Blazer Focused

Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, reacts to the Blazers’ horrible loss Sunday night to the Charlotte Hornets and what it means big picture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, reviews the team's inactivity at the trade deadline, what GM Joe Cronin said regarding feeling good about where the team is headed and what teams in the NBA are worse off than the struggling Blazers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, returns to Wednesday night's epic atmosphere during the Portland Trail Blazers’ win over Damian Lillard and the Milwaukee Bucks. Also, trade talk, what to expect in the second half from these Blazers and the evolution of Anfernee Simons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, examines the Portland Trail Blazers’ first half of the season while naming MVP, most improved, best rookies, biggest disappointment, greatest surprise and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blazer Focused podcast, featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, discuss the improvement of Scoot Henderson, Jabari Walker, Duop Reath and Ibou Badji. Also, what do victories mean for this team, if anything? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast hosted by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress with Craig Birnbach, examines the Portland Trail Blazers breaking their seven-game losing streak against the Phoenix Suns, the play of Deandre Ayton and the continued development of Scoot Henderson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blazer Focused podcast, hosted by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress with Craig Birnbach, react to the Portland Trail Blazers getting blasted by a depleted Utah team and what the recent hot play from Scoot Henderson means in regards to the team's future in the backcourt. Also, Deandre Ayton has yet to dominate. Plus, what to make of the Draymond Green situation in Golden State and how i...

Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, reacts to the return of Anfernee Simons and how the Blazers have defied the odds in games where they were listed as heavy underdogs. Could a healthy Blazers team become a postseason threat? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blazers have won two out of three thanks to improved shooting and a solid defense. Could they be on to something? Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, takes a look a the Blazers' sudden improvement. Get exclusive insights and bonus content from the sports staff at The Oregonian/OregonLive. Oregonian Sports Insider...

Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, react to the play of Shaedon Sharpe, Toumani Camara, Duop Reath and Skylar Mays during the team's recent struggles. Plus, Deandre Ayton continues to search for consistent offense in a system not yet designed for him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blazer Focused, an Oregonian Sports podcast featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, dives into the Portland Trail Blazers' 3-4 start that revealed several positive signs including the rapid development of Shaedon Sharpe and the impact being made by rookie Toumani Camara. Then there is the bad news surrounding the injury to Robert Williams. How much will losing Will...

The Blazer Focused podcast, featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, evaluates the Portland Trail Blazers 1-3 start to the season. While stacking losses should have been expected, is there reason for concern regarding rookie Scoot Henderson's poor start? Shaedon Sharpe is filling in nicely for Anfernee Simons, Deandre Ayton is a rebounding force, and what to make of...

The Blazer Focused podcast, featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, evaluates the Portland Trail Blazers following a 1-3 preseason. The defense looked awful. The offense has the potential to be exciting. A season filled with losing could boil down to the development of Scoot Henderson and Shaedon Sharpe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

The Blazer Focused podcast, hosted by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress with Craig Birnbach, react to the Portland Trail Blazers first two preseason games. Rookie Scoot Henderson looks solid. Shaedon Sharpe, not so much. Deandre Ayton up and down. Is this team simply too young and not put together well enough to compete? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blazer Focused podcast, hosted by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress with Craig Birnbach, reacts to the success of Sunday’s Fan Fest and discuss how Portland Trail Blazers training camp went with preseason games getting started Tuesday night against the New Zealand Breakers. They talk lineups, small forward, expectations for Scoot Henderson and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. V...

The Blazer Focused Podcast, hosted by The Oregonian/OregonLive's Aaron Fentress and Craig Birnbach, gets you ready for Tuesday's start of Training Camp with a recap of what went down during Media Day. Deandre Ayton expressed confidence. Anfernee Simons is ready to assume a leadership role. Scoot Henderson and Shaedon Sharpe need time to grow. And GM Joe Cronin publicly discusses the messy summer t...

Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach react to the blockbuster trade that included the Blazers acquiring polarizing center Deandre Ayton from the Phoenix Suns for a package that included Jusuf Nurkic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trail Blazers training camp starts Oct. 3 and Damian Lillard still remains on the roster. The Blazer Focused podcast, featuring The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress and Craig Birnbach, examines the latest trade rumors and what it could mean to have an unhappy Lillard actually report to camp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s been a month since Damian Lillard demanded a trade to Miami and so far a moving truck hasn’t been in required. Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach are joined by Bill Oram, sports columnist for OregonLive on the latest episode of the Blazer Focused podcast. The trio get into the weeds of what’s going on with this ongoing drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

With no movement on the trade front, the Blazer Focused podcast with Aaron Fentress and Craig Birnbach examines what it would mean to bring back Damian Lillard, where the Blazers roster (minus Lillard) ranks in the West and Anfernee Simons’ murky future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cronin addressed the ongoing situation with Damian Lillard and talked about the team’s future, which is built around Henderson. The Blazer Focused podcast reacts to the slow trade negotiations and the rookie’s short debut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The superstar guard has demanded a trade to the Heat which impacts the Blazers’ negotiating power. There is real belief that if Lillard doesn’t get what he wants, the entire situation could become volatile. Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach examine all of the angles involving this complex situation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard has requested a trade after the franchise failed to improve the roster enough to his liking. Who is to blame? Where will Lillard land? And where do the Blazers go from here? The Blazer Focused podcast crew of Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach dive into all of that and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

The Trail Blazers rejected all trade proposals seeking the No. 3 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft to ultimately selected 6-foot-2 point guard Scoot Henderson. But how does that help Damian Lillard’s quest to bring a championship to Portland? Not at all says the Blazer Focused podcast crew of Aaron Fentress (The Oregonian/OregonLive) and Craig Birnbach. They believe it’s just about time to trade Lillar...

The Trail Blazers promised Damian Lillard and he fans that they would do whatever it takes to acquire impact veterans to improve the roster. But as of Wednesday evening, it appeared that the Blazers were set to draft and keep Scoot Henderson (G League Ignite). How, if at all, would that help Lillard? The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress is joined by Craig Birnbach to discuss the many options...