This week’s podcast features highlights from the Season Ticket Holder event earlier this week. We gloss over some rough games and take questions about the trade deadline, definitive things we want to know, the future faces of the franchise and Kris Murray nicknames. If you liked the questions, we’ll do it again via Blue Sky. Thank you Jason (Hecubus01), Linssenp, Keanu_reevebooks, 20000thorns!

Then Tara shared what she learned about Donovan Clingan with a special side quest to share more about his wonderful mother, Stacey Clingan, who sadly died when he was in 8th grade. 

Note: in the podcast Tara says that Jojo Siwa’s father was part of an NIL Collective that worked with Donovan Clingan when in fact it was Charli Demilo’s father.

:30 Season Ticket Holder event recap

6:00 This week’s game

9:27 Questions

10:00 1. What will happen at the trade deadline? 

19:00 2. Number one thing to say definitively at the end of the season

25:30 3. On a scale of 1-10 how strongly do we feel that Scoot Henderson and Shaedon Sharpe are the face of the franchise

33:16 4. Kris Murray nicknames (list of nicknames provided at the sign-making station in the arena shared by @alexctam.bsky.social)

40:00 Norman Powell. Why are we still talking about Norman Powell??

43:00 We have a talk about Donovan Clingan

46:00 Stacey Clingan (Bristol Sports Hall of Fame acceptance video)

49:00 Cooper Flagg connection

1:00:00 The Golden Age of NIL (Cling Kong is here to slam-dunk your hunger)

1:12:00 Unretire some jerseys for goodness sakes

1:30: Takes: toxic positivity and Unrivaled basketball league

More sources for Donovan Clingan

Donovan Clingan has become a homegrown star for UConn men’s basketball

Top 10 men's college basketball On3 NIL Valuations entering 2023 season   

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Life got in the way this week but we didn't want to short our Rip City friends an episode. Here's a deep-dive episode we did in March 2024 where we got to know more about Ryan Rupert and Kris Murray.

Who knows what's around the corner for this team? But if the second half of the season bring lots of minutes for these two, you'll know a little bit more about them.

We'll be back next week with another deep dive!

Its our first deep dive of the season! Rose shares what she learned about Deni Avdija - his journey to the NBA, rookie year, being an international player, playing for his national team.

Plus:

2:00 Recap the last few weeks

9:17 Thoughts and prayers for Miami

11:00 Teams we forget about

15:49 WHAT about Deni Avdija

22:00 Early sports, early success

32:00 Predraft concerns - free throws and turnovers

35:00 Rookie year, getting robbed and losing his bag

43:00 2020 Draft

52:00 International players journeys

1:08:00 Ice baths

1:201:00 Takes! Winning isn’t everything and we’re watching people’s dreams come true.

References

Deni on Thanalysis Podcast:

https://youtu.be/KRWmO7inmj4?si=EhA69ew1utqonVPZ

Bleacher Report: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2861981-weve-never-had-a-talent-like-him

Forbes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharycohen/2020/04/16/israeli-phenom-deni-avdija-officially-enters-2020-nba-draft/

USA Today:

https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/nba-draft-deni-avdija-scouting-report-measurements-israel-history

Jewish-Herald Voice:

https://jhvonline.com/israeli-teen-deni-avdija-goes-to-washington-wizards-with-th-pick-of-nba-dr-p28394-256.htm

YouTube Draft Night: https://youtu.be/wUZbEv16ZX4?si=k8ZnuJHRVDKk3yX3

YouTube Draft Night Interview: https://youtu.be/kUKsYqWdjQg?si=JnNeuhkGs8rakKWL

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After basking in the glow of a two game winning streak (the Blazers will never lose again, we're certain) we go over some of the things that we manifested for the team at the beginning of the season. We might be making progress!

Plus, Scoot's game winner in front of his biggest fan, Greg Oden returns to Moda Center, Matisse might live at Moda Center and will the Blazers be able to make any trades?

1:00 Scoot makes children’s dreams come true - an eyewitness report on Scoot’s game winner 

19:45 Early Nate Bjorkgren era thoughts

28:00 Ways that Deandre Ayton could be impactful with the younger players

36:00 Revisiting some of the things we said we were going to manifest this season: 

Greg Oden being as big man coach (a bit of background on his journey)

44:00 Backwards dunks for Donovan Clingan

45:15 Anfernee trash talking

47:50 Scoot slowing down on offense

54:00 Jabari Walker’s uniform on the website, health and playing time for Shaedon Sharpe and Robert Williams

55:00 Matisse Thybulle making the Moda Center his home home. 

Ryan Rupert handle and reduced reliance on Eurostep

59:55 Jermai Grant topic of discussion for his play rather than his fashion. Will the Blazers be able to trade him this season? 

1:05 Outlet passes

1:14:00 Takes

Our friend and G-League correspondent Cat joined us to catch up on how we're feeling and start part 1 of the 2024-25 Season Playlist

1:00 How is your spirit? 

12:00 Deni Avjia chaos agent

17:30 WHAT is up with Deandre Ayton? 

19:00 Bosses vs Teachers

22:00 Chanucy Billups is literally on the court

23:30 A close up view of bench celebrations 

25:00 Is Robert Williams III the leader this team needs and how long will he be here?

38:00 Report on what it's like to sit in court side seats 

41:00 G League report

1:00:00 2024-25 Playlist Part 1

Rose: All these things that I’ve done by The Killers (plus Mr Brightside)

Tara: What’s up? By Four Non-blonds

Cat: Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow

Rose: Still Life by RM with Anderson .Paak

Tara: Drivin’ my life away by Eddie Rabbit

Cat: I’m Still Standing, Elton John

(Side note: why did Chris Paul get himself ejected so early?)

(Bonus: Movin’ right along by the Muppets)

1:18:00 Tara revisits a previous not-fully-baked take with a not-fully-baked update

1:22:00 Ready for a new coach

1:25:00 Puffy hair take

1:28:00 Outro

Join us on this journey! Also, what we’re thankful for!

1:00 Cars that match the trees they parked under

2:45 Houston series takeaways

7:00 Early take from Tara: The Blazers are a good team to measure how serious other teams are.

17:30 What we’re thankful for

18:00 …transition defense

20:00 … Donovan Clingan’s intensity

23:30 … bench celebrations - bring back Bench Celebrator Man of the Year Award!

28:00 … Delano Banton got the final roster spot

31:00 … we got to see Anfernee Simons look happy getting into a physical altercation

35:00 … two hands

40:30 … being wrong about the coach losing the locker room.

49:00 Takes: Rebranding Tanking to Lottery bound!

52:00 Jerami has an impeccable ponytail. 

56:00 Homework: do any of the Blazer players have a noticeable free throw ritual? 

WHAT are we thankful for?

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This week we're joined by Keith Feltner-Smith of the TrailCaster's podcast. We dive into an important topic that is close to our hearts - which Blazers have the best nicknames? We have a some of the best nicknames in the league and we decided to celebrate them!

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Welp. Here we are and the Blazers are the constant in our lives. Join us as we talk about a whole range of things from Bachelor in Paradise, pizza dough in Eugene, fond memories of Brian Wheeler’s amazing voice, and the great twitter departure. 

:30 Three day weekend plans

2:00 Bachelor in Paradise

6:15 How does dating work any more? 

10:00 Memories of Brian Wheeler

25:00 This week in Trail Blazers basketball 

40:00 Robert Williams III first career 3!

46:00 So long Twitter, it was quite a ride! Find us on Bluesky and we’ll make new, different memories

1:08:00 Takes

Rose: its not the place its the people

Tara: Keeping an eye on the NBA’s new Dunk Score

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Troy Douglass of Back To The Basket (@BallWasLifeVol2) joins us to talk about his unique shop that caters to basketball lovers of all kinds -new fans and old will have a great time visiting and looking at the selection of basketball memorabilia.

1:30 Icebreaker: How we’re feeling about “Rip City runs deep”

11:30 Getting to know Troy Douglass - shout out to Blazervision channel 52!

16:52 Favorite Players

20:00 Cultural Blends and Back to the Basket

26:00 Fun stuff that has come through

31:00 Behind the name “Back to the Basket”

40:00 Bridge from old school to new school

45:00 Next basketball chapter for the Portland: The WNBA

48:00 How we’re feeling about the season so far

1:00:00 Takes: People who want to be on Daylight Savings Time all the time don’t have kids. In coaches challenges they should state first if the challenge has been overturned, not give us the whole story first. Portland is about to have a resurgence

1:05:00 Outro

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We're wrapping up the first week of the official NBA season by talking about what we are manifesting for each of the Portland Trail Blazers this season.

3:45 Highs and lows of opening week

15:30 Thinking about games in quarters and halves and banking sleep for future seasons

20:00 WHAT we are manifesting for each player

21:30 Donovan Clingan

24:00 Deandre Ayton

32:00 Toumani Camara

36:00 Anfernee Simons

40:00 Jerami Grant

46:00 Scott Henderson

52:00 Deni Avdija

56:00 Kris Murray

57: Matisse Thybulle

59:00 Shaedon Sharpe and Robert Williams III

1:00:00 Rayan Rupert

1:06:00 Delano Banton

10:10:00 Coach

1:13:00 Rose’s take: Setting up a tv antenna is a lost art

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