When he asked you where you wanted to go, were you thrilled or maybe a little scared since it was unexpected?
SEC Shorts conspicuously missing its Herbstreit endorsement this week.
Scoot Henderson has a career winning record of 5-4 and has won five of his last six games. Without Scoot, Blazers are 1-8.
I don't think the committee could reward a team with a playoff spot for losing a H2H and then not playing in a conference title game the following week if the team that beat them lost said title game and was left out. That would be a terrible precident to set. Any scenario where Ohio State qualifies should also require Michigan to qualify.
I think FSU, Texas, and Alabama would have to lose, and maybe even Oregon to be safe, depending on how you rate a one-loss Washington against OSU.
And then the transfer portal will follow and deplete them further. Oregon State football is pretty much toast. I've had a lot of feelings about the Pac-12 saga, but now with 108 seasons of Pac-12 football as we knew it over with forever, and with what's to come for the Beavs and WSU, I'm sick to my stomach.
2023-24 Portland Trail Blazers Regular Season Roster
With the news that Duop Reath , Kevin Knox II, and John Butler Jr were let go, and that Ish Wainright was picked up off of waivers, it seems like this is going to be the roster to start the season (edit: Duop's now being signed to a two-way, and we're dropping Ibou Badji. Brogdon changing his # to 11):
|#|Player|Posn|Ht|Age|Exp|Likely Usage| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |00|Scoot Henderson|G|6-2|19|R|Rotation| |1|Anfernee Simons|G|6-3|24|5|Rotation| |2|Deandre Ayton|C|6-11|25|5|Rotation| |4|Matisse Thybulle|G/F|6-5|26|4|Rotation| |9|Jerami Grant|F|6-8|29|9|Rotation| |11|Malcolm Brogdon|G|6-5|30|7|Rotation| |17|Shaedon Sharpe|G|6-6|20|1|Rotation| |34|Jabari Walker|F|6-9|21|1|Rotation| |35|Robert Williams III|C|6-9|26|5|Rotation| |8|Kris Murray|F|6-8|23|R|Deep Bench| |10|Moses Brown|C|7-2|24|4|Deep Bench| |23|Ish Wainright|F|6-6|29|2|Deep Bench| |33|Tuomani Camara|F|6-8|23|R|Deep Bench| |72|Rayan Rupert|G/F|6-6|19|R|Deep Bench| ||OPEN|||||15-Man Roster Spot| |5|Skylar Mays|G|6-4|26|3|Two-Way| |24|Justin Minaya|G/F|6-5|24|1|Two-Way| |26|Duop Reath|C|6-11|27|R|Two-Way|
They won't have to make an announcement that they're keeping Moses Brown if they do since he is already on a non-guaranteed contract, which will guarantee on opening night if nothing else happens. Other players from training camp who were let go are George Conditt IV, Malachi Smith, and Antoine Davis. Any players who we let go can be signed to the Rip City Remix, and it's expected that at least a couple will be.
Yeah, the Pac have created their own mini circle of suck among the one-loss teams, so head-to-head "transitive wins/losses" no longer apply:
Oregon State > Utah > UCLA > WSU > Oregon State
Just using Oregon's schedule, we're playing every team in the conference within the first two years except Nebraska. Wisconsin and Washington twice, with Washington a protected rivalry, and then finally Nebraska the next two years. It'll be weird not playing almost all the same teams every year.
In 2024:
- Michigan vs Texas, Oregon, USC, OSU, Washington.
- USC vs LSU, Notre Dame, Michigan, Washington, Penn State.
Portland's 2023 Training Camp Roster
Looks like there are at least three roster spots open going into training camp. The team could grant them all to the players on camp deals or they can upgrade one or more of the two-way contracts. At the moment, this is what the team looks like:
Roster Players:
- Anfernee Simons - G - 1
- Shaedon Sharpe - G - 17
- Scoot Henderson - G - 00
- Malcolm Brogdon - G - 13 (Casey announced 92)
- Matisse Thybulle - G/F - 4
- Rayan Rupert - G/F - 72
- Jerami Grant - F - 9
- Jabari Walker - F - 34
- Kris Murray - F - 8
- Tuomani Camara - F - 33
- Deandre Ayton - C - 2
- Robert Williams III - C - 35
Two-Way Players:
- Skylar Mays - G - 5
- John Butler Jr - F/C - 21
- Ibou Badji - C - 41
Training Camp Players (in one form of temporary contract or another):
- Antoine Davis - G - 44
- Malachi Smith - G - 18
- Kevin Knox II - F - 11
- Justin Manaya - F - 24
- Moses Brown - C - 10
- Duop Reath - C - 26
The Blazers welcomed Brogdon on Twitter (they didn't welcome Jrue), so they might keep him for now. It seemed he was unhappy when the Celtics announced that Derrick White was going to start over him after Smart was traded, so I don't know why he'd want to backup Scoot. Unless he's not going to backup Scoot, then I'd have to ask what the hell the Blazers are doing. But if he turns out to be okay with it, I'd be more than happy to keep him.
(Edit): They just announced that he's wearing 92, so it looks like he's staying for now.
Portland needs a back up point guard to replace him and some forward depth. Right now they've got seven other rotation players not including him, not yet knowing what they have in Kris Murray or second year Jabari Walker:
- Scoot
- Sharpe
- Simons
- Thybulle
- Grant
- Time Lord
- Ayton
Everyone else is super raw except for Knox, who probably won't get much better than he is. But perhaps they're more concerned with developing that raw talent than with depth right now, since expectations aren't necessarily going to be measured in wins this year. I guess we'll know once they trade him.
Jrue Holiday for Time Lord, Brogdon, a GSW '24 1st Rd Pick (top 4 protected), and a Celtics unprotected '29 1st Rd Pick.
Deandre Ayton and Tuomani Camara arrive in Portland
Deandre Ayton and Tuomani Camara tour the practice facility and meet Joe Cronin and Chauncey Billups.
Outside of all the media rumors and social media back-and-forth, who knows what that Riley-Cronin relationship is really like. Maybe it's fine and all the rumor bluster is just way overblown. Either way, I think it's going to be a lot easier for us to trade Jrue than Dame.
As a Blazer fan I wish him the best, no hard feelings. I hope he gets that championship. I'm looking forward to the new-look Blazers:
- Scoot Henderson
- Anfernee Simons
- Shaedon Sharpe
- Jerami Grant
- Deandre Ayton
Looks like we're going to move Jrue.
The effects of gravity spread at the speed of light. If the sun suddenly blinked out of existence, it would take eight minutes to both see it disappear from Earth and notice a change in our planet's motion. In other words, the planet would continue to orbit that empty space in the middle because the sun's gravity, much like it's light, would still be extending out to us.
The universe is expanding in every part of space all at once. Some places are so far apart that the collective expansion between them is growing at greater distances in a given amount of time than light can travel. And the same can be said for the effects of gravity, but the motion of objects caused by gravity at great distances is far, far slower than the speed of light.
Our galaxy is moving in a direction that is caused partly by something called "The Great Attractor." But even though it's causing us to move, we will never reach it, and it's influence on us will gradually weaken. And it's not even that far away compared to most of what we know is out there.
That being said, this news is interesting.
Can someone update the right column to show "Portland Trail Blazers" (the official spelling) rather than "Portland Trailblazers"?
I like how they got lazy in the second half of their ballot and just filled in teams at the beginning of the alphabet. The attention span for that troll job was really short.
I guess it could also be an early season computer poll, but I don't understand submitting one this early if it looks like that.
Eight Pac-12 teams. It'll pare down once they start playing each other, but really making the most of their last season together.
Just keeping me productive is all. Actually, I appreciate that I don't normally spend nearly as much time in the Fediverse as I did on Reddit. My daily life is improved by it. I guess I'd selfishly rather this remain a small thing, but maybe I ought to take better control of my habits instead.
It's hard to take anything away from a game like that. Even the third string couldn't be stopped, and they were mostly running the ball like they were supposed to. I love watching us blow teams out, but this wasn't the same as that.
Colorado discussing move from Pac-12 to Big 12, sources say
The future of Colorado in the Pac-12 is in flux, as the school is discussing a potential move to the Big 12 during a university board of trustees meeting Wednesday, sources say.
'The school is mulling a potential move to the Big 12, according to sources, and Wednesday's meeting represents a potential step in the process for university officials to approve a move there, according to sources. Colorado has discussed athletics in a private session multiple times in recent months, but sources indicate the tenor of this meeting is different."