When Chauncey Billups was appointed as the pinnacle coach of the Portland Path Blazers this previous offseason, he arrived to a workforce that hoped to make a deep playoff run.

However because the season progressed the plan has modified. Portland misplaced Damian Lillard because of an damage, then they traded co-star CJ McCollum together with different gamers change the outlook of the workforce.

It was rumored that the Path Blazers entered a rebuild section. In accordance with Billups, his workforce goes by way of a unique stage. He calls is retool.

“This isn’t a rebuild in any respect,” Billups mentioned, per through Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo! Sports activities. “Retool. We’ll take a number of small steps again, develop some younger guys, then growth, free company and the draft.”

Portland is at present twelfth within the Western Convention with 27 wins and 44 losses. The workforce is 2.5 video games again from tenth place which might put them within the play-in zone.