In case we're being straightforward, the Portland Trail Blazers' 100-93 Game 1 triumph over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night is anything you desire it to be, the uncommon solitary result that demonstrations in the administration of more than one turn, both minor and major. 

This is about the Blazers' late-game shot-production, and how their record doesn't mirror their danger level. Damian Lillard arms them with a mythic time to take care of business weapon, a genius who is inside range generally when the ball is inbounded. They can win this arrangement. 

This is about the Lakers, defective and helpless. Having two megastars in Anthony Davis and LeBron James promises them nothing. They have to stress over their watchman turn, their bricky three-point shooting, Davis' inclination for taking lousy long twos, and his own nonappearance of range past the curve. They may lose this arrangement. 

This is about how the Blazers and Lakers completed one game, a solitary, single matchup in a line of, maybe, seven. It has small bearing on what occurs straightaway, a preface that means something yet amounts to nothing. The Lakers haven't played in close to 7 days, closely following a four or more months break. The Blazers will demonstrate the veracity of Lillard missing from 35 feet or longer in the end. 

This is about Game 1 being a center ground, a reason for Los Angeles to reflect and Portland to celebrate, however not proof of anything significant or irreversible for either. 

The Lakers are not 5-of-32-from-separation gravelly. They aren't 20-of-31-from-the-foul-line (64.5 percent) awful. Danny Green (2-of-8 from three) will shoot better. Alex Caruso (1-of-6 in general) will shoot better. Kyle Kuzma—as yet contending on guard, coincidentally—has indicated he'll hit more threes (1-of-5). Kentavious Caldwell-Pope won't go 0-of-9 each game, and regardless of whether he does, lead trainer Frank Vogel won't in every case mysteriously sub him in for Caruso down the stretch. 

The Blazers have a beat-up CJ McCollum and can just pull off putting Carmelo Anthony and Gary Trent Jr. on LeBron so often, and it won't really be that multiple occasions. Likewise for at the same time playing Jusuf Nurkic and Hassan Whiteside. Nurkic has broadened his range behind the rainbow, yet that frontcourt falls on the clunkier finish of the range, in any event when the Lakers are playing Davis pair with another large. 

This is about LeBron wearing such a large number of caps in another season finisher game, without finding a one-size-fits-all. From one viewpoint, a 23-point, 17-bounce back, 16-help (season finisher profession high) triple-twofold is dispassionately disgusting. Then again, his own effectiveness—9-of-20 by and large, 1-of-5 from profound, 4-of-7 from the cause stripe—and pass-first outlook maybe a piece of the issue. The Lakers need him to search for his own shot before and all the more frequently. 

On the other hand, on the off chance that he won't put everything out on the table, who will? (Likewise: Focusing on LeBron's scoring alone is consistently a misrepresentation.) The Lakers couldn't reliably cover their threes with him taking care of them. Nobody else will do any better. More than that, Los Angeles doesn't generally have anybody to spell him. 

Rajon Rondo is cleared to play in the wake of recouping from a broken right thumb yet hasn't taken the floor since March 10, over five months back. Davis is somebody who overwhelms inside the progression of the offense, not somebody who makes it. Caruso is overextended in an initiator's job. Cleaning off Dion Waiters for over 73 seconds isn't the appropriate response. 

This is about Game 1 being such a significant number of things to such a significant number of various individuals relying upon the numerous focal points through which it may be seen. Furthermore, in checking such huge numbers of ideas, biased or else, it is missing accord. 

All we know without a doubt is that, no, the Blazers and Lakers aren't working through a run of the mill first-round arrangement. This may say more regarding the conditions than the manner in which they coordinate. The NBA crushed in a near the ordinary season, however, these groups are as yet sequestered every minute of every day following an extended cutback, every one of them down vital participants. 

That is unique in relation to excusing Game 1 by and large. Everything previously examined is a reasonable game. 

Truly, the Blazers don't feel like an ordinary No. 8 seed, if simply because Nurkic, their second-best player from last season, didn't come back from compound cracks in his left leg until the Disney World restart. What's more, inarguably, the Lakers have a more slender edge for a mistake than your regular ahead of all comers crew. They weren't particularly profound in the first place, and their best point watch safeguard, Avery Bradley, quit the air pocket. 

At long last, what little we've seen of this arrangement is more about these Lakers. Their battles are an augmentation of what's tormented them at Disney and, somewhat, all year. 

They positioned 21st in three-point rate during the ordinary season. Their outside-shooting issues aren't new. They put eighteenth into equal parts court productivity for the year and are underdog to-last since entering the air pocket. Their graceless execution from Game 1 isn't novel, either. 

Regardless of whether the Lakers can resolve these wrinkles before they really cause issues down the road for them involves course. They don't have the workforce to transform into sweet-shooting professional killers and off-the-spill flamethrowers, yet they aren't without alternatives. 

Dumping the entire Davis-at-the-4 act may be a decent spot to begin. The Lakers offense has held up the entire year with him at power forward, yet double large mixes haven't fared so well during the restart. Los Angeles is a less 48 consolidated in the 97 minutes he's played with JaVale McGee. 

That move alone isn't making a huge difference. Be that as it may, it's something. What's more, the Lakers need to accomplish something—not something uncommon, however something that is simply so agonizingly, clearly more reasonable than what they're doing now. 

Keeping with it and seeking better evenings from the outside can't be the choice. It may not wind up making a difference against the Blazers. It unquestionably will in likely matchups with the Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers or Denver Nuggets later at the end of the season games. 

What's more, better believe it, it likewise may matter now, for getting away from this arrangement, as well. 

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Dan Favale covers the NBA for Bleacher Report. Tail him on Twitter (@danfavale), and tune in to his Hardwood Knocks webcast, co-facilitated by B/R's Adam Formal.