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Coming in at number seven on the NBA Top Ten Plays, Portland Trail Blazers’ Derrick Jones Jr. and Jusuf Nurkic receive praise for the lob and dunk. It was a perfect example of Airplane Mode doing what he does best: coming along the baseline, catching the high lob, and slamming it down.
The moment provided a dose of energy for the Trail Blazers in the third quarter, where they have shown a previous tendency to stall out. It also showed what denizens of Rip City have been hoping to see: an awesome connection between Nurkic and Jones Jr.