The Trail Blazers have needed a hero recently. Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum have done their best to win games all season, but tonight they needed help from an unlikely source, 12-year NBA veteran Anthony Tolliver. How did Tolliver come up huge in the fourth quarter and what can the team take from this performance moving forward?
The big-men positions have been a problem for the Trail Blazers all year. Injuries to key players, then Hassan Whiteside‘s inconsistency have made it really tough defensively for this team. Whiteside’s rim protection has been good but his inability to close out to the three-point line has meant this team gets torched on a nightly basis from three.