The Portland Trail Blazers have been on a role for 2 games in a row after Nate McMillan has moved to a 3-guard starting line up with Andre Miller, Brandon Roy and Steve Blake, which has helps the ball to be more distributed across the floor and get more players involved. They were able to beat Minnesota and San Antonio with this new set-up, and Nate will look to continue to execute the up tempo offence with Aldrige and Oden sitting in the middle to crash the boards. Miller himself was on the productive end of the points with 21 in his last outing against Minnesota along with contributions from Oden, Aldridge, Bayless and Outlaw. For sure the team with the bigger bench is definitely the Blazers who have Pryzbilla, Outlaw, Webster, Rudy Fernandez, Bayless and Juwan Howard that gives them a great second rotation that can easily slide in and get the business done. The Grizzlies have a good starting five, but have over reliance on Gay, Randolph and OJ Mayo to get the points scored, and while they are definitely a team that's on the improvement, things have not gone their way especially since they have played all their games on the road. They have shown some signs of improvement, but without veteran leadership in the team, that Allen Iverson was expected to provide, things are looking a bit grim, especially since he has left the team in a lurch now. The Blazers should be expected to win this game especially after the great convincing performances that they have given with this new offense.