Tag: Jusuf Nurkic

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…

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With the Blazers’ season on the line (well, partially on the line, since they needed two lose two straight in order to miss the playoffs), Jusuf Nurkic unleashed his inner Bosnian Beast with a supremely gritty, supremely BOSNIAN display of scoring, rebound, passing, and overall domination. And he did it right after finding out that…

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The Trailblazers did it. They squeaked by the Nets, they made the playoffs. Everyone for the past few years has been mocking the teams that chase the 8th seed for no reason, but now, the teams that are doing so are receiving nothing but praise. Not from me! I laugh at Portland’s feeble Cinderella-story, soon…

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Is there a way to use the internet to tell me if seven is a career high in dunks for Jusuf Nurkic? I thought I was good at the internet but it turns out I’m not. And I haven’t yet shelled out for the new basketball-reference “Stathead” service (I don’t blame them for charging for…

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Getting Jusuf Nurkic back from an extended absence to have him dominate games like he had never gotten his leg bones spontaneously blown into six (or more) different pieces is obviously awesome for the Blazers. But it’s also sort of a sad thing. Because when you see how quickly and easily Nurkic has integrated himself…

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This is Jusuf Nurkic’s first “real” NBA game since he did unmentionable things to his leg near the end of the 2018-19 season. What better way for him to return to the league and make his presence felt than by putting up the Nurkician statline of 18/9/5/2/6? Meanwhile, the forgotten man Hassan Whiteside, who was…

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IMPORTANT NOTE: even though the title says “1 Injury”, the actual footage of the injury is not included in this video, so you can watch this video at work without your boss wondering why you’re watching gore stuff. You can also watch this video if you (like I should’ve been doing) are purposefully trying to…

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It’s been over three months since Jusuf Nurkic made a three. I should’ve known better to assume he’d be the next Brook Lopez with him shooting tons of them per game. I blame the preseason for this. And Nurkic. If he knows he’s not going to keep shooting them in the regular season when the…

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Cody Zeller is lucky that Jusuf Nurkic was in a good mood when the former elbowed the latter in the jaw/face area while boxing out for a rebound. If the two of them had any amount of animosity between them, perhaps as a result of some trash talk earlier in the game, Zeller would have…

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