Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic got taken to task in the latest edition of Zach Lowe’s “10 Thinks I Like (and Don’t Like) About the NBA” column. The ESPN analyst put Nurkic on blast for a failed post opportunity against Houston Rockets guard James Harden in a recent loss, citing it as an example of an ongoing issue.
After showing the video and referencing “disgust radiating off of Portland’s bench” at the play, Lowe diagnoses the problem:
Nurkic is a giant, balletic post player.