The Trail Blazers beat the Indiana Pacers Thursday night, 100-86. Although they didn’t shoot all that well, it was one of the team’s best performances of the season.
It was also one of Jusuf Nurkic’s best performances. The Trail Blazers’ big man scored 19 points and hauled in 17 rebounds. And he was 8-of-14 from the field.
This Pacers team is no slouch; they’re 24-21 and sixth in the Western Conference. Under head coach Nate McMillan, they’ve installed an offense that piles up points; a lot of those points come via the three ball.