Blazers GM acknowledges awful bench play
Nolan Smith - G - Portland Trail Blazers
Jan. 20, 2013 - 11:45 PM ET
Blazers GM Neil Olshey said that if he knew this summer how competitive his team would be this season, he "would have made a bigger investment in the bench."
That's a slap in the face for the Blazers, who are playing .500 basketball despite having one of the worst benches in NBA history. Nolan Smith's minutes as a backup PG on Saturday were so bad that beat writer Jason Quick wrote afterward, "I'm not sure we will ever see Smith play meaningful minutes again in a Blazers uniform." It's good news for fantasy owners, since production is concentrated among just a few guys, but at some point exhaustion is bound to set it.
Source: The Oregonian
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