Portland Trail Blazers, lineups, Damian Lillard (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
The Portland Trail Blazers have solidified their roster and the rotations should be fairly predictable, but there are opportunities for Head Coach Chauncey Billups to play around with some different lineups.
One of the many knocks on former coach Terry Stotts is his inflexibility with his lineups. Stotts often refused to let the matchup dictate how he deployed his players, instead opting to believe that the Blazers could force opponents to reconfigure their rotation to counter Portland’s.
We saw firsthand how detrimental that rigidness can be, especially in a seven-game playoff series, as the Blazers fell to an undermanned and lesser Denver Nuggets team in the first-round this past postseason.