Trail Blazers vs Kings Tuesday, 03/09/10 AT 07:00PM

Trail Blazers Beat Kings In Back-And-Forth Battle

03/09/10

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    Brandon Roy scored 19 points and hit a clinching jumper with just over two minutes left, leading the Portland Trail Blazers to an 88-81 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night.

    The Kings pulled to a 74-all tie in the final quarter, but Roy's jumper with 2:07 remaining made it 85-78 and all but sealed it for the Blazers, who have won five straight against the Kings.

    “We had a couple leads there but we didn’t do a good job of putting them away," said Roy. "We let them start the fourth quarter with a 10-0 run. We can’t let them start quarters like that and we’ve just got to do a better job of putting them away.”

    Tyreke Evans had 18 points for the Kings, who have lost three straight overall. Carl Landry finished with 17 points and eight rebounds.

    Roy added eight rebounds for Portland. Nicolas Batum and Andre Miller each scored 14 points.

    Marcus Camby returned after sitting out the Blazers' last game, a 118-106 loss at Denver, with a sprained left ankle. He finished the game with 6 points, 8 rebounds and 5 blocks while steadying the Trail Blazers defense late in the game.

    “I thought (Camby) was huge," said coach Nate McMillan. "We don’t win the game tonight if he doesn’t make some of the plays he made. He had a baseline jumpshot, he had two blocks. He got on the floor for a loose ball on the defensive end of the floor, which I thought gave us some life. Those were big plays. We got some stops and enough stops to score some baskets and eventually get control of this game and put it away.”

    Portland acquired Camby in a trade with the Clippers last month to help Juwan Howard at center in the absence of Greg Oden and Joel Przybilla. The Trail Blazers lost both their big men to knee injuries earlier this season.

    Portland opened the fourth quarter with a 73-62 lead, but Francisco Garcia hit a 3-pointer to touch off a 10-0 run capped by Evans' layup that closed the Kings to 73-72.

    Jason Thompson's layup tied it at 74, but Camby made an 18-foot jumper to keep Sacramento at bay.

    Miller's falling-down jumper put the Blazers up 81-76, before Landry hit a pair of free throws to make it 81-78 with 3:35 left. After Batum hit a layup, Roy made his jumper and Portland pulled away.

     “We didn’t dominate this game like we wanted to come out, but we’ll take the win," said Roy. We’ve got to continue to improve. I thought our defense got better, but offensively, we weren’t very good tonight.”
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