Trail Blazers RSS Feed| Rank | Team | Record |
| 1 | Utah Jazz | 14-7 |
| 2 | Minnesota Timberwolves | 11-11 |
| 3 | Portland Trail Blazers | 11-12 |
| 4 | Denver Nuggets | 10-11 |
| 5 | Oklahoma City Thunder | 6-16 |
Portland Trail Blazers Front Office
Trail Blazers Analysis
The Blazers and Celtics brought in new coaches to address questions that we may see to be more existential and personnel-based than strategic or cultural. Sometimes you're just putting a new face on the same disappointment, and sometimes that disappointment ossifies, and then morphs into something worse.
C.J. McCollum doesn't get to do whatever he wants; he posts his 20-whatever in the negative space Dame Lillard leaves in his wake. It's a peculiar rhythm you have to strike, not being The Guy but playing as if you were, however intermittently.
The repetitive nature of the Blazers' failures seems to be grating on Damian Lillard. Will he remain content to pour all his power into a cyclical ballad about how the little guys can never be amazing enough to overcome the big boy advantages elsewhere?
