https://www.si.com/nba/2017/11/20/j...il-blazers-future-damian-lillard-terry-stotts Some cool insight here.
In basketball mileage/experience, Jusuf plays like a young high schooler, too fast sometimes and too slow others, and too likely to swipe at balls... and he's THIS good already in the NBA. In five years, when he has the basketball experience of an NBA vet? He'll be amazing.
I feel like we havent really talke dabout this but I think Nurk doesnt get enough credit for our improved D.
Nurkic, a resurgent Davis, and Aminu all have DRtgs below 100, which is really good, and above average for our team defense (100.9), which itself is really good (2nd best in the NBA right now). Jake Layman has somehow managed a DRtg of 98, but that's a really small sample size.
Good defender but I’m not high on Nurk as I use to be. I think he’s a solid nba center but nothing everybody including myself thought he is I would have no problem passing on him if somebody pays him too much
He blocked more shot last year so this makes sense. But I think from positioning and conditioning standpoint, he's more than making up for that dip in block rate. And he's still contesting plenty of shots well inside. It's not all because of him, but he's a big reason why we are #1 in opponent fg% at the rim.
Nurk will be better on offense once we find more reliable offensive weapons / allow him to play more often with a spaced floor. First, it will lower his usg% /post up possesions while also opening up his roll game. And like Stotts has mentioned, Nurk will be a guy that will shoot 3's in time and if he can shoot 2-3 a game at 33-35%, that will also help him become a more efficent offensive player.
I told you he started train basketball at late age and didnt even know how to run... I wont say its cause of that, but maybe, just maybe thats the reason for some ugly and unorthodox things in his game I wonder if he started train basketball when he was under 10 yo, how would he look now... but like SportsAndWhine said, in five years, if he trains hard and improves his game, hell be one mean motherfucker and go to LAL to win a championship
while Im here, someone please tell me: how do I mark other forum member so he gets notification and not like I just did
I knew that, thats why I was surprised it didnt work... thats cause I used Alt instead of Atl Gr @riverman thank you
Given how hard it is to get free agents to sign here, passing up on a center who is as good as Nurk is, and who wants to be here would IMHO be a colossal mistake.
That's not exactly what he said... Keep in mind the broken English. He's basically saying, they didn't force him to go to a team he didn't want to go. Whether or not he specifically wanted to go to Portland isn't clear. He might have just had a list of a dozen teams he could felt he would start for. Equally unclear is the last part of that quote. "If I was doing all the bad things that people said, the Nuggets ... probably would have gotten a way better deal than they got." Huh? That has to be "worse" not "better", right? They'd of been selling low[er] if he was doing bad things.
