The Trail Blazers Are Actually Fun to Watch
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The Portland Trail Blazers are surprisingly one of the best teams early on in the season. While Trysta doesn't believe they are true contenders, she discusses how this team is exciting and athletic for the first time in a long time. Tune In!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | What is happening in Portland? |
| 0:17.1 | Can someone tell me? |
| 0:18.8 | I am stunned. |
| 0:20.9 | As they say, you can knock me over with a feather right now. |
| 0:24.9 | And I say that as a lifelong Blazers fan. |
| 0:29.0 | I have watched them so far this year, and I look at what they're doing on the court, |
| 0:34.7 | and I just say, I don't get it. |
| 0:41.0 | Could the Portland Trailblazers be for real? Could they be actually good? They were the last undefeated team in the NBA last night |
| 0:49.0 | before losing to the Miami Heat that, I don't know, went to the finals a couple of years ago, |
| 0:53.5 | went to the Eastern Conference Finals last year. |
| 0:56.2 | It was very close until Damien Lillard tore up his calf muscle, which, you know, |
| 1:00.7 | hopefully Dame's okay. |
| 1:02.4 | Doesn't appear to be too serious, but I tell you what, |
| 1:05.5 | games like this happen, but this team is just not the same when Dame is not on the court. |
| 1:11.1 | Anthony averaged 12.6 points per game without him last year for a reason. |
| 1:15.2 | But before we get into this iteration of the Blazers, I have a very hot take that I think |
| 1:21.1 | is going to not be a very popular opinion, especially in Portland. |
| 1:27.3 | I have to admit it, and I've thought this for a long time. |
| 1:30.9 | It's probably going to get me banned from the city that I grew up in. |
| 1:34.8 | I hated watching Brandon Roy play basketball. |
| 1:38.9 | I hated it. |
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