.....if you said back in October... The Blazers will beat Minnesota in Minnesota in April and our two leading scorers will be players not currently on the roster. And we didn’t trade CJ. The Blazers will be in 3rd, again, with a chance at 2. The Blazers will be four games ahead of the Boston Celtics in the standings. The Pelicans (with no major injury to AD) won’t even contend for a playoff spot. Nor will the Lakers. No one would believe you.
What if someone told you.... You lost Nurk at the worst possible time when your team was on a roll and looked to be able to win some playoff games. I still watch the games and still cheer, but that was a dickpunch from Jade Falcon whilst he's tumbling down some stairs.
So you have to squint to watch Kanter dunk....while holding back screams of terror...just another day in the life Stren!
I’d say that sounds like something that could happen. Honestly. Would that have shocked you? And cheers to Olshey for bringing in Kanter. Wouldn’t be the end of the world. This is blasphemy to say around here, but we have MORE than enough bigs to replace Nurkic with to help us continue to win games. Nurk was awesome, esp on defense, but it’s not like we lost an All Star. Dame has more weapons to win playoff games than he had last year. Even with Nurk out.