Kirk Goldsberry

Tiago...

like a phoenix from the ashes brings this thing to the playoffs.

It was, dude.

I mean, seriously, who expected... There's two kinds of playoff losses, Zach.

There's a team where, like, if Detroit loses, it's a catastrophe.

If Cleveland loses, it's a catastrophe.

8-1?

Come on.

But Portland getting here and losing to a good team in five games, that's a pretty nice outcome for their season, given where they started after game one with...

their head coach getting pulled out of bed in the middle of the night by the feds uh like so i'd start there dude like this has been a pretty successful run starting with that day uh with tiago hire tiago first of all if damian lillard you didn't mention the only thing i would add i was like okay damian's coming back that's gonna bring sort of the the tickets back and and they're gonna have a face of the franchise again i don't expect much from damian at this phase of his career

I would say the core to your question is Klingon, Denny, and Scoot.

I'm putting Scoot in there.

I don't think they're in a position to risk him going somewhere else and being really good.

And what we saw, I was at the game in game two where he looked like the best player on the court at times, and then he would disappear.

But I am going to extend Scoot there.

And I think they really found a defensive identity with their front court.

I thought Time Lord was good at times.

Kamara, you mentioned.

Drew Holiday.

They found something there.