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The Perfect Offseason: Blazers top priorities this summer

Portland Trail Blazers General Manager Neil Olshey has a tough job over the next month. He has to reinforce the roster of a Western Conference finalist despite several key players being free agents, and a dire salary situation. Fans won’t know, truly, if he has succeeded until several months into the 2019-20 season.

Because of that gap between the end of free agency and the start of actual games, observers necessarily resort to post-hoc breakdowns of a team’s personnel decisions. Often, these grades are biased by what the observers want to believe — people will talk themselves into (or out of) a player so that he fits the desired narrative.