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The “Twin Towers” concept doesn’t hold much currency in today’s NBA because of the ineffectiveness of having two non-shooting bigs on the court at the same time. However, the Thunder seem to have accidentally stumbled into a new duo of young bigs who are not only entirely deserving of the “twin towers” moniker due to their immense height, but their games complement each other enough where they’re not utterly destined to fail as a tandem.
Moses Brown and Aleksej Pokusevski.
Moses Brown, standing at 7’2″ is the “conventional” center, grabbing hella rebounds like his namesake Moses Malone, dunking hella basketballs like his namesake, uh, Shannon Brown, and blocking hella shots like Mark Eaton, who is not his namesake at all. Meanwhile, Aleksej Pokusevski, coming in at a shorter-but-still-tall-as-frick 7’0″, is the sweet-shooting power forward with the mobility to defend perimeter players while also being a fearsome shot-blocking threat. His shooting isn’t that “sweet” right now, but if I know anything about Serbs, it’s that most of them turn out to be good shooters in the end. Pokusevski won’t be the exception, unless he is.
We can even call them the “Twinny Skinnies” because both of them are a bit lacking in the “bulk” department. If the OKC marketing peeps aren’t drooling right now thinking about the marketing possibilities of that moniker, they need to get their saliva production faculties checked.
The best part about the Twinny Skinnies is that they will be able to bring a championship to Oklahoma City in a way that certain hi-profile duos (and trios) of the franchise’s past weren’t able to. Notice how there are no ballhog team cancers in this duo? Nor are there any turncoat cupcakes with sockpuppet Twitter accounts. Just two dudes who probably need to slam protein shakes 24 hours a day for a month straight just to gain one pound of mass.