Agreed, both play slow, and play well slow. The Trail Blazers are a lot slower though than even Houston, but neither is equipped with the personnel to score baskets efficiently on the fastbreak. Maybe fastbreak 3's (from Rudy, or a heat-checking Artest), but that's about it. Pace matters more when a team cannot play at a certain style, in a series. For example, pace matters more in an Orlando-Philadelphia matchup. Orlando prefers to play fast, but they can isolate with Turkoglu, or with Howard, and beat Philly too. Philly cannot play slow.
