Portland Trail Blazers vs San Antonio Spurs Watch FREE: NBA PLAYOFFS Live Streaming Online From the AT & T Center at 9:30 PM ET

It took all of four minutes for the playoff-tested Spurs to deliver a message to the up-and-coming Trail Blazers.

Tony Parker was on the attack, the Spurs defense was swarming and it was 10-2 before the Blazers even knew what hit them. The onslaught kept coming in that first quarter, which made one thing abundantly clear to the new kids on the block from the Northwest -- they're not in Houston anymore.

After feasting on the Rockets' porous perimeter defense in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, the Blazers appeared to be caught off guard when they stepped up in class to face the Spurs in Game 1 of the semifinals, their first appearance beyond the first round since 2000.

"That," said Damian Lillard, Portland's 23-year-old point guard, "is a championship team."

The Spurs led by 13 after the first quarter and 26 at halftime. By the time Lillard, Aldridge and the rest of the Blazers got their bearings, it was too late and the Spurs cruised to a 116-92 victory.

What the Blazers learned in Game 1 is that all those uncontested 3-pointers that were there for the taking against the Rockets, all those free passes to the basket in transition that helped them erase big deficits in the blink of an eye, are going to be much harder to come by against the Spurs.

Game 2 is Thursday night in San Antonio, and if the Blazers are going to make this a series, they have to regroup quickly and respond against a much better opponent than the one they faced in the first round.

"The key tomorrow is just match their energy," Parker said after practice Wednesday. "They're going to come back and they're going to be very motivated. The way we handle the win, that's going to make the difference for us."

The game will be live streamed on espn2/watchespn