Blazers Roll Out Chaotic Lillard-Scoot Lineup Against Lakers
Underdog NBA reported the lineup alert for Friday's game.
The are officially rolling out a starting five of , , , , and for Friday night. If you asked an algorithm to generate a basketball team that spans three completely different rebuilding timelines at once, this is exactly the roster it would spit out.
Starting and together in the backcourt is the kind of chaotic 2K simulation experiment that usually ends with someone demanding a trade. Instead, is somehow making the madness work on the floor.
The Blazers are currently riding a three-game win streak that makes absolutely no sense on paper. They just casually dropped 132 points on the on Thursday, following up impressive road wins against the and Utah Jazz.
For anyone staring down the prop markets tonight, this lineup is a massive headache. Trying to project usage rates when you have two ball-dominant point guards and a massive rookie center in clogging the paint is basically a guessing game.
and are out there to do the dirty work, which mostly means running wind sprints and playing defense while and figure out who actually gets to shoot the basketball. It is a bizarre mix of veteran desperation and youth movement optimism.
We get to see this fever dream in action tonight against the , right before the Blazers fly home to host the on a brutal back-to-back. If this five-man unit actually holds its own in LA, we might have to start taking seriously.