WHAT Awards? Again?

Announcing 2023 Trail Blazer WHAT Award Categories WHAT are the Blazers really playing for this season? The Second Annual We Have A Take Awards of course! After careful consideration and applying lessons learned from our First Annual Trail Blazers W.H.A.T. awards, we’re back with our most ambitious slate yet! We’re looking forward to a fiercely competitive year both on and off the court. Tara (@tcbbiggs) is joined by Rose Harding (@roselharding) to decide which awards we'll be giving out this season plus: preseason reflections, offense vs defense, new players and more! Announcing the 2023 Categories: Assistant Coach of The Year (ACOTY) Bench Celebrator of The Year--no thanks to you, Theo Pinson! (BCOTY) Most Fashionable Accessorizer (MFA) Social Media Player of the Year (SMPOY) Bestfriendsship Award Most Valuable Mentor (MVM) R.I.P. MVP Award (Most Valuable Pet) 1:00 What are you wearing on opening night? 6:00 Prep for Sacramento Road Trip! 9:00 Well worn team gear is probably good luck 10:15 What is different about the new vets on the team compared to vets who were added to the roster in the past. 14:30 Preseason reflections: Jerami Grant fits but he’s not the all-purpose Swiss Army Knife who is going to do everything. 17:30 The team is way more athletic than they have been in a long time and it shows! 20:00 Do more people like offense than defense? 21:30 Award recap and discussion: Coach of the Year 25:45 Most Valuable Pet We don’t even know if anyone has pets anymore! We think Keon Johnson has a dog. 30:30 Bench Celebrator Man of the Year. NBA is trying to ruin bench fun thanks a lot Theo Pinson. We will persevere. Bench players will innovate. We shall overcome. 38:20 Most Improved Fits. Fashion Award is good, but hard to evaluate improvement. 43:00 Proposals for new awards - Best Friendsship 44:30 Most Valuable Mentor 47:30 Social Media Player of the Year 53:30 Outro Music used in the episode: "Happy Alley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License