Jacked Ramsays Live: Are the Blazers Done with the Offseason?

Jacked Ramsays Live: Are the Blazers Done with the Offseason?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, [Music] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey, hey. [Applause] [Music] helps with the mics on. There we go. What’s going on everybody? Welcome into Jack’s Ramsy’s here on a Thursday afternoon just after 5:00. It’s kind of nice being able to do these things earlier, that’s for sure. Uh share us with your friends, share it with your family. You know how we do the things around here. Uh these are going to get a little more infrequent um as we hit the doldrums of the season getting into August. This is the unofficial official break for basically everybody in the league. But I wanted to do a little bit of like a newsy wrap-up. Obviously the Damon Lillard press conference break Blake Wesley uh signs on as the 15th man. Got a bunch of questions. Um we’ll dive into that stuff and then we’ll have the Yong Hansen uh film watch. if not this weekend, next week sometime. Uh had a weird hiccup with the film uh on Synergy. So, uh hopefully I can get that sorted out and make it a lot easier. Otherwise, I can just go through and individually grab clips like I used to back in the day. Um but yeah, uh I think the the first place to start before we dive into all your questions and thank you all for getting questions in. Um Dame obviously had his reintroduction as a Portland Trailblazer. Uh was it Monday afternoon in the Rose room at Moto Center? Haven’t been in there in a while. Um somebody already asked him when is Brandon going to be on. Sprag will be on. He was we were talking about today actually. He literally just texted me about 3 minutes ago. Um he’s got a bunch of stuff going on. He will me and him talked about it. We it will happen probably in the next week or so. So that’ll be like one of the the special episodes. So um we’ll kind of sit down and do long form over basically everything that’s happened. Uh Young at Summer League. uh Drew, um Dame, obviously Blake Wesley, uh all of the newsy stuff and just kind of where stuff sits. So, we’ll dive into that um a little bit later in the next probably week, 10 days, something like that. Nothing too crazy. Um obviously, we had the big news that I hinted at, wink wink, nod nod. Uh my radio station, uh the fan switched over to 1051 FM the fan as of Monday. Uh, excuse me, as of Tuesday when they made the announcement on Monday. Uh, and of course, my dogs are waiting to bark until I start. Of course, that’s perfect. Let’s try that again. Um, but let’s get into the uh let’s get in into the newsy stuff, the fun stuff. Uh, I got feedback from uh some folks in Portland uh about the uh the pod that we did after after Dame at the announcement um when I had some choice words for people that were whining and complaining about Dame coming back. Um all positive feedback. We’ll call it that. All positive feedback. So, that was fun. Um it was nice to see everybody back in the room uh at at Dame’s press conference. It was uh pretty much everyone pretty much everyone was in the building. uh very few exceptions and so it was cool to kind of see everybody and top down 30,000 foot down kind of deal. Man, it felt like old times. It felt like old times. And you know, we’ve kind of we we know we joke and we talk about the vibes and all those kind of things, but man, the vibes are back. Like it’s just it is what it is. There’s there’s something magnetic about Dame, who he is as a person, as a basketball player, as a franchise leader, as a cornerstone. It was a it was a gaping hole in the organization, a damesized hole that was not going to be filled by anybody other than Damen Lillard or someone with equal gravitas. And in the NBA, you’re really only looking at guys like Steph, LeBron, and I’m not talking like basketball talent. I’m just talking about like the the franchise stuff. God, I’ I I’d say Luca or Joic, but they as as great a players as they are, they’re not they’re not the end all beall of the organization from every single standpoint. And those it’s not a shot at those guys. They’re just different. They’re they like Joic goes home to to uh to Sambore, you know. Um Dame is Portland through and through. And I think you can say LeBron with with Cleveland especially is, you know, that through and through. And Steph to the Bay, like he’s going to be the guy for for San Francisco and the Bay for as long as he wants to be there. You can say Giannis. Giannis in Milwaukee. I don’t know why I didn’t get say that immediately. I’m a dummy. But there’s just something about that. It’s just so different. And I remember saying when, you know, the the trade demand finally went public that it’s more than the basketball that you’re going to miss. It’s all of the soft skill stuff. And Casey Holdall tweeted out like, you know, man, Dame knows how to run a press conference. Something along those lines. And he does. He did 20 minutes of just right through it. And it was just amazing. Absolutely amazing. Dallas really likes to wait till I get started to start barking. Um, and it was weird. It was weird with Dame is like it just felt like nothing had changed. Like the two years that he was gone didn’t matter anymore. And it was so weird how he just kind of picked it like just picked that torch up and kept going. It was just something different and you could feel it in the room. You could feel it in the air. You know, I talked to the Blazers front office after the press conference and um there’s a question in here. I I guess I can quasi answer it now about how I’ve or how much time or how um I scroll back to it. Uh there was a question in here about talking with Dame. Oh, here you go. Jeff said, “Have you had much interaction with Dame post his return? And has a smile faded away yet?” Um, we’ve texted back and forth a bunch um over the last weekish somewhere right around there and but I hadn’t had a chance to see him yet until the press conference and you know he gets done feed cuts out and uh he kind of walks off stage and he kind of he goes to walk away but he’s like you know I got to do the thing and press the flesh and say hi to everybody and I just kind of stood in the back let him kind of say hi and he just kind of eyeballs me and just we both just started smiling. Um, and it was cool, you know, little embrace and this is crazy, right? Like it was just it was it was two grown men just kind of smiling like little kids because we just kind of look at this like how how crazy is this? And I I’m smiling right now because it’s just it’s so different but the same. And it was funny, you know, all the questions he was he was asked, answer him like he was an absolute pro, because he is. He’s one of the best press conference guys, not just in the NBA, but in sports. He’s always very thoughtful. He’s always very authentic. He is who you guys see in the press conference is legitimately who Dame is in all of the conversations over the years that I’ve had with him. it. That’s just who he is. And that’s why it resonates the way that it does. And it was very very cool to be reminded and be in the room and say hi. Like just to be like this is actually happening and you know the video of him walking back in the locker room. I remember the first time he came here. You know he was like it’s going to be weird. This is with Milwaukee. It’s going to be weird walking in the building doing the same stuff I always used to do. You know, sprinter van to the game, going through the the cargo bay, make the right turn and turn left before going down the hall to the locker room. So, for those that don’t know, when you when you go into the into the the cargo bay, um that there’s the tunnel kind of keeps going right there, and then to the right is the media room, and there’s a hallway in front of the media room that goes down. Uh the first turn on your left is the visitor’s locker room. And it’s awful. It’s a shoe box. There’s like, and this is how every visiting locker room is. They they don’t afford you any amenities or any comfort. You they’re stuffed in there. And if you keep going down the hall, further down on the right, uh, is the, uh, Blazers locker room, which when you go in there, you’ve got, um, Jod Allen has her suite, Chanty has her Chanty has his office, and then at the end of the hall is the is the, uh, gym and the HMP stuff, but on the right is the locker room. And that video of him walking in the locker room and and having his locker right back where it used to be in the corner closest to the showers, you could just see him just light up. And that was real. There’s nothing there was nothing for the cameras there. Like in the conversations that we’ve had over the last weekish, he just keeps saying it’s perfect. It’s perfect. It’s home. It just makes sense. It’s just it’s this is special. And that’s not him blowing smoke. That’s just who he is, what he believes, and how he goes about it. And I think that no matter what answers he gave, you know, about the team being the kind of team he wants to play with and, you know, I asked him about being the flag bearer for the city because I know a lot of people are worried about, you know, what Adam Silver’s comments were about, you know, the preference for the team staying in Portland. It all those things, while that stuff mattered, what mattered is that he held up the letter O in a Trailblazer jersey. Again, that was the thing. And it was like, yo, it was it’s just it’s you don’t you don’t get this kind of story almost ever. A guy who’s a, you know, a top lot pick who is a franchise icon who gets traded away and comes back as a free agent is still playing like the like the Dwayne Wade kind of retirement tour in Miami, right? like that that happens, you know, will LeBron come back for a year in Cleveland or something like that, but like Dame in his head this like he firmly believes he’s going to come back and be exactly what he was. Like that is what is where he is at. You can say it’s delusional, you can say it’s crazy. He unabashedly believes that he is going to come back. There’s no 70% of him, 80% of him, 90% of him. He believes he is going to come back. because his, you know, his quote is like was the um if it’s a mental battle, I don’t lose those. Physical one, you know, we’ll talk about it, but the mental battles, I don’t lose those. And that’s just how he’s built. That’s how he’s wired. So, um, to be blunt, it kicked ass throwing all of the any mild journalistic integrity that I have out the window. It kicked ass to have him back. And it does kick ass to have him back. and have fun with it. That’s That’s where I am. July, what was it? 24th. Yeah, July 24th. We’ll get into the basketball side of stuff. We have a lot of time to get into the basketball side of stuff. And there’s some questions about Scoot and Shaden. We’ll get to and all that kind of stuff. Um, but that’s July 24th. Hell, I mean, we won’t even probably get into the basketball stuff until next year. We got Scoot, Shay too, Denny, Donovan, uh, Hansen, you know, all of the questions. Jeremy, Drew, what who starts, who plays, we have a lot of time to do that stuff. We have a lot of time to do that stuff. So, um, well, we can let that we can let that be on the periphery for now. Uh, obviously, there’s there is some additional newsy stuff around a around an addition of a point guard. Um the Trailblazers signed Blake Wesley uh to their 15th roster spot. This is kind of of a unique circumstance in that the Blazers typically operate with 14 players. They are kind of doing that in a sense um in that where they stand right now they have 15 players under contract but 14 players are are playing right. So, and Dame factors into this kind of in the in the long term. So, that’s a little bit different from the past the way the Blazers have operated. And obviously before Dame was bought out, the anticipation for the Blazers was that they were going to go into the season with 14. Uh, my discussions with the front office, I would say, hinted pretty directly at that. So, um, that’s a bit of a change, but by adding Dame and him not playing, they needed another guy who can, you know, dribble the ball and not have it, you know, dribble down his leg in a sense. Um, I know a lot of people, and I mentioned this on a podcast, I was last week when I got back from summer league, but I I know no or was on the radio. I don’t know. I talk a lot for a living. Um, but there’s like this I I saw it on Reddit, too. A lot of people were just like, “Caleb Love’s going to be the backup point guard.” And I was like, “Look, I I have I I hope I for all those guys that come into the league, I have nothing but high hopes for them. I want them to do well. Uh, I’m not going to disparrage them. I’m not going to be like, you know, this, that, or the other. Let them kind of go out there and and figure stuff out.” But the idea that Caleb Love was going to play like the like the remaining minutes of backup point guard, I did not see that. And obviously the Blazers didn’t either. That’s why they went out and got Blake Wesley. Uh I don’t think he’s going to be in the rotation. You have injuries throughout the season. Uh Scoot’s a guy that has been dinged up here or there. Nothing serious, but he’s play, you know, gotten knocks. Shaden’s picked up some knocks. Drew’s picked up some knocks. You’re going to need guards. You’re going to need guards. Journey bigs. Um that you know talking to front offices uh at summer league just in general if you’re getting 65 games out of your bigs that’s kind of a win. That’s kind of how they see it. That that just front office is like if you get 65 games of like good production out of your bigs cool. Anything more than that it’s a bonus. But that’s kind of how they go into a season. That’s why you’re seeing so many teams at this point now add bigs. Like you you just look at the West right now and look at how like the this is sounds kind of fluff in a sense, but look at how teams are kind of starting to mimic the Blazers where they went big as hell across the board and now you’re looking at other teams going, you know what’s really helpful? Having a lot of really big players. And this gets into the whole scarcity argument about, you know, scarcity of of type or asset. And my my general, you know, draft philosophy or evaluation philosophy or process has always been if all things are equal, give me the guy who’s bigger because you can’t coach, you can’t develop height, you can’t develop size. I mean, you can put on some weight like you can go like Tumani was like 218, he’s almost, I think he’s 240 now. Um, Denny came in the league, I think he was like 209, he’s almost 250 now. um you can get bigger in the sense of like putting on muscle, but there’s also, you know, a push back with that. You know, Aunt tried to get bigger and he did get bigger because he was like a buck 70 when he got drafted. He was scrawny. Um but he got over 200 lb and he kept dealing with a um a hamstring issue and he had to push it back under 200 uh to make sure that his his hammy wasn’t bothering him. So, it’s like there’s limits to this stuff. like Kawawaii a couple years ago, uh Blazers had that preseason game. I think it was Shaden’s rookie year and uh I remember all of us media, players, front office, everyone being like, “Holy crap, Kawaii.” Like he was at like 250, 255. His legs were tree trunks and it was like he’s big as hell. And you know, he just couldn’t quite play it that big because of all of the stuff that comes along with that. So there’s like there’s a little bit of management of that stuff. Uh I’m getting sidetracked a little bit, but uh Blake Blake Wesley is your your uh Blake Blake break glass in case of emergency uh guard in that situation. Let’s dive into your questions because I I think the Blake Wesley thing is like it’s it is what it is. It’s it’s a emergency guard that, you know, kind of signifies what the Blazers are trying to do. Like he shot under 30% from three. Um the rim finishing is suspect, but he’s dumb long while being 6’3 barefoot, 6’4 in shoes. He’s got a 69 wingspan. Like you It’s like, oh yeah, you’re seeing all these markers of the things the Blazers like. Athletic frame, long arms, defensive minded. Oh, yep. Yep. Picking up what you’re putting down. Like they’re just keep doubling down on the thing that they do. So, um let’s get into your questions. Todd Pots asked, “Between Drew and Jeremy, who would you guess is more amenable to coming off the bench?” “Also, I know everyone keeps talking about how this is all going to affect Scoop, but I’m anxious to see how Shaden progresses this year. I still have absurdly high hopes for him,” shouts Sprag, of course, Sprag and the baby Kobe. Um, I don’t think either guy is amenable to coming off the bench, and that’s not um something negative about either of those guys. They’re both guys that are still very good basketball players and they’re not going to nor should they move to the bench just because I believe that to be true across the board. Uh not just for the Blazers, just in general. You can’t just go, “Hey, this guy’s clearly not as good as you. You’re not going to play because you get disgruntled players everywhere. You have to trade them.” like it it causes a a very very very bad locker room dynamic. Uh you saw that with Utah where they said okay fine we have to trade everybody at retail cost because we are going to play the young guys and we can’t do this and I don’t think anybody anybody should be looking at that as a negative. I don’t want guys who aren’t 37 plus years old who are okay like coming off the bench who have been starters basically their whole careers because this is something that players in the NBA sternly believe once you go to the bench you don’t come back that’s just the nature of the beast yes you can find exceptions like Norm Powell but is Norm Powell going to start for Miami now is he going to come off the bench I don’t know but the general thought process of NBA players is I’m not going to do this until I have to. You’re going to have to pry it from my cold dead hands. I don’t think either of those guys is amenable to it. Now, if they get beat out and the light comes on of I’ve lost the step or this guy has taken an amazing growth and they’ve taken this from me. Now, they still won’t like it. There will be an understanding because both Jeremy and Drew are pros. If Scoot and Sheay go out there and they are clearly clearly one and two, that is your one and that is your two, Chanty is gonna have to go pull Djuru aside and go, “We love you. We still think you have immense value. We we we want to work with you, but this kid’s better than you right now.” And Chanty can do that because he’s been in that position before. He’s been on both sides of it. You know, I think we get sometimes stuck up in in the you know, the uh Chanty like he’s the way he’s phrased this is I I don’t project that stuff of like I’ve been in every position. Let me let me tell you about this young blood kind of a deal. He doesn’t do that. These guys just know. And I know there’s a bunch of you out there or either still the fire chanty train or I don’t like Chanty or Chanty’s not a good coach. is a telling you right now there are very very very very very very few coaches in the NBA more respected and more revered than Chanty Phillips period point blank. I have talked to people who do not do not think Chanty is a good coach at all. They just they regardless he he could go win a title and they would still be like they would say ah well you know this that or the other. And I don’t begrudge them. You guys can have your thoughts. You can have your opinions especially guys that are longtime NBA guys. But in that same breath, they will also all say Chanty is incredibly wellresected and he has the ear of every player. That stuff the soft skill stuffs. I will stand on that. To use a damism, I will stand 10 toes on that. It is one of the things that I believe in most firmly about a head coach. You could be the best exes. David Blat was a great X’s and O’s guy. Did not matter. did not matter. There are so many great X’s and O’s guys that are out there. I’m not saying there a dime a dozen, but it’s harder to find the the the coach that players will run through a wall for than it is to find the X’s and O’s guys. And I think Chanty and like I’ve had my my questions about Chanty with with certain things, particularly on on just the basketball side of things where I’ I’ve had differing opinions. Let’s call it that. And I’ve had those conversations with Shanti like I’ve I’ve been in his office closed the door and we’ve talked about the stuff and you know we can agree to disagree or we can agree to agree or whatever it is. But I also know that that man has forgotten more today about basketball than I will ever know. Like that that that’s the part of it I think people tend to forget. It’s like he’s done seen everywhere. So it’s a long roundabout way of saying I don’t think either one of those guys is amendable. somebody’s going to have to take it take that role from their cold dead hands. So, but it’s a fair question. It’s something that’s everybody’s asking for sure. Uh Nathaniel Carter asks, “Is Don Mlean good enough to be a starting center on a playoff team?” Oh, we’ll find out when they get to the playoffs. Apparently, every 10 minutes, Dallas is a lot of attention. That’s apparently how we’re going to do this. Um I think DC is good enough to be a defensive anchor on a playoff team. I always use the Rudy Gobar argument for this and this is this is my measure of ballnower as it were. If you say Rudy Gobar gets played off the floor defensively, I’m just going to take your opinion, stuff it in a cannon, shoot it into the sun because Rudy Gobar does not get played off the floor defensively. That doesn’t happen. He gets played off the floor offensively because he just does not have much of an offensive game. That’s my concern with Donovan. He’s an even better defender than I thought he was going to be coming out. He’s a worse offensive player than I thought coming out. So, I think the biggest thing with him is his hands. And hands is something it’s very difficult to improve. But if he can develop something, whether it be Mark Gassoul level three-point volume and efficiency and the Blazers, they they genuinely believe that Donna will be able to shoot it. Like that’s something that that is something they believe. Now, I’m a little more skeptical of that. I think Hansen is actually going to be able to shoot it. Like I think he can get to the Marole level of shooting. Like I think he has the tools to get there. Whe whether or not he gets there, eh, we’ll see. Um, but I it the difference between Hansen’s hands and Klingan’s hands is night and day. Hansen’s hands are just number one, they’re enormous. Actually, let me let me grab this real quick. I have all my uh data for all of the things combine related. Uh, let’s go here. Uh Yong Hunson hand length and hand width 99th percentile on length 99 99.2 percentile on hand width. Basically the guy has the biggest hands in the NBA. It’s him and Kawhai and they’re just pillow soft. Everything he does with his hands is just you’re like yeah those are great hands. And it’s just so rare for a guy to have hands that good and be that big. It’s just it doesn’t happen. Which is why you see him able be able to do stuff not only as a passer. That’s that’s the brain and the IQ and the processing, but how he can take the ball with one hand and throw spin on it, put the English on it, put it in the right spot, right hand, left hand on the move, like have feathery touch. The ball leaves his hand on the jumper. incredibly soft, like all those things. For Donovan, he’s going to have to find something for him on the offensive side. Defensively, there’s not a worry in the world for me about him. Like, is he going to be out there covering guys on the perimeter? No. But that’s not the ask. The ask is to be an absolute, you know, you know, be clinging Kong at the rim, be at the top of the Empire State Building swatting shots away. And he’s great at it. He’s a like I want to say he was in defensive field goal percentage of the paint. I could pull it up. It’s gonna take forever to load. Uh I believe he was fifth in the NBA with with players that had like 250 shots against. Um like the only guys ahead of him were the the WebMes of the world. It was a very very very very short list and that was his rookie year. what happens when he gets in better shape, gets his core a little more under control, is able to just really body guys like you’re gonna it’s not going to be quite a Webification where you get the hell nause, you know, I’ve talked to I I will never forget the first time the Blazers played WBY and talking to them when they came back from that road trip, that’s when Ant got hit with a chase down block and he he beat him at half court and WBY somehow covered 18 million feet in a half a second and pinned it off the glass. I was like, whoa. Okay, he blocked Jeremy’s no dip three in the corner. It was like that’s insane. I’ve never seen anybody do that. Um, those are the hellnaws to the teenth degree is like the the wification of defense. But Donovan’s pretty damn big and you’re going to see more and more hell nauseates off a little bit. You start to drive and you’re going, I don’t want any part of that. So, do I can do I can he be good enough to be a starting center on a playoff team? I think so. With a caveat, he’s got to find something on the offensive side of things. That’s that’s my only like all right, let’s see it. And he’s going into gear two. Still early. Um Nixie asks, “Would love to know how much D will actually be involved with team activities and training while he’s rehabbing. How much effort is he actually going to put in mentoring the young core?” Look, Dame genuinely does love he’s he uses the phrase to pour into guys and he brought that up during the press conference multiple times. He does he does pour into guys and he will also not allow guys to get out of pocket like that that stuff matters. You know I’ I’ve heard I think Zack Low was telling the story. It’s one that I’ve heard bajillion times. You guys have probably heard it too about uh a player getting upset in the locker room about not getting enough tick or enough playing time and Dame’s like, “We don’t do that here.” And it wasn’t a scolding. It was a we don’t do that here. We are together. We are one. And that’s not something we do here. We don’t let stuff fester behind the scene. and we just kind of let we handle stuff the way we need to handle stuff, but we get it. We do it internally and we don’t we definitely don’t and complain amongst the team. That’s not something we do here. You want more burn, go take it. So, I I I think that’s going to be very good because when it comes to Scoot and Shaden, I I know everybody goes, “Oh, they need more chances. They need more opportunities.” This is not high school basketball. This is not college basketball. This is a professional league. The the chantyism as it were is, you know, keep what you kill. Now, is there a sliding scale of keep what you kill? Once you’ve earned it, yep. Them’s the brakes. When you’ve earned it, it’s you have more leash. When you haven’t, your leash is shorter. That’s not just Portland. That’s across the NBA. That’s being young versus being in your prime or a veteran. When when you’ve done that, and that’s the same basically everywhere. When you’ve done it long enough and you have respect and you have trust and you are consistent, you get the benefit of the doubt. When you have a shooting slump or you’re coming back from injury or whatever it is, when you’re one of them ones, you get that opportunity. But as far as how much effort he’s going to put into it, Dame’s going to be there. Dame’s going to be engaged. Like, he is he is 100% going to be in. He’s not coming here just to hang out. That’s that’s not that’s not what he’s doing. He this isn’t the retirement tour. He’s his mind is not there yet. I will tell you that in my discussions with him, he is not operating under the I’m just happy to be here. When I come back next year, I’m going to come off the bench and play 12 minutes. He is not there yet. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But as far as like his rehab and stuff like that, like he’s out walking around. I was blown away that he was just out walking around just straight chilling. I was like, “All right, good for you, man.” I mentioned uh 10 days after his kill surgery posttop, he uh he was cleared to work out and he started and he’s been hammering it. He’s a lunatic so in the best possible way. Uh Victor Princess, even though Phil Knight say he’s not interested in buying the Blazers anymore, does Dame coming back and the vibe shift change anything? It can it can only be a little over two years since he made the last offer. I don’t I don’t know about Phil. I will say this as it pertains to the team sale. I don’t believe the addition of a player outside of Cooper Flag, someone you have basically nine years of control on is going to modify the bottom line or interest or anything when it comes to the sale of a team. And people like, oh, they’re just signing Dame for the sale of a team or they just drafted Hansen for for uh money from China. I don’t believe or subscribe to any of that. Now, are those nice little additives at the end of the sale? Sure. Like the the ratings were in from summer league. Hansen against Memphis drew like 5.4 million views of a summer league game at noon on a Saturday in China. That’s nuts. That’s more than the NBA gets in the US for like a a good normal game during the regular season. Does that matter grand scope? No. Because when you buy a team, you are not buying a team yeartoyear. You are probably looking anywhere between 15, 20 or 30 years. It is a massive investment. It will cost at least four maybe$4.5 billion dollars to buy the Blazers when it’s all said and done. That the bottom line of, you know, Dame generating X dollars isn’t changing anything. Hansen selling jerseys or Chinese rights or a a regular season game in in the beginning of October in China. That’s not changing anything. It’s a it’s a nice little ordeve. But I do think having and this is why I asked the question I did at the press conference. I do think Dame being in Portland matters from the sense of Portland’s identity and keeping the team in Portland. I think there’s a little kernel of that. I don’t think Dame being here means the team is is absolutely unequivocally never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever leaving Portland. If somebody comes in with more money than God and says we’re moving them to Siberia and they’re willing to spend $13 billion for the team to do it, would the league do it? Probably. Why? Because they like money. But 99.9% of me believes this team is never leaving the city. I have been told by many people in the league, don’t ever say, don’t say never. So, I’ll go 99.9%. So, that’s where I’m at with that. Um, David Paul asks, “Uh, curious your thoughts on the Aviet hate if you want to get yourselves involved in all of that. Seems like a normal thing foreign dudes that come in league having more pride in their home countries.” This is something that I have always been able to divorce myself from in the sense of wherever anyone’s from. here in Portland. There is certainly I will tell you this right now. If you go on some kind of rant about Denny or any player and it’s racially d, you know, derogative in any shape, matter or form, you will get blocked. You absolutely on every media platform in the YouTube comments. I will not stand for that Period. Point blank. I think I’m one of the only Portland media members that has done media with Israeli media because they’re just normal people. And you can have your thoughts, you can have your feelings. I have mine on these things. I have multiple degrees in Middle Eastern studies. I’ve spent time in nearly every single country in the Middle East. And it’s a much much more um precise conversation than look I I’ll get myself in trouble with this than most of you are capable of having. Most of you have never left this the the country let alone been there to either Israel or the Middle East or understand the actual dynamics that are involved for any side. So I consider myself pretty damn informed on that stuff. I don’t get into it because it’s not worth it on any side. But anybody that goes and plays for their home country, go. If Jie Demond wants to go play for Russia, go. Go. That’s your country. I’m not going to, you know, the fact, you know, you know, people go on about Denny serving in the IDF. It’s like, yeah, it’s a national mandate. He can’t play for his national team without serving. That’s how it goes. You don’t get to choose where you’re from. good, bad, or otherwise. And on that stuff, I’m I’m just not gonna stand for it. And I will I will always back Denny for being able to play for his country. That simple. If he wants to have if he wants to be prideful in his country, fine. Look, man, I was overseas in in in the beginning of of OEF and OAF, Operation During Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, for those that don’t know. Um, but you know, as a military member, I got some pretty hateful when I was overseas. And I’ve had people tell me that um, you know, you shouldn’t be proud of your country or you shouldn’t be proud, look at the war crimes or this, that, and the other. And I’m just one guy. I’m not the US. Denny’s just one guy from his country who, to be very clear is basically Michael Jordan in his country. He is their most famous athlete. For him to not go play for Israel would be absolutely insane. So that’s that’s the only rant I’m going to go through on that. So, um, like I said, you guys can have your thoughts. You can have your opinions. Not going to allow a discussion of of politics in on especially hateful stuff on Twitter, Blue Sky, IG, anything in the chat. Not going to fly because it’s not worth it. It’s not a I don’t like you or I don’t agree with your views. I don’t care which side you’re on. I have friends on both sides. They’re still my friends. That’s where the stuff ultimately ends up on. Uh DC asked, “Do you think the roster is set after the Wesley signing? Any update on the Saleo team?” The Sailor Team stuff. Well, there’s there’s stuff there, but it’s all hearsay at this point. Um I don’t They’re going to keep that stuff very close to the vest. Again, I’ve heard things, but nothing concrete enough to where I can go, “Yeah, no, I’m hearing this.” Like the Vegas and Seattle stuff, like if you’re plugged in enough, you know who the ownership groups that are trying to pursue that stuff. Like that’s that’s out there. Um, but in I should say uh discussions, it does sound like for right now that things are pretty well set going into the season for the Blazers as it pertains to the roster. I don’t anticipate any other moves as it stands right now. So, do I think Jeremy is going to be here when the season starts? Yes. As of right now, yes. Do I think the addition of Drew and Dame helps kind of make that work better? Yes. Do I think that there’s a good argument that they should trade Jeremy? Yes. Do I love Jeremy? Yes. It’s going to be very interesting. The the holistic policy thought idea for the Blazers, whether it’s Joe, Mike, Sergy, Andre, anybody in the front office, Chanty, his coaching staff, is very much a competition. I think you can pencil in two absolute no doubters in the starting lineup, Tummani and Denny. I think you can very very very clearly draw a line at Donovan being the third starter, but if Hansen goes out there and just balls his ass off in camp, there’s a discussion to be had. That’s just it is what it is. Um, do I think Donovan is the starter going the season? Yeah, absolutely. It’s It’s not a shot at Donovan, but I think Denny and Tu are the only guys who’ve absolutely just locked down. They are starting unless they get too high on their own supply and somebody jumps over them. But as far as as close as that gets that those guys now, do I think right now that Drew and Jeremy are probably starting? Probably. I think your most likely starting lineup today is Drew 2, Denny, Jeremy, Donovan. I think that’s your most likely starting lineup today, July 24th. I like two at the two. I prefer Denny at the four because I think his his mismatches there are that much more egregious, but it’s also the same is true for Jeremy. I think those those three guys are kind of just interchangeable as wings. Two, three, and four. You can just kind of swap them anywhere. Can Scoot go out there and go, “Yeah, we’re hooping.” And they start Scoot Drew to Denny Donovan. Yeah. Could Scoot or Sheay go out there and they start Drew Sheay uh to Denny? Sure. I it’s very very very hard for me to see two or Denny coming off the bench just because they are so much of what they’re going to be doing is running a a Denny centric offense a downhill force that is a mismatch nightmare because if you’ve got if you have Denny at the three and here’s the thing about Jeremy even with him not hitting twos last year he’s a he’s the only three-point shooter on the roster anybody respects like if you’re talking about opposing teams They look at the roster like, “Well, two can kind of shoot it. Drew can kind of shoot it. Denny can kind of shoot it. Jeremy, he’s got five years of being above average three-point shooter.” You want Jeremy on the floor because their spacing is not going to be created by any singular guy like Ant or Dame or CJ where like you have to worry about where this guy is and they’re going to bend the defense. It’s going to be a more balanced defense you’re going to face. And what your hope is is that the collection of Drew Scoot to Denny Jeremy Shaden’s got to prove it. I mean, 31% from three is just not not going to cut it. He has got to improve there. I do believe Scoot will will be a better shooter. Like that’s that of all of my questions about Scoot, shooting is not one of them. I think he’ll be at least average and he could be an above average. I think he could be like a 38% three-point shooter when it’s all said and done and he kind of figures some stuff out. Uh you already saw just him getting under under control and more balance. I think that’s going to matter, but I don’t think you’re going to have any singular guy that’s going to have more than five threes a game attempted. So what you’re you’re going to have to compensate for that volume by having multiple guys that are like four and a half five threes a game between two, Drew, Scoot, Denny, and Jeremy. And you need to probably have at least three of those guys on the floor at any given time. And somebody that comment mentions Matise. Look, Matise’s ability to knock down shots comes from a lot of his confidence. And if Aiz can be here and be a guy that shoots like 36 37% and he takes a couple threes when his, you know, 15 to 20 minute stints, you can just, you’re not getting any singular guy, but if you’ve got six, seven guys that give you enough of a threat, you can work with that. And that’s where I think so much of the the Denny centric offense is going to come from is that you got to kind of find out or find that space of where the defense is going to care just enough to take that extra half step. Because in the NBA, that half step is the difference between life and death between you seeing four or five sets of eyes and seeing two or three sets of eyes. Which is why you go out and you hope that Dame can be the guy that he can that he was next year. Because if all of a sudden if you’ve got Dame out there with four elite defenders who can also kind of shoot, now the floor balance gets tricky. Now the floor balance becomes a problem because you have one of the most prolific three-point shooters in the history of the game manipulating pick and rolls with a bunch of big nasty athletes. And I think that’s kind of the vision, right? So that’s a roundabout way to talk about the roster being set. Man, I went completely off the rails there. Sorry. One thing just kind of opened one thing and led to another. This is all kind of stream of consciousness. Uh Sammy asks, “Whose developer are you looking forward to the most?” That’s a really really hard question because I think the easy answer is Hansen. Like where is he at at Summer League? Where is he at in December? And how does that scale? And how comfortable does he look? And what questions do I have? That one’s very interesting for me. But also, if it’s going to be kind of this Denny centric offense, how much offensive creation burden can he handle? How much can they how far can they push him? How productive, how efficient can he be? Like I I think there’s different sets of questions. There’s the young guy questions in Scoot, Shay, Donovan, and Hansen. I think there’s the the quasi veteran questions in two and Denny like can two kind of be new age Wes Matthews where he adds just a something a little sprinkling of something new every year the ability to attack closeouts a little bit better the ability to work as like they started using him a little bit as a screener and if you here’s the thing that gets really interesting if you use him as a screener uh when he’s playing the two and it works as a guard on guard screen and now 6’8 240 lb Tumani Kamara is rolling to the rim and he’s a plus passer. Now you find a way to put the defense in rotation or you know Chanty says you know put him in the chase and I think that’s going to be an interesting one for two uh for Donovan. Can he get better offensively and can he shoot it or can he find something to to his game? Can he work because he’s not he’s not a rim runner because he’s just such a big dude, but can he do something more outside of cleanup work, tipins, offensive rebounds, put backs? Can they find something for him that allows him to be more box score impact on the offensive end? So, yeah, the the the looking forward to the most that’s I don’t I don’t I don’t have a great answer for that. I think there’s a lot of guys that I’m looking forward to to be honest and I think that’s what part of not not the thing but I think it’s a definitely a big part of what makes this season so interesting is there are a lot of questions that I have and they’re not questions for a team that’s going to win 18 games like Utah they are going to suck but I have a ton of questions about Utah. How does Ace Bailey look? How does Walter Clayton Jr. look? Does Kyle did Kyle Philpowski turn into like modern age Kevin Love at 7 foot? Like is that what just happened? you know, score what basically 30 a game in the summer league. Just an absolute monster. Like it did, you know, he was a what he was the sixth or seventh rate recruit in his class. I remember him being I’m almost certain he was a top 10 guy in his class. Um like did he unlock something or was it hey it’s summer league and he went seven foot Josh Selby. Oh, but there’s like there’s there’s different variations of what I think you’re looking at when you’re talking about the development of guys and what stage they’re on their career and what what position the a team is in. I think but I think it is a very interesting question. That’s I will probably take the version of that question and turn that into an article closer to the season uh around training camp. Uh Nick Coler asked who has a higher ceiling uh DC or Yong who do you think starts in three years? Too early to answer that. I think the easy hottake answer is Young because his offensive skill set allows for so much more. But the ask of almost every big in the NBA is be a rim protector and a rebounder first and DC’s got him there. So it depends on how you’re styling your team. If if Yang’s offensive profile becomes Mark Gassoul, I mean that’s it’s Young. If DC’s defensive profile becomes prime Rudy Gobear, it’s like well kind of depends on how you want to build your team, you know. So, uh Craig asked when when will there be a uh Drew Holiday press conference? So, I’ve talked to the Blazers about this. Uh, I’ve talked to people very close to Daru about this. Um, he was here. He’s house he’s house hunting. Um, or he was house hunting. He’s been set up to kind of do with all that stuff. Uh, he’s in LA. I don’t think they’re going to do the press conference because I think pretty much everybody’s going to kind of chill uh for the next couple weeks. Probably until media day to be honest. I think that’s when it’s going to happen. I don’t think there’s anything um salacious there. Uh Drew is an LA guy. he’s chilling in LA and there’s not really a reason for him to come do it beforehand. Just kind of is what it is. I’m I knowing what I know. It’s not something I’m worried about right now. Um this is not a I hate everyone. I hate everybody on this team. I hate the whole front office that everything sucks. It’s not that from all of the sources that I have. So, uh best guess. What are your predictions of what happens with Rob Williams and or JG this off seasonason or beyond? As of right now, I think both those guys are going to be on the roster on opening night on July 24th. That is my belief. So, I got nothing there otherwise. Uh, another question about starting lineups. Uh, Buen Corpo asks, “What’s the reason uh behind the thirdyear player opt for Dam’s contract? Is it for is it for him to decide to retire, keep playing, renegotiate his deal based on performance or going to play for a contender based on what he’s saying. It seems like he’s here to stay and I hope he isn’t leaving. I think it’s just protection more than anything else. He got the no trade clause and for I know a bunch of people have asked about how Dame got a no trade clause. He has the tenure with the team. As long as you have the tenure with the team, it doesn’t have to be consistent. As long as you have x amount of years with the team, you have access to the no trade clause. obviously has protection for him and for his family in case, you know, they decide to go a different path. Um Dame’s contract, I believe, is uh 14 million this year. I believe there’s an adjustment in year two and then year three there’s another adjustment. Um the Blazers, I I’ve been told, did in fact, it wasn’t any CAT space. They used the MLE U and that allowed them to do some stuff with it. And the opt out allows for if Dame is what he’ll be what 37 then um I would imagine that becomes an opportunity for Dame to if he does want to go somewhere else some ring chase he can or he can opt out and take less and go I’m going to take a step back. I think there’s it opens up pathways for multiple things, but I think there’s a lot of flexibility in it for both sides. I think that’s that’s the the the key there. Despite there being no trade clause, there is some some wiggle room and flexibility for the Blazers that that they have in there as well. Uh Darkstar, shout out to the OG. Uh I realize if Scooter Shaden really take off, they’re not going anywhere. What is their value on the next trade deadline if they don’t? This is a question that people are asking around the league, not just about these two guys, but where that all lands for RFAS going forward. You’re seeing it play out right now with Cam Thomas, Jonathan Kaminga, Josh Giddy, who am I forgetting? Uh Quinton Grimes. because of the the way the current CBA is, cap space does not exist and RFAS are getting punched in the teeth. And I in a in a weird sense, I do feel bad from them. It’s like, oh, they’re millionaires, blah blah blah. But the RFA status is probably the most prohibitive it’s ever been. And this was the thing that, not to toot my own horn, that I thought was coming. the just give it to them contract because they’re the next guy up does not exist anymore. You’ve got to cross a certain threshold. And if you don’t cross that threshold until books get changed, which will probably take three or four years, you are probably not going to see that change. It’s going to give teams a metric crap ton of leverage. Uh while the faggent crop is certainly better next year, the guys at the top are going to get paid, but teams are not going to clear space for RFAS and make it difficult. Like long gone are the days of the Blazers giving the Utah Jazz complete hellscape offers for West Matthews and Paul Milsap just for S’s and G’s. It just doesn’t happen anymore because then you tie up your space and you can’t do anything and everything that comes out of that. Now, could one team decide to do that for a player? Certainly. Like we we we saw um DeAndre Rayton got his deal under the old CBA uh from the Indiana Pacers and the Suns being forced to match it. As it stands right now, the only team with like a a relatively good clear path to having real cap space next year is the Brooklyn Nets again. Now, other teams could do that. The Blazers could renounce players and I think they could have 34 or 36 million in cap space next year, but it’s not it wouldn’t be painfree and you would have to do it kind of knowing going in that you’re going to get player X. Is that where they are right now? I don’t think so. I think the Blazers would love to hand Scoot and Shay money that they have unabashedly earned. But I also don’t believe neither uh Scoot Sheay nor two are in a hurry to sign a deal with the exception of if one of them goes and looks at Nir Little and goes what if something happens and I just want to lock in a if it’s a value deal it’s a value deal I don’t care but if you’re a team and not just the Blazers if you can hold out longer this is the quote unquote nasty side of the business the longer longer you wait to sign a deal, typically number one, more leverage you’ll have, but also it starts the clock later on books because once you sign a guy to that deal, that deal kicks over as soon as that new league year hits. And so if you can be like, “Hey, wait. we’re going to go into free agency or we want to maneuver this trade so that we can do this and this and then hey we’re going to be a very good team but we’ll be a great team if you just wait and we can go over the the line using your bird rights and sign you after that that’s how teams would would would generally like to operate so I think that’s kind of where they are but as far as their value on the next trade deadline I think there’s a baseline for both for both Scoot and Shay. But I also think it’s probably like 12 on the low, 18 on the high end million a year for good young players with real skill sets. Like let’s say Shaden just turns into like a 33 34% three-point shooter, but he’s a god tier finisher at the rim, which is what he was last year. I think it’s in the 87th percentile at the rim. Unbelievable. And that’s not even forget the dunks. Just his ability to get to the rim and finish is crazy. I shouldn’t say his ability to get to that’s where he needs to improve. His ability to finish at the rim is very good. He’s he floats, body angles, strength, getting through guys like he’s that part of his game there’s no questions about. His ability to get to his mid-range pull-up very good. The three-point shooting and the handle have to improve if he wants to get real money. And it it it is very much a prove it year for Shaden Sharp. There is no doubt about that. Uh Kevin Milton asks, uh, “What do you think Blazers record will be this season?” I I I’ve already said this, even with the changes they made, I think they’re going to win 36 games. I think they’re going to have win the same number of games they won last year, except for they won’t spend the first two and a half months being complete dog water. They were bad. They were awful to start the year last year. Then they they figured stuff out. I don’t think you’re probably going to tear off what is 11 and 13. I think they’re just going to be more consistent. They’re they’re somewhere between probably 35 and 38 wins. 35 and 39 somewhere right around there. Could they go past that? Sure. I don’t think they fall be below that unless they get knock on wood hit by the injury bug. So, and then there’s another question about who starts um this year. Uh MB at Kiwi Trailblazer, who do you think leads the Blazers in minutes among guards? The easy answer there is probably Shaden because he’s the the most scory version of them. And the general thought process is I think for the Blazers this year is that um first to 100 wins. They’re not going to be as bad offensively as the Magic were. I don’t think they’re going to not be great offensively for sure. But I do think there is a a spot in there where the premium on Shaden scoring could elevate him even if he doesn’t start into leading the team in minutes at the guard position. I definitely don’t think it’s going to be Drew. There’s certainly a world where it could be Scoot, but if I had if gun to my head, I’d say Shaden. Um, extra credit. What about in 26 27 I’ll say Dame. If he’s playing, he’s playing. But there you go. Uh, realistically, one has one major skill, one minor skill. You see each Blazer implement this year. I don’t think I’ll go through the whole list, but I I kind of already with Donovan. He’s just got to find a way to be better offensively, whether that’s having a go-to post move or uh taking advantage of switches and mismatches. Or if it’s not going to be that, be a playmaking hub so that you have even if he’s not as good as Hansen, you know, be a guy who can work on the short roll or work in the high post as as a facilitator. Like I think that’s is as valuable if guys are willing to cut off him and he’s able and willing to make those passes. I think that’s also a huge a huge boon for him. Shaden, three-point shooting is the easy one, but it’s his handle. His handle will allow him to get to other stuff. If he improves his handle, uh, scoot, it’s decision-m and having a plan. That one’s very easy for me. Um, his rim finishing has got to improve, but I think if you have a better plan and you know your footwork and your takeoff and where you’re trying to get to and how you’re trying to get to, I think that’ll just kind of come naturally. I don’t think he’s ever going to be an otherworldly finisher, but if he can be an average or slightly above average finisher, um that comes from having a better plan. Uh two, it’s either developing a handle or ability to attack closeouts. It’s probably one of those two things. Uh he could also be again I mentioned earlier, um working as a short roll guy. Uh Jeremy, he’s Jeremy. Drew is Drew. Um, I I guess for Jeremy has returned to kind of form as a two-point shooter. Um, Drew, I mean, his skill set is pretty damn refined at this point. Uh, Chris, it’s the three ball for Chris Murray. If he if he can just shoot 36% from three, he’ll be in the league for a decade. He’s 6’8. He can handle a little bit. He can definitely defend. Uh, he’s kind of a Swiss Army knife, but the shooting is the thing that’s missing. It’s of the Swiss Army knife. The knife is missing. And I love Chris. I love his mentality. I love who he is as a human that but on a on a professional basketball sense that’s the thing that’s holding him back. He’s just got to he’s got to hit the three ball. Um RPs play with aggression. I think you saw it in summer league with the exception of the game against Memphis where I think the setting didn’t do him any favors but also uh I was disappointed in him in that game that he wasn’t as aggressive. Every other game very aggressive. Shot the ball incredibly well. I was talking to a scout uh at Hoops Summit this year uh about RPS and he’s he’s you know you’re I know you’re a repair guy and I was like I am not in the sense of like I think Roops is going to be an all-star. I think he can absolutely be a rotation player. Big as hell, long armed fluid athlete and I think I genuinely think that RPs can shoot the ball like well. I think he can be a 37 38% three-point shooter. I genuinely believe that. Uh, but he’s got to be aggressive in the opportunities that he gets. Whenever somebody gets dinged up, whenever he gets bumped up the rotation or if he just shows up and really elevates, he’s got to be aggressive and take advantage of that stuff. He can’t let himself fall in the background. Uh, Hansen, um, too early to say. Who Who am I missing? is is at this point. He’s going to be what, 29? Uh, Rob Rob’s Rob at this point. Uh, who am who am I missing in the rotation? I’m missing somebody. Tease, I just want him to have good health cuz T is just so unique and so different that he can be whatever. Um, Denny improve his finishing. He’s able to get there. Got to improve his finishing. It’s either that or um ability to process better as a playmaker. He sometimes get gets caught a little bit late with some stuff and that leads to some turnovers. But I I like what Denny is right now. Uh, I think he can get a little bit better. Um, somebody asked in the comments, “What do you want to see from Denny in the upcoming Euro Basket month?” Stay healthy. Go out there and just ball your ass off. Take everything that you had in Portland this year and go be the center of that offense and and hoop. Uh, when that trade was made, I I pretty sure I was in the minority of of believing that number one, it was a great trade. Number two, that I thought Denny could shoot it. He absolutely shot the ball from above the break, which is the self-graded shots significantly better than he ever has in his career on volume and percentage. And I don’t think that’s a fluke. I think he’s a 37% self-graded kind of guy above the break. I got I think that’s that’s who he is. So, um I think that pretty much hits everybody, right? And we just we’re over an hour now, so we’ll call it good there. Uh appreciate you guys. Thank you for being here. Uh like, rate, view, subscribe, do all of the things, the usual uh Jack Ramsey spiel as it were. Sprag will come on here in the next week, 10 days. Uh once we nail it down, I’ll let you guys know so you can get some questions in. I I’ll let Sprag have probably more of the floor um during that show just because he hasn’t been here in a while. But other than that, like I mentioned, uh the film session will be coming up if you’re a Patreon member, uh either this weekend or sometime next week. It all depends on technology. So, we’ll figure that that part of it out. Um, appreciate you guys. Thank you all for all the support that everybody’s been in the chat and on Twitter and DMs and texts and all those things about the switch to 1051 FM. Uh, really, really, really, really appreciate that. It has been an undertaking of epic proportions over the last couple months. Keeping that quiet um, and having everything go as smoothly as it did has been huge. Um, well, I’m very excited about my new co-host, Patrick Harris, on no longer noon to 3, honestly 10 to 1 now. And I will say it has been very weird getting home. Like doing this show, we started this at like 5:00. It’s super weird to like be home and be done with everything before 7:00 at 6:06 right now. So, we definitely started this show at 5. Um, which is normally I’m just barely getting unwound and unpacked and done with the usual come home stuff. So, uh, thank you guys. I appreciate you. It’s It’s been fun. 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