The Portland Trail Blazers have not looked good in preseason. On Sunday night that trend continued with a disheartening loss to the Sacramento Kings in which both teams treated the game like a regular season dress rehearsal. So where do the Blazers go from here? How meaningful are three preseason games? There’s more questions than answers.
One answer at least is that Josh Hart is going to be the starting shooting guard on opening night and that has implications for the rest of the roster.
We close the show talking two-way spots and why Olivier Sarr and Isaiah Miller appear to have the clear inside track at earning the two available spots at the end of Portland’s roster.
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I think that as hard as it is to hear, this team will start very slow and it will be painful
As hard as it is to acknowledge, you kept it real and we have to accept that we aren’t good right now. Tonight was embarrassing, better hope we can pull things together.
Dame has the weapons around him to save energy on offense so he can at least play hard on defense. It is impossible to build a defense around hiding your superstar in the corner. It's disappointing to see, he needs to be held accountable for his effort and involvement on that end.
Thank you for your content Mike 💪🏼 it ain’t easy to get on here and scold your home team. But if we want to improve, we must be ok with acknowledging our faults.
I remember posting on Blazersedge the other day and Dan Marang said some laughable iteration "its only preseason", and that "It's about process and working through things". LOL, the Blazers are a lottery team. Why are Blazer fans willingly delusional? I can't be delusional any longer, we need sweeping changes or to totally work toward building our youth and getting a quality draft pick. Battling for a playoff seed is meaningless if you aren't going to upset any of the top 4 seeds, which the Blazers are incapable of
Watching this game today was so depressing. I know its not over yet but if it remains this way, i hope they trade all the 'now' guys like dame, nurk, grant, hart and get a bunch of assets/young players and build with ant, shaedon and nas.
the blazers were so bad that i expected you to say atleast trash, shit and garbage in this video
ps. I still believe in them.
Kings fan here. Just curious what blazers fans think, how do you guys feel about trading dame and rebuilding?
Yep. Also, yep, and yep.
This is what happens when you pick an inexperienced coach to fix your defense and scheme offense, Becky sure is looking a lot better with her winning ways. Oh well the front office will believe in their choice to waste the rest of Dames prime on controversial Chauncey. 🤦🏻♂️
Honestly nice to see you get as heated as you got this episode. Makes it feel a little better knowing im not alone in my anger in watching the shitshow this team put out on Sunday