Portland Trail Blazers head into an offseason full of questions after first-round playoff exit
A dejected Damian Lillard was still absorbing the rs Portland Trail Blaze ’ first-round playoff series loss to Denver when presented with a question about the future of the franchise. Just minutes prior, Lillard had walked off the Moda Center court after a 126-115 loss to the Nuggets in Game 6. Though he didn’t have answers about the future, he made it clear that the present simply isn’t going to cut it. “We didn’t do what was necessary to win a series,” Lillard said. “Obviously got to keep the fight, got to keep working and keep coming back to battle. Regardless of how it ended, we’re going to always have our heads held high and we’re going to have class and go about it like no real warriors. We lost. They were the better team. Congratulations to them. And it’s back to the drawing board for us.” But what could that look like? A series of small doodles, or a bright, blank new canvas that could be developed into a complex tapestry of change. The Blazers enter an offseason as unc