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Are the Trail Blazers Opening Up the Floor Enough?

This offseason the Portland Trail Blazers looked to change things up by bringing in players with prolific perimeter shooting backgrounds. Through the first 7 games of the season, is that paying off?

The 8-game mark is typically where I make my first round of reactions on a team- it’s roughly 10% of the way through the season so a few things might start to present as some sort of pattern, good or bad. With that, the question I had coming in was; are the additional shooters affording Portland more perimeter opportunities and the harder to answer question- is there more room for Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum to operate because of the additional space created by having more shooters on the floor?