The Portland Trail Blazers will not be the same without injured center Jusuf Nurkic, but David Thorpe and Henry Abbott of the newly-resurrected TrueHoop suggest they can still prosper, albeit unconventionally.
In an article written for the NBA-centric site (subscription required) Thorpe offers four keys for Portland’s success. The first involves using their reserve center’s range to put more pressure on the defense.
Kanter from deep Enes Kanter, the logical replacement for Nurkic, has made two 3-pointers this season. But he needs to shoot a lot of them, starting now.