If you’re talking about the outlook for the Portland Trail Blazers heading into the 2018-19 NBA season you start with the All-Star production of Damian Lillard. After that discussion, the fate of the Blazers typically falls to CJ McCollum…well sort of. There’s a caveat to McCollum’s contribution and it goes something along the lines of “well…if CJ can return to his form of 2016-17, ya know, the real CJ McCollum then things will definitely be better for Portland next season.”
Is that 2016-17 version of McCollum the real one or was that an aberration?