On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...
• The Trail Blazers arriving in New York City on Thursday prior to Friday's game versus the Nets in Brooklyn
• Getting an ugly win versus the Jazz in Salt Lake City
• Defeating the Wizards in Washington DC to extend Portland's win streak to three
• Deni Avdija's return to Washington is cut short
• Toumani Camara is supposed to foul
• Shaedon Sharpe's ridiculous dunk in the second quarter of Wednesday's win versus the Wizards
• The NBA's "Dunk Score," which has Shaedon's dunk as the second-best this season, is a farce and should be recalibrated
• Statistics being a poor way to judge the quality of dunks
• The remaining five games on Portland's current seven-game road trip
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