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On this edition of The Brief Case podcast, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers starting a five-game road trip with a "good" loss to the Thunder In Oklahoma City

• Where the Trail Blazers stand in the NBA Cup with the second group stage game on Friday versus the Rockets

• The Rip City Remix playing two games at Chiles Center this weekend after starting their season with four losses on the road

• Portland offensive and defensive ratings and covering in their last four games

• An interview with Trail Blazers guard/forward Dalano Banton aka "DB Hooper" about what his offseason looked like, the importance of having an offseason workout routine, how he's played this season and his role on the team, his role as a closer in the fourth quarter, being a "fringe" player and how that impacts his approach to the game, always playing on non guaranteed contracts, becoming a reliable player when you get reliable minutes, his improved three-point shooting, balancing scoring and creating for others, his "Young Boy" Shaedon Sharpe and the state of basketball in Canada and the nickname