WHAT Trailcasters?

Tara welcomes first time guests, co-hosts of the Podland Trailcasters podcast, Keith Feltner-Smith and Chris Burkhardt. What starts with a brief meeting of the #AminuAppreciationSociety turns into the State of Blazer’s Media and ends a loooooong list of things we’re looking forward to this season. Do we have high expectations? Yes. Do we promise to have a fun time anyway? Yes. 1:00 Ice Breaker: Who is a random Blazer you haven’t thought about for a long time? 5:00 #AminuAppreciationSociety 13:00 Get to know the Trailcasters 19:00 Journalists - remember why you fell in love with sports in the first place! 21:00 The state of Blazer news and media right now (not great, Bob) 38:15 What role do podcasts play in the media? 44:00 What are we looking forward to? 45:00 How does Damian Lillard look healthy? 46:00 Will Jerami Grant be the player they expect him to be? 46:45 Healthy Dame ❤️ 48:00 What will the defense look like? 49:00 Anfernee Simons - is he good or will he be great? How does he look next to Dame? 50:30 Trying to be realistic about expectations? 51:30 What does defending the rim look like? 53:30 What story is Damian Lillard going to tell this season? 54:45 People outside the market don’t get it. They don’t understand Damian Lillard. 56:00 What is that mixture of younger players and older statesmen Dame going to be like? 1:04 Will this be Nurk’s year? #JusufNurkicSupportFoundation References Zach Lowe on Al-Farouq Aminu :  He is a chunk of debris clanging around the gears of Portland's motion offense. Fireworks almost ended career of top 2020 Tennessee basketball recruit before it began Wesley Matthews: The Rebuilding of Iron Man | OregonLive.com Zach Collins Rookie Year mini movie Hang out with us on the Trailcaster’s Discord Server Follow us on Twitter: WHAT Pod @wehaveatake, Tara @tcbbiggs, and Cassidy @CassidyGemmet. Music used in the episode: "Happy Alley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License