The debut of the Trail Blazers’ new center tandem Thursday night in Brooklyn likely launched some big dreams. And while it’s typically imprudent to overreact to one game, there’s nothing wrong with getting excited about the prospect of Jusuf Nurkiu0107 and Enes Kanter bullying their way around the court in the final two months of the NBA regular season, and perhaps even a bit longer after that.
So go ahead and indulge your basketball fantasies a bit, because the way Nurkiu0107 and Kanter punished smaller defenders in the post and handled the offensive glass in a 113-99 victory versus the Nets, it’s easy to get carried away about what the two burly internationals can do in a league where “traditional” centers are going the way of Chuck Taylors and peach baskets.