The Portland Trail Blazers and head coach Terry Stotts are now blending the present with the future. After recently ditching his whiteboard in favor of an iPad in regards to calling plays during timeouts, Stotts apparently won't be going back to his old ways any time soon.

“I’m just getting used to it,” Terry Stotts recently told NBC Sports Northwest. “But I wouldn’t go back [to the whiteboard].”

However, Stotts actually credits the team's Basketball Applications Director, Joe Lee, who created the program that the Trail Blazers head coach utilizes on his iPad.

“The actual size of the court diagram is the equivalent of what I was using on the dry erase,” Stotts added. “You can save the plays. It was [Lee’s] idea and it works out well.”

Obviously much more technologically advanced, Stotts believes that there are tons of advantages to ditching the whiteboard in favor of the more updated iPad.

“I’ve got five different colors. I can clear it right away,” Stotts said. “I can draw it all up and instead of erasing everything I can just clear the whole thing and start over. I can undo my last action. There’s nothing I miss.”

Well, it seems to be working for Stotts and his squad as the Blazers currently sit at an impressive 31-20 on the season. As a result, Portland now finds itself in fourth place in the always competitive Western Conference, behind only the surging Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder, respectively.

Whatever works, right?