Friday night in Portland. Cheap NFL Jerseys UK . It was hard for Luck to pull off another comeback, or even get into the end zone, while standing on the sideline. Rivers threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to rookie Keenan Allen and Nick Novak kicked four field goals to give the Chargers a 19-9 victory against the Colts on Monday night. Cheap NFL Jerseys . Japans 22-year-old Kei Nishikori justified his No. 4 seeding, beating Victor Hanescu of Romania 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 to reach the last eight. No. 6 Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland also made the quarterfinals, winning 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 over Benoit Paire of France.OKLAHOMA CITY -- As Manu Ginobili was finishing up his answer to a reporters question, Tony Parker walked up behind him, put both hands on his shoulders and provided his teammate an escape. "Great job, Manu," Parker said, having heard hardly a word of Ginobilis five-minute, question-and-answer session. After losing for the first time since mid-April, it was time for the San Antonio Spurs to face an entirely different set of questions Friday with their Western Conference finals lead over Oklahoma City cut to 2-1. No longer was the talk about whether the Spurs -- riding a 20-game winning streak less than 24 hours earlier -- were invincible. It was about how San Antonio could regroup following a 102-82 blowout loss in time to face Game 4 in Oklahoma City on Saturday night. "Usually its easier to refocus after a loss than after a win. Players usually have a tendency after winning a few games to relax or feel complacent. In the past, weve reacted really well to wins. Well see now how we do against losses," said Ginobili, held to eight points in Game 3 after totalling 46 through the first two games. "Even if we react well, its a tough place to win and they are a great team." The Thunder limited the output of San Antonios best backcourt players by deploying 6-foot-7 Thabo Sefolosha to use his five-inch height advantage and wingspan to corral Parker, and by changing up their defence on the Spurs pick-and-roll attack. Oklahoma City players who had been guarding the ball frequently switched to defend the screener, and vice versa. After scoring a post-season-best 120 points in Game 2 and averaging 109.4 during the winning streak, San Antonio was held to a season-low 82 points in Game 3. "Theyre doing a lot of switching. Theyre doing a lot of those, so theyre ending up with a lot of different guys on a lot of different guys," Spurs star Tim Duncan said. "Were going to have to take advantage of that. Weve got to use the mismatches that we get from that, and Tony and Manu will be expecting those kind of switches and understand that they have to attack it a different way. "Their length and their size and their athleticism is a huge advantage for them, so were going to have to move their bodies and move the ball and use our passing to kind of neutralize that a little bit." Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks refused to pinpoint any of his adjustments as the difference-maker in what could be a momentum-changing win. He put more emphasis on his players giving maximum effort and executing all of the defensive plans. The changes bore some similarities to the previous round, when he used Sefolosha, JJames Harden and even the nearly 7-foot Kevin Durant to mix up his defence on Kobe Bryant. Cheap Jerseys. Sefolosha made a big splash early in Game 3, recording four steals in the first 3 minutes, and finished with 19 points and six steals -- both the best of his career. "Its always good to have everybody taking cracks at the good players," Brooks said. "You cant have one guy on a great player to give him the same coverage. Theyre going to tear that apart. ... Ginobili and Parker are the best penetrating decision-makers in the league and they do it where you dont think that they have opportunities to score or to pass, and they make those passes every time." The changes got the Spurs out of that free-flowing offensive game, and Ginobili and Parker both suggested that San Antonio ended up playing too much one-on-one and without enough aggression. "There are some ways to try to make them pay a little bit more, so hopefully we find them and we have a clearer mind to read the situations better," Ginobili said. As San Antonios streak kept growing -- eventually becoming the longest ever to carry over into the playoffs -- players frequently said it wasnt their focus. But now that its over, theyd prefer if it was still going on. "Everybody wants to win every game. Thats what you try to do: You try to win," coach Gregg Popovich said. "They played great and they had a lot to do with us playing poorly, but nobody wants to lose a game in the playoffs. You try to win every game." Popovich said he thought Oklahoma City had played as though their season was on the line in Game 3. Durant said the Thunder "knew what was at stake, but we werent desperate." "We just played harder," the three-time NBA scoring champion said. "We were there for each other, we covered for each other on the pick-and-roll. ... We didnt really make a huge adjustment." The Thunder still face the task of winning three out of the next four against a team that hadnt lost since April 11. "Theyre a great team. They won 20 games (in a row). Theyre not going to push the panic button after one loss," Brooks said. With a win Saturday night, the Spurs would put Oklahoma City in a 3-1 hole that only eight teams in NBA history have overcome. "In every sport in every country of the world, when you win everything is great and you were almost perfect. When you lose, you start hearing critics," Ginobili said. "Its how the world is run and how it works. We knew and Pop was adamant in showing us that we were making mistakes, even when we were winning. But losing can happen." cheap jerseys cheap jerseys wholesale jerseys cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys Landon Donovan Jersey ' ' '