Tualatin, Ore. ? Portland is so clueless about what to do with Shaquille O’Neal that coach Maurice Cheeks will take suggestions from just about anybody.

Since the reporters gathered at the Blazers’ practice suburban facility had no brilliant strategies to offer Friday, Cheeks stared glumly at the floor, realizing that he alone would have to come up with something to prevent the Blazers from being swept again by the Los Angeles Lakers.

Los Angeles' Shaquille O'Neal celebrates during the Lakers' playoff victory over Portland on Thursday night in Los Angeles. O'Neal had 31 points and 14 rebounds as the Lakers took a 2-0 lead in the first-round playoff series.

“I’ll have to review the tape again and come up with some kind of scheme, if there is a scheme that I can do to make them believe that we can win this basketball game,” Cheeks said.

Portland never led in Thursday night’s 103-96 loss, the Blazers’ sixth straight postseason defeat to Los Angeles. Game Three is Sunday at the Rose Garden.

If the Lakers were bothered by letting a 21-point lead slip to six with 1:43 to play, they had forgotten all about it by Friday. They appeared very relaxed during a light practice in El Segundo, Calif., and as the workout concluded, several players did an impersonation of Portland’s Dale Davis getting ejected from Thursday’s game.

The best was by Rick Fox, who drew laughs when he removed his shirt and stalked around the court.

Not that the Lakers weren’t taking Game Three seriously. The Blazers beat them twice at the Rose Garden during the regular season, and Portland will try anything to avoid losing to Los Angeles 3-0 in a best-of-five series for the second straight year.

“They’ll probably be more physical,” Lakers guard Kobe Bryant said. “It’s going to be a battle up there. We expect it to be physical, emotional. We’ve just got to keep our poise.”