3 questions for the Portland Trail Blazers if the season is over

If the season is over, then the Portland Trail Blazers have some pressing matters to address as they enter the upcoming offseason. 

If this season was a disappointment to the Portland Trail Blazers, it was an anticipated one. Well, mostly. After suffering an Achilles injury in last year’s playoffs, the timeline for Jusuf Nurkic‘s return to the court was right around mid-March.

And then Zach Collins got hurt, so Portland stepped in as the only team willing to sign Carmelo Anthony. At the commencement of the hiatus, the Trail Blazers were 29-37, and the 9th seed in the Western Conference: just outside the playoff picture.

That makes for seven seasons Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum have been teammates. The first two are discounted, as the latter hadn’t found his stride yet. But in the last five years, Portland has made the playoffs each season annually.

But of those five years, the Trail Blazers have advanced from the first round just twice: once to the Conference SemiFinals, and most recently to the Conference Finals last year. As time wears on, and personnel change continues throughout the NBA, questions will begin circling Portland.

For now however, they can stand to just answer those internally. That being said, let’s take a look at three questions facing the Trail Blazers if this truly is the end of the 2019-2020 campaign.