The Portland Trail Blazers enter the 2022-23 season with some new faces and still a few unanswered questions. Those questions focus predominantly on the team’s lack of size and depth at the small forward position.
But despite these concerns, I have to acknowledge the work General Manager Joe Cronin has done over the past two months, bringing in defensive, versatile players, better able to complement and support Damian Lillard inch closer toward the promised land.
So far, the new General Manager has traded very little for Jerami Grant, drafted mystery kid Shaedon Sharpe and second round find Jabari Walker, re-signed Anfernee Simons, Jusuf Nurkic and Drew Eubanks and stolen Gary Payton II away from the Golden State Warriors.