Though there has been a slight uptick in play over the last week or so, this Trail Blazers team is still short-handed. Lacking fundamental skills all over the court, they only have one fit center and two fit power forwards at the moment.
When the casual fan thinks of Jusuf Nurkic they probably think about thunderous dunks and massive rebounds. Nurkic will do those things for this team, but maybe not right away. Also, it’s the things that don’t register on the boxscore that he is so good at. It’s no surprise that a lot of the things this team are lacking in this year are things that Nurk does so well.