Bleacher Report Article on Nurk & Lillard

[e_blazer]

Not much new, but a good read.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

I did think that this bit was funny:

Lillard won't let him forget. The two have become close in their season-and-a-half together. They text. They FaceTime. They discuss games and game situations and more.

"We're always around each other, always in each other's ear. Before practice we sit there and talk. After practice we sit there and talk. We went to dinner in Orlando and just talked about our girlfriends, you know.

"I think it's gone past the teammate group; that's my brother now. I just want somebody to think they need to remake the movie with Gheorghe Muresan, My Giant, and have me and Nurk in there. I told him we should do that next year for Halloween."

 

[jlprk]

Merge.

http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/all-things-blazers.338983/

 

[stampedehero]

"Since Nurkic's arrival, the Trail Blazers have gone 82-54. This season they find themselves, as usual, bunched in a clogged Western Conference. While last spring's flameout in the first round to the lower-seeded Pelicans prompted a lot of talk of changing the roster, the club has opted, for now, to run it back with essentially the same group. Improvement, the type that allows for a playoff series win, will need to come internally. For that, the organization is looking for Nurkic to become a third pillar alongside Lillard and CJ McCollum."
> I believe Nurk is better than last year. What we need is the coaching that lands us in the playoff win column.

 

[Propagandist]

I had a good (sad) laugh at the notion that CJ is a "pillar" on this team.

 

[Boob-No-More]

I had a good (sad) laugh at the notion that CJ is a "pillar" on this team.

I think he meant pillory. That seems more appropriate for C.J. these days.

BNM

 

[Propagandist]

I think he meant pillory. That seems more appropriate for C.J. these days.

BNM

Disdain for CJ has certainly risen.

 

[Boob-No-More]

P.S. For those who don't know, this is a pillory:

The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for punishment by public humiliation.

AKA - the precursor to the internet discussion board.

BNM

 

[handiman]

I think it was around this time last year, maybe a bit earlier, that I noted how buddy buddy Dame and Nurk were becoming, and how CJ seemed to be the odd man out. His game never really did recover to his MIP season levels.