Jusuf Nurkic has a lot of attributes, too many to list here. He has nostrils. That is but one of his many attributes. Nostril-having. Bosnian is another thing that he is, a thing that would definitely appear on an encyclopaedic collection of his attributes. Such an exhaustive list of the attributes he possesses would surely run into YouTube’s draconian character limit for descriptions, in case you want my reasoning for not typing it all out. In any case, you can stick “clutch” in that hypothetical list, after tonight’s game against the Thunder. Stick it right in there between “clumsy” and “coarse-bearded”.
I guess the Blazers were tired of their “give the ball to C.J./Damian” strategy at the end of close games? Nurkic hasn’t shown much in the way of one-on-one shot creation ability when tasked with it, but he must have been emboldened by Russell Westbrook guarding him on the first of his two clutch shots. So emboldened that he did the same thing against Taj Gibson, a much more capable defender. That little scoop that he did wasn’t the most orthodox move, but it got the job done. Add that one to the attributes-list: unorthodox.