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00:00for both of them very helpful they are filling up the box score all across the
00:06board shot Fred Meyer and save Fred Meyer fresh for everyone Denny and Scoot
00:12combined for 29 points Blazers woke up from three-point range that was good
00:18they hit six of their last eight after opening up 0 for 10 from three-point
00:23range just a moment ago Donovan Klingen was out there getting warmed up and he
00:28suddenly erupted he was he was happy he was clapping his hands stomping around
00:34as Connecticut took the lead over Duke late in the game is that a final time I
00:38think it is and the whole crowd actually I heard a big cheer in the audience here
00:42in Portland in Moda Center they were going nuts and I thought wait a minute did
00:46did you just come back down 19 to pull out that victory and man Donovan Klingen
00:52your ear smiling it comes high step in the other way here is the Blazers go to
01:01work offensively Denny obvious Roger in on Reese dumps it over to scoop back the
01:06day has himself set for three but hit the side of the glass and Washington will
01:13take it look to bits just step back under duress falling away off balance Blazers
01:19claimants accelerating is scoot Henderson and the big seven-foot Italian fouls scoot
01:25Henderson
01:2973 72 final UConn over duper first my bracket I had to you know as a Wake Forest guy I
01:41should
01:41never listen to my head and you just listen to my heart when I fill out these brackets you
01:47know that's tough your heart told you Yukon my heart told me don't pick Duke okay as a Wake Forest
01:57Demon Deacon I actually grew up a UNC fan so my whole life I've not been a big fan of
02:03the Duke
02:04Blue Devils but of course uh Cam Bruiser is gonna have a bright future in the NBA if it decides
02:11to
02:13declare really talented team yet again you went chalk Tom just say it even chalky on that one very
02:20chalky did you take Michigan I did I had Michigan Duke in the final one half of those is still
02:25possible
02:26you know what my my sister-in-law Jackie she's very happy she's uh she's a UConn grad today and
02:34every day she's very happy reach out to anybody you know from UConn that's right give a little love
02:39today I think he might have just gotten gotten a bit of the ire of Rahsaan Gethers our superstar uh
02:46leader communications who was in Arizona online it's like he heard you say Michigan Tommy several
02:51seats down and he he heard it he could somehow he had a sense on it okay he almost had
02:56to come get
02:57you yeah yeah see he just gave me a look yeah so you got time to change your pick I
03:02should now
03:02obviously I picked Duke yeah Arizona mission yesterday yes they were what do they got like three first
03:15potential first-round draft choices right led by the six eight Pete I had a big game yesterday yeah
03:24there's a nice big man that runs a corner terrific point guard Bradley yeah he was quick 58 50 count
03:34Purdue once again they get up there Lamar there's a lot of talk about the boilers yeah and then you
03:39know
03:40and look making the tournament being ranked number one year after year only the fall short it gets to the
03:48round of 16 to eight that's tough but hats off to Purdue yeah yeah they're they're still getting there
03:54you're like Brandon Smith that guy's got a great handle he shoots a three well but he's not even six
04:02feet tall I don't know this is the room for a leader to go there comes Denny Otvia to the
04:08line
04:09Denny 15 points five rebounds three assists thus far
04:13against his ex-mates the Washington Wizards
04:19Anthony Gill will step back in for the Wizards we're playing today without some of their good young
04:24talent Trey Johnson people really love him the sixth pick in this past summer's draft 20 year old from
04:30Dallas not playing today and Alex Saar is out in his second year seven foot Frenchman
04:37for the Blazers beat Krejci not playing and of course as you know Jeremy Grant with a strained
04:43right calf is on the bench for the Blazers street clothes
04:51Donovan Klingendahl flat-footed rebuff of Reese slaps it out of bounds you would think that
04:57Reese was a blue devil basically a lot of it just being long here
05:06just smothers it you could have blocked that with his elbow yeah
05:12black leans in and banks one in and javani kamara got popped in the chops
05:17and that comes scoop drives it into the lane he breaks free of the embrace of black and laid it
05:23up and in andy is fouling scoop in overdrive guys right down the floor yeah he was not going to
05:29be
05:30deterred right there because he didn't have numbers to money he wasn't even a part of the play
05:34i think denny was also somewhere at the back and scoop just saw opportunity in front of himself
05:45he's got 17 beating all scorers right now he's on a mission to might get offensive
05:50foul on this day watch him oh he was close if tamadi didn't throw that it would have worked in
05:56his favor
06:04he was baiting him and then when tamadi did that that's when to
06:08worked against him
06:16jerry didn't trigger it in play 94 offensive fouls drawn by
06:22tomorrow that just doesn't even seem real you know 94 he leads the league and forced turnovers
06:27the reason why is that offensive foul is drawn category and city susceptible also in the top five
06:32that's that's it all defensive team member right that's right
06:35would you leave the league in forcing turnovers you're going to be in that conversation for sure
06:40that's where it starts getting stops
06:44donovan wide open triple kind of a flat trajectory on that trap by reese
06:51somebody steps in front of character and steals the pass then turns and wheels a triple
06:56goal volley hovers for the rebound the frenchman will speed out and bump it low to reese
07:03blocked again by clicking it it's grabbed by holliday on the advance to scoop right back to holliday
07:08in he comes twirled up the left hand reverse and got knocked down and fouled he'll shoot too
07:17as one of those billy kennedy the referee watched the ball come off the rim called the foul after that
07:23it's a little well here with donovan getting another block against reese two hands this time
07:29he's just getting creative with it um the saying is you know lamar sometimes fans get upset when
07:36referees make a late call after the ball caroms off of the rim and then they make the call to
07:41whistle
07:42but oftentimes they are trying to see the trajectory of the ball that helps them inform them of the
07:46contact and legal contact so holliday gets that call there from billy kennedy but that like that late
07:52call they do change they do train the referees don't be afraid if it's the right call don't be
07:58afraid to come in with a later call holiday sticks a second free throw blazers up 12 8 24 to
08:06go third
08:06quarter kerrington up the floor and a foul called on washington as here he is once again to your point
08:16tamani kamara earning the blazers a possession with his defense
08:19i mean this is if you're going to stick your arm out out like that push off it better not
08:29be against
08:30tamani come on to find somebody else
08:34koulibaly gets caught reaching on scoot henderson
08:39so talking about tamani kamara's defensive credentials he's also leading the nba in defensive
08:46miles covered he's approaching 100 miles covered this season something that is rarefied air he did
08:54it last year too he's one of two players wow it's just he's he covers the most ground he gets
09:02the most
09:02force force turnovers incredible yeah the rip city wrap up is your ultimate post game podcast for the
09:09trailblazers join danny morang and joe simons for hot takes insider insights after every game don't miss
09:14rip city wrap up after the blazers post game show while we're throwing bouquets to tamani kamara and he
09:20deserves him how about playing in his 76th game of the year guys averaging 33 minutes and i a real
09:27iron man
09:28yeah reporting for duty in each and every game and giving you this kind of effort on the defense
09:33one of those kind of miles is tom pointed out kevin maybe the icing on the cake he wants everybody
09:39to
09:39know as he gets a tie up right here that french fries aren't really french they're belgium didn't know
09:47that yeah to body wants everybody to know that in world war one when american soldiers went to go to
09:54that area
09:56the the soldiers that they were talking to were belgium shoulder soldiers but they were speaking french
10:02and so they called them french fries when they discovered the food but tumani says no it is belgium
10:12yeah
10:13so they got waffles and fries you tell me it's tom they might have even more what a culture
10:24termani come on born in belgium yeah rays at the feet of tom creed in georgia
10:33and then on to dayton where he matriculated as a flyer renaissance man cam he's a free thinker
10:41and a french fry aficionado but only here on the broadcast lasers by 17.
10:50family fun day here in portland oregon all the kids getting an opportunity to come out here get
10:55to face paint to have a little balloon action get to shoot whatever this guy's doing on stilts interact
11:01with him emulate the dancers always good role models and of course denny advia against his ex-mates the
11:08washington wizards a bride keep on the staff when denny broke in as a rookie six years ago here's the
11:17head
11:17coach of the wizards and his impression of advia now uh denny's been great you know obviously making
11:22the all-star of this team this year which is a great accomplishment for him um i think it's just
11:27a continued maturation of his game and we saw some of those things when he was with this he was
11:32pleased
11:32that he was able to make that team for him now the general manager at the time tommy shepard in
11:38washington scott brooks former blazer assistant was the head man with keefe as an assistant on the
11:44bench denny's broke in of course with that russell westbrook group and bradley beal
11:49uh rui hashibura there were some interesting talents on that ball club
11:5617 point lead for the blazers seven and a half left third quarter
12:03circling as cool bali into a jumper
12:08wiped off the glass by kamar to give the other blazers a play on it here's denny the other way
12:13races into the lane got tangled up throws it outside intercepted on the advanced kerrington
12:20has spun around and knocked into the camper folks there at midcourt
12:27here's the third sam petrie over there seems to be okay kerrington checking up
12:42look out sam
12:48so much for a fun day for sam yeah hey he got some screen time you know
12:55more than you've got yeah you know what he deserves it man he took a hit i didn't do it
13:00yeah i like
13:00sam's approach so he's gonna he moves the lens out of kerrington's weighing in with his free arm he's
13:05trying to help doing what he can might have to break down the analytics though that's a professional
13:11right there and he's sitting on a milk crate can we get him something better to sit on over there
13:19look at that he's got a milk crate sitting up yeah he probably been using that the last 10 years
13:24well you might have made it his favorite milk crate
13:30holiday got popped and a foul called there's there there he is
13:36sam do we need to get you a new milk crate or are you okay with that
13:41there it is yeah it rotates
13:46it has a cushion on it i see okay
13:50ball swatted away but jesus got it he races right to the cup for the right hand jam he is
13:56such a high
13:57level athlete
14:07freeze hammer javani gets knocked out how many offensive fouls drawn he's doing again was it four
14:15three or four yeah and we had drew holliday here a second ago and then look at this
14:24knows what's coming yeah dances ground
14:34clinging up top handing off to matisse cap mouse off the screen into the lane drops a seven-footer on
14:40tried to turn the corner that one's off and reese
14:43with the recovery
14:46losers haven't scored a point over the last three minutes of the blazers in that period of time on
14:50a 12-0 run herrington elite prayer that's off he tried to get contact from tumani but tumani evaded him
15:00then he probes puts on the brakes tries to go left it does off it comes to batisse
15:06541 to go third quarter a lot of the shoe
15:09tomani right down the tracks to lay it in over the smaller character
15:15nice drive watch him needs a timeout blazers open this thing up 73 52 count five and a half left
15:23in the
15:23third quarter play ladies are showing resolve on the defensive end and getting it done on the
15:29offensive end
15:33blazers with a nice lead here at moda today 73 52 over the washington wizards on sunday family fun day
15:39and we have a very special guest in attendance today 99 year old laurene is a blazer super fan
15:46as she watches all the games from columbia place assisted living shout out columbia place
15:50a non-profit called second wind dreams which grants wishes for seniors granted her wish to attend a
15:55blazers game today here is laurene earlier today on what she was most looking forward to see tonight
16:01Whitney of course
16:04no it's it's interesting to watch each of the players and the little things that they do differently
16:14and some of them you'd get so mad at them because the way they're doing it but others are just
16:20it's exciting and when stephanie suggested this she says what's your dream and this came up
16:28and here i am front seat row it's it's really nice
16:35i've been a fan of the blazers since the very first day because we were waiting for a personal team
16:41and they are a personal team
16:45laurene at 99 with some sage comments there about the blazers being a personal team i like that
16:56nice pass up top a little high low action to a moving target donovan skips it to tamani for the
17:02crunch
17:09you know we we want donovan for all the stuff that he does a big man does but what a
17:14terrific
17:15passer he is too into the paint odvia foul trying to get up the shot he'll shoot too got clipped
17:22right
17:23around the head look at this one yeah he knows when tamani sets the screen tamani's defender's going to be
17:27planted on top so everything below was open and donovan can deliver that pass
17:35to money kamara and donovan clinton
17:40one two combination
17:42back there on that defensive line donovan
17:45coming into tonight's play average of 12 points
17:47just shy 12 boards leads the league an offensive rebound
17:51and at one point seven blocks per ball game one of the elite shot blockers
17:56in the league as well yeah everything's coming together for dc we're talking about a guy whose usage
18:01rate offensively has increased in each of the last four months he's now at 21 usage rate in the month
18:09of
18:09march this is a guy who started in october at 12 percent so he's doubled his offensive output
18:15and his scoring responsibility for the blazers here in the month of march just developing on the fly
18:21got a challenge on the floor and as they check that out we'll take a look at the moda assist
18:26of
18:26the game matisse theibel we've seen him score we've seen him steal the ball now we're going to see him
18:31throw
18:31the ball in the head and give denny the perfect pass to run underneath
18:37as rob and matisse are all over it and now the vision instructs where to throw the ball
18:44good pass for every blazer assist this year moda health and the blazers donating 20 bucks to build
18:49a new all abilities playground and a deserving oregon community for more information visit trailblazers.com
18:55officials curtis blair bill kennedy michael smith
19:00surveying as the wizards have issued a coaches challenge
19:18join us on tuesday when the blazers take on the los angeles clippers clippers beating
19:24in milwaukee today in milwaukee flying back to beat the blazers in los angeles
19:31kawaii leonard playing very good basketball darius garland has fit in beautifully now
19:35with the clippers he's scoring in big bunches ben matherin is healthy it's a very good team it is
19:41kept the review we have a successful challenge to contact with marginal to the head john boss in the circle
19:4622.
19:51well donovan's wanting to know why is this the jump ball watch this ball come straight to donovan
19:57he's right there unless they're saying everybody stopped playing
20:03yeah donovan's trying to argue the call but they're not going to change it
20:07challenge successful and now the jump ball
20:11he's like you know what i'll just get it anyway get the jump ball
20:17i'll be off the brush screen drives it downhill on reason laid it up and in
20:24denny with 18.6 boards four assists lasers with their largest lead up 23 taking firm command
20:31denny with the steal he's got tamani with it walk over the shoulder up top it's batted away by
20:35kulabali but it still hovers around the cylinder and found a way home bucket to money yeah give
20:42denny the assist just because
20:46textbook right down yeah
20:51kulabali hard cut off the dribble and the handoff his scoop denied by donovan give him a block denny up
20:57the floor chucking down the edge cuts to the middle down goes into the rib oh knocked down and hammered
21:02he
21:02took a hard fall on his back side stay there stay there stay there thank you girl okay good to
21:07see
21:07he's coming back up
21:12take a look at the mcdonald's mcdelivery replay
21:18it's going to involve tumani and denny here on the break
21:23denny is always looking for his teammates in this situation
21:26and tumani is able to redirect that ball in there
21:34on via pops right up as tom said and that is
21:38certainly good news given his issues with his back
21:41this year hopefully that's in the rear view mirror all of those issues denny
21:46shooting eighty percent from the line on the year per ball game nine point two free throw attempts
21:52a contest he rattled that one off the rebound to reese so then he misses two here
21:5779 54 count blazers in command of this one
22:01after some tenuous moments in the second period
22:04washington one point went on a 10-0 run
22:08kulabali goes to work
22:11this pass gill able to knock it down but into the clutches
22:16of clinton on the day high stepping crossover and he comes off the bounce banks and scores
22:21one of many problems that washington has right now
22:24is they're the turning the ball lover or they're missing the ball missing shots
22:28so when the blazers get it and go there's space and that's the worst thing a defense can see against
22:35denny is a bunch of space that he can operate with any daylight man yeah
22:45here's will riley coming off the screen caught in the air he finds kulabali
22:55kulabali his shot lands with the foot
22:58deflected by donovan into the hands of matisse on the advance
23:02riley a heads up play steals it saves it inbounds
23:06washington wins the scramble and gill knives into the paint to lay at home
23:10you're right that was a nice play from riley
23:13really like the looks of riley yeah he's just joining a six nine rookie out of the
23:17olinois 21st pick in the draft from where's he from lamar where'd he go
23:23kamara knocks down the triple didn't know that story about french fries
23:28i'm glad you laid that on us do you think he he might claim wings too because he's hitting these
23:34wings maybe why not claim wings yeah the buffalo wings sure came from belgium
23:44don't we all know that buffalos are from
23:47i'm guessing belgium originally this too from that's right originally
23:51transported from belgium to the united states you know this is interesting here two minutes left in
23:58the third quarter in the last two games the washington wizards have decided to pull the
24:04starters bilal koulibaly alex saar trey johnson not playing of course tonight today but also bub
24:13carrington and a close loss to the golden state warriors the other night they decided to pull the
24:18start we'll see how they do here coming out to money kamara reporting for duty 76 games played 76
24:29games logged in for two money yeah it's the guy who we know that he can defend but man when
24:35he's also
24:36hitting threes at a high level plus 38 happens yes that is outrageous plus minus is a stat that
24:45quantifies the deficit or the margin the point margin on the scoreboard when you're on the floor
24:50so that means that when he's been on the floor today on the sunday fun day the blazers have outscored
24:55the winners by 38 points good stuff you were talking about dame and the strength it takes to shoot a
25:04thousand shots well i mean a hundred shots the kind of strength that takes and stamina consider kamara
25:09fourth in the league in total minutes 2490 playing in his 76th game and yet he's still and he defends
25:16the way he does you mentioned the mileage earlier and still he shoots threes at a 36 percent clip
25:23with them bells and prosperity yes and the waffles riley into the lane lays at home nice little zigzag
25:29dribble off his screen from riley 84 58 count 205 to go third quarter
25:37school trying to put cooper on his hip this is the fade and the rebound of reese
25:45you know below cool bali took him out so we'll see if he gets back into this game or
25:50buff character that's the end of it where those games close to one of one was right one was and
25:57then
25:57the utah game a couple days ago the wizards were up 13 they were up by 30 earlier in the
26:02game and then
26:03they ruled it down to 13 to five minutes left and still they did not put him back into the
26:07game
26:07they said they hit their minutes totals tomorrow
26:14is all that going to change next year time adam silver seems to think so he said uh the commissioner
26:21said that he's going to come up with some new mechanisms that will end tanking quote full stop
26:28and i'm not saying that's what the wizards are doing with those minutes totals i'm just saying
26:34that adam silver it's a it's a big priority for the league to figure out how to get their arms
26:38around
26:39that of those scenarios that they put forth as options did you like one over another
26:44or did you do you think they're all the same it's just hard no matter what you do if you're
26:50gonna
26:51entangle your draft position with your record it's just gonna be really hard
26:56to get rid of that when the incentives are there uh so that as champagne lays it in here
27:04one of the proposals suggested maybe we expand the number of teams that are in the draft lottery to
27:1118 or as many as 22 teams in the draft lottery so that you don't see this 10 teams maybe
27:17potentially
27:18trying to maximize their draft positioning and ping pong balls but to me i just i i don't see how
27:25you're
27:25ever going to curb that strategy while maintaining the draft ping pong balls in the lottery luck tying it
27:34to your record
27:4086-64 count a minute left here in the third quarter scoot goes downhill pulls on and breaks feeds over
27:46to
27:46murray holiday back to murray sees two finds sissoko good movement they've taken a shot but it said he gives
27:54off to holiday and it worked out okay drew drills a triple nice pass from city kind of fancy
28:02good shot drew lasers after an over 10 shooting start from three to start the game nine and 26
28:10in deep is reese
28:14reese the screen scooper off the action and his exact dribble and reese puts a good one
28:21net up and then reese from baltimore maryland went to maryland where his sister angel reese went to
28:26school for a minute and then on to lsu plays professionally for the chicago sky
28:31he's going to be able to get out 11 seconds left third quarter lasers on top
28:38going to work his scoot crossing over going with a left hand he pulls out of brakes and that was
28:43just
28:43enough for champagne to clip him from behind
28:50you know looking at the numbers scoot heverson plays much better when he's playing with drew holiday
28:56and so he's getting to the line here and drew holiday also playing much better with that three
29:02the train together in the off season for moments like these where they can play together put all
29:07their practice into play
29:1190 66 count blazers with two and a half left here in this third quarter
29:21and he pumped in the second
29:27mr cooper you get the honors didn't get it off in time you know why because rock
29:32the best three-point shot blocker in the league stifled that one
29:3891 66 after three the blazers taking care of business we are through three with mccord's vancouver
29:43toyota the fourth quarter coming up next and you can make it easy with mccord's vancouver toyota
29:52quarters the blazers have the lead 91 to 66 over the washington wizards as they head into the
29:58fourth quarter and that man right there timani kamara leading all scorers with 23 points he also
30:02has seven boards and it might just be the jersey belgium in the house and he look he got it
30:07customized that
30:08was him walking into the locker room pretty happy about it we were pretty excited about it too so
30:13yeah we always talk about the headband might be the jersey that i tell him jersey analytics i love it
30:19i got to get on that brooke
30:22yeah there's no no headband tonight but man he's been so hot from from downtown this month of march
30:29i think he entered this month in the low 30 percentages and that he's in that high 30
30:35percentage is a hot left to do that right corner where jeremy grant usually occupies that space drew
30:40out of finishing in the corner only second hit of the night blazers 10 to 27 37 percent
30:48we don't know about the availability of jeremy grant for tuesday's game at los angeles against the clippers
30:54story before the game boys all right where do the blazers get a resource somebody shoots 38
30:5938 percent like jeremy grant gives you nearly 19 a game it's got to come from different sources and
31:06there's matisse theibel he's a candidate a good one because he knocks down a triple
31:11battle shooting 39 percent take an issue with cooper there school held the defender here on the right
31:19side city was going for a lob so scoop got the defender to kind of hold a position to now
31:24allow a
31:25shooter to run in on that left side i mean i know it's cliche but good offense is good defense
31:33you
31:33know you start off with a defensive stop you go when you run out and create basically a fast break
31:37out of nothing
31:43john hudson getting set to come out on the floor as holliday tees up another three and scores
31:50shooting 38 percent on the year from three point range
31:54guys i can't see the game because yeah yeah he's about to go he does he cast quite a shadow
32:02blazers have reached the 100 mark it's the mcdonald's 100 play score free sausage mcmuffin with egg with
32:08any two dollar purchase tomorrow morning at your local mcdonald's only redeemable on the mcdonald's app
32:13there's john hudson out on the floor do you think he was tying his shoe that's why he ducked down
32:18or was he just being nice to me that was great he just ducked as soon as i said it's
32:23hospitable
32:23wow he is i mean scoot earlier he was saying thank you yeah
32:29man it's just such a nice gentleman here yeah he's out there with his pal blake wesley who gets his
32:35first
32:35run here tonight
32:39now that's it with a rebound he sees riley picking up wesley he'll bring it across midcourt
32:45he screens for wesley wesley picked up by the 6-9 riley
33:00so kick the rookie from texas gets an opportunity in his third game as a blazer
33:06good cut here from jason and i thought official curtis blair did a good job on this call waiting
33:14because he's checking to see that jason can't catch their ball inside that lower defensive box
33:19because when you do the defender can stand in the restricted area and you can say you can see
33:24referee curtis blair calculating what happened in real time and quickly and saw jason catching it
33:31outside so now that restricted area is in place tough job the officials have
33:41cooper circles off the screen checked by wesley goes under tend to shoot rotate it outside champ penny with
33:50looks right moves left it ends up in riley's hands stroke from three is off and wesley feels out
33:59across midcourt backing up watkins in the fender going at riley to murray for three
34:16roopers pass knocked down by kenny's got the pick up the floor two-hand jam it's a great job from
34:22jason
34:23involved denial having that hand out in the passing lane ready for his opportunity to make a play
34:29kent 6 8 moving his feet now on riley it's a good match up here riley comes off the screen
34:34kent through the screen and a foul called as it caught up to him in the act of shooting
34:41you have the correct arm in the passing lane when you're positioned like that you don't want your chest
34:47to leave facing your man that you're guarding so his chest is still facing will riley and that
34:53leaves that right arm up into that passing lane and knock the ball down and then go
34:57on our pacific office automation stats
35:01washington held those up 36 percent shooting 26 percent from three good blazer defense
35:08yeah the stat that i'm looking at there kev is that 20 to 5 margin and fast breaks that's good
35:13that's the brand of basketball that tiago splitter was looking at early this season
35:16and how they get up and down the floor and the other night against dallas was something that they have
35:22to
35:22you know just kind of tighten up things we want to continue to play fast and in this one clearly
35:26they listen and they are playing excellent in the open field i can't agree
35:35sissoko tight ropes the edge trying to spike it off a cooper and they say he did successfully the
35:40blazers get possession
35:43for some youngsters
35:48a lot of core memories today kev the path for you and for the kids
35:53good luck for all of us
35:59yo this one's going to outside to just a champion
36:05his twin brother julian playing for san antonio sometimes starter at watkins a three
36:10and a rebound recovery by sissoko
36:12long pass up the floor somebody forgot about hansen
36:19john hansen
36:21giving the blazers a big lead 107 68 838 left in the fourth quarter
36:27kids can say i remember the night where i saw the 20-year-old from china jan hansen play
36:34and he dunked
36:44let's take a look at tonight's alask airlines dunk of the game showtime denny on the break tumani
36:50trailing that's going to lead to some special stuff on the finish after the sound defensive play puts him
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37:10blazers next action on tuesday in los angeles to meet the los angeles clippers who beat
37:16the milwaukee bucks in wisconsin earlier today here's riley in the paint he pump fakes and he draws
37:24murray upon him and a foul clippers now 39 and 36 on the year the blazers at 37 and 38
37:33blazers came in
37:34the number nine seed the clippers just ahead of him but number eight the blazers trying to ascend
37:40to number eight that would give him two bites of the apple
37:45they would play the seventh seed right now that would be the phoenix suns should they land at number eight
37:51they play the seventh seed if they win that then they descend to the seventh seed if they lose that
37:55then they'd still have another shot tom it get to play it against the winner of the 9 10 as
38:00the number
38:00eight seed and your prize would be beating oklahoma city yeah if you look at the standings here Portland
38:08four and a half games back
38:12lots of missing that three the rebound murray slings it outside of shizoko off to westland
38:18good bad great yes sir murray thought so yeah just doing a good job of trying to close this one
38:25out
38:26here against the wizards this might be their third 30 point win another great block
38:35the third 30 point win in the last what week the last four yeah in the whole champ
38:42that's what you got to do here as we i think right now the postseason starts now
38:48every game matters especially tuesday but every game matters for that play-in tournament seating
38:54just to give you an idea if you're a seventh seed in the play-in tournament since it was introduced
38:59in
38:592020 100 of the seven seeds have made it the postseason or the playoffs and at the number eight
39:0660 percent have made it into the playoffs in the ninth slot 30 have made it into the playoffs and
39:12in that
39:1210th slot just 10 percent has made it into the playoffs so it's gonna be huge on tuesday to get
39:18that done yes
39:23watkins trying to negotiate his way by hansen offensive foul on watkins
39:33and the blazers will get it back hunson takes the hit the blazers get possession of the ball
39:40looking at the the clippers schedule coming up after portland they've got san antonio at home then
39:45they're at sacramento home with dallas home with oklahoma city
39:51at portland and then golden state
39:57yeah the average win percentage of their opponents the rest of the way
40:01about over 500 it's about 530. so they have a really even though there's not a ton of great
40:08teams on there though they play okc in san antonio it's it's a tough schedule for the clippers and
40:13the blazers have one of the softest schedules going forward you kind of wonder at that point
40:17that late in the year what the
40:21impetus for or the incentive would be for oklahoma city they may be
40:28although their bench is pretty good well they have the spurs right behind them right right well
40:32yeah how far are they clear the spurs i think they're a couple games back but also important
40:37she goes alexander's trying to lock in the mvp i know he's more he's got bigger dreams in mind
40:44goals in mind to repeat as a champion if he needs to take a couple of games off to get
40:47his body right
40:48he will but victor wimbenyama and the spurs are right at their heels in the standings and in that mvp
40:54conversation because they're just i was in a big bit too bad so i take that back
41:00there'll be a lot of a lot at stake in that game and we'll get into the warrior action here
41:05in a
41:05moment as wesley tees up a triple the warriors at 36 and 38 they have won three straight as you
41:11know
41:11they're without steph curry they're at denver tonight and they've already ruled step out tonight
41:17and then san antonio cleveland and houston
41:21the deep kerr on friday said that steph has yet to play in five on five and they're not going
41:28to
41:28necessarily ramp him up just to participate in a play-in game
41:35as for the blazers their next home game against the pelicans on thursday of next week
41:42get your tickets at ticketmaster the official marketplace of the trailblazers and the nba
41:46and that is certainly a trap game too gentlemen new orleans playing very good basketball and they
41:51are getting back healthy now yeah credit to james borrego the interim head coach there in new orleans
41:58is really right right the ship for them they do not have their first round pick this year
42:03and they are with dejounte murray a totally different team yep the blazers haven't seen them but
42:09dejounte murray yet this season remarkable comeback from an achilles team yeah just to see him playing
42:16this well after such a devastating injury
42:22those two rookies gave the blazers the business jeremiah fears and queen that's a great little
42:28combination they have they're big and small well yeah and dejounte murray when he was playing with
42:33atlanta the last time the blazers saw them when he was with the hawks he was averaging like 35 points
42:39or something like that in those two matchups in those seasons
42:43he can he can play yeah
42:56so at the end of the game on friday night you said kevin that you weren't sure if you wanted
43:01me back after the loss you know did i say that tom at the end you might have said that
43:07and i'm just
43:07saying did i do okay today i thought you were terrific today okay blazers is winning by yeah so
43:14that's why you did 35 yeah that's why he's okay what was my plus minus today
43:24if you lose he's ready to throw you out with the bath water that's right
43:31give me winners i want winners that's right
43:37you know it's a it's a big game on tuesday i'll be in the studio but michael yeah that's how
43:44you
43:44know it's a real big game and i'm gonna be in studio neil everett's gonna be there oh boy in
43:49l.a
43:50yeah we got michael going down to l.a his hometown getting the chance to do the game with kevin
43:55and then
43:56yeah you and neil in studio
43:59and mar's gonna be phoning into us speaking of winning decisions
44:08michael holton invited me to go play pickup yesterday oh and i did not bring my basketball
44:13shoes i did not know that this was happening i did not have it in my suitcase on the way
44:17over here
44:19but that was a losing decision by me i i wish i had gotten to play next time at the
44:24mac
44:30well you get to keep your achilles for another
44:43yeah i haven't played with michael yet but i i can't wait for that privilege to play with one of
44:48the greats ucla greats former charlotte hornet too yeah he showed me a commercial that he shot in
44:56charlotte for um choice soda it was a basket he was playing basketball is great you know he he's got
45:04some hops back in the day too speed
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45:30sissoko along with kent wesley and hudson out there on that side of the floor
45:35burry over here in the near corner with nine to shoot hudson into the lane got smacked by reese as
45:41he went airborne checking the bits blake always does a nice job setting up hudson working in unison with
45:50him on their two main game so do we have a nickname yet does rip city have a nickname yet
45:57for blake wesley
45:58and john hudson don't know how you maybe we should start that out what what are you going what are
46:07you
46:07right i don't know i just feel like there's so much magic there and we want to we want to
46:11celebrate that yeah that's what happened
46:21that's it throws the second free throw 115 80 count 352 left fourth quarter
46:33the diminutive creeper across midcourt holder it comes here to champ kenny it's alice
46:44you're watching the basketball
46:53cooper the step back
46:55Got it, Reed Cooper.
47:01Wesley coming over from, he was weighed by Washington
47:05in the offseason in the trade, of course, with San Antonio
47:11three years previously.
47:15That's a beautiful little cut.
47:17He made there into a scoop.
47:19Incredible move.
47:21He's so talented, man.
47:22He really is. The energy, it's just when he can do that, too.
47:26Yes.
47:31Cooper steps back, he aims a three.
47:33Sissoko soars in for the board.
47:40We're looking at Hanson.
47:41He's got Watkins locked.
47:43Trying to lob over the top, and he is held by Watkins.
47:46Watkins getting his money's worth.
47:48Has he fouled out yet?
47:49That's just his fourth foul, the way you've been playing,
47:51you can't be.
47:52He's got a three.
47:52Wow.
47:55245 left fourth quarter, 117-82 count, Blazers.
48:02Fun day here in Portland, Blazers up big.
48:07Look at these kids having a blast today.
48:09Lots of core memories happening.
48:12We love to see it.
48:14Lots of core memories to come as well when we see the schedule going forward for the Blazers
48:19Blazers at Clippers against New Orleans here at Denver, at San Antonio, and back here for
48:25the Clippers.
48:26Now, this is all ahead of the play-in tournament.
48:29Look on the left side of your screen here.
48:31The Western Conference, the Western Conference 9th place and 10th place play.
48:34The winner of that will play the loser of the 7-8 game.
48:37And then, when you see the winner of that will be the 8th seed.
48:42So, for the Blazers, one thing to note is that if they maintain this number 9 seed,
48:48they will lock in a home game for that play-in tournament.
48:52So, they will host the number 10 team, which right now is the Golden State Warriors.
48:56And if they win that game, hypothetically hosting it, they would go and play the loser
49:02of the 7-8 game and then have an opportunity to punch their ticket into the playoffs.
49:07So, this is, that's why I say postseason starts now.
49:11And it's a great sight to see the Blazers up big here against a Washington Wizards team.
49:17Yeah, no drama.
49:18That's good.
49:19And a chance for Hanson to get out there and get some run.
49:23And a big smile on his face.
49:24There's your foul number 24.
49:26He just made both of his free throws, too.
49:40Well, he loves playing the game.
49:42That's clear.
49:43And that's job, one, to have a passion for your profession.
49:46Only then can you excel if you've got a passion for your profession.
49:51He clearly does.
49:52He just, he just palmed it out of the air.
49:55One-handed rebound there.
49:56He did.
49:56He just, oh, my goodness.
49:59Well, Lamar and I had that great opportunity to go to camp and spend two weeks watching practices.
50:05And, I mean, Lamar, you've told this story before.
50:08Just the back and forth between he and Klingon.
50:11That was a terrific camp.
50:13Hanson was given as good as he was taking.
50:14Those guys were going at one.
50:16Yes, they were.
50:18There were some days where you didn't know who the franchise center currently was.
50:24And that's not a knock at all to Donovan.
50:26It's just Hanson's level of play raised to meet him.
50:35And I thought Donovan came through that and Tom, like some people, when they get in that
50:44situation, they're like, they're just bad competitors.
50:48There's jealousy.
50:49There's the envy.
50:51There's the wishing on somebody else's downfall.
50:54And as you see, Chris dropped this off to Blake here, working as teammates.
50:59That's how Donovan worked with Hanson the whole time.
51:03And he believed in himself enough that he never felt a need to diminish what Hanson brought
51:08to the table.
51:09He just presented his best self.
51:11And that's why we've seen Donovan's best season so far, by far, like with a jump.
51:16You know, like he's made a huge jump in a lot of areas this season.
51:20Rising Tide floats all boats.
51:22Yeah, he wants to see his teammates succeed as well.
51:24And on that, you know, Chris Murray on that fast break, I thought the way he was running
51:30into that, he might have seen a one-handed dunk.
51:33I was seeing that.
51:35Maybe we would get that.
51:36It's very, every once in a blue moon, we might see Chris Murray go up for a one-hander.
51:41He last, I think two years ago, he had a Utah dunk with one hand.
51:46And I don't even think he remembered that one because I had to look it up.
51:50Has he ever had a one-handed dunk?
51:52It's not the Cedar Rapids way.
51:56Always go to the rack with two hands, Tom.
51:58You know that.
51:59Lay that ball in.
52:00It's called a crib shot for a reason.
52:03Born Crib, Iowa.
52:05I always was playing baseball growing up.
52:07I was always taught he was catching with two hands.
52:09But he also dunked with two hands.
52:10Is that it, Kev?
52:12In our Cedar Rapids?
52:13If you're from Cedar Rapids, that's what you do, baby.
52:15I think it's about 52 degrees.
52:18It's his fifth personal.
52:21Like Wesley, two shots.
52:24120 left here in the fourth quarter.
52:26121-86 count.
52:27Blazers getting it done big.
52:35Wizards did put 32 on the board in the second quarter.
52:38I was trembling a little bit.
52:40I was reliving two nights ago against Dallas.
52:43I was packing my bags.
52:45I was getting ready to go to the last stop.
52:51And Kevin was going to give me the hook.
52:53But the shots started falling.
52:55And like I said, when the Blazers are hitting their threes,
52:59it seems cliche.
53:01But it's a make-or-miss league.
53:03When the Blazers are hitting their threes,
53:04they just vault into becoming a top-10 team in the NBA statistically.
53:08Yeah.
53:08Also, it's easy to get caught up in Dallas' record.
53:11The people that Dallas had on the floor is an NBA team
53:15that can beat anybody on any given night.
53:17And it wouldn't be some crazy surprise.
53:19You got the possible Rookie of the Year with Cooper Flagg.
53:23P.J. Washington's played in the NBA Finals.
53:26Still very serviceable.
53:28The work Brandon Williams has done.
53:30Okay, Hanson.
53:33So, yeah, it's a game the Blazers should have won.
53:35But the Mavs' talent level has been completely different
53:40than the other teams the Blazers have seen this week.
53:42And then Marvin Bagley happened to him.
53:44Yes.
53:49Blake Thompson was on the court.
53:51It's not the same thing.
53:53The Blazers did have the off night, no doubt.
53:5525 turnovers, missed the free throws,
53:57a couple of chip shots here and there at the rim,
53:59and they win that game.
54:00But to that point, the turnovers tonight, 14 turns.
54:05And, you know, here we are with the two teams running out
54:09at the back end of their benches for the last six minutes of playing.
54:13It's been a clean game.
54:15Look at that.
54:32He's boxing out, Reese.
54:38Reese takes issue and Sissoko trying to explain the race.
54:44OK, here we go.
54:49Is that a trust fall?
54:51Yeah, that's what it looked like.
54:53Yeah.
54:54You just fall out, hold on to you.
54:55What's it look like?
54:58That's a game trusting.
55:00Wow.
55:01The old double technical with 38 seconds left in the game.
55:06That's a good way to resolve that.
55:09Hey, court memory for me, being with you guys for this game.
55:12Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
55:13Go score.
55:14What's all Riches are waiting for over here?
55:18Bill Kennedy, I should say.
55:19Cooper bumps at me, finally the whistle.
55:22Let's just get out of here in one piece, shall we?
55:25That's why I think people should keep playing.
55:31If they would choose, if the Blazers felt like,
55:34OK, we want to keep playing.
55:35We're going to attack the basket.
55:36I'm totally fine with that.
55:38I'd be totally fine if the Wizards did the same thing
55:40on the other end.
55:42All these fans here,
55:44they wouldn't mind seeing another possession.
55:46Sure.
55:47Sure, another dunk maybe.
55:48Play ball.
55:50Soko next down, a free throw.
55:53One 23-88 count, 20 seconds of reading of this one.
55:57Riley will bring it across.
55:59He is content.
56:00The Wizards are content
56:03to jump on the bus and get out of Dodge.
56:05Blazers get a win here
56:07to go to 38-38 on the year.
56:10Evening up their record once again.
56:1221 victories against 17 losses.
56:15Three home games remaining
56:16and six total on the year.
56:1899 years old, Marine celebrating the win.
56:25Ties the largest margin of victory this season.
56:27The Blazers defeating the Wizards.
56:30No drama second half.
56:43Scoot Henderson, 21.7 assists.
56:49Six of 11 from the field.
56:50Eight of nine from the line.
56:52Tumani Kamara having another nice evening.
56:5623-7 for Tumani.
56:58And the three was flowing.
56:59Four of nine from three-point range.
57:00Down to the floor.
57:01Brooke is standing by.
57:02Tumani on Sunday, family fun day.
57:05A lot of fun was had here this afternoon.
57:07How were you guys able to pull away in the second half
57:09like you did?
57:09We had to wake up.
57:11You know, like you said, it's Sunday.
57:12It's early, early game.
57:13So we had to come in with the energy.
57:14I think it was a little bit fly at the start.
57:16But we were able to respond and find the rhythm.
57:18And yeah, everybody, everybody was able to touch the rock
57:21a little bit and find some stuff for themselves.
57:23You had a team high 23 points.
57:25What were you seeing from their defense
57:26that you were able to take advantage of?
57:28At first, they were very aggressive.
57:30Yes, sir.
57:31At first, they were very aggressive.
57:33Taking a lot of shots, contested shots.
57:35So we knew we were going to be able to find the rhythm.
57:38It's all about that.
57:38Trusting the process, being who we are.
57:40In those type of games, we've got to try to be perfect.
57:42You know, try to make us less mistakes as possible
57:44and try to keep learning.
57:45And I think we did a good job at that today.
57:47You and Denny were definitely a dynamic duo.
57:49That's a lot of Ds.
57:50I have to ask you about that.
57:51The alley-oop that wasn't,
57:52that somehow found its way in the basket.
57:54Did you know that was going in?
57:56No, I didn't.
57:56I didn't.
57:57But, you know, sometimes the game,
57:59there's so many possessions, so many situations,
58:01and sometimes some weird, fun situation is going to happen.
58:05So it was one of them, and it just worked out.
58:08We always talk about you and the headband or the no headband,
58:11but we think tonight the Belgium jersey might have played a role.
58:14What do you think?
58:15I think you guys need to stop overthinking everything.
58:17But the Belgium jersey helped me every day.
58:19I see it every day.
58:20So, yeah, Belgium all the time, for sure.
58:22That's hilarious.
58:23There you go.
58:24We're overthinking things, guys.
58:26It's not a first.
58:29Nice job, Tumani.
58:31That was great.
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58:39Thank you, Brooke.
58:40The Blazers prevail tonight, 123-88,
58:43to go to 38-38 on the year.
58:47We'll come back and recap for you in a moment.
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