"Teams are going to make adjustments to how we are playing," Garnett said. "Our style of defense, teams aren't necessarily figuring it out but they are making adjustments to that." Oh, yeah, there certainly was discussion among "The Big Three" about the confused referees who called a technical but still allowed a Portland basket to count late in the second quarter despite six Trail Blazers being on the floor. "It's one of the worst games of officiating I've seen in a while," Garnett said. Said Pierce, "I've never seen anything like it. I still don't understand why they counted the bucket." When things are good, "The Big Three" have quick postgame talks. But on the rare occasion when things are bad, like Tuesday, Allen, Garnett, and Pierce are the last three players to leave the locker room. "When you win, you don't even have to talk about the game," Allen said. "You just go in the back and you relax. You're chillin' after spending a hard day's work and having a little something to eat. But when you lose, that's what we do, we sit back and talk it out. "Any time we've lost it's the same because we take losing hard. When we talk about what went wrong, we can talk about the same thing every conversation. Any team that loses, loses the same way. Teams win the same way every time. It's the same stuff. "Whatever weaknesses we have we kind of put that as far back in the locker room as we can and just take care of the good stuff." One thing "The Big Three" have determined is that with the NBA's best record, it would be foolish to panic. "We're good. It's unfortunate, though," Garnett said. "We are not a perfect team. We are a team that is a work in progress and we are going to continue to be that. We have a lot of room to improve and it shows. It's not the end of the world. But we'll reevaluate and get back home, get back in the gym, and get back to work like we usually do." Said Allen, "I don't put much on [the losing]. Experience tells you that you're not as good as you think you are. You're not that far from being bad. But when you're bad, you're not that far from being good. You just have to find a way to improve on the things you've been doing. We can't get down on ourselves." We just always have to have each other's back," Allen said. "We talk it out. We care about winning. That's how we like to look at it. We like to talk it out." --

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