Tara welcomes first time guests, co-hosts of the Podland Trailcasters podcast, Keith Feltner-Smith and Chris Burkhardt. What starts with a brief meeting of the #AminuAppreciationSociety turns into the State of Blazer’s Media and ends a loooooong list of things we’re looking forward to this season. Do we have high expectations? Yes. Do we promise to have a fun time anyway? Yes.

1:00 Ice Breaker: Who is a random Blazer you haven’t thought about for a long time?

5:00 #AminuAppreciationSociety

13:00 Get to know the Trailcasters

19:00 Journalists - remember why you fell in love with sports in the first place!

21:00 The state of Blazer news and media right now (not great, Bob)

38:15 What role do podcasts play in the media?

44:00 What are we looking forward to?

45:00 How does Damian Lillard look healthy?

46:00 Will Jerami Grant be the player they expect him to be?

46:45 Healthy Dame ❤️

48:00 What will the defense look like?

49:00 Anfernee Simons - is he good or will he be great? How does he look next to Dame?

50:30 Trying to be realistic about expectations?

51:30 What does defending the rim look like?

53:30 What story is Damian Lillard going to tell this season?

54:45 People outside the market don’t get it. They don’t understand Damian Lillard.

56:00 What is that mixture of younger players and older statesmen Dame going to be like?

1:04 Will this be Nurk’s year? #JusufNurkicSupportFoundation

References

Zach Lowe on Al-Farouq Aminu :  He is a chunk of debris clanging around the gears of Portland's motion offense.

Fireworks almost ended career of top 2020 Tennessee basketball recruit before it began

Wesley Matthews: The Rebuilding of Iron Man | OregonLive.com

Zach Collins Rookie Year mini movie

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