A few notes from the Trail Blazers' first week of training camp...
• One of the main goals for the 2018-19 Portland Trail Blazers is to be more consistent from month to month. Over the past five seasons, they have either gotten off to poor starts, only to make a run late in the season, or fast starts followed by trailing off as the season wears on.
“We’ve been two teams since Coach Terry has taken over,” said Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum. “He showed us the breakdown and we’ve either done really well in the beginning of the season and then not so well post All-Star break.