WHAT if the Blazers Had Not Tanked? With Holy Backboard

It’s been a while! This week Tara was joined by Dustin and Sage from Holy Backboard, one of Rip City’s longest-running podcasts. We talked about how we still have no idea what the Blazers are going to do, speculated about what might have happened if the Blazers hadn’t tanked and then talked about some potential Blazer draft picks. They had to be separated on AJ Griffin and Bennedict Mathurin. Despite swearing I wouldn’t get attached, I'm now attached to Ousmane Dieng and Tari Eason. 2:10 Celebrating 300 Episodes of Holy Backboard, remembering the early years 9:50 How about the off season so far? Total mystery! 11:10 Who knows what the Blazers are going to do?  12:40 Encouraging move hiring Mike Schmitz 13:50 Any significance to Blazers being named in so many rumors? 16:30 Trying to separate rumors from real possibilities 18:30 The team chose a direction. Was it the right one? 20:30 What would have happened if the Blazers hadn’t tanked? 27:10 Note of course that players were not playing to lose 29:00 It's still theoretical what Josh Hart and Justise Winslow could do on this team 29:50 Could they have been at least good enough to knock out the Pelicans and get their pick?  35:25 It was so easy to climb on board and ride to tank town. 36:10 Holy Backboard Draft coverage history 40:20 AJ Griffin 50:25 Shaedon Sharpe 53:40 Bennedict Mathurin 55:50 Ousmane Dieng 59:30 Most ready to contribute right away? 1:00:00 Keegan Murray 1:04:20 Tari Eason 1:08:00 Jalen Duren