How Does the Blazers’ Starting Five Stack Up Against Other Teams?

The Portland Trail Blazers’ starting lineup will presumably go unchanged heading into the 2018-19 season. The nucleus of Jusuf Nurkic, Al Farouq-Aminu, Maurice Harkless, CJ McCollum and Damian Lillard has seen success in the NBA’s regular season, but to this point, not in the playoffs. How do they measure against other starting lineups around the league?

Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley has the Blazers’ first unit ranked 16th among NBA teams:

Given the obvious strengths and weaknesses of the Lillard-McCollum pairing, this isn’t a bad frontcourt to deploy alongside them. Harkless and Aminu can both make open shots and defend multiple positions. Nurkic brings brute force to the interior, and he’s…