If the most disappointing team in the Western Conference this season has been, it may be the Portland Trail Blazers. Although the playoffs in recent seasons have not been good and have not given fans much expectation, their regular season performance is still worth believing, basically every year the regular season has a good performance. But so far this season, they have only achieved an 11-18 record, ranking eleventh in the West, and their current winning percentage is only 37.9%, which is really difficult for fans to satisfy!
Recently, the Blazers have suffered the longest 7-game losing streak in the West, which is the first time the Blazers have suffered a 7-game losing streak since 2015, which means that the Blazers have not played such a bad record in 6 years! In these seven consecutive defeats, they did suffer from injuries, Lillard and McCollum could not play before, and recently Lillard was able to play, but there was still no way to help the team win!
In the most recent game they faced the Grizzlies without Morant, Lillard appeared in 38 minutes, shot 6-of-21 from the field, had 21 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, although the statistics were average, but it was still the team's most important player, Lillard rested a total of 9 minutes and 58 seconds in this game, in this short period, the Blazers lost a total of 22 points. To know that the Trail Blazers lost a total of 10 points in this game, such a statistic is indeed very desperate!
Judging from the current Blazers roster, we don't see any potential or room for change at all, Lillard has been in very average form this season, McCollum is also injured, the team's defensive ability is still as bad as ever, after not having offensive toughness, they are like a mess, basically impossible to win!
Arguably the current Trail Blazers are the worst period of the Lillard era, and if they continue to be in this state, then trading before the trade deadline is inevitable, maybe Lillard leaves, maybe McCollum leaves, no matter how the final adjustment, it seems to have to make a change!