Jannelle Moore (@jannelle12), writer for sites such as @complexsports , @basketbllnews , and San Jose Mercury joined Tara to provide some outside perspective about what is happening with the Blazers.

2:00 Last year’s soft tank, and working Wiseman back in. 

4:30 How worried should I be about the Trail Blazer? Only a quarter of the way into the season, coach is still figuring it out, and now maybe the Blazers will get a GM who cares

7:20 You can’t call out the players in public until you know them well enough. That should be done in house, especially at the beginning, with a thirsty press. 

9:55 What disengaged looks like

11:10 Players have to try too hard to fit into the new schemes

13:00 The roster hasn’t been changed that much, they should be figuring it out -- unless they are not buying in. 

15:00 Did the coach promise too much to too many players? 

17:30 Damian Lillard’s injury

19:20 What are the Blazers going to rally around and an unrelated tangent about Enes Freedom. 

20:25 The investigation of the GM wasn’t a distraction. Really? Really??

22:20 When the Blazers tried to be more aggressive it took the Warriors only a few minutes to figure it out and break it down. 

23:40 Ball movement is important but so is player movement. 

25:00 Play style charts on Nylon Calculus

28:15 It seems like the coach might be spending more time coming up with new schemes rather than time on the players who are going to carry out those schemes. 

30:15 Olshey didn’t leave them with very good options for the future. 

33:00 Why hasn’t the team been sold? 

34:35 Help might not be coming for a while. 

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

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