Deni Avdija

And then the former top ten pick, whose last name I can never pronounce.

Do you got that, Josh? Denny Avdia.

Avdia? Yeah.

Denny Evdia been really good the Trailblazers are six and one to start the season tops in the Western Conference which has me very very surprised here in the early going

um I'm not shocked by that I'm a little bit shocked the Los Angeles Lakers are as good as they are losing LeBron I think losing a star player of his of his caliber uh I thought they'd be a little bit uh worse than they were um I'm going to go in on this.

He's playing the Kings.

Do I need to say anything else? Then we're already on Denny Avdija's over 23.5 points.

We're playing him down just to 20 points here.

And then Ty Jerome to score at least 20 points.

A little bit of what I mean by the horse and the carriage is Denny is really the horse that is driving this team forward right now.

The Blazers are getting a ton of help from a lot of different places on the roster, but overall Denny Avdija is really the driving force, the main factor in this team and the success we've seen thus far.

It can go as far as by a comment made by Damian Lillard this week about how Denny is the driving force.

He is the horse to this team.

But

you've got Avdija.

I mean, he can fill it up, right? He's a bucket.

So what, he's at like 23-8 or 24 a game right now? Yeah.

section at 55 million dollars a year but i never would have signed him to so all those things combined i don't think anthony davis fits long term but if he's out there playing well right now and they can get value for him in a deal and he can get a contract somewhere else that works well for everybody so you have this unique circumstance at least right now at this stage of the season where everybody's pulling in the same direction because the goals are live

brian i'm curious We saw this organization a few years ago trade away Denny Avdia, and they said that Denny's timeline was different than the Wizards' timeline.

And I think there's a lot of truth to that in that Denny was ready for winning in competitive basketball and Wiz as an organization were not.

I'm not sure AD's timeline is the same as this Wizards' team.

There's a lot in that question.

So let me let me let me get through a couple of things here.

First of all, I don't think the Wiz were right about Denny Avdia because right now the Wiz are kind of ready to compete right now.

And Avdia is in the beginning of his prime.

section at 55 million dollars a year but i never would have signed him to so all those things combined i don't think anthony davis fits long term but if he's out there playing well right now and they can get value for him in a deal and he can get a contract somewhere else that works well for everybody so you have this unique circumstance at least right now at this stage of the season where everybody's pulling in the same direction because the goals are live

brian i'm curious We saw this organization a few years ago trade away Denny Avdia, and they said that Denny's timeline was different than the Wizards' timeline.

And I think there's a lot of truth to that in that Denny was ready for winning in competitive basketball and the Wiz as an organization were not.

I'm not sure AD's timeline is the same as this Wizards team.

There's a lot in that question.

So let me let me let me get through a couple of things here.

First of all, I don't think the Wiz were right about Denny Avdia because right now the Wiz are kind of ready to compete right now.

And Avdia is in the beginning of his prime.

A gritty effort will be needed against the Blazer team that we do not match up well with at all.

And we have no one who can guard Avdija.

Jordan Goodwin is a game-time decision after suffering a calf injury against Golden State.

After the Blazers, it's a total of seven straight home games.