We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast

2:00 Post Harden Era in Houston, John Wall, Victor Oladipo, how much of the up and down is due to all of the changes and how much is due to the weird COVID year?

11:30 All Star Game Thoughts

22:00 What makes a good game part 2

32:00 Subtract points for a blowout

38:30 Taking injuries off the rubric so we don’t curse ourselves, replacing with was the game within 5 in the 4th quarter?

45:00 Updated system: based on 5 points being a great game. 1 point for a win, 1 point for a memorable dunk, 1 point when a role player gets the walk off interview, 1 point if the game was within 5 in the 4th quarter, and 1 point if the other team gets a non-procedural foul. You can get 1 point of extra credit if it was a blowout. 

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Cassidy shares memories of her mother-in-law Carla and why the Blazers were important to their relationship. Then Tara and Cassidy dig in to try and figure out what makes a good game? Take a spin using their new system!

1:00 A message from Cassidy, in memory of her Mother in Law and the love they shared. 

7:00 Sports is more than wins and losses

11:00 Let people enjoy sports they way they want to enjoy sports.

16:00 Does Robert Covington’s mask give him super powers? 

17:30 Coming up with a new rating system for what makes a good game.

23:00 Is there a memorable dunk?

25:00 No Blazers gets injured (of course, we hope no one gets injured at all)

29:00 Someone besides Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum or Jusuf gets the walkoff interview. 

35:00 The other team gets a technical

36:00 Other ideas: Gary Trent Jr fashion, #FireStotts doesn’t trend

43:30 Do Blazers really blow big leads more than anyone else? 

44:30 @PeepsInPlaid Hmmm, I’m thinking it’s blasphemous to verbally consider a post-Dame&CJ back court...but we need to...soon. (Not saying move on, but just begin making decisions for play time and other moves based on that understanding)

47:30 @Theo3ptB How much does Portland  miss the inside presence of Hassan Whiteside?   With injuries will Blazers try move (Nurkic) and Zach Collins

50:00 @blazingthepath The Blazers should start Nassir Little when he’s available again!

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First we share some Rip City takes, from Anfernee Simons taking over for CJ McCollum, to Enes Kanter rebounding to Carmelo Anthony mentoring on the court. Thank you to our friends for sending in their takes @O_Beewan,  @cannafitqueen2, @2guysbrandon, @FamilyTwine!

The Blazers are 16 games into a confusing and injury-plagued season. What do they do next? How does this affect the future of the team? How is Damian Lillard going to win the championship we want so much for him? What does it all mean? We reached out to our friend Cal Lee, one half of the team behind the Baseline Podcast (along with Warren Shaw), to help us make sense of it all. 

1:00 Icebreaker

4:00 @cannafitqueen2 Spicy take on Anfernee Simons taking over for CJ McCollum

7:30 @O_Beewan On the young players gaining confidence, the importance of Carmelo Anthony and Rodney Hood, and a new nickname for Derrick Jones Jr. 

11:00 @2guysbrandon Enes Kanter rebounds.

13:00 @FamilyTwine Melo as a mentor and why we love doing interviews. 

19:00 Introducing Cal Lee of the Baseline Podcast. 

23:00 Who does he think the Blazers are likely to miss more, Jusuf Nurkic or CJ McCollum?

30:00 What is an ideal risk for the Blazers to take? 

35:30 Opinions about the new players on the team. 

37:30 What do Anfernee Simons and Gary Trent Jr bring to the game that the Blazers could build on for the future. 

44:00 Gary Trent Jr and Damian Lillard on the same team, how cool is that duo?

46:45 Carmelo Anthony thoughts, from the perspective of someone in the New York area. 

51:00 Carmelo Anthony as a mentor and what that means for his legacy. 

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This episode starts with a quick round of “roses and thorns” about the Trail Blazers’ week that we’d like to forget. 

Then we perk way up, because our idol, Portland-based broadcaster Ann Shatz, joined the W.H.A.T. podcast! We heard about the beginning of her career in Omaha, Nebraska and Portland, Oregon. We reminisce about the Portland Fire and talk about her time as the Trail Blazers’ sideline reporter. Cassidy shared some of the ways that Shatz had inspired her and we begged her to come back and tell us more stories from her incredible career.  

1:00 Ice breaker. Who is an NBA player that the other players are cheering for? 

2:30 What is going on with Kyrie? 

4:00 Take a mental health day!

7:00 James Harden to the Nets is annoying. 

8:00 Roses and Thorns we’re going to try not to talk about injuries but we probably will. 

9:00 CJ Is more mature than either of us

10:00 Thorn: stop hitting Derrick Jones Jr in the face. 

11:30 Rose: Derrick Jones Jr in general

13:30 Thorn: Stop making Derrick Jones Jr take so many 3s

14:45 Rose: When Derrick Jones Jr misses dunks they are still spectacular

17:00 Introducing Ann Schatz

18:00 Growing up in the midwest, learned sports from brothers and her dad.

21:00 Getting started as the first female sportscaster in Nebraska

24:00 Didn’t have anyone to bounce anything off of. Couldn’t get anything wrong, but had lots of supportive people around. 

25:00 Moved to Portland in 1989 and it wasn’t a very warm reception. Was there a moment that she remembered that made her feel like she had been accepted in Portland? 

30:30 Started working for the Blazers and the Fire in 1999 as sideline reporter. 

33:45 The time Brian Grant need a hair-tie.

35:00 The time she made Mike Dunley mad

36:00 Daily routine as a sideline reporter. Shoot arounds, sound bites, pre-game hits, half-time, post game. There was a routine but every day was different. 

37:40 Hosted in the studio while the team was on the road. 

39:15 Working with Bill Schonley

41:15 Remembering when the Fire was coming to town, working with Mike Barrett. 

44:00 How Ann influenced Cassidy’s love for women’s sports. 

48:00 Hoping to be in inspiration to young girls and women to get into sportsl

49:30 Working with the Pac-12 Network, working with college kids. 

51:30 What it was like learning how to call games as opposed to being the analyst. 

55:00 Working for the Thorns. Never thought she’d see in her lifetime that kind of a crowd watching women’s sports. 

58:30 Fantastic eclectic fanbase. 

1:00:00 Thorn’s draft

1:02:00 Memorable interviews: Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Nancy Lopez, Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter

 

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2:00 Victor Oladipo leaves big city for small town

4:15 Damian Lillard is someone’s Dad that no one can ever measure up to. 

6:15 Derrick Jones Jr is the put-together best friend with a happy life.

9:30 Sabonis: Royal prince who is trying to live up to his dad’s expectations while still being true to himself. 

14:30 CJ morning show host choosing between being the lead on a big network or staying where he knows he is happy. 

17:15 CJ Elleby is a camp counselor who has to put on a big campfire show to save the camp from corporate developers.

19:00 Who are the NBA equivalent of Hallmark developers? 

20:00 Malcom Brogdon busy business man’s friend who teaches his friend that he needs balance in his life. 

22:00 Nurkic is the handyman/owner of a coffee shop that is the heart of the community. That developers want to tear down. 

25:00 Gary Trent Jr moody artist who needs joy in his life so he can enjoy Christmas again. Classic mistaken identity meet-cute. By the way, should Gary Trent Jr be in the starting lineup? 

30:00 Miles Turner. His character has big expectations and what he really wants to do is build an app. Rebounding talk. Really important role players are important.

34:00 What is Anfernee’s vibe? Meets incognito princess. 

38:15 Tropes that represent the teams: Pacers are a family with turmoil who, with a little Christmas magic, mend the rift, save Christmas and live happily ever after.

40:00 Blazers: they are united by a beneficent spirit from beyond the grave or they were left a house (or yacht) in someone’s will that they had to split and learn to get along/win.

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1:00 Icebreaker what are we thankful for?

3:00 How do we feel about how the NBA is handling the pandemic?

12:15 Blowout games

21:00 New rules for coaches apparel

24:45 Blazers vs Pacers preview

26:15 What is going well? More complex playbook.  New coach Coach Bjorkgren (Bee-ork-gren). They look a lot like the Raptors from a few years ago. 

30:00 On Victor Oladipo

36:00 Our favorite players as Hallmark movie characters

40:05 End

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Amber Vickers of Unwrapped Sports Network and Stepback Sisterhood joined us to talk about Carmelo Anthony, the Trail Blazers, the Oklahoma City Thunder and dive into various stories around the NBA. 

1:00 Ice Breaker: Ode to Melo: favorite memories of Carmelo Anthony

14:00 Get to know Amber Vickers (@simplyme_av) of Unwrapped Sports Network (@UnwrappedSports) and Stepback Sisterhood (@StepbackSisters) podcast.

17:00 What was it like when the Thunder came to Oklahoma City? 

19:00 Why do the OKC jerseys look like different kinds of laundry detergent. 

22:00 About Unwrapped Sports network

25:00 Getting information from independent news platforms

27:50 Fast takes

29:00 Miami color explosion

31:00 Coach Becky Hammon

33:15 Draymond Green wild pointing

36:30 The Carmerlot shoes

38:30 The Knicks

41:00 The Nets' court

44:20 2021 Referee slow start?

48:20 Trade rumors

53:00 @Hecubus01 It’s not really a hot take, but for some fans it may be, Stotts will be the coach for the whole season & won’t be fired.

56:00 @EvenOddsPodcast Paul: I'm really just enjoying my boy Payton Pritchard looking like a million bucks. And, I'm trying to stay optimistic of our Blazers, but it's hard when my sweet prince Harry Giles III is sitting on the bench :(

1:01:00 Brandon: this surprisingly enjoyable combo of Payton-Barrett-Randle has me tuning into the Knicks more than I expected this year.

1:07:00 Football talk?!

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Writer (Complex, The Shadow League, Carolina Blitz) and Golden State Warrior’s fan Jannelle Moore (@jannelle12) joined us to give out roses and thorns for the season so far, talk about takes from Twitter and preview the upcoming games between Portland and Golden State. The last time the three of us got together, the league shut down. We’re happy to report that this time all that happened was we laughed a lot and talked about Steph Curry and Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum and James Harden, uniforms, the bench area, and how hard it is to get defensive rebounds. 

5:00 The last time the three of us were together the league shut down.

7:00 Rose City "Roses and Thorns": Opening Night - Yay! Basketball is back!

12:45 Christmas Day - What are they wearing? 

15:30 Derrick Jones Jr. and Gary Trent Jr get all the roses!

20:00 What is wrong with the Warriors season? 

23:00 Comparing Damian Lillard and Steph Curry. They are very different in so many ways but they share a few key traits, including leadership abilities.

33:45 On not trading CJ McCollum.

34:30 Okay, we will talk about what would happen if they traded CJ.  But why?

41:15 More roses for early season players throughout the league in general. Ja Morant, Trey Young, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

45:00 Thorns for injuries and illness, esp not knowing the long term effects of COVID-19.

47:00 The bench area and arenas in the COVID-19 era are boring. 

51:00 Sharing takes from: @mikerice6, @DHawes22, @JanisReynolds @LongStoryLonger, @Dasage , @LillardForMayor, @Hecubus01 including competition in the west, playing good defense the whole game, moving in a positive direction, lighting a fire with Harden rumors, rotations, Derrick Jones Jr is the cutest (Gary Trent Jr is the most effervescent), and Harden to Portland. 

1:14:00 Quick preview of upcoming Golden State games including:

1:16:00 Defensive rebounds are hard

1:18:00 How will the Blazers do against a rookie center? 

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Icebreaker 2:00 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at a robotics tournament (no this is not a fever dream) and a narrow escape from a Denver elevator. 

10:00 Tom Petty, The Waiting

13:00 KD Lang, Luck in My Eyes honoring the return of Nurkic and 

15:30 The Kinks, The Kinks - State of Confusion for the preseason in General

16:30 Shout out Mike Richman (@mikegrich) of Locked on Blazers for his defensive discussion on his podcast!

18:00 Denver has the most depressing arena

20:15 Ariana Grande, Break Free feat. Zedd for Harry Giles

26:30 Steve Miller Band, Fly Like An Eagle AND Jet Airliner (Remastered 2017) for Derrick Jones Jr

29:30 Brittany Spears Oops, I did it again for Gary Trent Jr

33:30 Dolly Parton - Love Will Keep Us Together for Gary Trent Jr 

35:30 Damian Lillard's 51 Points x Dame D.O.L.L.A. - 'They Sleep'

37:00 Chris Haynes has the Blazers rated correctly 

37:45 The Hollies, He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother for Damian Lillard and Jusuf Nurkic

Takes from Twitter! Thanks to everyone who submitted a take (or two or more)

41:00 https://twitter.com/Theo3ptB/status/1341397012978266113

45:00 https://twitter.com/SimplyMe_AV/status/1341407077332299777

48:30 https://twitter.com/Hecubus01/status/1341471294362058753?s=20

50:30 https://twitter.com/KenCosey/status/1341462650799022080?s=20

52:45 https://twitter.com/FamilyTwine/status/1341464444392464384?s=20

54:15 https://twitter.com/britrobotista/status/1341463256578154496

55:30 https://twitter.com/diandraann/status/1341450356228640768

57:00 Cassidy: Derrick Jones Jr will repeat win the dunk contest

Harry Giles will be MIP even if official voters don’t recognize it

Evan Turner will be the best dressed coach in the NBA this season

1:00 We don’t know what our email is anymore. (its [email protected])

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1:00 Favorite shared memories with our husbands. 

6:00 We needed the bubble for our mental health. 

8:00 Cardiac screening

10:00 We trust the Blazers to follow the rules and we want it to go well because this could be their best year in a long time. 

12:00 Excellent pointing and communicating so far

13:00 Obligatory Harry Giles praise

16:30 Rook has been thrown in the deep end. 

17:30 Um, so . . . are the Blazers going to be better at defending the 3 point shot this year? 

19:00 Of all the things that might change, the thing we think is most likely to happen is more points in transition. 

21:00 Gary Trent Jr dribbles like he’s mad at the ground. 

23:30 Giannis signs in Milwaukee

25:45 Not feeling sorry for Houston Rockets

27:00 Kyrie Irving and the Championship Collective

32:00 Interview with Yasmin Duale (@carmelohdrama) of Basketball News, Yahoo Sports Canada and the Dishes and Dimes Podcast. 

38:00 What it's like with the Raptors playing out of town. 

42:30 Demoralizing Offensive plays inspired by When Offense Becomes Taboo: Ranking the Top 5 Most Demoralizing Offensive Plays

44:30 The Nutmeg

45:45 Stepback 3 -- especially because of the eye contact.

49:00 Shooting from more than 30 feet

50:00 From behind poke steal (okay, its defense)

52:00 Dribbling past someone on a drive

53:00 Drawing a foul on 3 point plays

54:00 The stepover

1:00 Blazers Raptors comparisons

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