<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class="bi">New Attitude</div> <div> <span style="font-style: italic">Nov 7</span> - The winless Trail Blazers increased their intensity and furor during two passionate practices this week, intent on erasing a disastrous season-opening trip that tempered high expectations.</p> </p> Practice was so heated Monday that players were on the verge of brawling on more than one occasion. Expect the motivated Blazers, if nothing else, to come out in similar fashion tonight -- trying to smack the New Orleans Hornets in the mouth when they make their Rose Garden debut.</p> </p> "We haven't been punching first and we have to punch first, right out of the gate," small forward Martell Webster said. "In the first 20 seconds of the game, the other team will know how we are coming out to play and that we are going to keep it up the whole game. That's very important and crucial." -- <font color="#000000">The Oregonian</font></p></div></div>
