Yesterday we fielded a Blazer’s Edge Mailbag question regarding the Portland Trail Blazers’ next move after a summer of retooling with Jrue Holiday, Yang Hansen, and Damian Lillard. We surmised that Portland’s needs would be determined as much by the development of players on the roster now–almost all of whom carry significant variables–as the attractiveness of talent in other uniforms.
Today we’re going to run Part 2 of the question, looking at players (or at least player archetypes) who would be good for the Blazers in almost any situation.
For those who missed it, here was the prompt:
Hey Dave!
By Blazers standards, this was a fairly active transaction window. We acquired Jrue via trade, drafted Yang (after a trade), signed Dame, and then finished things off by signing Blake Wesley…