WHAT if the Blazers Had Not Tanked? With Holy Backboard
We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast
English - June 14, 2022 02:24 - 1 hour - 40.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsBasketball Sports trail blazers blazers portland oregon Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It’s been a while! This week Tara was joined by Dustin and Sage from Holy Backboard, one of Rip City’s longest-running podcasts. We talked about how we still have no idea what the Blazers are going to do, speculated about what might have happened if the Blazers hadn’t tanked and then talked about some potential Blazer draft picks. They had to be separated on AJ Griffin and Bennedict Mathurin. Despite swearing I wouldn’t get attached, I'm now attached to Ousmane Dieng and Tari Eason.
2:10 Celebrating 300 Episodes of Holy Backboard, remembering the early years
9:50 How about the off season so far? Total mystery!
11:10 Who knows what the Blazers are going to do?
12:40 Encouraging move hiring Mike Schmitz
13:50 Any significance to Blazers being named in so many rumors?
16:30 Trying to separate rumors from real possibilities
18:30 The team chose a direction. Was it the right one?
20:30 What would have happened if the Blazers hadn’t tanked?
27:10 Note of course that players were not playing to lose
29:00 It's still theoretical what Josh Hart and Justise Winslow could do on this team
29:50 Could they have been at least good enough to knock out the Pelicans and get their pick?
35:25 It was so easy to climb on board and ride to tank town.
36:10 Holy Backboard Draft coverage history
40:20 AJ Griffin
50:25 Shaedon Sharpe
53:40 Bennedict Mathurin
55:50 Ousmane Dieng
59:30 Most ready to contribute right away?
1:00:00 Keegan Murray
1:04:20 Tari Eason
1:08:00 Jalen Duren