A 10-16 start to the season has made the Portland Trail Blazers national news for the wrong reasons. Second only to buzz over the progress of newly-signed forward Carmelo Anthony, “most disappointing” references have been the single biggest national cite for the Blazers in 2019-20.
Among the writers trying to find solutions to set the franchise back on track is Matt Ellentuck of SBNation, who outlined three possible roads forward this week. The overview will be familiar to many Blazers fans, but it’s a decent summation of the hurdles the franchise faces.