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Re: mystery of nurk 

Post#61 » by monopoman » Mon Mar 9, 2020 11:32 pm

d-train wrote:
Matt800 wrote:
d-train wrote:Does anyone know how Hood is progressing? It would be great if he can return next year. I have been assuming that he is a dead $6M on next years salary.


There's video of hood practicing today. I saw him doing dribbling drills.

Nurkic has a video out as well where he is interviewed at practice. He said the g league practice is the last check point he his agent and team agreed on because it should be closer to a game. He said he practiced today but Portland doesn't have enough guys able to practice to give something close enough to game play.

I get the impression the management is like some fans here and would rather have lottery balls. The players want to play and win.


Even the worst team in the league has players trying to win, management and coaches might sabotage them a bit but no player goes out there going, "Hell yeah, lets lose the next 20 games for more lottery balls boys!"
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Post#62 » by Matt800 » Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:20 am


I don't think we've seen Nurkic with that combination of running, and catch and shoot speed before.
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Post#63 » by Dzon Dilindzer » Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:03 am

shot release is faster and shot mechanics are different

that man is about to start shooting threes in the games
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Post#64 » by BlazersBroncos » Sun Jun 21, 2020 7:28 pm

Wow, he looks fluid as hell in that video. Would love if he could pop a 3 every now and then, extended range would make the overlap of resigning Hassan even less and make bringing him back make even more sense IMO.
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Post#65 » by Dzon Dilindzer » Sun Jun 21, 2020 7:55 pm

nurk and whiteside shouldnt be on the floor at the same time

not unless blazers lead by 20+
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Post#66 » by zzaj » Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:43 pm

I'm excited to see Nurkic play again!

He hit a coupla 3s last year. I will say, that nearly every player in the NBA, including a lot of the Centers can do the exact thing that Nurkic does in that video.

Still, great to see...
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Post#67 » by Matt800 » Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:33 am

Dzon Dilindzer wrote:shot release is faster and shot mechanics are different

that man is about to start shooting threes in the games


I thought so as well. He is going right into his shooting motion from catching off a run. I don't think he could do that before.
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Post#68 » by kumquat » Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:20 pm

Out there looking like Toni Kukoc

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