On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...
• The Portland Trail Blazers going 3-2 in the first week of the 2025-26 regular season
• The early season play of Jerami Grant, Deni Avdija and Jrue Holiday
• The Trail Blazers doing all the things in the first five games that they said they were going to do during training camp and preseason
• Enduring the highs and lows of a new style of play
• Portland finishing the first week first in steals, second in pace, third in shot attempts, fourth in three-point attempts, sixth in defensive rating and eighth in offensive rebounds
• Jerami Grant putting up historic early-season numbers off the bench
• Getting bested by the LA Clippers due to a difficult second half
• Bouncing back to defeat a shorthanded Lakers team going away
• Donovan Clingan having his best game of the season versus his "vet" Deandre Ayton
• Getting up big versus the Jazz before having to grind out a win in the fourth quarter (thanks in large part to Jrue Holiday)
• The NBA Cup group stage begins on Friday versus the Denver Nuggets at Moda Center
• Robert Williams III is upgraded to questionable
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