Dillon Sage (@dasage) of Holy Backboard (@holybackboard) joined Tara to help level-set a few observations before the new season starts. We’re going back to the basics to work out what each player brings to the court: does he dribble, pass and shoot? And what is his one skill that you can count on to get him or keep him on the court?

1:00 Icebreaker: Immediate reaction to the new Statement jerseys

6:30 Setting the scene for the dribble, pass, shoot exercise

11:00 Examples of where players didn’t “fit” together on the Blazers

12:30 Words matter so saying officially that for the purpose of this discussion, it's not that they can’t do any of these things, they just don’t based on how they play. Any of these guys could dribble, pass and shoot us into oblivion.

13:00 Damian Lillard

21:00 Anfernee Simons

31:15 Jusuf Nurkic

34:30 Jerami Grant

40:30 Josh Hart

43:00 Justise Winslow

45:15 Nassir Little

50:00 Trendon Watford

55:05 Gary Payton II

58:40 Shaedon Sharpe

1:06:00 Jabari Walker

1:07:00 Drew Eubanks

1:08:30 Greg Brown III

1:13:15 Keon Jonhson

Give it a listen. It is like training camp for the brain, getting warmed up for the season to start!

Music used in the episode: "Happy Alley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License