2 Blazers Players Could Make Huge Step This Year

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2 Blazers Players Could Make Huge Step This Year

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The Portland Trail Blazers are going to look different next season in multiple ways.

They are bringing back a franchise icon, Damian Lillard, but that isn’t the end to their changes.

Speaking to the press, head coach Chauncey Billups said that he expects more from two of the team’s most prominent players: Scoot Henderson and Shaedon Sharpe.

2025-26 could be the year when they both take a huge leap forward, Billups said.

“I want to see Scoot and Shaedon take a step this year. I coach these guys very hard, but it’s always different when you’re getting that mentorship from a guy who’s wearing that jersey,” Billups said, via Sean Highkin.

Chauncey Billups: "I want to see Scoot and Shaedon take a step this year. I coach these guys very hard, but it's always different when you're getting that mentorship from a guy who's wearing that jersey."

— Sean Highkin (@highkin) July 22, 2025

Last season, his second in the league, Henderson averaged 12.7 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 5.1 assists on 41.9 percent from the field.

Meanwhile, Sharpe was good for 18.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 2.8 assists on a field goal percentage of 45.2.

Those are good numbers from both of them, but Billups wants more, and he believes Lillard will play a part in their development.

At this point in his career, Lillard will be the team’s prominent floor general and also a player-coach.

He will impart a ton of wisdom into the young squad and use his years of experience to help them all push forward and reach their next level.

Depending on his health, Lillard may not be able to play as much as he wants in 2025-26.

That is even more reason why Henderson and Sharpe will have to dig deep and step up.

The team will need them, even though Lillard has returned.

Billups has belief in these two, and he knows they could evolve in some groundbreaking ways now that they have one of the best point guards in the world beside them.



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