Portland Trail Blazers vs Milwaukee Bucks Recap | Blazers Uprise Postgame Show

Portland Trail Blazers vs Milwaukee Bucks Recap | Blazers Uprise Postgame Show

For got e got what’s going on everybody welcome into the Blazers uprise postgame show presented by B us tonight was a very special night as Damen Lillard returns to Portland to play his first game as an opponent in Moda Center and it didn’t go how he wanted it to as

The Blazers get an upset win over the Milwaukee Bucks 119 to 116 behind a clutch Anthony Simons floater with about 17 seconds remaining and 24 points in this one this was an eventful game I went to it that’s why the stream is going live so late I got stuck in a

Parking lot trying to leave it was rough it was rough but uh I’m here now Eric will be here shortly I don’t know exactly when uh but looking forward to hanging out with you guys talking about this game talking about this impressive Blazers performance this offense that is

Finally starting to click a little bit as well as Dame’s return what it felt like being at the game and our thoughts on this is this night kind of was the final night to get closure regarding the past summer the past tumultuous offseason that we all went through here

Man um I’m glad I went to this game I wish this postgame show was live a little bit sooner but you know I tried my best I I live all the way up in Vancouver so it’s a little bit of a drive but man it was it was a great

Experience being there in person a lot of people that I know a lot of people that are you know fans of the channel went to that game so if you’re at the game let me know your thoughts being there in person and then let me know your thoughts watching this game on TV

The only nationally televised game of the year for the Blazers and man they they pull out a win and they have an impressive performance DeAndre Aton had some impressive moments Jeremy Grant hit some tough buckets scoot Henderson had his best half of his entire career ends

Up with 15 points on six for 11 shooting and efficient night for him and he seemed pretty amped Up For What was a playoff atmosphere in Moda Center it was legitimately a playoff atmosphere in that Arena and it’s been a while since we’ve experienced that and it was pretty

Cool to hear that Stadium alive and rocking the way that it was and uh man it was just a great great night a fun night and we’re going to talk about it here on this postgame show shout out Brady SE with a $5 donation says fun game awful tribute yeah we’re going to

Have to talk about that can’t believe I paid 150 for that awkward timing lights not dimmed never thought CJ would get a better tribute than Dame yes the execution of said tribute could have been better could have been better Eric has some strong thoughts on that and I’m

G to save my talk for how they did the tribute until Eric is here uh and then we can talk about also some of the comments they you know made in his postgame press conference I haven’t seen it yet but I’m looking forward to it and then his comments

About not talking to Joe Cronin and we’ll just kind of put a little bow on that whole Saga um but I love that we got some good basketball to talk about tonight I love that Not only was it a competitive game it was a game that the

Blazers won and this was a playoff atmosphere that I think is going to be a good experience for this young struggling Blazers team they’re finally starting to turn the corner they’re finally starting to put together competitive games finally starting to win some games against Some solid teams

And they’re starting to look more a little bit more cohesive a little bit better which is great but man this was definitely the loudest atmosphere that scoot Henderson has ever played in that tamani Kamar has ever played in maybe that dap Rath has ever played in I know

They get kind of crazy overseas where he’s played until he’s in the NBA now but man D bre had some impressive moments in the first half there is a lot of fun things to talk about from this game once again thank you Brady for the donation uh

Um and yeah we’re we’re definitely going to have to talk about the tribute um chat what do you want me to get in first I’ll run this like a democracy until Eric’s here uh what do you want to talk about first whatever you guys put the most of

In chat I’ll start off with that I’m going to save I’m going to save the talk for the tribute until Eric is here Charlene Brandt says yelling at Aon I did not see that I did not see that um Kamara yeah let’s start with let’s start with tamman Kamar because I don’t

Want to forget to talk about him with everything that we have to talk about tonight on this postgame show this dude took three charges in the second half and they were all necessary to win this game they were all Monumental in this game and you look at the stat line it’s not

Too impressive two for three from the field 23 minutes Four Points four rebounds two assists two steals though played some really good pressure defense against guards I thought when he got switched on to Giannis he did about as good of a job as you could ever expect a

Rookie forward to do on him and then taking three charges there in the second half just huge huge plays from him where he’s rotating quick enough to take charges because that’s the thing in the NBA if you got guys driving and you’re the H side Defender you got to rotate quickly

To make sure you’re outside of that charge Circle A lot of times guys will rotate too late and try and take a last second charge and it’s either a block because they’re moving or it’s a block because they’re in the charge Circle but that’s what tan Kamar has done an

Impressive job of as a rookie this season is he sees things happening quickly and he’s able to get into position pretty quickly he’s not without his flaws and mistakes as a Defender but he’s a rookie he’s a rookie you expect those you don’t expect the rookie to take three charges including two on

Yannis in the second half of a game that had a playoff atmosphere down the stretch so shout out to tamman he was terrific defensively I thought um very impressed with him and he actually got to finish this game for the most part the Blazers at the end of

The game subbed in situational lineups and stuff but he ended up playing 23 minutes I guess I’ll run through some stat lines uh I’ll just run through the box score so Anthony Simons is your leading scorer he had 24 points five assists three turnovers 10 for 19 for

The field four for n from three good game from him DeAndre Aon continues his hot play this is five games in a row where he shot the ball efficiently and scored the ball at a much higher volume than he had the rest of the season here in Portland 20 points 11 rebounds for

Him 10 for 17 he had some impressive finishes over Brook Lopez who’s a big big Center and a good Defender one of the better defending centers in the league and Aon seems to be playing with a little bit more confidence a little bit more Edge to him a little bit more

Physicality and you love to see it Jeremy Grant 18 points four assists three rebounds two steals seven for 14 he didn’t make a three in this game he only took one three in this game he was charged with guarding Dame a lot of the game which

Was pretty cool to see because you know those guys are friends those guys are are you know Dame helped land Jeremy Grant in Portland Dame is the reason Jeremy Grant’s in Portland it was kind of a little weird that Dame’s now gone and Grant’s still here and Grant’s

Guarding Dame because Grant’s not here without Dame last year so I thought Grant solid game from him Jabari Walker I thought had some really impressive moments he only played 16 minutes which I didn’t really understand because in those 16 minutes eight points three for four from the field one for two from

Three five boards two assists and a steal a really productive 16 minutes from him and then the bench the bench was really impressive combined for 35 points led by scoot Henderson six for 11 15 points four assists I believe all those points and assists came in the

First half scoot played 13 minutes in the first half N9 minutes in the second half 22 minutes on this game and what might be the best game of the season for scoot I know we had the game earlier in the season where he scored 33 points but

He was if I recall correctly 13 for 31 in that game this game he was efficient he hit a three on an ISO at the end of the first quarter which was beautiful to see he had some really impressive finishes a really impressive explosive dunk in the

First half I feel like was the closest that we’ve gotten to what we expected scoot Henderson to be coming into the league as a prospect I that’s that’s basically what a lot of people with the most optimistic expectations expected out of scoot Henderson coming into his rookie year

And that was in my opinion the best half of his career really really impressive first half from scoot later on we’re going to talk about him only playing 22 minutes though I’m going to wait for Eric to be here for that as well because I know he probably has some strong opinions on

That as well and we’re going to have to talk about the whole Brogden thing and the balance of this of this lineup because scoot in this game plays great wasn’t in foul trouble only plays 22 minutes and that’s with Shaden sharp hert so how do they figure it out when Shaden

Sharp comes back I don’t know I don’t know but uh d as I said 10 points in 13 minutes plus 13 for him four for six from the field knocked down two threes including a really impressive contested late in the shot clock three he was terrific matis dble two for six from

Three but he was also a plus 13 and with six points sub that’s the stat line today for the Blazers Dame in his return He struggled he struggled 25 points seven assists six rebounds but was nine for 23 from the field three for 13 from three it was not a Damen Lillard esque

Game you know he hit some dame shots but we got a firsthand experience of what has been the usage of Damon Milwaukee which is man why don’t they run more pick and with him in my opinion he’s the best pick and roll guard in the league and they don’t run much pick and

Roll with him they don’t run him off enough screens like there is too many possessions where Dame was basically an afterthought including including a possession late where Brook Lopez is shooting a three not Dame not Yannis you don’t really want Yannis shooting threes but you know you could give the ball to

Yiannis and let him try and get to the r extend the game that way now you got Brook Lopez shooting a three uh it’s going to be interesting to see how the usage of Dame changes under Doc Rivers who’s now the coach there compared to um compared to ad Adrien

Griffin who’s been there all year but this is kind of what we’ve seen from Dame where he struggles to get a rhythm he’s being used differently and you know I you want to try and mix up the way he’s used I’ve always been a proponent of that but

He should be running more pick and roll than this during the course of a game anyway looks like Eric is here so we’re going to get him on the stream we’ll see if he picks up and then we will fully dive deep into this one all

Righty so I so Eric went to the game I went to the game somehow I got home for him because man Eric I was stuck in a parking lot trying to leave that thing uh but you know good to see you and let me just say this real quick this

Dude Eric looks in looks like he’s in terrific shape like I could tell I haven’t talked I haven’t when was the last time we met in person Eric uh we played basketball once I think over the summer yeah it’s been like since the summer right and I could

Tell just by like the streams but that meaning you in person Dude Looks like he’s ready to go out there and play an NBA game okay he look he looks in great shape I was impressed I was inspired absolutely inspired man um let’s just dive into it I don’t know how

Much you’ve heard I haven’t really gotten into much I’ve saved some topics that I know that you want to talk about um kind of ran through the stat line there was talking about Dame’s game so we’ll just kind of start off with whatever you want to go into you know

The Blazers win the Blazers beat the Bucks they were were 10 and a half Point underdogs according to bet us going into this game once again shout out bet us for being the sponsor for this post game show the Blazers win this win this thing man that

Was impressive I guess my first question is what do you think of like the atmosphere in MO Center because it’s been pretty dead in MO Center for a while now and that felt more normal that felt like like a fan base that was I don’t know involved in the game not

Looking at their phones throughout the second half of a game because they’re down 30 like that was fun man it was fun to experience that so just kind of your thoughts on the atmosphere and the game in general uh yeah I mean I this is the

First game I’ve been to this year but I mean I’m sure people watching on home or watching at home can tell the difference between tonight and any of the other games this season um yeah it it did feel like a playoff atmosphere um I don’t know I the Dame

Stuff was weird I almost felt like it was more subdued than CJ’s return I don’t know you were at CJ okay let me just say this let me just say this let me just say this okay it’s hard to cheer when you’re a little choked up oh okay

You think that was that yeah I think it could have been that cuz I talked to a couple people that like yeah it was like hard to cheer for him because I was a little choked up yeah um and and kind of I kind of felt the same thing man like

I’m not going to say her crying but bro like this dude has meant the world to this organization to this team that like I I’ve dedicated a big part of my life to man so was a little emotion emotional being able to see him make his return to

Moto Center I was a little choked up it is impossible to cheer if you got a little bit of that lump in your throat you know so that’s that’s all I’m gonna say I just like I don’t know what it was but just the whole timing of the situation just

Fell off to me like Dame I don’t know about you Tori but I was waiting for him to be like the last one introduce so then yeah like all that and then all of a sudden they’re introducing him second behind Malik Beasley and I was like what like we’re

Doing this now yeah cuz they said campaign and then they said another guard I was like huh Beasley yeah or or Malik Beasley yeah not what talk about yeah Mark Mason kind of did his thing but it wasn’t I was expecting him cuz he did a Twitter poll um saying like should

I do my normal Dame thing or just do like a normal visitors thing and it got like 93% to do a fancy Dame thing yeah or whatever and like he did say a little more letter O all that kind of stuff but it wasn’t like and six time allar like you know

Like he wasn’t he didn’t really get into it you know yeah um and so like and then I just I was like thinking wait he still has three more players to be introduced and stuff like it just the whole timing of it just fell off and I don’t I don’t

Know if I can blame the Blazers like I don’t know if they decide who gets introduced first or not like the announcers or if uh because you know a lot of times teams will introduce the other team’s best player like second or third so it’s kind

Of subdued like that um but I just thought like in this particular situation Dame should have been last and then let the crowd breathe a little bit into the Ovation I just felt like it was kind of like wait he’s being introduced already like why is he going second like

That’s when I was thinking the whole time and then and then like people could keep telling me that for TV reasons they couldn’t have done the video beforehand but I mean we took like two or three minutes to like you know the bu are all dancing across the floor and going crazy

And we’re all giving them inovation there’s we couldn’t have played a video right then you know like I I don’t see I don’t see how we couldn’t fit that in there the only reason saw National TV is because of Dame’s return that’s the only reason guys sorry but the Blazers are

Bad enough to the point where they get no National nationally televised games like if if we’re not better next year we’re probably going to have zero nationally televised games not counting NBA TV of course so I don’t really understand that also it’s like shoot you can skip the little hype video that is

Played before literally every single home game and replace it with a Dame tribute video and then announce Dame and then go into the blers starting lineup when the crowd you know after the crowd gives its ovation where the crowd is still loud and then they can Sher the

Other guys and this you know what I mean like it just it wasn’t it wasn’t done well Blazer fans still gave him that Ovation like it was a good tribute video at the first commercial time out um and you know still got to got to give him his flowers but the Blazers could

Have definitely done a better job of it there’s no question about that yeah I it almost felt like they were just trying to get away with not doing the crowd thing and the other thing too I I hate this as well like waiting for the first time out okay if you’re going to

Do that why don’t you just say like have a thing on the Jumbotron Dame would have been able to see it cuz he’s on the court just say stay tuned for a video later or something like that don’t don’t just act like you’re not going to do

Anything really and then I mean the videos were fine they played videos at the first two timeouts um that was pretty much it right like two videos and um yeah I don’t know it just it seemed like I don’t know what the right word is but it it just seemed like they

Were kind of more banking on the crowd to produce any kind of tribute to him than they were um and that that’s just yeah I mean if that’s how they want to play it that’s fine but I just I I felt like they should have leaned into it

More uh cuz the crowd was ready to erupt I feel like when the when Dame got introduced and it just kind of Fizz out and then everyone starts booing and then I I mean it was really funny cuz it seemed like we were booing the crap out

Of dock Rivers but um I think people started booing at least around me when they realized that that was it we were doing anything else pregame for Dame and so um I I think it got Mis through uh for booing Doc Rivers I mean who cares

About Doc Rivers no one’s going to boo that loud for him no one cares about him desite what Steven vaugh said he said he was booing Doc Rivers which I I respect it that’s funny that is funny yeah but like um so and then chony got booed

Really hard yeah I I didn’t boo Chanty but yeah there were loud boo man that was I was crazy but um it’s just it’s just like you can’t expect this organization to do anything fully right right like I mean it just extends all the way to like Dame’s return game it’s

Just it’s it’s a little frustrating thinking back like I wasn’t really too frustrated in the moment yeah cuz it’s you know Dames back Ovation but looking back on it man like you had all year to plan this you had all year to think about everything and it was like people

Were still kind of cheering him but then they start to announce the other starters and it’s like oh well we better shut up now and then and then it’s like you get into the game after 6 minutes like I was kind of rooting for Dame with the start

Of the game to start going off but like some people obviously you’re just going to root for the Blazers um so like once you start getting into game mode the tribute video isn’t quite the same like I feel like I didn’t hit the same once the did they do the CJ tribute video

Before the game I don’t I don’t remember what they did I don’t I don’t remember I think I think I was mad about that too so probably not yeah it’s just I don’t know like they could have done a better job I’m not going to dwell on it too

Hard it’s just like come on you know come on what could have done a better job it’s frustrating because I have the same 10 people in my mentions on Twitter every freaking time I say something about the organization like it’s not their fault there’s nothing they can do

About it just bootlicking people it’s just bootlicking people yeah it’s just it’s so frustrating because and then you get the people like you and Tori just look for things to be negative about that’s all you care about well I was ready to be super excited I was ready to

Praise the organization tonight about handling it well but this it seemed like they’re still scorned like they’re still trying to like there’s still some weird tension there and so yeah it’s just it’s kind of funny but uh it’s like like like before the game before the game mhm if you

Asked me how the tribute would have been done I would have not said announce him second in no tribute video before the game and then like start announcing the rest of the starters after you announce him and like I would said that so I mean that’s the thing is it’s not it’s not

Looking for things to complain about like I didn’t want to complain about how they did the Dame tribute at all like I wanted to talk about how awesome it was you know just like yeah I don’t know like it is and well here’s the thing

Okay so the Blazers for going on 20 20 years or so now have had I mean there’s no blunt way to put this their uh TV contracts have been absolute garbage uh whether it’s Root Sports or comcast or whatever it’s been like half the fan

Base can’t even get the games or the the the TV stream and now they’re not on any streaming platforms that people actually use and like it’s just it’s a joke man and so you say like you’re frustrated with the front office that they or the organization that they never seem to get

It right with the TV deal based on every TV deal they signed it’s not just like The Root Sports thing or whatever um because like Root Sports like raised their price or comcast raised the price of the package that includes Root Sports or whatever and they the Blazers come

Out with some dumb statement and then you get guys saying like well there’s nothing the Blazers Canna do about it it’s like yes they’ve gone 20 years without doing [ __ ] about it right like to do something about it so like freaking can do something and like Step

Up for your fans and like I I feel like tonight was yet another night the fans were ready to just erupt and the Blazers kind of were like you know what we’re not going to do that we’re just G to we’re just going to let you guys cheer

For a minute and then play the game and then play a little video at the timeout yeah and Mind Over Matter says I was just watching Westbrooks return to OKC and they played the tribute during his introduction on TNT it’s all it should have been done like but but like

It’s just the thing is is like whenever this organization could do something better or there’s just a lot of energy like that they are aren’t in control aren’t in control of the trades they make aren’t in control of the TV contract they signed aren’t in control of their game operations and when they

Run a tribute video like it’s just apparently this organization has zero power over literally anything like they are just completely out of control which I guess is a great way to sum things up several people in chat Mind of a matter Elizabeth Allen and others thank you so

Much when Westbrook had his tribute in OKC it was on TNT National TV and they did his tribute during the introduction y so I don’t want to hear it it’s it’s an absolute failure I don’t care you’re free you guys feel free to think however

You want if you if you think this was fine or Dame didn’t deserve a tribute at all or whatever I might think you’re crazy for that but you’re free to think however you want and I’m free to think that that’s absolute crap from the Blazers to hide behind that excuse if

That’s their excuse they should have demanded they should have said ESPN the only reason you’re here is for Dame’s Dame’s return like this is the whole point let’s hype it up like they had camera Tori I know you were uh you you didn’t get there as early as me I was

There like there was still over an hour on the clock before the game started and all that they had there was like five cameras all following Dame around they were all right in front of him during the national anthem like just on him like they wanted they this is what they

Were here for they weren’t here for the Blazers they don’t they don’t give a crap about the Blazers obviously since this was the only game they’re on national TV so it’s just kind of funny I I just I felt like tonight could have been a home run it was still awesome and

Fun and the Blazers played really well and all that kind of stuff but yeah I I just feel this organization cannot get out of its own way when it comes to this kind of stuff yeah um Brandon Romero says they didn’t show basketball video they showed him in the community and his

Impact that was the second like time out they did a community like tribute video the first time out they did like a basketball tribute thing which was like bigger um you know like but that’s the thing is like the the the first time out tribute should have been before the game

And then first time out then you do the community thing or like end of the first quarter then you do the community thing it just could have been done better uh that’s my opinion that’s Eric’s opinion I mean people in the stadium were booing and it seemed like they were booing Doc

Rivers but they were booing that there wasn’t more before the game so they could have done better and it’s okay to say they could have done better it’s not you know it’s not anything more than that um but anyway I don’t know that’s that’s my thoughts the tributes were cool stadium

Was pretty loud like we gave him an ovation I didn’t hear anyone booing like you know it it was good it was good yeah yep but um I forgot what I was going to say I remember is Jeff Peterson talking to us in chat uh I don’t know I don’t know who

He’s talking to I was rooting for the Blazers to win this game like I I was there in the stadium being loud with everyone else like MH defense and cheering yeah yeah I mean it’s just just trolling in chat so yeah I mean I was rooting for the Blazers like I said okay

Okay I want the Blazers to win but if they don’t win I want Dame to hit a buzzer beer 3 you know what I mean like I wanted it to be an epic loss where Dame in his homecoming like if we’re going to lose I want like I want it to

Be that way which you know even if they lost this game is still would have been a good game you’re playing against a top team in the league and you’re competitive even if it was a close lot still would have been a good game they were 10 and a half Point

Underdogs so this was a good performance by them man um they were active defensively they played with intensity and a lot of guys had good offensive games I don’t think it was necessarily due to um good ball movement or anything like during the second half they got pretty stagnant during the first half

They played with more pace and that’s part of what got scoot going um and yeah I mean it was it was a well played game it was a well played game I just remembered what I wanted to say you know in terms of this organization being powerless though we’re already I don’t

Want to go too deep into this we can go into this later but we’re already starting to hear the excuses set up that like Portland had to keep Malcolm Brogden at the deadline where I’m seeing a bunch of people start say what if they only get offered a second round pick and

That’s it which bro they’re going to get better offers than that they’re going to get an offer good enough that they should take there’s no doubt about it in my mind at all but we’re already starting to hear like what if all the offers are completely terrible like they should just keep them

So if they keep them it’s fine like we’re starting to already hear a bunch of that noise and it’s like literally a rep ition of basically all our assets never have any value ever and there’s nothing we can do to ever get anything for anything we have in a

Trade so but I don’t want to go too de deep into that right now I want to talk about the game but we’re going to talk about that a little bit later because I it’s kind of rid ridiculous um who do you want to start off with in this one

Eric I mean you had lots of good individual performances so you have a few different guys to pick from yeah well um let’s let’s talk about Dame first is that okay yeah yeah I talked a little bit about him so yeah um man uh I saw this on Twitter and I don’t

Know if it was worldwide wob or someone else but uh Brook Lopez ruined a chance I I don’t who knows what would have happened and it’s just weird to think about this possibly I mean it was it was setting up perfectly for Dame to shoot a game winning shot whether it

Went in or not whether you wanted it to go in or not is completely up to every person individually but this game was setting up for a Dame attempt at a game winner and Brook Loa has for some reason decided to take a pump Pi step back three and uh even though Dave

Uh I forgot who was guarding Dame but he was sagging off enough to where if he would have passed the Dame Dame would have had yeah a legit shot um so yeah it just uh someone someone on Twitter said uh that would have been one of the could

Have possibly been one of those alltime memory type plays uh in NBA history and Brook Lo has decided to shoot a three instead uh with a guy in his face like I don’t know it was kind of funny it it was funny it also kind of pissed me off

And not it didn’t piss me off from the standpoint of like I wanted Milwaukee to win it pissed me off from a standpoint of like bro what are you doing like like just it was just kind of ludicrous it pissed me off because of how ludicrous it

Was you’re in Portland brolo you’re in Portland you got Dame on your team a guy who shines in these situations and you’re going to shoot whatever the hell that was bro before that play Eric I don’t know if you saw he was arguing with Doc Rivers yeah well

Cuz uh doc even said it after the game uh he said that play was for Dame and that he he didn’t like Brook shooting that and uh Brooke had taken a a a similar pump fake step back three earlier like a minute or two earlier and

Uh missed it bad and you could tell doc was was mad at that shot um in that situation um and so yeah I think Brooke or doc was a little frustrated with Brooke taking those two bad threes there at the end yeah yeah so already trouble in Paradise with Doc

Rivers as Milwaukee Bucks head coach who would have thought who would have thought um yeah Dame what I was saying before you hopped on was they just they don’t run enough pick and rolls with them man like like I am not a proponent for just completely spamming pick and

Rolls but if you got Dam and Yannis that’s kind of if you’re going to spam pick and rolles that’s the best dual to do it with right but like you I think in the playoffs you got to be able to mix it up right you got to be able to to get

Dame going off the ball you got to be able to let him cook on the ball especially once it gets going but there’s a balance there and in in Portland it was too much spamming ISO and pick a rule in Milwaukee it’s been the opposite it’s been not

Enough and there’s just so many plays where like he was just an afterthought and it was like I could kind of tell watching him in person like it was tough for him to get a rhythm and he’s like stuck between like should I be aggressive or should I you know try and

Play in the flow of the offense and then there’s a couple times where he’s like okay I need to be aggressive so then he’d take a three and miss and it was just it wasn’t the same it wasn’t the same flow within his game that we’ve seen in Portland and you

Know I’ve I’ve watched this dude in person many many many times so you can kind of tell like especially sitting close like I got 100 level tickets and it was just it was different and I don’t think it was due to like a lack of of

Burst I don’t think it’s due to age because there’s multiple times where Dame beat the Blazers off the dribble um where he was able to blow past the defender and get all the way to the rim I mean he had a a dunk late in this game

After playing 40 minutes I don’t think it’s due to him aging like I know he’s getting up there and age but I don’t think he’s lacking any sort of burst I think it’s just the flow of things like it’s I don’t think it’s a lack of ability at

All I think it’s his struggles especially in January because he has struggled is very situational and kind of saw it in this game yeah um Paul in chat says he moves like he’s not allowed to take over yeah I don’t know if I don’t know if that’s the sort

Of the case and like let’s be fair to Doc I guess um I mean this is only a second game he just started coaching Monday um I think he maybe had been doing some stuff in shoot arounds and practice before that but like I don’t think he’s been given

Enough time to implement anything yet he’s mostly he’s still trying to learn his team a little bit and and what players do best and all that like it’s going to take him a couple weeks to get locked in um I mean he’s doc River so maybe he

Doesn’t get locked in but I I do think he should get a little bit of time to to do that um he actually gets less locked in as the playoffs go that’s true but I mean he’s got a pretty good roster though um the other thing uh so Kyle not

That Kyle uh this Kyle is actually pretty cool um we got many many kyes shout out to all all the kyes uh so he was at the game I think he was sitting in your section Tori but uh yeah um got the chance to meet him

Before the game um so that was cool but uh he says in chat why inbound to Giannis at the end and uh that was also uh something that didn’t make sense to me uh you know Portland’s probably going to foul um if they’re smart so why are you giving the ball

To um why are you giving the ball to uh to Giannis knowing he’s going to have to shoot free throws yeah yeah I didn’t understand that at all um Dam should not be inbound in that situation like if you want to have Giannis as an option also have Dame

As an option and have a third guy INB the ball I saw that 4.6 seconds left you’re down three and I’m like there Dame’s inbounding out of all people man and it’s like the Blazers are probably going to foul to send him to the line up

Three you know the two free throw things in the final second like that was the strategy but Dame would have been far more likely to make the first free throw which Yannis didn’t which Yannis didn’t so then it became a you had to tip the ball out to three instead of having to

Get a putback around the rim and that was ball game so didn’t really understand that call from Doc Rivers didn’t really understand what the point of that was yep I mean maybe you’re thinking they don’t foul and you can get Giannis downhill and then hand off to someone

Coming the other way but if Dame’s inbounding the ball that’s really hard for him to do maybe he was going to dribble to like half court and then hand off to Dame I don’t know I don’t know but like we’ve seen that play Dame had a game winner yeah earlier I mean it

Wasn’t really half court it was kind of just a pitch back to him but it’s like you already saw that play you’re ready for that play and yanis just took took and went so I don’t really understand what that was yeah let’s talk I don’t know is there

Anything else you want to say about Dam um I mean it was weird watching him in another team uniform what did you think of that yeah definitely in person yeah definitely and then like when he’s shooting free throws and it’s like it felt like the crowd didn’t really want

To like distract them or be rude you know like cheer or like you know make noise and clap the clappers when he was shooting free throws but when Yannis is at the line it’s just a chorus of one two three so that was kind of interesting um when Dame had a had his

First bucket you know there was a cheer and I was like cheering for Dame to to hit deep threes at the start of the game and then the game was like competitive later so then it was just like let’s just win this game like it there wasn’t

As much cheer for Dame yeah it was kind of like you know he’s he’s on the other team um but yeah it was it was strange man it was strange for sure yeah and it’s just like this team you know it’s like we’re not I’ve been thinking about this lately

It’s I like a lot of players on this team but there isn’t that connection there isn’t that connection like the the one guy there’s a connection for is maybe ant and then like maybe scoot because he’s like the young Star right yeah there’s like a lot

Of guys where it’s just like I’m not connected to Aon like I was nerk like I was um Dame like I was even even Josh Hart you know I I got connected to Josh Hart pretty quickly because that dude played his ass off you know and and played hard it’s

Like and it’s not it’s not like to say I hate Aon or anything I think he’s been really good the last five games it’s just not that same connection as a fan with like Aon Brogden all these guys part of it is because obviously they’re new but then

Part of it is like they don’t feel like they’re a part of the team that will win anything in a way like once this team is ready finally finally ready to contend how many of these guys are still going to be here probably not brog and

Brogon shouldn’t be here you know what I mean and it’s like weird cheering for a guy that you should think should get traded not because he’s bad but because he’s good so retire a Trailblazer dude I I don’t bro but oh my god um so it’s just I don’t know like it’s different

With like Dave there was that that bond between the city and him and it’s just like I don’t know if there will ever be another guy with that same Bond like it was just special with Dame and it’s going to take a lot of work for somebody

To create that same Bond it feels like um you know there will be fan favorites but Dame wasn’t just a fan favorite there was something special there that probably can’t be replicated well it’s like you know the one that got away you know the when that

Happens to you and then you like go on dates and you meet people who are nice or whatever like seemingly in the past would have been uh people that you would have enjoyed going out with but it’s just like you’re you’re missing you’re you know the one that you you really had

Your heart set on so a little bit of that it’s still it’s still fairly new it’s still kind of weird and this is the first time seeing Dame come here as a member of another team so um I don’t know but like dam was also it was pretty

Soon after he came on I mean he starts right away plays pretty well as a rookie wins Rookie of the Year all that kind of stuff so uh I just I think the emotions are still kind of at play there I don’t necessarily think there’s anyone on the

Team that’s like tough to Route four I mean maybe sometimes when there’s lack of effort and things like that it can get frustrating but there’s a lot of guys who who work hard on this team as well um they’re just not necessarily starters or the main guys

Right yeah yeah um it was just weird too cuz like we drafted scoot right and Dame’s G and it’s like this fan base I feel like really wanted to have really wants to have that same bond with scoot right like where scoot is able to develop into a superstar caliber player

That Embraces the community and is just like you know that guy and then in the first half it was like this is what we this is what we wanted you know and it was weird because that I think that was his best half as a blaz Eric that first

Half that first half he was just phenomenal phenomenal I thought um and yeah but it’s like he’s coming off the bench he only plays 13 minutes in the first half and has 15 points on really efficient shooting four assists like he was great right and it’s like it’s hard

To even start to embrace him at that level when the team won’t even you know they they won’t start him because you got Malcolm brog in here and it’s like I understand that you he’s done better coming off the bench this year so this isn’t really a complaint to say like he

Should be starting or this or that it was just like he starts going off like that it was kind of weird it was like what what in the world this is what we were waiting for this is what we were waiting for off season it was just the

First time we really saw it and it came against Dave um there’s just something about it that was just man it was sick like it like scoots plays got me super hype but also there was just something about it that was just like man we we need we need this consistently

And I want to start embracing him yeah but this but he’s only playing 22 minutes a game when he plays great yep and it’s like he becomes an afterthought like he has this he has this heater he has this huge run and then he’s like stuck playing off the ball or like

Trying to isolate and like struggling because he’s not an ISO player yet and it’s just like man it’s it’s it’s hard I don’t know what it is there’s just something about it that bothers me in terms of we don’t play enough he’s just coming off the bench

And then he can have a great half and then the next half becomes an afterthought and I don’t think it’s his fault I think it’s as much the system and MH us slowing things down not playing with the same Pace we did in the first half and it’s frustrating well

Another thing it is Tori when you come in you play well and then you go to the bench like halfway through the second quarter and then you have halftime and then you have half half of the third quarter like in real time that’s like an hour almost before you’re playing again

You know like like so you get you come in the game you’re doing well you’re you’re all like like he was hyped he hit that shot at the end of the quarter and and things were going well you could tell he was into the game he was making

Great decisions uh dude that Simons didn’t hit the shot but he scoot drove and I was like I was telling my mom like dude scoots or Simons is open in the corner I hope scoot scoot hits that pass pass it to Simons and Scoot drives I

Didn’t think he even saw Simons and he just puts it right on the money from in the paint out all the way out to the corner and I was like yes scoot that’s what I’ve been waiting for man driving like collapse the defense and kick it

Out to your Shooters and uh and I was I was so excited and then and like I said then you sit for like an hour and it’s hard to like come back in the game and then get yourself going again and then like it’s just it’s really tough to do I

Thought I thought he probably should have sat for a few minutes and came back in maybe at the end of the second quarter um just to just to get back in the game for a few minutes and and reward him for playing well um it’s just

It’s tough man I I don’t I don’t know and this is exactly why I want I mean no matter how good of a job he’s doing mentoring scoot um like I I just don’t want this problem on the team I want all these minutes to go to scoot

So he can learn on the Fly and and work through his mistakes even if it cost us wins I think it’s more important than uh playing Brogden just so we win a game like this you know yeah I like I understand when he struggles only playing him 22 minutes but just he

Should not be having a game like this where he only plays 22 minutes and I mean there’s there’s just people on Twitter that are like you know what maybe I just go read read it because this is just kind of indicative of some things it’s like basically

People are saying you know you don’t want to sacrifice winnable games right now by by catering to young players because scoop makes a couple mistakes and gets yanked right we’re going to have to talk about ch’s quote on that and it’s just like okay so we made a

Couple mistakes he had two turnovers forces 15 points on efficient shooting like at what point what at what point are you going to trust him to play through a couple mistakes they were letting him play through an insane amount of mistakes at the start of the season and now that he’s playing better

Now they have a shorter leash because of malum Brogden or Anthony Simons like I thought had a good game it wasn’t like the team was necessarily better when he was out the game and Scoot was in the game like scoot was a plus five ant was

A minus 11 Aon was a minus 10 like you know it’s I understand that here’s my thing scoot has had some hot starts to games and he’s had some struggles in second halves and I feel like the leash gets a little too short in the second Hales when scoot starts to struggle and

I feel like when he starts to struggle it gets in his own head and he loses his confidence and I think partly what a cause for that might be is he gets yanked a little too quickly or when he gets subbed out he knows he’s not going back in the game no matter

What no matter how he played no matter if it’s just one or two mistakes he knows that it’s basically I can’t make a mistake I can’t have a stretch where I struggle in this game or else I’m going to get subbed out and I’ll get subbed

Back in and you saw him play Super confidently in the first half in the second half he makes a couple mistakes but the offense was pretty damn stagnant I think his mistakes were due to the stagnant ass offense more than anything and he gets subbed out for it

And it’s like man we got to build his confidence we got to build him up people say he’s not ready to start okay well build him up to the point where he is which means that when he has a great game let him make a couple of mistakes

And let him work through them don’t bench him and only play him nine minutes in the second half when he was arguably the best player on the court in the first half so that stuff I I just I can’t stand because it’s not in my opinion it’s not great long term I also

Do not think that it was necessarily better because I thought scoot was playing good and Scoot was playing confident and Scoot has had some good performances lately scoot is starting to turn a corner in my opinion so I don’t know it’s frustrating Eric uh yeah so last nine games scoots averaging like 20

Minutes yeah uh I don’t get it man um yeah I I completely agree with you uh you got to let them work their mistakes on the court you can only watch so much in my opinion and it’s it’s one thing like cuz I saw this argument

Um like well there’s been lots of good players that sat and learn behind um other players but for the most part those were all really good teams you know like even uh Anthony you know comes in and has 37 points his last game of his rookie year but that was a three

Seed like it’s not like we were rebuilding or something you know like we were the third seed uh thanks to that game actually we tried to knock it to third seed for some reason but uh that’s beside the point um but like CJ like his first two years he doesn’t he barely

Plays and he most that was due to injury and stuff I think they actually wanted to play him right away but um but the Blazers were good those two seasons those were the last two Lamarcus uh West Matthews and Batum teams and and and they were they were good they weren’t

Rebuilding and so you can that’s a different situation in my opinion in the Blazer situation you went you your whole franchise made a pivot to scoot erson from Damen Lillard and it’s not fair to scoot to put the these like expectations on him or that pressure on him

Specifically but strictly from the front office’s perspective when you make that decision you have to then live with that decision and let him at least try to make that decision a good decision you know and that doesn’t mean when you make that decision that doesn’t mean you

Then also keep veterans around and try to win games and play them over the guy you decided to switch your whole franchise to um it it just it’s it’s baffling how people just do not understand that yeah so the quote that Chanty gave Eric is part of the reason why I’m more

Frustrated about this mhm okay and it’s like we great win great win I I kind of wanted to save this to be positive about things first there’s still other players we’re going to talk about where we’re going to be positive but as you guys as

You guys know I I am not going to hide anything I think is is a problem or something I don’t like just to try and cater to people that want us to just Spam positivity whenever we can okay because there’s a quote after this game that I just think is it’s terrible and

I’m quoting a tweet because I didn’t actually listen to set interview but this is a tweet from Austin white who covers the Blazers for Portland Tribune and this is what his tweet reads he says bip said he didn’t put scoop back in because of being unsure of what scoot

Might or might not do said they had a chance to win the game and felt it better that scoot was off that is a hor that’s after the first half that this dude had to say that because of a couple of mistakes is horrible horrible that is not good for a

Young player absolutely not to hear my God you know what that is it’s try’s bip chony bip’s version of We’re 29th on defense with jerck Jones Jr and 29th without him yeah that’s just a horrible horrible quote man if if if he if he was 0 for six and struggled and

Like he knew he was struggling and he only plays 18 minutes you get asked about and just be like yeah scoot was just struggling today um so so he went with some other guys like okay cool that’s what it is SC was great but you’re sitting here like I was unsure of

What would happen with him so I think we were better off just not playing him after he had a great stretch where he was playing with a ton of confidence that’s not good for a young player’s confidence and the main thing we need to do is build scoot’s confidence because

When scoot plays with confidence he looks like a completely different player I don’t think he consistently plays with confidence which shouldn’t be a surprise because he’s a 19-year-old in the best league in the world as a rookie right so his confidence is probably going to waver because there’s a steep learning

Curve that would Shake anyone’s confidence okay you saw him get confident in garbage time last last game right because of the players he was going against as the Blazers got a blowout win and he hits three threes in a row he had never hit three threes in a

Row before but look he’s confidence going against you know end of the bench guys and people say oh well yeah he had a he had a good game because uh you know he went off against scrubs but he played with more confidence against scrubs and went off because he was playing with

More confidence right and then at the start of this game that was the maybe the most confident I ever saw scoot like the way he was driving into people the way he was finishing um that three he took like he looked so confident man and I’ve been waiting for him to show that

Level of confidence all year and it’s something you have to Foster that something you have to cultivate within him and stuff like this I think does the opposite yeah and I have a major issue with it yep agreed I just I was so into watching scoot in this first

Half and I was like yeah dude like this is and I saw people in chat saying this as well um it’s like the dude does seem to have a knack for stepping up for big games and and big moments and stuff um like when the g-league ignite played um

Wemi yeah uh like he had a had a monster game um and so yeah you wonder like maybe maybe the problem is he’s just not the kind of guy who can thrive in like a sucky situation so we need to give him as many minutes in

My opinion to make sure it’s not sucky uh but I I went to uh so or I didn’t go to but uh I since you weren’t live yet on my drive home um I decided to flip on the fifth quarter in Chad doing yeah and uh

I don’t know if you listen to it at all Tori or way home so Chad is and and like he have people calling in saying the same things this is what I think you were calling out on Twitter as well yeah Chad was saying that Chanty deserves a lot of

Credit for how he’s developing uh scoot right now and that he’s making sure he only plays against bench units and that’s good for his confidence and that this will ultimately be better for him than playing him uh against better players and in crunchtime minutes and the organization knows what they’re

Doing and all this stuff and yeah okay well that’s just a bad take um because he started going off against Dame yeah I know right that’s and part of the reason I felt like was because it was against Dame mhm you know what I mean like that wasn’t against the bench

Lineup I think you’re a little maybe there’s there’s a little truth to be just I don’t know some people can come in the game and like when you’re a quick player like scoot you can come in and you’re you’re just like different than than Anthony um and Malcolm is very

Methodical and slow uh his style it’s more like craftiness than than speed and so like you can come in a game and it’s just a different look for a defense and I think maybe there’s something to that like scoot just has a gear that the other team hasn’t seen yet in that game

Um but yeah like you said the line it’s never just you’re playing against the backup point guard only when you play he played several uh like I’d probably say half of his minutes were against uh Buck starters and all that kind of stuff so

Yeah so he came in his first he came in Brook Lopez was still in the game Damen lard was still in the game yanis santaa was still in the game he got subbed out um a little bit after scoot came in but scoot had a bucket before then right I

Mean those are all starters he’s playing against you know Bobby poris is a starting caliber player he’s not no bench scrub okay so then he’s playing against Bobby poris Jay Crowder has started for a good portion of his career and is a veteran you know what I mean

Like and he plays great like this is a really good team if that was the case then it would make sense for him to to not have a good game when he gets subbed in is playing against lineups like that but here’s the thing I understand the logic okay

But but when he starts doing well against those bench units give him the chance to build upon that at like the end of the first half sub him out let him catch his breath for three or four minutes sub him back in let him try and build upon that instead

You’re limiting him to to only playing bench units he needs experience against the best and the best he needs experience playing against starters okay even though it doesn’t look good I mean the mindset is basically like a he has to play good in order to grow okay you can’t learn from failure

And that uncomfortable situations or challenges aren’t beneficial which I absolutely do not agree with and B it’s like okay well you have to play him against bench units for his confidence but then when he makes a couple of mistakes and you sub him out because of

It and then after the game you say I don’t know what he was going to do after he plays great that is not building his confidence whatsoever whatsoever so that’s my whole problem with that sort of take is it’s not consistent like when he plays a good game and he only plays

20 minutes and it be basically becomes like well I only get to play against bench lineups I I don’t really see how that’s confidence building when you don’t give him a chance to build upon the confidence he has against Ben Lem so it doesn’t really make sense to me yeah

Um and then the other thing Chad was saying I don’t this might have been if you expand Chon’s quote out further that might this might have been what he said too is that in crunch time uh teams are sagging off Scoot and that cramping uh or collapsing the defense

For ant and Grant and bro that pisses me off he’s shooting 35% from three since he came back from injury right but we going to play thall against starters cuz he shoots 36% from three well if they’re second off of him let him shoot the ball

Well it’s only a problem too because we go once again we did it in this game I mean it worked out but we go complet we had 23 assists in this game going into the fourth quarter only have three in the fourth uh we we just completely go

ISO heavy and had several lost post game stream but this is all facts yeah well and and so um I mean we’ll talk about the good performance in a minute I mean I but I think SC let me just say this let me just say this this is not

Negativity this is I want to play scoopm when he’s killing it when scoot is playing great play him more let him I let’s maximize that that’s not a negative thing it’s not a negative thing people take it negatively because we have a problem with what the team’s doing but ch’s the

One being negative towards scoot saying I don’t know what he’s going to do it was better with him off the floor okay Rich say helicopter coaching to protect scoot from scoot free scoot man let him like like if we lost this game was sick to win you know

What I mean it was a playoff atmosphere I thought that was great I would have loved for scoot to experience that playoff atmosphere against a good team while being on the court going against Dame yeah even if he struggled I think that would have been a good experience

For him to have compared to just watching like a spectator for the final however many minutes just like you and I were so Chad finished his point by saying look at scoot earlier in the season compared to now I don’t think you can deny that what they’re doing is

Working by he’s a 19-year-old he’s going to improve with any sort reps I know I that’s confirmation bias I I know I I know God man like okay fine fine whatever y i but yeah I see to me and here’s the other problem well there’s two problems one sharp isn’t even

Playing right now what the heck is going to happen when shark comes back if we still have broaden in the lineup exactly like how are we going to manage all of that and then so what we’re going to play scoot less and then we’re not going

To play sharp in crunch time too because he does better against second units or some crap I don’t know it’s just the opposite of what we said before the season where it’s like this season isn’t about wins losses as much as it’s about Player Development and maximizing Our Youth

And what happened at the end of last season when we started not playing our veterans and giving uh sharp as much responsibility and let him finish games and do all that kind of stuff what happened he blossomed he thrived right yeah exactly like how how do we know

We’re not like holding scoop back from thriving right now you know and that’s the problem like but you know they say oh we started early in the year and looked awful well yeah the start of his rookie season guess what he should be much better by the end of his rookie

Season so let let him let him grow into that role like but that’s why we got to trade Brogden man and it’s just you you can’t God What’s the phrase I want to use like there’s a point where you got to let scoot Sinker swim okay and there’s a

Point where you got to stop trying to completely coddle scoot where oh he can’t his confidence can’t handle his mentality can’t handle playing against too many starters so they know what they’re doing because they are making sure that he doesn’t what are we talking about bro

Well and two so yeah we won this game but what about the rest of the season yeah all the games where you and I have been saying this exact same thing why isn’t scoot playing in the fourth quarter in crunch time so that by this time you don’t know what you don’t have

The quote from chony like I don’t know what I’m going to get from him good or bad so I don’t I don’t want to risk playing him yeah cuz you’ve already seen it for like 10 games that’s exactly why both you and I have thought this whole season

Should have been about just letting him as you put it sink or swim from the beginning of the season and I know he got hurt but he comes back and he gets limited um and doesn’t play much at all during crunch time but if he would have

Been playing in crunch time then by tonight you know we’re over halfway through the season he should be used to playing in these crunch time situations and the coaching staff should have ways to run our offense to not make it a problem that that they’re not guarding scoot whether

That’s playing him on ball more or you know having him cut off ball or set screens for someone on ball or something um like I just I feel like there’s so many things we could have done this season to make it to where we’re not still questioning whether we should even

Try to run scoot out there in crunch time what are we even doing this season yeah um yeah PR man um and really sco sco scoo scoo the last two games has been his best two game stretch MH he had 22 points on five for

N shooting I mean it was a great fourth quarter but it was like okay that’s three straight quarters where he’s phenomenal so I mean just just let give him a little bit more leash give him a little bit more freedom and it’s okay to challenge him

Once in a while I understand maybe not wanting to throw him to the wolves in a starting lineup but when he’s playing good loosen the slack on that leash and give him opportunities to build on it and I feel like we just don’t give him an opportunity to build on it and then

After the game to say that that’s just not what chony should say like just just a bad thing to say after a game where he was great and it’s like Chanty Chanty has a tendency to say things that aren’t the right things to say after one of his players having a

Game remember the a fry Simon having like 43 points and this and that and and he after the game he’s saying like yeah we just don’t have an alpha on this team and like you know there’s context behind it and oh people say oh he’s just talking about like in the first half

They don’t have a guy that like starts the game too it’s just like all this like Twisted ass context but it’s like okay well let’s just listen to what he’s saying though like he’s saying we don’t got an alpha that’s after a has a 43-point game bro like I understand if

You want to say that if the whole team struggles for three four five games like if he said that after losing by 62 against OKC I would have had a problem with it but it was after an’s best game of the season where he absolutely look

Like an alpha and then it’s and then like this game was scoo it’s just man like basically I’m not sure what scoot was going to do basically he’s telling me you’re scared to play him you’re scared to play him that’s not good you should not be scared to play him

Okay when we’re 15 and 33 like what are you scared of I don’t know what he scared of I don’t know who knows can’t be scared to play but well but here’s the other thing okay so we talked about this a little bit scoot seems to thrive in these high pressure

Situations um and these moments where he’s hyped up and he’s got like the pressure on him like seemingly he’s been better in those situations than coming in and playing and not really caring about the game or you know whatever um so how do we know if that doesn’t

Mean like in the clutch moments he wouldn’t be like good you know yeah and how do we know that unless we try it it’s just kind of funny yeah I absolutely agree um he’s been really good this this month um compared to the rest of the season um I would love to

Expand his role given his recent play because he’s been playing good man like he today that first half was the scoot Henderson from like the g- league ignite you know um but like he was efficient he was six for 11 he was what one for two

From three I mean he continues to shoot the three ball well like after this game he’s what like 30 he’s probably 31% from three now given a two for 24 start from three for him to be 31% that’s pretty damn good like considering and let let me do the actual

Math the one three missed too he had an open three passed it up and then did like a bad step back three that was not a good shot but yeah he should have just taken the three but like he second guessed himself you don’t want him second guessing himself so chy shouldn’t

Second guess him and be I don’t know what he was going to do he played great all game but I don’t know if he was going to keep it up so I had to Ben like I don’t like that I don’t like that but on the season he’s 44 or no he’s

464 149 that’s 30.9% from three he started two for 24 so if you take that out 44 for 125 that’s 35.2% from three mhm like if in the comment the comments of like they’re sagging off of them well in goggles he’s a 35% three-point shooter so you’re telling me that you

Don’t want a 35% three-point shooter open like that’s not good like that’s not good enough that’s not good enough I don’t get it if teams play off of them I mean it should just be like okay well he’s been shooting the ball well enough if teams are playing off of him okay

We’ll just give him the ball and Scoot shoot the damn ball every time you’re open scoot shoot it shoot with confidence because when he has he’s been an okay shooter anyway y i i i i want the best for scoot like this scoot is the most important thing this season I know this

Feels kind of negative given that we won the game but I I thought scoot played great and I thought scoot should have play more simple that simple and I want to like I want to make sure we’re doing the best job possible of letting him build upon his success that’s it it’s that

Simple simple um so anyway let’s move on uh talk about an I mean he h another clutch shot Eric he’s been the clutchest player in the league this year yeah um I mean you can make a case you should win the that Award right well yeah it

Depends on does he have to play 65 games and does team record come into play yeah I don’t know but I mean if you only have like 20 wins and you had a game you you had clutch shots in like 15 of those 20 wins is isn’t that good yeah I don’t know

Yeah but uh I don’t know if you saw this play or not but there was a play Anthony Simons made today um I was super impressed with and it was on defense uh there was a play where uh Anthony was off ball and he uh he noticed scoot getting

Caught on a screen mhm and before like scoot could even not get there he ran he just left his guy and ran all the way across the court and knew that he had to go cover Dame and told and as he was running by scoot told him to go get

The corner guy and so like he he saw something off ball that that Dame was about to be wide open for a three because scoot couldn’t get through a screen and uh completely blew up the play and got a stop uh just by using his his brain off fall and uh and little

Things like that are really impressive to me and um I think they go mainly unnoticed by this fan base um and well everyone who talks about infy but uh I I thought he really competed hard on defense tonight and did a pretty good job on that end yeah

He there was a couple mistakes that were bad that stood out to me there was one where they had a full shot clock of great defense where the an got back cut from the corner and he was pissed at himself he hit the St and he slapped it

Yeah and there’s like another where just like bad close out could speed off the dribble um he did get scored on more than that but a lot of times it was him guarding Chris mid Middleton who’s a just like Demar d rozan a Middleton hit on seven and

Just on fire from mid-ranges and it’s like a was doing a good job contesting him like there’s nothing more you can ask him to do and that’s probably a shot that you live with he was just on fire on mid-range shots like Chris Milton shot the ball 9 for 13 three for five

From three like he was on fire he just had a go he was cooking and that’s a you know all that’s a guy who’s been an All-Star in this league so those types of possessions even though it’s getting scored on no problem with them getting back door cuz he falls asleep that’s the

Stuff that he has to continue to try and clean up but he has good moments too and he I don’t think his defense I don’t think any of his defensive struggles are due to a lack of effort or a lack of caring or a lack of

IQ I think there’s just a couple times where he tries to close out too hard or he is focusing on the ball too hard or out of position like there’s just some like things that he needs to clean up and then sometimes it’s he’s undersized

And we switch a lot and he gets stuck in mismatches yep hold on a second everything good yeah just about to hide someone in chat oh yeah just somebody coming in being super rude for no reason reason okay goodbye unnecessary um I like when they bash the

Whole Community you know yeah no I mean I just ban him without even saying anything move along um but yeah so an 10 for 19 I’m me Clutch shooting hit some threes they were running drop they run a lot of drop with Brook Lopez and ant got

Going a little bit off that they given him space to pull up from three it’s not the right scheme four for9 for ant you can’t run drop on him like that just like you can’t run drop on Dame good K from him uh Aon Eric 20

Points on rebounds before I get a real quick boom uh says great game and evening appreciate you guys it was great meeting you got to G to meet you too man you got to meet boom too yeah oh nice yeah met him after the game I waited

Nice that’s coau with him yeah it was cool yeah I met him and his friend Brandon who he said uh introduced him to us um so yeah it’s good to meet you guys as well shout out to Brandon doing our marketing appreciate it but yeah

DeAndre yeah I took it to Lopez a couple times the mid-range shot wasn’t falling but the shots around the rim were were better and he had another efficient night another night where he scores 20 and another night where he he rebounds the ball pretty well um we did give up a

Lot of offensive rebounds 10 offensive rebounds we had nine on our own so almost made that up Aon was Aon was solid had there was there was that one play I forgot who lobed it to him but someone lobed it to him he got blocked by Giannis got the ball back missed another

Shot got the ball back again and then turned it over um so there was two of our offensive rebounds um but uh yeah I thought offensively Aon was uh pretty good um still think he settles a little too much for the mid-range i’ I’d rather uh

Him step out uh he was he was shooting some threes and warm-ups um looked pretty good but uh yeah I I do agree that I like that lately at least he’s been trying to take it and be a little more physical inside yeah yeah different difference in

Attitude he got hyped after one of his buckets um as long as he has efficient Knights like this I’m okay with him shooting mid-ranges I just when the mid-ranges result in him having nights where he’s you know four for 11 it’s not good not good because he doesn’t get to the line

And he doesn’t shoot threes so he has to shoot 60% from thei roughly uh in order to be an efficient player um 10 for 17 that’s what 59% from the field efficient KN yeah yep um did you well the block on on Dame was cool um but did you see uh the

Interactions between him and phips the whole fourth quarter no wasn’t really paying attention what happened uh so this is one thing I I like being at the games for um there were I mean I lost track of how many times uh bips threw up his arms and

Yelled at Aon down the court um after a defensive possession uh yeah so obviously there’s some something going on there on defense that bips was not happy about um I think multiple times it was uh he was saying too far off Brooke around the three-point line definitely

He dude he had he had an issue with that today and uh yeah so several times he has an issue with that with and then he’d be like yeah you know motioning for him to come here on his way back and yeah he he has an issue of bagging off

Too much with a lot of shooting Big Ben I’ve noticed yeah so I think it’s been an ongoing problem before this game right I just think I think he’s messing up the coverages a little bit but I also I mean dap’s not a good Defender either so they don’t really

Have anyone else they can turn to right now so they just kind of Li they they kind of have to live with it yep but um I mean other than that I it’s hard to it’s hard to say anything about a right now he’s he’s been playing well yeah

They do got du breath to turn two and I mean he’s not playing a ton 13 minutes but he’s been effective dude he was good in this game the pass fake to the drive and dunk the threes like pretty active on the glass uh dap was dwap was good man um he

Was part of that second quarter where scoot gets going he was a part of that run the Blazers went on um it wasn’t like a crazy run but you’re going against Milwaukee if you can go on any sort of run with your bench because Milwaukee will normally keep one of Dame

Or janison and then they have Bobby poris Off the Bench like they got a pretty solid you know top six seven guys if you’re able to go on any sort of run with scootle in the show and do breath that’s two rookies that’s impressive yeah so I was happy with him um and

Then I don’t know Jabari I thought was good surprised he didn’t play a little more Kamar I talked about in the intro took three charges late in the second half okay so this goes back to our point with scoot uh Kamara right yeah first

Half comes in I swear it was like I it might have been longer than this like but it felt like it was he came in for a minute and then got subbed out like almost immediately um and you could even see him cuz uh I think it was thyo that

Came in for him or something and and he was like me like he was all confused he went back to the bench and Chona gives him pat on the butt and like um and like I don’t think he comes back in in the first half um how how many

Minutes did he end up playing because I know he played a ton in the second half um 23 minutes so yeah must have been at least a couple minutes then in the first half uh but um but yeah it was it was so weird but

Then you know you he plays in the second half and gets a few a little bit more minutes and what does he do he makes plays like you know like that’s that’s why I just want to let these guys figure it out because those three plays he made

Were absolute GameChanger plays when you take a charge especially on a guy like Giannis who has a full full head of steam and is going towards the basket when you can do that and you get actual respect from the refs and they don’t call it a block or whatever yeah um like

I don’t know like it just he he he got left in and he made another one like you know he makes two plays and then Chanty keeps him in when normally he would go back to Jabari uh probably and and tamman rewards him with another one and

I just I love when guys get the opportunity and step up and seize that opportunity and that’s exactly why I wanted when when scoot was playing well today to also have that opportunity to do that same thing yeah uh so Tani played N9 minutes in the first half um

He played the last six and a half of the first quarter then got sub back in with seven little over seven minutes remaining in the second quarter played like two and a half minutes and then that’s when thall subbed into him what you’re talking about um he he basically

Finished the game they went to situational lineups like there in the final minute or so yeah but Kamar was was in um during those final minutes with Aon with Grant you know he it was basically that starting front Court combination that we saw earlier in the

Season and I like that chony elected to give Kamar that run because I thought he was being a bit disruptive with Milwaukee trying to get into some of their half court offense like his length was bothering Dame a little bit um you know like he I felt

Like he was kind of wearing Dame down a little bit because most guys most NBA point guards don’t have to like stress about bringing the ball up the court like don’t have to shake a guy on an inbounds pass on the Baseline out of a timeout full court Baseline like in

Order to get the ball in and then have to deal with that sort of pressure so you know I I do like you know some level of pressure if you’re not getting beat you’re not fouling and that sort of thing to money those three charges were huge momentum plays and basically the

Blazers struggled with Giannis all game long in terms of fouling him when he drove some of those fouls were BS calls but Yiannis is going to get those BS calls you almost got to take that into account when you defend him that there’s going to be like three to five calls a

Game that anyone else in the game aren’t going to get but Giannis gets like it’s it’s quite frustrating like I think he gets an absolutely wild whistle at times um and there was a few plays in this game where it’s just like man I don’t I don’t think that gets called the other

Way around but you got to do ad just to that the are a part of a game how do you adjust to that you slide with him as he drives you get your hands off him so he can’t swing his arms up through it and then when he tries to get aggressive and

He tries to go through your chest you absorb the contact and you see what they call right Taman got a charge that way the other way you do it is you step up and rotate and take a charge outside the charge Circle tamani did that so that’s

That’s how you got to deal with Yannis right and that gets him foul TR we had five fouls at the end of this game if this game goes into overtime there’s a good chance he fouls out right that’s how you deal with the Hest so Tani those

Two charges were great considering we s him to the line 11 times we fouled him quite a bit we got to chant numbers a little too much although it was fun it wasn’t outside of the first couple it wasn’t even getting to 10 point I know that was funny part well he

Sped it up the first couple it was at like 12 so then he speeds it up and it’s like okay that’s a successful thing though right like we’re getting him to speed it up a little bit doesn’t get to take his time I don’t know um I don’t

Know how it doesn’t make a Miss more to be honest yeah because that that would be distracting but maybe just doesn’t get distracted like you I don’t I mean if if I wanted to take that much time and I was heing a crowd get close to 10 in the back of

Your head wouldn’t it be like okay I got shoot and then all of a sudden you’re rushing it maybe I don’t know um it’s interesting but Kamar it wasn’t just the charges too like there was various plays where he’s denying Giannis the ball and just being active and I think he’s

Slipped a little bit defensively the year’s gone on at the start of the Season he played some really good defense and I wantan to I want him to get back to that like offensively he’s kind of rough right now he did have a nice drive and

Finish with his right hand which is his off hand he was two for three he’s a guy that teams can leave more so than scoot on the three-point line but he finishes the game I understand it because he was playing good defense I’m actually happy with it

I’m happy that chony let him continue to play and he ends up playing 14 minutes in a second half where he was our best defender but like he hasn’t been great recently yeah and I’m not sure why yeah but it’s just it’s interesting to me

That he gets the benefit of the doubt to play in the situation when he’s kind of an unknown as well but the guy I mean I guess the logic is like he’s not going to be handling the ball as much so if Chon’s scared of a rookie like he’s

Going to be less scared of the guy that just has to play defense yeah I don’t know well uh I did I did think think uh his length was a problem for Dame um and his his full court pressure I just I think he I I mean I don’t think it like

Really bothered them but I think it it did kind of mess up their timing of their offense and like his full court pressure and stuff they they had several possessions where it took them a while just to even get the ball up the court to set up their plays

Yeah yeah Kamar was huge man um and then Jabari I thought had some good minutes there in the first half hit a three at the start of the game was three for four five boards like I thought you could make the case that he maybe should have played a little bit more um

Although it’s like it’s a little different at the forward spots with guys like that too I mean like who’s you’re going to take away from Grant minutes it’s not like Jabari is the type of guy that like needs a bunch of reps right now to develop like a scoot um cuz he’s

Just like lunch pale Dirty Work guy like going to scrap and Claw and use his body and drive had a really impressive hand wouldn’t finish um so you know like given how well he played 60 Minutes feels a little low but those minutes were given to Kamar who is also good

Yeah and is also a young player so that’s another reason why I want to trade the veterans though CU then we don’t have to worry about we can play them both more minutes you know yeah I mean like at this point with at this point with Jeremy

Um keep everyone here let’s get into this let’s get into this with Jeremy it’s a little more questionable as to what teams will offer I would if joke let me word it this way with Brogden okay if Joe Cronin can’t get a team to give up a first round pick for Malcolm

Brogden then I think if anything that’s confirmation that he does not know how to get back proper value for his assets I mean how many times are we going to have a situation where it’s yeah Joe Cronin I mean he just didn’t get good enough offers it takes two teams to

Trade and you know what I mean like he had to he had to do nothing because there wasn’t anything good out there when he has an asset that he can sell to 29 other teams we did it with Norm we did it with rogo like because that was one deal we

Did it with the third pick and if it’s a situation where they keep Brogden to me it’s because they want to keep brogon right because I think there will be at least one team that will offer a first round pick for brogon and his value is not going to go up in my

Opinion between now and the off season so if they keep him past the deadline that means they want to keep him into next season too so then it’s how the hell do you figure things out cuz scoot next season should be much better in playing more minutes sharp should be

Much better in playing more minutes and same with ant so why keep them till the off season his trademark is not going to get better teams would rather have him for two playoff runs than one singular playoff run like he’s basically becomes a rental starting next season because

He’s an expiring contract right so if teams are trading stuff for him you have to worry about him leaving now he’s a type of guy that likes to stay in a situation as is evident by he’s happy here in Portland but um with him it’s it’s what’s the end game with him you’re

Going to keep him forever and just forever have them playing in front of our young guards even as they improve are you just holding out hope somebody gives up something more in the offseason because I think that is um I think that is hopeless like I don’t think he’s

Going to fetch more in the off season so what’s the end goal who knows with this team right yeah and uh yeah yep I mean you have multiple teams that have expiring contracts or whatever decent contracts to trade that aren’t part of their core like Evan

Fornier and that have been rumored to be interested in Malcolm Brogden have a lot of picks or young player or something that they could use as well uh like I just I don’t get how we’re saying well what if he can only get seconds for him well then he’s

A horrible GM yeah he can’t negotiate the price on his own assets then yeah properly like yeah I mean we just went through it with nobody wanted to trade anything for the third pick like okay I mean how many times are we going to play that game

Until people start to question it I also had someone tell me yesterday that after thinking about it Grimes in a first isn’t good value yeah so the conversation is going one of two ways it’s either no team is willing to give up anything worthwhile for him or we’re

Going to start acting like any realistic trade proposal for him isn’t good enough yeah so that we and basically both set up an excuse to keep them and here’s the other thing I I’ve heard this from everyone that I’ve gotten a discussion with this with we don’t have to trade

Him now we can trade him in the offseason yeah well yes you can but all of a sudden instead of uh a year and a half and two playoffs you’re trading for someone who’s only going to give you a year in one playoff on top of that teams don’t have or teams have

Less uh like I just mentioned the Evan fornier thing New York won’t have that option to trade EV forier and instead they’re trying to they’ have to trade one of their core pieces or whatever if they want Malcolm broon in the off season so there the time to trade for

Him if you’re certain teams uh like Philadelphia they might have cap space where they can absorb them but that you’re you’re then limiting teams to only that situation I if they don’t have contracts uh but right now they have like a Marcus Morris contract that’s

Almost enough to match on its own um and so and that also benefits the Blazers by getting rid of salary in future years whereas if they trade them this Summer they’re going to have to match salary and then even if we’re not in the luxury tax fully we’re still you know close

Enough to then maybe we can’t use the mid-level exception or whatever and that affects other moves All Season like it has for Five Seasons now since we made the Western Conference finals every single season has been limited on moves because of what we can do in the off

Season or during the season when we have injuries we can’t even sign like a free agent center to help our depth because we don’t have enough room under the luxury tax uh so it it’s just to me and then you’ve talked about this story if we if we start sitting

Players like why Would we not trade Brogden now to trade him in the off season to get like 10 more games of him this season before we we like sit him out like we’ve done with our veterans the last two seasons like it makes no

Sense uh if you if you try to like extrapolate what the point of keeping Malcolm is yep um just doesn’t make sense to keep him and I mean I see people in chat like I’m not getting robbed for him he’s not worth trading for only seconds

Again there’s no way that the Blazers if Joe Cronin effectively shops Malcolm brogon are only getting offers with only seconds they got a first for Josh Hart last deadline Joe C was able to get a first for Josh Hart and there was questions about his contract status and

This and that brogon is as good if not better than Josh Hart I think most people would agree that Brogden is better than Josh Hart and has fits has a fit on more teams than Josh Hart the market for Brogden is better than it was for Josh Hart and Josh Hart got a

First so H how is Brockton only going to fetch seconds you know that’s that’s why that’s why like the talk about like well you can’t just trade him for seconds I think is is just to set up like the excuse for them not trading them at all because they want to keep them

Because and then say well Cronin couldn’t get anything that’s literally where we’re going with this and and like if we trade them great okay we get a first B for him great cool at this point I’d be kind of happy with just getting a first for him because of the way this

Conversation is going just so we don’t have to deal with it but like I’ve seen it go this way so many times where it’s like nothing else they could have done like the no want nobody it’s just it’s just always goes back to like the Blazers can’t do anything you know I

It’s just everything regarding moves regarding the offseason regarding the trade line always goes back to the blades couldn’t do anything and then this summer what is Cronin supposed to do no one wants him yeah and that’s how we end up with him next year like you

Know what I mean so it’s like but the thing is is all these people were saying that part of the reason the Dame trade was so great was because we would be able to flip Brogden at the trade deadline for Value yeah and all them were we saying like we don’t have to

Trade him before the season he can mentor we’re going to trade him at the deadline anyway but now the now a lot of those people are going to say oh well they can’t get back enough for him so now we’re going to keep them to the

Offseason then we keep him to the next season and just pushing the can down the road kicking the can down the road for no reason so I don’t want to do that like just just as I’ve said embrace the rebuild like literally it’s this simple okay for anybody that’s like this

Postgame shows too negative for a win we set the standard before the season it’s all about maximizing the rebuild AKA maximizing young talent and maximizing the ability to add more young talent that fits with our window down the line that’s always been the most important thing this season and

Everything that we have in terms of Praise or critique is very consistent with that standard we set and this last summer I know it’s the 30th pick so if you want to downplay that or whatever but that was they were getting him despite him having very I mean it wasn’t like negative

Value but like his value was probably as low as it’s ever been in his career this last summer just based on people scared of his Medicals and um I think it was his elbow that he missed uh a lot at the end of last season with including the

Playoffs um and and people were scared that he was damaged goods this last summer and he still had an agreed upon trade in which the Celtics or the Wizards I forgot which team ended up with the 30th pick but one of them was going to end up with the

30th pick um for Malcolm Brogden and uh that was without any sort of you know uh validation that he’s okay now that he’s been playing great and he has a good game um against Philly one of the teams that’s apparently interested in him he had what like 29 Points last

Game against Philly um so like to me he’s like setting himself up to get good value from them um if they’re if they’re interested in him um and they they now they were a team that last summer we were talking about Dame trades they didn’t really have first

They could trade but now because of the Harden trade they do um so I just I don’t understand how he’s not worth at least least something yeah and I I think the answer is he is and people are just trying to set it up to where if they keep him they’re they’re

Going to justify it John F says what is Cronin supposed to do have Chanty Mentor a point guard yeah have our have our former Allstar point guard coach coach a point guard how yeah that’d be awful um I mean and at the end of the day too

Like I’m okay with them bringing in like a veteran point guard that can be a third string guy like Earl Watson was for Dame you know like Dame had veteran point guards behind him when he was young that he said did a lot for him we don’t got to have veteran point guards

In front of him where chony is too scared to play the young guy because he needs the veteran in there right it should be a guy where Chon’s like you know what I’m scared to play either of them might as well play the young guy you know what I

Mean at the end of the day though Jon gota stop being scared to play scoot when he’s playing great I mean and scoot’s been scoot’s been great man and it’s just everything is just I want this team to maximize the direction that they’re going and and this is a Hot

Topic tonight because it’s like they chose the direction that wasn’t da so it was cool to see that direction you know look good on a basketball court tonight and beat beat Dame and beat the Bucks and all that um you know this was this was the funnest game of the year

Honestly but you don’t make make the decision to build around scoot Anthony and sharp and then decide to keep Malcolm and and players like Malcolm like that’s yeah no rebuilding teams just do not need to do that it’s just it what it is is you’re trying to do the two timeline

Thing and you don’t even have Dame anymore to do the two time L thing and it didn’t work out with Dame and it’s not going to work out without Dame like it just I mean I think it possibly could have worked if it was executed better um

But when you decided to go a route with young players you don’t then pivot months later for no reason into keeping veterans around because you could maybe justify it like last year for example with the Utah Jazz right they get off to a really hot start they’re

They’re around the end of the playoff race for a lot of last year until they felt fall off at the end of the season or possibly just pull the plug on the season and so like maybe if you’re a team like that you could say well it’s actually this is actually pretty cool

We’re like going to make the playoffs whatever but we’re not we’re still what N9 and a half games out of the playin like we’re not even close to the playoffs with Malcolm Brogden and Jeremy Grant and all these veterans that are doing this awesome job and so with that we’re going to

Like say he has to be kept to for some sort of development and mentoring reasons on a crappy team that’s rebuilding it makes no sense to me Tori yeah we got to think donations yeah yeah yeah we’re just kind of we’ve just kind of gone off the rails this entire post

Show right shout Michael croll $5 donation says glad your car is in one piece after the game LOL but ch’s comments on why he didn’t play scoot were was weird AF yeah absolutely agree shout out to truly Spencer PDX $2 donation says Dame wiping his eyes with

A towel during tribute yeah I saw Dame wiping his eyes after the first tribute video so he said he was wasn’t much of a crier but at least uh you know that was maybe successful part of the tribute and then shout out to mgj j123 with the $10

Donation says great sign at the end of the game saying Dame go get your ring then come home yes that was a great sign um got many cheers introduction and tribute was poor timing nice to see the excitement back in Moda tonight appreciate the donation thank you yeah

Uh I think a lot of people agree it was yeah the tribute was um was nice but could have been done better uh and yeah that Dame sign got a lot of cheers and most people most like he got no booze man at least that I heard I think the guy with

The try Dame jersey might have booed him but that that was just ridiculous on Twitter um I was gonna yeah I was going to mock him if I saw him man this dude had a trade Dame like a j a Dame jersey but on the back instead of just Lillard

It said trade Dame which is silly silly stuff so so cool man silly stuff man anyway and people say we’re toxic I just want the best for the player that we building the organization around you know that’s what I want okay we can disagree on what the best thing is but I

Want the best for the best for Dame and the best for scoots development and it’s that simple um Rose City USA says I seen his eyes can’t hide that emotion yeah you could tell you could tell yeah absolutely um truly Spencer says you can hear a few

Booze on some fan recorded videos well those are just the I don’t know people that I’m not going to attack Reddit but oh th those are those are the outliers man those are the people that had a crusade against anything Miami and made it their whole personality this off season

So D says you should have got my signature tonight yep you missed out Dre have Eric sign your forehead we’ll take questions and then we’ll wrap up the post game we’re super here I’ll never see you again D so yeah dang he missed his opportunity um yeah give us your questions and then

We’ll roll out of here uh you know who else I met tonight who else did you meet Derek sprow what’s up Derek yeah I thought I thought we met him before no don’t think so yeah I wanted to meet him I just had to get out of the stadium got a chance

To meet boom talked to him for like two minutes and then got out of the stadium and then got stuck in a park lot yeah yeah it was brutal not Meen boom Meen boom was great man like that he was wearing a Dame Olympic jersey I think I was walking

Behind them yeah into the game you know and because I I don’t know how many people were wearing Dame Olympic jerseys but I saw one going into the game or maybe walking through the Concourse and it was like that’s a great way to split the difference between bucks and Blazers

It by just going with an Olympic Dame jersey yeah so I thought that was pretty cool well I got Allstar one on it’s got a Blazer logo but got you yeah but what was brutal was literally sat in the parking afterwards did not move for 10

To 12 minutes yeah it was awful I didn’t understand why like literally couldn’t go anywhere D says Tory Hollywood AF no I’m not bro come on now not until we hit 10K you know if I was Hollywood we wouldn’t be struggling to hit 10K Subs but but we’re getting close trade deadline

Stream I think we hit it maybe I have something on the screen for that all right Park Oregon Street Parking Garage Oregon state parking garage I’m confused um Michael all says you’re cool with winning just five more games rather than 10 over the rest of the season what’s the

Difference that’s my question is what is the difference like let him answer we don’t even got speak I just want to know what the difference is for him because he’s the question is worded as if there’s a difference I don’t in my opinion I don’t really I mean i’ I’ve been very clear

About this since before the season I don’t really look at it in terms of we need to win this many games or this win uh like sure winning occasionally is nice but I’d Rather I’d rather just uh I’d rather just you know watch scoot develop and know if we have something in clutch time that can be developed and and all that kind of stuff um rather than care about winning five or 10 more games yep yep what’s up

Parker top five pick and top 10 pick yeah that might be the only difference did you pay super high price I paid 25 bucks Cas Darnell says Bingo same fire chy dude’s obviously going for his job instead of the future yeah there is a little bit of that I feel

Like um how did I get them that cheap no 25 bucks to park yeah he’s just talking about parking Man tickets were like 200 a piece and I had $100 of game time credit so shout out to game time so they were like $300 a piece um so like 150 for

Me yeah I thought you were asking about parking what were you mentioning in the beginning of the stream between Dame’s comments on Joe oh just like he was asked if they had talked and he said no they still haven’t talked to each other which I guess isn’t a surprise but the

Way he said no was like like I don’t know I feel like there’s probably still a little bit of animosity not sure obviously I don’t know but felt like there was with the way he said no it was in a interview before the game so it was pretty interesting watching

Joe stand right by the basket while the Bucks were warming up before the game and Dame kind of avoiding going on that side of the court or the basket yeah yeah I was wondering if they were going to greet each other in the stadium or what that whole thing was

Going to be like but yeah I mean th those two are not on good terms I mean we’re talked about it all off seon so Spencer do see Dam signing here for one year after his contract ends I don’t know if exactly after his contract ends

But yeah I do think it’s setting up for him to finish his career here hope that’s the case yeah I just wonder how it works like him in a six-man roll behind Scoot and either ant or sharp I don’t know yeah I don’t know yeah Jody was

There she hasn’t been to many games this year but she was there tonight I pretty much feel like she had to be yeah it would have been a bad look yeah it would have been a real bad look conflict of like she had some scheduling conflict well honestly you

Know what it could have been like the Seahawks just hired their coach today so yeah I mean I think jod and Dame are cool I think jod and or I think Joe and Dame aren’t trading brog and equals less wins are you cool with that Michael I have a question for

You would you rather win five more games this year or five more games three years from now if you had to pick one given where our roster is given our timeline anyway looking forward to your answer that’s why I’m gonna start handling this Eric I’m just goingon to ask those questions because that’s

Really what it is to where you getting these $25 ticket from so it was it was aund it was 200 basically it wasn’t $25 is that from being part of the media now no I’m still the black sheep of anyone who covers the Blazers I

Am they won’t C claim me uh pran is I think he gets media seats I don’t know well he said if he was Boo and doc I don’t think he’s allowed to do that in his media seats no like you know how he gave me seats and

It was like right in front of media row yeah yeah yeah which like you’re allowed to do whatever because you’re not in the media section so that’s funny that Stephen boot him though um yeah Garb Ben ticket prices actually came down I think you could get there were some in the 300

Level for like 60 bucks earlier today damn Michael Hall won’t answer my question anyone that says like are you you’re cool with losing losing more games like I yeah I want to win more games when we’re actually a playoff team yeah it’s like would would you

Rather win 25 games this year instead of 20 or possibly like 55 instead of 53 years from now like that’s a good good way to put it yeah and obviously it doesn’t just automatically work that way but the point is like I’m willing to sacrifice wins right now if it’s better

For our long-term development of our young players or it’s to get assets that can help us maximize a window where we’re a playoff team I mean it’s really not that complicated I don’t understand why it’s so complicated I know we haven’t been through a rebuild in a while so we

Haven’t as a fan base gotten to see what it looks like firsthand in a while but seen many other teams do it it if we”ve if you’ve paid attention to how other teams have rebuilt there’s no right way to rebuild so I guess technically anyone could have

A right answer here but in my opinion if you are rebuilding you do two things one you identify your core pieces moving forward and two you maximize the value for anyone who was not part of that core and Malcolm Brogden is clearly you can talk about him mentoring scoot all you

Want but he is clearly not part of the core moving forward and most that’s just based on age and stuff like like that it doesn’t make sense to have another guard that’s his age that needs that is as good as he is he’s he’s a good player so I don’t think

His value is ever going to be better than it is right now so you are maximizing his value while also prioritizing players that are potentially part of that core that you need to get more information on if they can play together and so in my opinion

Um I think you when you are in this situation you trade the players that you have maximized the value on and that are not going to be their long term and that’s that’s Brockton it’s Brockton like you got to get rid of him someone asked who who what the realistic trade

Deadline for us is it’s at least getting a first round pick and expiring for Malcolm it helps clear up some stuff this summer and it it just like getting another asset is Good from the Dame package and all that kind of stuff I think that’s that’s like the bare minimum realistic

Thing we should do yeah yeah at the end of the day should OKC have traded Paul George for SGA and a bunch of first it would have made it definitely made him worse the following year right like should they have said no we don’t want to trade Paul George for sgaa in first

Because it might make us more like the Detroit Pistons well what about when Chris Paul had a Resurgence there should they not have traded him should they just kept Chris Paul and never traded him um he was probably a really good Mentor for sgaa right yeah I mean the point is

There’s a lot of trades in the past where teams have traded good players for young rebuilding assets and have been better off in the future because of it right like there’s a lot of cases of that oh they they got a first because Al Horford played so well for them should

They have just kept Al Horford and not traded him back to the Celtics yeah no yeah I mean that’s basically the logic that people have it’s just I don’t know if it comes from a lack of paying attention to what other teams do and what works for other teams when they’re

Rebuilding like they don’t know how a rebuild works or what the deal is um but yeah like it’s just wild to me there there just seems to be this love for inactivity and very marginal moves and the only players we pick up are like mediocre

Guys with like a hope and a prayer that they have some sort of upside it’s just I don’t I don’t understand I don’t understand I mean uh so Parker says um can it be beneficial for a super young rookie to watch actually good vets and relish a

Big win for morale and watch and learn value um well my question be why can’t that guy be anony yeah if he need someone to like learn from why doesn’t anrey pass on what he learned from da yep and like we’ve said all along you don’t need that person to necessarily be

Better than scoo like you want ideally I think you want someone that’s mentoring him that’s a little worse than scoot so it’s not like a case where chony feels like playing that person over him gives gives uh us a better chance to win yeah I mean I want to be winning games

Because scoot’s so good mhm if Brogden was the 19-year-old then I’d be saying I want to win games because brogon is so good at 19 and has Superstar potential it’s literally all down the window I mean and I guess the difference is like do you want to win a championship

One day do you want the Blazers to win a championship one day or do you just want the Blazers to be kind of good because there’s a difference in terms of how you can build towards one or the other okay you have to maximize a futuristic window if you want the Blazer

To contend if you want them to be kind of good they can keep this score around and just make marginal moves and let the young guys improve a little bit and then they can be kind of good I mean it’s just funny because everybody agreed I feel like literally

Everybody agreed before the season that brogon would be traded this year and it would make sense to I don’t I I didn’t hear one person argue that we should keep Brogden for the entire season the only argument was should we trade him now before the season or keep them until the trade

Deadline and then trade him then I don’t understand where this came from it just it just seems like we always Trend towards wanting the least from this team as a fan base and we always set up uses for it also if we are going to move forward

Several years from now and still have a GM that can’t get any value in trades we need to set it up to where he has so much value available to him that there’s no possible way he can’t pull up a trade yeah and that’s acquiring as many assets

As possible so that he can actually get something done and not say that he had no leverage or had no good offers or whatever yeah yeah man I mean at the end of the day this game was fun at the end of the day when scoot’s playing this well I

Want him to play more and Brogden does get in the way of that at the end of the day aon’s playing better okay there’s no like young big that aon’s really in the way of that’s like a major piece of our rebuild okay so I have no qualms with

Him being on the roster except for the possibility of how his massive contract could hurt us in terms of our flexibility yeah at the end of the day grants I don’t know how you know if teams do B on his contract I don’t think they will but if they do then I

Understand a case for not trading them but also who signed him to that contract it was Joe Cronin uh Simons still a big believer in him long term um Kamar good to see him defend well scoot you know as I said great first half from him and uh

Hopefully sharp he’s starting to ramp things back up hopefully he can return before the All-Star break but I do think there’s a chance he doesn’t return until after the All-Star break and after the All-Star break I want a starting lineup consisting of all three scoot sharp and ant and just let those guys

Try and Blossom together at the very least I want all three of those guys playing 30 minutes a game and here’s the thing where where is Sharp’s minutes going to come from look at the minutes breakdown for all the people that want to keep Brogden okay how many minutes do you want to

Give sharp and whose minutes are you taking those away from given the minutes breakdown today no Tor we want sharp to just sit on the bench and not play like he’s been doing and so he can learn more yeah yeah that’s my question that’s my question for anybody that wants to keep broing

It’s easy to sit here and say we want to keep rocking right now when sharp comes back we’ve we haven’t had sharp Scoot and ant all healthy at the same time hardly at all this year so we haven’t seen what the problem will be when sharp

Comes back how do how does that work especially since you’re taking away some minutes at the three from sharp because now you’re starting Jeremy there you got six guys including your arguably top five players that you’re going to play at point guard J guard or small Ford somehow once sharp comes back because

You got ant sharp Brogden Grant scoot so that’s the thing it’s just it’s just what like either we move Grant back to power forward and cut some minutes from both Kamar and Jabari and maybe a little bit from thel to get sharp to like 25 minutes game but I still don’t think

That’s enough for Sharp I think Sharp’s been better as a starter and better when giv more responsibility so if you’re keeping Brogden and you’re valuing brogen this much right now then it probably makes sense to keep starting brog in you’re going to keep starting an you’re going

To start gr at the three then you got thy ball sharp and scoop coming off the bench how do the minutes work okay Kenneth whose minutes are you cutting though because you have to cut somebody’s minutes so you’re cutting Jabari are you cutting kamaras are you

Cutting who are you cutting and how many minutes are you getting sharp cuz I feel like we’re we like people that want to keep broen are failing to think this through all the way so we’re going to keep these guys just to cut their minutes yeah I mean it’s just it’s it’s

A problem like it’s I don’t know know I will continue to fight against complacency in terms of accepting this as something that’s okay because it’s really not cutting grants minutes if we’re going to cut grants minutes then we should just trade them yeah that wasn’t the same guy

Answering I know I know I’m just saying like that can’t be the solution otherwise the Sol that’s what I just said yeah yeah I mean I yeah the what are we doing I don’t know um if I see Shaden in the corner during games I’ll throw a chair out the window yeah man

I still have a hard time seeing Shaden as a three well with Brogden he has to play almost the majority of his minutes at the three you can’t really Play Sharp at any guard spot because you got scoot Brogden and ant and they’re already struggling to get scoot enough minutes in that

Situation so you can’t then insert sharp into that guard rotation so if you’re going to get sharp 30 minutes game okay well so you’re benching thel then right cuz you only got 18 minutes left at the small forward position and you’re starting Jeremy there so Jeremy’s

Playing a game there so then you just should trade Thal then at the end of the day there is no way to break down the minutes where it doesn’t come out like okay well they should trade one of Grant thel or Brogan there’s not enough minutes to go

Around as you try and develop guys I just cannot believe we’re having this conversation that some people want to block and are okay with Brogan playing more than those guys it’s just yeah it’s wild it’s wild man it’s wild I like I understand it if scoot has a bad game

Him playing 22 minutes like if he’s struggling like I understand that okay I don’t have a problem with that you know what’s frustrating is like I feel like some of these streams we come off across as negative more negative after wins because a lot of times in those wins

Scoop plays well and that’s part of the reason why they win but then he doesn’t play enough so then we’re sitting here talking about how he’s not playing enough when he’s playing well and when we’re winning or we’re sitting here after Brogden has like a 30-point game where

He’s 10 for 14 and we win because of that while people wonder like what if they only get back seconds for him when it’s obvious that he is too good to only fetch seconds yeah you know like that’s that’s the problem with a lot of these winning

Streams right now man like I I it’s it’s weird it’s very weird I legitimately was like super excited for this post game show like super excited about this win it just becomes like man that Chanty quote kind of took some of the wind out of the sales

Yep but after this I’ll go back and watch the highlight and listen to ESPN hype up scoot cuz I was at the game so I didn’t get to hear it and I’ll get excited again you know what I mean and then I’ll get mad again that he didn’t

Play more and didn’t get a chance to build on it and it’ll just be a roller coaster yes AJ we can train matis to the mou starting it’s whatever I forget which day in July he signed but whatever like let’s just say it’s July 10th then

After July 10th uh he’d be able to be traded to any team yeah I can’t wait till after the trade deadline because I’m already completely sick and tired of trade talk no you’re sick of non-trade talk well yeah which is coupled with trade talk you know what I mean like that

Whole thing I just dude man if we knew they were shopping all their guys right now do you know how much more exciting it would be though thing is yeah the thing is it’s like I’ll still do a brogen trade targets bro TR and then if

They trade brogen like cool cool if they only trade Brogden and they get a first back like I won’t be negative I won’t be negative I might say I think they should have trade Grant but okay I can be okay with it it’s not a high bar it’s what it’s what everyone

Agreed upon before the season like I don’t understand man this is what we all agreed upon this is what everybody was talking about this is what everybody was saying why is this so hard now man I don’t get it I don’t get it and it’s and

It’s not just people in our chat and people might think we’re overreacting to a small minority I’ll do a chat poll Trader keep rocking but it’s it’s people it’s people on Twitter it’s people with platforms starting to do this stuff well Kevin says this fan base has

Way too many people who are content with mediocrity we’re not even mediocre though right now I mean lately we’re mediocre because we’ve been winning more horror games sample size that we yeah but you know what it is you you know what it is Eric in our

Last this makes Kevin’s Point too in our last nine games we’re five and four so now we want to keep everybody that’s exactly what Kevin’s saying we go five and four and all of a sudden it’s let’s keep everyone let’s keep I’ll get it I’ll get it I’ll get it I’m proud

Of chat 96% of people say trade bro okay cool cool cool cool maybe you are overreacting to a small minority but man I can’t not stress this enough you got to trade if you did that same poll like as an anonymous Twitter user I’m sure you’re getting a lot more yes yes

Sorry we’re overreacting to Twitter maybe but man no dude I don’t think so I I got flooded with people yeah I mean that’s what this is based on that’s what this convers is based on there was like 10 people telling like try to describe why we should keep them

Yeah and both Tor and I have really respected and likeed Malcolm brogen it’s it’s not brog it’s sad that we have to add that caveat but yeah I mean 10% of people now are saying keep I mean I just okay okay I think if I did a chat poll okay

Let me let me test this out what wow 12% say keep I’m going to end this chat poll and I’m going to do another chat poll and I want to see if the results are the exact same should the Blazers ever try to win a championship yes no it’s basically the same Pull Jody’s like uh I don’t know I like winning but I also like money and you have to spend a lot of money to win true true but keeping everyone is also costly I’m so torn people voting no are trolling yes definitely I’m kind of trolling with this poll but

Man I’m just I’m ready I’m ready to be P trate deadline I I’m tired like I just I’m tired of part of it is we’ve seen this movie before you know if we hadn’t seen this movie before probably wouldn’t be reacting the way we are to some of this

Stuff it’s just like me and Eric talked to a ton of ton of people ton of Blazer fans ton of you know like we’re pretty plugged in in terms of the fan base I just already feel this going the route where it’s it’s they do absolutely nothing and then we’re the negative guys

For critiquing them for it even though we all agreed that they should trade brogon by the deadline so I don’t know I don’t know what else we can do like I’m not just going to sit back here and accept inactivity yeah like I I just it literally comes comes back to I want

Them to have a direction it’s not not too much to ask even though apparently it is also uh and I think you responded to this on Twitter but there was a Blazers media person who tweeted out that you want to keep Brogden because next season there’s going to be teams

That are in the second apron that need to get under and then you could use as contract as an exp iring contract to help those teams out huh what you didn’t see that part you responded to his other tweet right right above it did I yeah it was the same guy

You were what media person did I respond respond to I don’t even know I don’t even know bro yesterday yesterday okay I’ll score back Trev said it in chat um I don’t want to say yes oh oh yeah oh what what bro that doesn’t make any sense you’re get more

Value in that type of trade like like so so so you’re basically using him as an expiring contract but he’s supposed to have more value but like why don’t you just do the freaking fornier trade and then pick up fornier has a team option right he’s an expiring now but he has a

Team option and he barely makes less than than Brogden why would you just take that trade get back the first round pick that apparently isn’t good enough and then use for’s expiring contract because basically that sort of thing is they’re not trading for Brogden the player they’re trading for brogen the

Contract so why don’t you just trade Brogden for a contract that’s expiring next year for a worse player and get back an asset and then you can allow a team to do that sort of like duck under the second tax move like that it just

That makes no sense at all man I hate it’s my pet peeve when people like kind of know the CBA and then like say stuff that is so wrong based on like kind of knowing the CBA well too if if that were true how are you helping them save money

If you’re trading the Malcolm Brogden too like gu it’s like if they’re trading 28 mil for 20 like a few million maybe but you and I have said all along to trade all the veterans and get as much c space as possible this summer right yeah wouldn’t that be much better

Plus you get all the assets you traded all the Veterans for and then you get more assets by taking on all those contracts that are going to be available for no salary back so they probably give you even more because you don’t even have to give them any salary right

That’s what the Thunder did that’s what the Thunder did and but now we’re supposed to get more value for Malcolm because we can trade his $22 million contract and save them a few million dollars by trading us a $25 million player like come on God the mental gymnastics right now are driving crazy

And here’s the other thing aeromancer has been doing like aeromancer this is all aeromancer cares about lately is and I’m really proud of him and this is something that like like I and I think you feel the same way based on what you just said a few minutes ago yeah with the likelihood

Of us not trading you know one of these guys let alone multiple of them it doesn’t it just doesn’t seem like it’s worth the the effort to think of Trades that this will happen with but aeromancer has been doing this for weeks trying to make trades that are realistic

That create the biggest tpes as possible including some that we could possibly get the entire contract of Malcolm Brogden as a tpe yeah which would be a $22 million tpe but you know what people say Eric is is oh we never use our TPS TPS don’t really matter but if you’re

Talking about the new CBA like this person was then in the new CBA you can use tpas for different things than you could in the past starting next year and so that’s one value and two once again if teams are trying to cut salary to

Duck the tax it’s a lot better for you to be able to absorb their full salary than have to match salary and only save them a few million dollars yeah and if you have a large large tpe and are willing to take on salary for assets

That is a way to easily accomplish that goal plus you get the first round pick or whatever you got from malcol Malcolm as well so you you you get both in in the situation where you trade Malcolm It’s the Best of Both Worlds in their situation they’re trying to say is

Better it’s like the worst possible value we could get and then these other teams are going to say well we didn’t save enough money so we can’t give you that much back so you’re going to get less you’re going to get a second round pick in that situation instead of a

First round pick and then people are going to say well what is Joe supposed to do he didn’t have any leverage cuz the team needed to get under the cap like no crap we’re telling you all this now yeah chat does what Eric say Mak sense like that’s how ridiculous it is

Hopefully it makes sense um because we go into these deep rants about like team building and assets and this and that and I just I always hope we do a good job of explaining it cuz it’s tough to explain some of this stuff but when you really take a look at

It what some of these people advocate for it’s it’s silly it’s silly so oh I just want this team to be great man I experienced a playoff atmosphere tonight I want to experience a playoff atmosphere in a playoff game not just uh it’s a playoff atmosphere because our

Greatest player ever left us cuz we were never going to try and contend with him game you know yeah so please just find a direction towards contention okay that’s all I want I just want bro I five years doing this channel five freaking years doing this

Channel and it’s like I just want to talk about WI playoff series man let alone winning a championship I just want to talk about guys we won game six let’s go we got 1500 people in chat I put up plastic around my room and I’m popping a champagne bottle because

We want a playoff series I want that stream that’s all I want that’s all I want I’m not even asking for a championship I’m just asking for for freaking I mean I I want to build towards a championship but man yeah we haven’t got one single playoff

Series win that’s all I want it’s just a build towards being a playoff winner God damn that’s all I dude it was it was fun to uh watch Anthony beat Dame tonight of school yeah I want to see Aunt beat Dame in the finals you know he can win his ring the

Next two years and then a can beat Dame and then Dame can come back for our two Pete how bad would you feel if we if we want a ring in the next like five years and Dave never won I would never feel bad about winning a championship you

Know you know me you know how I met like to Dame just I I would feel a little bad for Dame wouldn’t feel bad for myself though I need a championship you know well you’re going to get one in 10 days I think knock going a wood hopefully yeah

You had you said hopefully so you’re you’re clear yeah Tyler it’s not this Sunday it’s still a week week from Sunday yes why we’re chilling right now but yeah that game gets closer I just I want a championship man I just I want a championship I want this Blazer team to

Be good I want more games like tonight where we beat good teams and it’s not a shocker um the channel would be so lit if we we had a team as good as the Bucks you know man be so much fun so our our gripes are with that in mind

It’s that’s what we want man anyway don’t be like a team that just came across the bottom ticker the Chicago Bulls who are rumored to be now going to keep everyone and go for the playoffs like see I feel like if if we weren’t all Blazer fans we’d be looking

At it from the outside looking in where everybody would say that yeah they should trade Malcolm Brogden yeah like like the Bulls what’s their direction right but if we were bu dude I it would suck to be a bulls Channel because if we were Bulls fans we say we need to pick a

Direction we’re never going to win a playoff series let alone contend with this iteration of this team people say what you want to lose more games do you want to be the Pistons well if the Bulls are ever going to win a Championship they have to fully

Rebuild they have to and they’ve done it several times and it’s hasn’t gone well but that shouldn’t that doesn’t mean you can’t try it again what’s up henen pen saids what’s up y’all just came back home from the game how we feeling we’ve I mean this game was fun this win was a

Really good win a lot of good performances you know we talked a little bit about it um chony had a really bad quote about scoot I thought scoop played great and should have played more so we have some GPS with that and then chony had a really bad quote in our opinion regarding

It and uh that has drawn some criticism from us and this has basically become just a stream where we talk about how scoot needs to play more and the Blazers need to trade Brogden to do so um so that’s like this the summary of The Stream and it’s has kind of a negative

Tone to it because it’s based around the latest rumor that the Blazers are open to keeping Malcolm Brogden and people advocating for it because at the end of the day I mean it’s funny because we were told to just Embrace scoot all off season right we’re embracing scoot now I’m embracing

Scoot it’s time to scoot you know so yeah anyway what was the quote uh chony said quote for those of you who haven’t heard this just give me your honest reaction to it okay chy said quote okay well this is a tweet that basically quoted chony from somebody that works for the

Portland Tribune that said bip said he didn’t put scoop back in because he was unsure of what scoop might or might not do said that they had a chance to win the game and felt it would be better if scoot was off after he had his best half of this

Season in the first half so those of you who hadn’t heard that quote what do you think what do you think of that quote just give you know give your honest reaction to that like yeah so a lot of people have a problem with that quote for good reason for good

Reason and says dog what yeah so that’s kind of that quote kind of changed the mood of the stream a little bit man I mean that’s that’s really bad in my opinion but uh anyway Blazers win I saw G Gabe in the chat earlier he

Said we wise man once said we don’t got no assets we don’t got no assets I’m just I guess trade deadline stream Eric I just Spam this we don’t got no assets this sound clip I guess um because apparently we don’t got no assets brogon an asset I don’t

Know I don’t know scoot started making couples of turnovers in the second half yeah he had two two mistakes he had two turnovers okay he had four assists 15 points with six for 11 with two turnovers that’s a good game that’s a really good game oh man I just

Remembered uh a had that really bad turnover too yeah I mean legitimately like Brogden had three turnovers a had three turnovers scoot had two turnovers scoot gets benched for his there’s uh seven day is 10 hours and 20 minutes until the trade do yeah I’m ready I’m

Ready to be past this man I just want to hang out and enjoy the community appreciate you guys um anyway so scoot even play in the second half at all yeah he played like nine minutes but I mean he should have played more should have played more

It’s basically a third of the yeah second half you yeah um and that was after he was like dominant in the first half yep and the thing is in the third quarter too was like he like barely touched the ball and every time he touched the ball was cuz it like it was

The offense being super stagnant and I don’t know like when they got out with Pace scoot looked really good we need to play in transition more partly because scoot is very good in trans position compared to half court yep he’s starting to develop more in the half court his shots looking better

But I thought the way we played in the first half was exactly how I expect us to play consistently this year and how I expected scoot to look so yep and thing is if we did that more with scoot I think scoot would look better and we’d

Win more games but nope we got to walk up the ball with Malcolm Brogden instead BR is good but ain’t the future so he literally outplayed Dame it was sick he outplayed Dame you and you could tell he wanted to outplay Dame in last minutes a lot L minutes yeah and you

Could tell he wanted to man I like that bro was getting hyped I like that that blew right by him on that one play of the reverse DK that reverse dunk so that was like right in front where I was at bro oh my goodness that was the athlete

That we’ve been waiting for yeah you know the explosiveness he threw that down with some animosity towards the rim God I got so hyped with that that was so sick like literally right in front of me bro and that was like man that’s that’s what can make me feel

Better about moving on from Dame and then chy didn’t know what he was going to do so he doesn’t play and we win so cool they look mad at the end of the game I mean he was probably mad they lost I’m looking forward to listening to his postam press conference yeah anyway

We’ll be live again tomorrow might be a little longer stream on our second channel so we can talk a little bit more about stuff after the night passes um thanks everyone for watching appreciate you all and hope you all have a good night yep appreciate you all

Thank you for T in to the Blazers op press postgame show the Blazers beat the Bucks in Dame’s return Dame gets an ovation and the Blazers spoil it behind a clutch Anthony Simons floater great defense down the stretch by tamman Kamar Jeremy Grant making some tough buckets Malcolm Brogden playing 36 [Laughter]

Minutes and uh scoots you know dominant first half best half of his career in my opinion yeah the first half when he played I was excited man he well also let me just say this let me just say this Eric I’ll throw this in right at the end

Because I kind of forgot to mention this during this entire conversation when he’s playing that one in the first half he should be playing more than 13 minutes in the first half if he plays 13 minutes a half he plays 26 minutes when he’s playing that well should be playing more than 13

Minutes in the first half so it’s not just oh he made a couple mistakes in the second half he’s not playing enough in the first half yep he got subbed out with how much left in the second quarter let me let me let me look up the

Play but it was like five or six minutes yeah he got subbed out with 5 and a half minutes left to go sub him back in with 3 minutes give him a little two and a half minute breather sub him back in Get Him to 16 minutes like see if he

Can end the half well see see if he can keep up with his rhythm like it just didn’t make sense to me so it wasn’t just the second half you should have played more in the first half doesn’t really makes sense but anyway hopefully Sharp’s back soon

Kenneth says I’m not sure if you guys are happy or mad we won I’m happy about the win I mean it was a great win it was a great playoff atmosphere great experience for our young guys I think um I you know I’m happy about things in

This game I’m frustrated with scoot not play more when he’s playing great and then ch’s quote so yeah for me I want WIS to be because they’re young guys stepped up y but I enjoyed the win it was cool watching hit a gamewinner and all that yeah fun game

To be at fun to see Aunt hit a game winner against Dame fun to hear Brooke call ant the clutchest player in the league instead of Dame uh you know so all that was great all that was cool all that was fun enjoyed all that enjoyed

All that so take the good with the bad and we’ll see what’s next but this and especially scoots play ants play and then once we get sharp back sharp has had some really good moments earlier in the season right hopefully we can combine all that towards pushing towards

The future that is going to be built around those guys maybe not all three but probably at least two of them mhm are going to be the future are so important for our future and that’s for good reason they got a lot of potential got to tap into it as much as possible

Got to develop them as well as possible that is very very important win or loss win or loss absolutely yep so anyway that’s going to wrap up this post game show I appreciate you guys for tuning in thank you guys for showing up even though the stream went live pretty late

Considering we got back from the game and we’ve been live for almost three hours so going to tie a bow on this one and see you guys tomorrow on blazes live on our second Channel then we got another postgame show on Friday the Blazers have been playing better but

They’ll be tested on Friday as they head into Denver to take on the defending champs so I have a postgame show for you after that game that game tips off at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time so postgame show going live around 8:30 p.m. local time thank you to everyone who donated thank

You all our channel members thank you to the people that we met today at the stadium that was pretty cool and appreciate all you who make chat fun to interact with and any other things you’d want to say Eric before we hit him with no I Echo all your sentiments there thank you

For watching have a great day hope to see you tomorrow Friday yep and with that being said we’re out here until next time as always peace out gold Blazers

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