On this edition of The Blazers Balcony, Brooke Olzendam and Casey Holdahl discuss...

• The trade sending Damian Lillard to Milwaukee and Jusuf Nurkic, Nassir Little and Keon Johnson to Phoenix in exchange for Deandre Ayton, Toumani Camara, Jrue Holiday, a first round pick and multiple first round pick swaps

• The trade sending Holiday to Boston in exchange for Malcolm Brogdon, Robert Williams III and two first round picks

• The job that Joe Cronin and his staff did in putting the deals together despite difficult circumstances 

• Anfernee Simons coming into his own

• Initial thoughts on Ayton, Brogdon, Williams III and Camara

• The departure of Lillard, Nurkic, Little and Johnson and what each brought to the Trail Blazers both professionally and personally