How Much Better Can Jusuf Nurkic Be?

It’s a Mail Bag Monday on Jacked Ramsays and hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague take on your very Jusuf Nurkic centered questions wit just under two weeks to go before the Portland Trail Blazers head to training camp and officially open the 2021-2022 NBA season. The Athletic’s Jason Quick has an article out detailing and discussing how excited Jusuf Nurkic is to play for Chauncey Billups and while he doesn’t mention former Head Coach Terry Stotts by name he definitely indicates he wasn’t happy with his role and that spurred a lot of questions this week as many asked something along the lines of: how much better can Jusuf Nurkic be? What can the Blazers do to allow him to be more successful? How likely will a role change impact the Blazers? Could Nurkic find himself in the company of big men that team’s run their offense through like Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic, Domantas Sabonis, Anthony Davis and Julius Randle? As training camp inches closer will Anfernee Simons and Nassir Little make the jumps we’ve seen from past Blazers in years 3 and 4 as the need for their growth has never been greater? Will we see the Blazers re-sign and/or extend any of Nurkic, Simons or Robert Covington before the season? That and more on this weeks’ episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 12 of the Jacked Ramsays: A Portland Trail Blazers Podcast podcast, hosted by Blue Wire, titled "How Much Better Can Jusuf Nurkic Be?" was published on September 20, 2021 and runs 62 minutes.

September 20, 2021 ·62m · Jacked Ramsays: A Portland Trail Blazers Podcast

Summary

It’s a Mail Bag Monday on Jacked Ramsays and hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague take on your very Jusuf Nurkic centered questions wit just under two weeks to go before the Portland Trail Blazers head to training camp and officially open the 2021-2022 NBA season. The Athletic’s Jason Quick has an article out detailing and discussing how excited Jusuf Nurkic is to play for Chauncey Billups and while he doesn’t mention former Head Coach Terry Stotts by name he definitely indicates he wasn’t happy with his role and that spurred a lot of questions this week as many asked something along the lines of: how much better can Jusuf Nurkic be? What can the Blazers do to allow him to be more successful? How likely will a role change impact the Blazers? Could Nurkic find himself in the company of big men that team’s run their offense through like Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic, Domantas Sabonis, Anthony Davis and Julius Randle? As training camp inches closer will Anfernee Simons and Nassir Little make the jumps we’ve seen from past Blazers in years 3 and 4 as the need for their growth has never been greater? Will we see the Blazers re-sign and/or extend any of Nurkic, Simons or Robert Covington before the season? That and more on this weeks’ episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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