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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