NBA: PORTLAND (0-2) at HOUSTON (2-0) <h3>McGrady looks to continue red-hot start as Rockets host Blazers</h3> <div class="pre">Portland (0-2) at Houston (2-0) 8:30 pm EDT</div> HOUSTON (Ticker) -- The Houston Rockets are off to a nice start,but the Portland Trail Blazers are enduring the completeopposite. The Rockets look to remain undefeated when they host the youngTrail Blazers in a Western Conference matchup on Saturday. Superstar Tracy McGrady scored 47 points to off-set a dismalouting by Yao Ming as Houston coasted in Thursday's 106-95victory over the Utah Jazz. "There are a lot of opportunities for me on the offensive end,"McGrady said. "I can play off the ball and I can come offscreens. I can hide behind Yao sometimes. There are so manyways I can score in this offense. It's great." It has only been two games but McGrady is enjoying the offensivescheme of new coach Rick Adelman, who has seen the 6-8 forwardshoot 57 percent (27-of-47) from the field in the early going. Portland enters after suffering its second straight setback, a113-93 loss at the hands of the New Orleans Hornets on Fridaydespite 23 points from Brandon Roy. Blazers second-year big man LaMarcus Aldridge failed to backuphis 27-point performance in the season opener at San Antonio,<div class="pre">netting just eight points on 4-of-12 shooting in Friday's loss.</div> Houston and Portland split their four meetings last season, butthe Trail Blazers came away with an 85-78 triumph here on April6.
NBA: PORTLAND at HOUSTON <div class="pre">PORTLAND AT HOUSTON - PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS PORTLAND HOUSTON F Lamarcus Aldridge F Shane Battier F Martell Webster F Chuck Hayes C Joel Przybilla C Yao Ming G Brandon Roy G Tracy McGrady G Jarrett Jack G Rafer Alston OFFICIALS: Ken Mauer Scott Wall Zach Zarba</div>
NBA: PORTLAND at HOUSTON <div class="pre">NBA END 1ST QTR 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL --- --- --- --- ----- PORTLAND 12 12 HOUSTON 25 25 END 1ST QTR HIGH SCORERS AFTER 1ST QUARTER POR - JOEL PRZYBILLA 4, STEVE BLAKE 4, LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE 2 HOU - YAO MING 11, TRACY MCGRADY 9, MIKE JAMES 3</div>
NBA: PORTLAND at HOUSTON <div class="pre">NBA HALFTIME 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL --- --- --- --- ----- PORTLAND 12 19 31 HOUSTON 25 21 46 HALFTIME HIGH SCORERS AT HALFTIME POR - MARTELL WEBSTER 11, JOEL PRZYBILLA 6, LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE 6 HOU - TRACY MCGRADY 15, YAO MING 13, MIKE JAMES 6</div>
NBA: PORTLAND at HOUSTON <div class="pre">NBA END 3RD QTR 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL --- --- --- --- ----- PORTLAND 12 19 15 46 HOUSTON 25 21 16 62 END 3RD QTR HIGH SCORERS AFTER 3RD QUARTER POR - MARTELL WEBSTER 14, BRANDON ROY 10, LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE 10 HOU - TRACY MCGRADY 15, YAO MING 15, RAFER ALSTON 8</div>
