As the NBA trading deadline nears, none of the Trail Blazers players envy Neil Olshey, the team’s president of basketball operations.



As Damian Lillard and Evan Turner acknowledge, some tough decisions are ahead.



Lillard notes that as constructed, the Blazers can’t match the talent of teams like Golden State, Oklahoma City and Houston. But if Olshey tries to tinker or even shake up the roster to try and match those super teams, he will risk disrupting the team’s greatest strengths: continuity and chemistry.



“It’s a hard job,” Lillard said of Olshey. “And that’s why I’m glad it’s not mine.”



Added Turner: “That’s why Neil gets paid the big bucks.”



With Maurice Harkless still in-and-out of the lineup with knee soreness, and Jake Layman in the nascent stages of becoming a rotation player, the Blazers could use some depth at wing. Turner, meanwhile, said if one...