The Portland Blazers sit at 4th in the Western Conference standings, and have done so with largely the same roster as last season. While other teams have had more hype, the Blazers continue to quietly win games at a well above-average clip. They are powered, as they have been for a half decade now, by the superstar power of Damian Lillard, but have gotten help from other areas as well. Perhaps the second-best player on the Blazers this season has been 24 year old center Jusuf Nurkic, who has really come into his own on both ends of the court.