Here are three takeaways from the Lakers’ 100-93 loss to Portland in Tuesday’s first-round playoff opener in Orlando.

1 The Lakers were great defensively, holding Portland to its lowest point total in 10 games since the league resumed play.

But the problem, yet again, was the Lakers’ offense.

They were 21st out of 22 teams in scoring in the Bubble, and on Tuesday finished well below their already low average of 106.4 points.

The culprit was a now-familiar one to the Lakers’ Bubble struggles: Way too many missed three-pointers, many of which were open looks.

The Lakers were five of 32 from three-point range, a ragged 15.6 percent accuracy rate that won’t help their status as the NBA's worst shooting team since the league restart.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope continued to struggle, missing all five of his three-point shots (and all nine of his attempts overall). Anthony Davis missed all five of his shots behind the arc and Lebron James and Kyle Kuzma were each one for five.

There aren’t many quick solutions. Kuzma tried to provide one.

“You’ve got to erase your memory,” he said. “Keep shooting until you get hot.”

2. The biggest shot of the night came from, no surprise, Damien Lillard.

The Portland point guard continued his torrid run by hitting a 36-foot three-pointer with 3:13 to play, breaking an 89-89 tie and giving Portland the lead for good.

It wasn’t the 61-point effort he had last week against Dallas or even the 51 he scored before that against Philadelphia. But his 34 points gave the Trail Blazers their ninth win in the last 11 games.

The only Lakers player with any success against him defensively was reserve Alex Caruso, who held his own against the perennial All-Star.

But in the end, Lillard made more threes by himself (six) than the Lakers did all night.

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3. Strange night for Davis.

The numbers looked good — 28 points, 11 rebounds — but he missed 16 of 24 shots in his Lakers playoff debut and never found a rhythm other than at the free-throw line.

He missed eight of his first nine shots and finished a surprising minus-20 in the plus-minus category. He was particularly quiet in the fourth quarter, scoring only two points and taking only one rebound.

Davis had an uneven run in seven seeding games, scoring 42 points against Utah and 34 against the Clippers but was held to single-digit scoring against Indiana (eight points) and Oklahoma City (nine points).

The Lakers undoubtedly need more consistency from him Thursday in Game 2.