Greetings from North Portland. With only two games this week, we’ve had plenty of time to record another edition of The Brief Case podcast, which you can listen to and subscribe to below…
Topics covered in this 68th edition include…
• The Trail Blazers are coming back from a 2-2 road trip, which very easily could have been a 4-0 road trip
• Shaedon Sharpe and Toumani Camara posterize Jazz center Walker Kessler on consecutive possessions
• Chauncey Billups talking about one of those dunks
• Jerami Grant enters concussion protocol after being shot in the face during Saturday’s loss to the Jazz.
• The imminent return of Anfernee Simons, absent since the first match of the season due to a thumb injury.
• Trail Blazers get disabled player exemption and if it means a lot in the short term
• A preview of last week’s Rip City Remix
• Portland’s offensive and defensive ratings nearly a quarter into the season
• The Trail Blazers have beaten the spread in four of their last five games and when they could be favored in a matchup for the first time this season.
And the show ends with a long chat with sophomore forward Jabari Walker, who discusses the road trip, his recent play, Portland’s “bench crowd,” the importance of bringing the energy off the bench, the return of Anfernee Simons and what he hopes to see from the team and himself next month.
