Nolan Smith G FA Sun 1/20/13 10:13 AM
Nolan Smith
G FA
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 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 amongst just a few guys, but at some point exhaustion is bound to set it.