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Sean Highkin: Scoot on his fit with Dame: "I've been playing off the ball more. It'll be special to see how that pans out. Dame was one of my favorite players growing up. I used to play 2K and have 50 or 60 with him. It'll be special for Rip City to see that."
Sean Highkin: Scoot Henderson on Tiago Splitter: "He was amazing. Having to be put in that role and lead a team to the playoffs, it was special that a former player took that role and didn't second-guess it. He stepped up and put his chest out."
Sean Highkin: Jrue Holiday on Scoot Henderson: "I think when Scoot got comfortable, you saw what he's capable of and that's the tip of the iceberg. Him getting a full season of being healthy ... I think he has a bright future."
Sean Highkin: Scoot Henderson on the Spurs saying after Game 2 that they’re going to be more physical with him: “The playoffs is a game of adjustments. They’re going to make adjustments but we’re also going to make adjustments.”
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Scoot Henderson’s 31-point performance added another layer of difficulty for San Antonio’s defense, though Fox avoided framing it as an outlier. “He’s going to come out and shoot like that,” Fox said. “If he’s got to get 30 and they win by three, I think we’re in a decent spot.” The Spurs’ defensive approach also included stretches of physical perimeter coverage, which Fox believes should be consistent across both teams. “If they’re going to be officiated and let them be physical, just let us be physical back,” he said.
He started only 10 of the 30 games he was able to play in this season. All of which made his eruption for 31 points in Tuesday's game so remarkable as Henderson did not score 30 points in any of his regular-season games. "I don't know if I have words for it," Trail Blazers coach Tiago Splitter said. "That was the best game of the season for him, maybe his career. To have a game like that in playoffs against a great team like the Spurs, it's something else. Not just offensively, but defensively. He carried us, scored when we needed, got stops and really won a game for us."
Sean Highkin: Tiago Splitter on Scoot Henderson: “I don’t know if I have the words. Best game for him this season, maybe his career. He carried us.”
Sean Highkin: Scoot Henderson on Game 3: “Man, I already know Rip City gonna be turnt. Even if we were down 2-0 they’d be cheering us like we were up 2-0.”
Casey Holdahl: The Blazers rally from a double-digit, fourth-quarter deficit YET AGAIN to defeat the Spurs 106-103 to even the series 1-1 heading back to Portland. They've gone from a team that couldn't win in that scenario to one that seemingly can't lose.
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Scoot: "I feel like sometimes we can stop some of those (runs) for sure with (Wemby) on the floor, without him on the floor. We just gotta be more aggressive. I'm telling everybody hit him, hit everybody. If they rolling down hit him. I think that's something that we gotta continue to do in this series"
“I never felt bad for myself,” Henderson told Andscape on April 10. “Even when [the injury] happened, I’m like, ‘I ain’t going to feel bad for myself.’ I just started laughing. I’m like, ‘All right. I see what’s happening. I see what the man above wants me to go through.’ I accepted it right when it happened. I’m into a different mode now. I’m at the recovery mode. I’m getting back healthy. … “Honestly, I’ve been through so many ups and downs in my basketball and life in general that the only way you can kind of get over something is you don’t try to cry about it or whine about it. You can think about it and be sad for a little second, but at the end of the day, nobody cares. And that’s how I felt. Nobody cares gives a [expletive]. I just went out there and I was like, ‘I don’t care either. I’m going to bust my a–, work hard. I come back as fast as I can.’”
“I got through it from the man above and my family supporting me and keeping my dream alive knowing my goal is to continue to try to dominate,” Henderson said. “That just made me keep going every day. It wasn’t easy having treatment and all the [physical therapy]. But I know that was going to help me in the long run, so I did it.”
