The Trail Blazers recorded their first road win of the 2020-21 season thanks to an impressive performance from third-year guard Gary Trent Jr. The former Duke standout notched 28 points off the bench in a game that followed just a six-minute outing against the Rockets on Saturday.
After the game The Athletic’s Jason Quick asked Damian Lillard about Trent’s ability to overcome adversity on a short turnaround. Lillard explained that he was keeping tabs on Trent after his brief outing against the Rockets.
“I would assume any young player who was coming off the kind of season he had last season would expect to be in the rotation, you know, for more than six minutes,” Blazers captain Damian Lillard said.