Portland Trail Blazers: 5 goals for the 2018 offseason
By Ty Delbridge
4. Add more consistent shooters
The Blazers finished the season ranked 11th in 3-point shooting and 20th in field goal percentage. They had six players shoot 35 percent or better from the 3-point line. The Blazers’ best shooters are Lillard, McCollum and Napier. Everyone else, including Maurice Harkless and Al-Farouq Aminu, are streaky shooters.
The Blazers need to make it a priority this summer to add better shooters. They don’t have a guy who specializes in shooting like Kyle Korver, Nick Young, Marco Belinelli, or J.J Redick on their team.
Besides their two guards, the Blazers do not have any significant shooters on the team. They need to go out and add some snipers. Putting better shooters around Lillard, McCollum and Nurkic will open up the offense as a result and will allow more one-on-one matchups because the defense has to keep a guy on the shooters at all teams. The Blazers would see fewer help defenses and would be able to make teams pay when do they double or trap.
Some guys the Blazers could target in trades, free agency or draft this summer could be Wayne Ellington, Courtney Lee, J.R Smith, Joe Harris and Grayson Allen. The Blazers just need guys who are labeled as shooters, and that should be on the top of their priority list.