The Portland Trail Blazers acquired Rodney Hood last week in a trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers. While not a home run, blockbuster deadline deal, it was an easy call in that Portland sent back two non-rotation players to Cleveland in Nik Stauskas and Wade Baldwin IV. This creates its own set of problems for Stotts to solve; how to find effective minutes for everyone on the supporting cast.
You have the newly acquired Hood, a capable scoring wing that has averaged 13 points per game over his career, and the emerging Jake Layman, averaging nearly 14 a night over his last 12 games, competing for time backing up Maurice Harkless and Al-Farouq Aminu - not to mention Evan Turner and Zach Collins.