Wednesday evening in Utah against the Jazz, the Trail Blazers played what is likely their dress rehearsal for the regular season. Outside of an injury to Hassan Whiteside the execution probably went about as well as Coach Terry Stotts hoped it would.
Damian Lillard and company got off to the kind of start one hopes happens 82 times this season. They played fast, executed crisply and got what they wanted at every level. Dribble hand offs to move the defense, skip pass to blow up a rotation and a wide open three?