Jusuf Nurkic scored 10 of the first 12 points for the Blazers. All good, right? WRONG! It would have been fine, I guess, for Nurkic to take over the bulk of the scoring duties for his team early in the game, except that the Lakers dropped 30 points while he was doing so, leaving Portland in a hole that they couldn’t extricate themselves from.
I thought that there was a mysterious phenomenon called “Time of Dame” or something that was supposed to prevent such things from happening.
Nurkic himself is blameless, as far as I can tell, in this loss. People can tell me otherwise, but I will ignore them, because while they may have watched the game in question, they don’t have the brainpower to comprehend what they are seeing. In fact, the only people who can sit down, watch an NBA game, and fully understand its intricacies are DownToBuck and Zach Lowe. That’s it. Everyone else is just regurgitating opinions originally formed by one of those two luminaries, or crafting their own nonsensical opinions out of whole cloth.
If you want some more opinions that I have extracted from this game, try this one: Damian Lillard is nothing more than a glorified Brandon Jennings.