The Portland Trail Blazers carried a 36-46 record through the 2024-25 NBA regular season. It was good enough to make them the “best of the rest”, just south of the NBA Play-In Tournament line, north of nearly all the other teams who will participate in this year’s draft lottery.
Inherent in a middle-ground standing are positives mixed with negatives, grey areas open to interpretation. Few things stand out without caveats, but few are hopeless.
That held true overall when we examined Portland’s offense yesterday. Four or five areas showed promise with a half-dozen languishing behind.