We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast

This week we are recapping a special event we were invited to! With a few other Trail Blazers fans, we got to meet and talk to Assistant GMs Andrae Patterson and Mike Schmitz. Both were a delight of course! We’re not reporting, we’re just vibin’ about what we heard, how we interpreted it, and what stuck with us. Topics include team building, player improvement, and leadership.  We also ate Ranch P...

NBA Chef Alli ( @chefalli in Instagram) joined us to tell us all about what her life is like as an NBA chef! We had so much fun learning about how she got her job, how she works with her clients and what its like being trusted to feel players and their families. 1:00 Ice breaker: What is your jersey number? 5:00 Alli's basketball origin story 11: 00 Alli's chef origin story 13:00 (Game) da...

We're not saying we're goofing off or slacking for the rest of the season, it just seemed like the right time to draft Former Blazer Cuties. Who are Blazer cuties? We're glad you asked! Tune in to find out and then tell us what Blazer Cuties would you draft for your Blazer cutie dream team? 3:00 Catching up on the last week, beating bad teams, Suns have big problems and it wasn’t Jusuf...

1:00 Sweatshirt takes, or, what to order online at 4am 10:00 Lakers game: could be worse! 17:00 Charlotte Game: most relaxing viewing in memory 25:00 Sidebar where we wonder who is the best former Charlotte Hornets player? 30:00 What signs of development are we seeing? 35:00 We have a talk about Shaedon and who are the Blazer's guards of the future? 54:00 Who was the last Blazer center who regular...

Ever wonder about that guy who jumps into the middle of a Trail Blazers game to give us stats and chop it up with the rest of the broadcasting crew? We did too! So we reached out and Tara got to talk to Tom Haberstroh ( https://bsky.app/profile/tomhaberstroh.bsky.social ) - about his basketball journey, how he got into covering sports, what kinds of things he's learned about Rip City since he...

Brandon Goldner Mullen of We Like the Blazers and Blazer's Edge joined us to talk about what we are looking forward to for the rest of the season. :24 Introduction with Brandon 2:00 Icebreaker: If you could have something named after you, what would it be? 10:00 Brandon's background and relationship to basketball 19:00 How he started writing and talking about the Blazers 28:00 Thoughts on...

It's Superb Owl Sunday and we’re talking trade memories, Blazer Cuties who were traded at the deadline, Blazers making no moves at the trade deadline and then ask ourselves, WHAT about the Development Express?  All this and more including: Chocolate souffles Chandler Parsons Yoga mat Working definition of Blazer Cuties Deandre Ayton's chemistry with the guards 0:00 Superbowl Sunday plans 3...

We had a great time learning about Mike Richman's history of covering the Blazers. So many good stories from the Playoff series against the Spurs in 2014 to what Shaedon Sharpe said about the dunk contest on Tuesday night. 1:00 Icebreaker: What is your favorite arena food? 8:00 Get know Mike and his basketball story 11:30 Covering the team when there were multiple people on the Blazer beat 24:...

Conor Bergin of Blazer’s Edge joined us to talk about his journey to covering the Blazers, how he’s adjusting to media access and the unique challenges of covering the team this season. He also adds two brilliant songs to the 2024-25 play list and gives us his thoughts on some potential WHAT award candidates. All this and more! 2:00 Icebreaker - if you could give the blazers a gift, what would it...

This week’s podcast features highlights from the Season Ticket Holder event earlier this week. We gloss over some rough games and take questions about the trade deadline, definitive things we want to know, the future faces of the franchise and Kris Murray nicknames. If you liked the questions, we’ll do it again via Blue Sky. Thank you Jason (Hecubus01) , Linssenp , Keanu_reevebooks , 20000thorns !...

Life got in the way this week but we didn't want to short our Rip City friends an episode. Here's a deep-dive episode we did in March 2024 where we got to know more about Ryan Rupert and Kris Murray. Who knows what's around the corner for this team? But if the second half of the season bring lots of minutes for these two, you'll know a little bit more about them. We'll be back next week with anoth...

Its our first deep dive of the season! Rose shares what she learned about Deni Avdija - his journey to the NBA, rookie year, being an international player, playing for his national team. Plus: The now-defunct Yugoslavian national basketball team, Deni's number 8, and it turns out we don't know what shows were on Nickelodeon! 2:00 Recap the last few weeks 9:17 Thoughts and prayers for Miami 11:00 T...

After basking in the glow of a two game winning streak (the Blazers will never lose again, we're certain) we go over some of the things that we manifested for the team at the beginning of the season. We might be making progress! Plus, Scoot's game winner in front of his biggest fan, Greg Oden returns to Moda Center, Matisse might live at Moda Center and will the Blazers be able to make any trades?...

Our friend and G-League correspondent Cat joined us to catch up on how we're feeling and start part 1 of the 2024-25 Season Playlist 1:00 How is your spirit?  12:00 Deni Avjia chaos agent 17:30 WHAT is up with Deandre Ayton?  19:00 Bosses vs Teachers 22:00 Chanucy Billups is literally on the court 23:30 A close up view of bench celebrations  25:00 Is Robert Williams III the leader this team needs...

Join us on this journey! Also, what we’re thankful for! 1:00 Cars that match the trees they parked under 2:45 Houston series takeaways 7:00 Early take from Tara: The Blazers are a good team to measure how serious other teams are. 17:30 What we’re thankful for 18:00 …transition defense 20:00 … Donovan Clingan’s intensity 23:30 … bench celebrations - bring back Bench Celebrator Man of the Year Award...

This week we're joined by Keith Feltner-Smith of the TrailCaster's podcast. We dive into an important topic that is close to our hearts - which Blazers have the best nicknames? We have a some of the best nicknames in the league and we decided to celebrate them! Find us on BlueSky @wehaveatake , @tcbbiggs @roselharding . Or, join us on Discord ! The cutest intro/outro music by Eric Peterson ( @shoo...

Welp. Here we are and the Blazers are the constant in our lives. Join us as we talk about a whole range of things from Bachelor in Paradise, pizza dough in Eugene, fond memories of Brian Wheeler’s amazing voice, and the great twitter departure.  :30 Three day weekend plans 2:00 Bachelor in Paradise 6:15 How does dating work any more?  10:00 Memories of Brian Wheeler 25:00 This week in Trail Blazer...

Troy Douglass of Back To The Basket ( @BallWasLifeVol2 ) joins us to talk about his unique shop that caters to basketball lovers of all kinds -new fans and old will have a great time visiting and looking at the selection of basketball memorabilia. 1:30 Icebreaker: How we’re feeling about “Rip City runs deep” 11:30 Getting to know Troy Douglass - shout out to Blazervision channel 52! 16:52 Favorite...

We're wrapping up the first week of the official NBA season by talking about what we are manifesting for each of the Portland Trail Blazers this season. 3:45 Highs and lows of opening week 15:30 Thinking about games in quarters and halves and banking sleep for future seasons 20:00 WHAT we are manifesting for each player 21:30 Donovan Clingan 24:00 Deandre Ayton 32:00 Toumani Camara 36:00 Anfernee...

We do the most natural thing in the world and overreact to the Trail Blazers 3-1 pre-season record because why not? AND, we reveal the WHAT Awards for the 2024-25 Season :30 Quick flashback to the 2022 roster?  3:00 Managing expectations: don’t expect anything 5:50 Preseason overreactions (give us this!) 8:30 Donovan Clingan observations “Look at this guy using his arms at all times!” 12:30 Organi...

Guest Dillon Sage of @holybackboard (TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dasagehoops ) or twitter (@dasage) joined us to talk Donovan Clingan, Deni Avdija, Coach Billups, Scoot Henderson and other actual basketball topics. Get ready for the new season with us! 1:00 Icebreaker: Ice preferences (see Dillon’s recommendation on TikTok) also shout out Sy’s Pizza in Eugene! 6:00 Sage’s thoughts on Donovan C...

1:30 Olympic Sized Feelings about Team Australia 9:00 What have the Blazers been up to? 15:30 Wedding season 17:00 Real Housewives of Salt Lake City - Damian Lillard possible crossover 23:44 Rebuilding Season 32:00 Former Blazers to watch around the League 55:00 Takes Join us on Discord ! It's a place where we can share our love for the Blazers, talk about games, and get to know other Blazer f...

Tara and Rose catch up after a pretty significant break. How are we spending our summer? How does it compare to last summer and the Damian Lillard saga? We left in a swear because its summer time, you've been warned! 1:00 WHAT have we been doing instead 2:00 Instead of worrying about Damian Lillard, we’re living our lives and looking in on other teams’ problems/drama 6:00 Checking in on how we...

Welcome to the Didi Louzada Era! On June 30 we talk with our friend @catrenzer about the Blazers drafting Donovan Clingan and trading for Deni Avdija. We definitely do not talk about aprons! Plus we give thanks and appreciation for Andrew Nicholson, whose 7 year waive-and-stretch officially comes off the books. But who is he? No surprise, he's got a great story! 1:00 Icebreaker: One thing you...

Time to announce the most prestigious basketball awards of  the year, the 2024 WHAT Awards! Plus: draft lottery reactions, draft night predictions, and no more fiddling around! 5:00 Current Basketball Watching situation 8:05 There is too much fiddling around 10:45 Draft lottery 14:00 GMs should be the ones who sit there at the lottery. Stop sending players! 22:45 The NBA Draft two-day event. We’re...