In a thrilling game, the Memphis Grizzlies helped answer a question that literally no one had been asking: Are the Portland Trailblazers a bad team without Damian Lillard?
Even though they didn’t have Lillard, the Blazers were beaten by a Grizzlies team that played its best player Marc Gasol 21 minutes, didn’t have its second best player in Tyreke Evans, and ran their entire offense through a player from the Chinese Basketball Association who hadn’t played in an NBA game in 4 years.
So yeah, the Portland Trailblazers are pretty terrible without Lillard.
Here are a few takeaways from the game.