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We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast

W.H.A.T. Podcast

Two women who love the Portland Trail Blazers talk about the games, players, teams, mascots, fans, uniforms, and history that make Rip City great. With Tara Bowen-Biggs and Rose Harding. Serious fans, fun takes. We have a take and so can you.

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00:53:35

WHAT Friends Khadija and Rachel

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/07/11

This summer we're going to be getting to know more Blazer fans and introducing new voices to the conversation about #RipCity. Today Tara talked with two new friends from Twitter: Khadija (@kdplus_3) and Rachel (@pdx_rachel) about how they became fans, making friends with Blazer connections, and then discuss the Blazer's Off season so far. 1:00 Introducing Khadija and Rachel 4:30 Damian Lillard inspires new fans 6:45 What we love about the game. 8:30 Following a player vs following a team 9:50

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00:56:38

WHAT Do We Know About the Young Glove w/DeVon Pouncey

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/07/05

Tara is joined by Oakland native and host of the Wake Up and Win podcast and The Street Roots Podcast, DeVon Pouncey (@Pounce_Sation). They talk about his experience celebrating in Oakland with Gary Payton II and what GP2 will bring to the Portland Trail Blazers. Then we talk about a few themes that are emerging this Blazers off season: Another 6’3” guard? Are the Blazers no longer just switching out players and actually building a new team? The Blazers are really going to play defense. This

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01:05:36

WHAT 2022 Season Award Winners Announced

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/06/28

Rose Harding (@roselharding) joins Tara to discuss the latest moving and shaking by the Blazers. Then the first annual WHAT Award winners are announced. Thanks everyone who voted and played along! 1:00 Kevin Durant still isn’t a Blazer? 3:30 Do we regret not buying a Ben McLemore jersey? 7:48 Born into being a Blazer fan 11:23 Rose’s first Blazer game 15:00 Sports memories 18:00 When people think of us when they think of Blazers 20:00 The two Rose Hardings 22:00 Jerami Grant - how did this

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01:11:34

WHAT if the Blazers Had Not Tanked? With Holy Backboard

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/06/14

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

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01:13:57

WHAT Assistant Coach of the Year Nominees with Jill Adge

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/05/19

Special Guest Assistant Coach Specialist Jillian Adge (@JillAdge) of the SportsEthos Sacramento Kings Coverage (@EthosKings) podcast joined us this week to share extraordinary tales about the Kings as well as help us choose the nominees for WHAT Assistant Coach of the Year awards. We end with each drafting our three favorite players who played for both the Kings and the Blazers. 1:00 Intro Jill Adge 7:00 Icebreaker: Spin the Draft Lottery wheel on Tankathon (Jill got her team’s right!) 12:15 Why

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01:18:35

WHAT Most Improved 'Fits Finalists with Terry from...

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/05/02

On the latest episode of We Have A Take, Tara is joined by Terry (@terry_was_taken), formerly of the Drip City Report, to review the fashion of the 2022 Trail Blazers and decide which ones should be nominated for Most Improved ‘Fits. Along the way we talk about who are the most fashionable Blazers, what it means to express yourself through fashion, what we think about players with their own t-shirt slogans, what is good about graphic ts and so much more (and we didn’t even get to half of it)! Terry

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00:58:40

WHAT Season Award Nominations: Most Valuable Pet and...

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/04/21

Welcome in to the group chat! Lindsay, Rose, Cassidy and Tara got off their phones and hopped on Zoom to talk about who should be nominated for Most Valuable Pet and Bench Celebrator Man of The Year. Intro 1:10 Icebreaker: What is a word or phrase that you would use to describe the season? Unique, a lot, liberating, chaos. 5:00 Season Awards: Goal today is to come up with Nominees and then we’ll put it out there for our listeners and friends to vote on. We will select up to 4 6:35 Setting the

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00:53:48

WHAT About the New Guys Part III

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/04/05

Tara and Cassidy wrapped up getting to know the new guys by talking about (deep breath) Eric Bledsoe, Drew Eubanks, Joe Ingles, Brandon Williams, Kris Dunn and Reggie Perry. With only a few days left in the season to go, perhaps the Blazers are done adding new players to the roster. Maybe? :58 Icebreaker - what are you comfort watching? 1:30 MNCAA Duke loses to North Carolina, why is Cassidy a Duke fan and shout out to Bobby Hurley but never Christian Laetner. 9:00 WNCAA Tournament 14:00 Yet another

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01:08:13

WHAT is Good About Tanking?

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/03/23

Tara is joined by friend of the show (and former co-host) Kendyl Bennett to talk about what are the silver linings to tanking (okay, we talk about the cons of tanking too). A little Jerami Grant talk and the question we're going to ask everyone from here on out: Who is going to come and play with Dame? :45 Report from Los Angeles about how Laker fans are doing 2:20 Hate having to root for the Lakers to ever win anything but some nights that where we are. Also shout out to @schillypnw for the daily

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00:45:51

We Have A Talk About Tanking with Jannelle Moore and...

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/03/07

It's time to have The Talk. Jannelle Moore (@jannelle12) and Brit Robotista (@britrobotista) join Tara to talk about tanking. Catching up with Jannelle and Brit 4:00 Houston’s tanking back story. 8:15 Golden State’s recent losing/tanking situation 13:00 How does tanking appear to affect the players and the fans? Golden State when they were bad because Steph Curry was out people were more understanding, but it got more confusing the following year when Steph was better and they didn’t go for as many

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01:03:44

WHAT About the New Guys Part II: Josh Hart, Didi...

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/02/23

It's another installment of “WHAT about the new guys” where we deep dive on the internet and podcasts to learn more about the newest Portland Trail Blazers. The theme of this week’s episode is 6’5” guard forwards. We did a deep dive on Josh Hart, Didi Louzada and Eli Hughes and, of course, we’re so excited they are on the team! Find us on Twitter @tcbbiggs, @cassidygemmet and @wehaveatake 1:30 Icebreaker: What would a competitive rebounding competition actually look like? 4:00 Lets have a mascot

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00:54:25

WHAT About the New Guys?

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/02/16

Remembering CJ McCollum's time in Portland and getting to know two of the newer players: Keon Johnson and Justise Winslow.

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01:01:23

WHAT about the Young Trail Blazers?

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/02/02

Sage (@dasage) from Holy Backboard (@holybackboard) dropped by to talk about the Trail Blazers’ present and future with Tara (@tcbbiggs). While the Blazers lost to OKC in the background they caught up on the Blazers' journey this season. Are there any noteworthy changes to how the team plays? Is ball movement a result of scheme or personnel? Finally, we discuss what the future could look like. 1:00 Holy Backboard update - check out their new #FutureFriday feature where they watch college games

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00:43:52

WHAT Mid Season Awards Update with Jamie Hudson

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/01/25

Jamie Hudson of Trail Blazers broadcasting and KOIN6 joined us to tell us what she's been up to and give us some help with the WHAT awards. 1:00 Icebreaker: Who is a former Blazers player you've been thinking about lately and why? 4:00 Catching up with Jamie 6:00 New positions with the Trail Blazers - excited to work with Brooke Olzendam, Michael Holton and Neil Everett. On KOIN6 she gets to work with AJ McCord. Difference working on a news station and covering a wide variety of sports. 11:30 WHAT

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00:50:47

WHAT We Hope to See This Season

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2022/01/15

Despite everything that has happened so far this season, Blazers are still stealing our hearts. 2:00 Icebreaker: Which Blazer would be the best Survivor Contestant (besides Cliff Robinson) 5:30 Damian Lillard has surgery 6:45 Question from @Hecubus01: With Dame now most likely out for the rest of the season and trades most likely coming for some key veterans, what do you want to see from the rest of the team? Or from the coaching staff? 9:15 How did Brian Windhorst end up breaking the news about

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00:59:39

We Have A Talk with Anne Peterson, Associated Press

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2021/12/29

We had a talk with Anne Peterson (@AnnieMPeterson), Associated Press reporter, about what it has been like covering sports during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discussed what she remembers about when the leagues shut down and how her job has changed. Then we discuss what covering the Trail Blazers has been like since Neil Olshey was fired. 1:00 Icebreaker: What is a favorite wintertime activity? 3:45 Catching up on life with Zoomer Anne Peterson. 6:30 Being a sports reporter when sports shut

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00:53:27

WHAT Is On Your Mind Rip City? Searching for Meaning...

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2021/12/17

1:15 Ice breaker: [Bachelorette Spoiler Alert] Who is Michelle going to choose? 6:30 The Departure of Neil Olshey, our thoughts on Joe Cronin, and a press conversation for the ages. 14:00 @Justn_B_Leak“It's messy but we still have Dame and a bunch of fun good dudes. There is still hope. I remember the lockout season with Ray Felton and Co. when they had a lockerroom mutiny and the coach was fired midseason. That season was worse I swear.” Worse Season: Blazers Brass: Frustrated Nate McMillan was

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00:37:27

WHAT Now? With Jannelle Moore

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2021/12/08

Jannelle Moore (@jannelle12), writer for sites such as @complexsports , @basketbllnews , and San Jose Mercury joined Tara to provide some outside perspective about what is happening with the Blazers. 2:00 Last year’s soft tank, and working Wiseman back in. 4:30 How worried should I be about the Trail Blazer? Only a quarter of the way into the season, coach is still figuring it out, and now maybe the Blazers will get a GM who cares 7:20 You can’t call out the players in public until you know them

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00:47:26

WHAT A Mess 2.0

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2021/11/27

Things are not getting better at least with the front office and we're wondering what will happen next? We talk about what differences we are seeing on the court including perhaps more comfortable communication and Jusuf Nurkic finding a groove despite not getting his regular minutes and rotations. We also check in to find out how Blazers are doing in assists, passes and dunks this season! 1:30 Cassidy is decorating 3:30 #WeTheNorth 4:30 Our first time talking together about the Neil Olshey

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00:56:51

WHAT Is Different About the Blazers This Time Around?

We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast ·

2021/11/05

Dillon Sage (@dasage) of Holy Backboard Podcast (@holybackboard) joined Tara to discuss ways that the Trail Blazers look different (or the same) this season. 2:00 What changes have we seen to their playing style? 5:00 Blazers are working on implementing a high risk, high reward defense 6:30 Drop defense isn’t Voldemort 8:45 Why don’t the Blazers keep their hands up? 10:15 Second unit defense 12:00 Four guard lineup 13:30 Why do role players always have career nights against the Blazers? 15:00

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