Gary Trent Jr. and Hassan Whiteside, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
In what’s become one of the underrated subplots of the Portland Trail Blazers season, Gary Trent Jr. has joined his star backcourt teammates as a reliable crunch-time playmaker.
When you’re 6-foot-5, it’s difficult to ever go unnoticed. But in order to make this designed play work, Gary Trent Jr. has to find some way to do so. The Portland Trail Blazers were in Orlando for a third consecutive road game, hoping to avoid a 0-3 result. De-facto crunch-time killer Damian Lillard is nursing a groin strain, and CJ McCollum and Carmelo Anthony are on the bench.