Even in a season and a year different from any other we've experienced, some things manage to remain the same. Damian Lillard is still an MVP-caliber player, the Trail Blazers are still a work-in-progress defensively (to put it in the most charitable of terms) and injuries have once again decimated the starting lineup.
Given those standards, it's a bit difficult to figure what's on the horizon for the Trail Blazers a quarter of the way through the 2020-21 season. They hadn't showed the improve on defense they had hoped to even before the injuries, though it's hard to image they'd be this bad if CJ McCollum and Jusuf Nurkic (especially) were in the lineup.