Jokic held to 16 pts, 7 rebs, 8 asts, 6 TOs against the Thunder defense.
One of his weaker games this season. No Caruso either.
Peyton Watson outscored Murray and Jokic combined today.
He’s rusty, but OKC had a great defensive game against him too.
Wasn’t rusty against clippers?
Clippers arent a very good defensive team, OKC is the #1 defense. Makes sense to me?
They played great defense on him
“Clippers aren’t a very good defensive team”
Not true since Kawhi has been back and during there last 20 whatever game run
They’re the 19th ranked defense, not horrid but obviously not elite. OKC is literally #1
I think they’re top 10 in those last 20 games.
Kawhi’s impact is crazy.
Disregard my statement they’ve been mid on d even in there run last 20 games but last 10 games they’ve been a top 5 defense (small sample though)
Doesn’t he usually has bad games against thunder? And didn’t denver had their 2 all stars today? 😂 Caruso wasn’t even playing today
Give credit where it it due
I’m not sure how you perceived my comment as anything other than giving credit?
A lot of thunder fans are feening at the mouth right now lol
Not much else to Do in OKC
Weren’t y’all talking shit?😂 Mvp had a 30 pt game while Jokic got outplayed by Wallace. Mf had 6 TOs
Touch grass little bro
Leave it man. All good
we literally said “okc had a great defensive game”. do you want us to say “wow SGA really destroyed CHOKIC that fraud” or whatnot? it’s his second game back, calm your ass 😂
They’re quite literally saying your team is elite defensively?
It’s easy to elevate your game with a bad team even when you’re rusty
I’m sure there’s a gameplan for both of them difference is refs dictate how you can defend
I found the casual
First half was def like that but they fixed it for the second
Jokic has had quite a few bad games even in the playoffs against OKC and Shai. It’s too much of a pattern to not acknowledge at this point.
Lengthy defenses can give him issues by exploiting his one offensive weakness of a lack of explosiveness
He can’t really blow by anyone so he has trouble getting a lot of quality looks
Jokic has incredible touch but his shot creation by itself is more A tier than S tier so the way to stop him is just not letting him shoot the ball at all
His strength unsurprisingly is also his weakness.
A 7ft brute who is an all time great scorer 3-10ft cant create off the dribble. So if you limit entry passes and stress that he struggles to create for himself as doesnt have a handle to breakdown defenses.
To me more than anything it shows just how important AG is to the structure of that offense. Having his backside vertical spacing opens up the offense significantly.
Also this game showed just how limited JV and THJ are in high leverage games. They are going to get found out in the Playoffs.
here come the takes for a player who is coming off a month off in his second game back with a minutes restriction.
Trade him for Jakob Poeltl!
I 2nd this, Nuggets need a real center!
Forgot what people said last game? Denver fans were talking a lot of shit. Let them eat it up
Lol what
He had a 31 pt game against clippers and everybody was like, “the real mvp”, “people were having mvp conversations out of boredom”. So yea 😂 when he gets glazed for dropping 31 against a mid team, his fans should keep the same energy now right?
You’re mad they overreacted to 1 game but you’re doing the same thing
No really people will get excited after a guy that was very much neck and neck in the mvp race came back and had a good game. Can you be less insecure lol
Can’t feel proud of your team now? Y’all were talking until you got beat by the Spurs and the Hornets.
Where was your all star ‘Mal🏹’ today?🤓
12 assists.
He’ll go off against y’all next game.
Didn’t he just have a crazy near triple double on a minutes restriction coming off a month off?? Why are you mentioning that now that he had a stinker?
ITT no one that actually watched the game
ITT: Morons who can’t understand that maybe a player coming back from a 4 week injury won’t immediately play at his 100% every game.
It’s not even a bad statline outside of the 6TO. Nuggets also missing starters and Jokic is coming off injury for a month.
Using a single game to discredit a great player is reactionary and inline with this subreddit.
Not bad considering he took his first shot with like a minute left in the first half?
That in and of itself is the issue with his playstyle. And he has these types of games 5-10 times per year, real stinkers.
and they tend to happen in big-ish games. games where he’ll shoot <5 times in first half.
“held to 16” when he just didn’t take shots is one way to frame it, jokic is known for having these “low” scoring games where he just plays passive/thinks he shouldn’t take the shots himself
definitely could have played better but took 9 shots and made 6 of them
lol OKC out in numbers tonight. It’s a make or miss league and OKC drained the threes.
Just a reminder Nuggets are still missing three starters. It was confirmed that this version of the nuggets wasn’t good enough.
I’d say missing JDub, Mitchell and Caruso is just as impactful to the Thunder as it is for the Nuggets missing Gordon, Braun and Johnson.
OKC is the deepest team in the league. I think we saw your next guys up are better than our next guys up.
Yes OKC has a deep roster but you’re under-estimating the importance of those Thunder 3, JDub is OKCs 2nd best player, Mitchell is the bench playmaker and a 6th man of the year candidate and Caruso is the Thunders best perimeter defender. If SGA doesn’t do SGA things, the Thunder can’t win without those 3.
Luckily for OKC it seems like SGA does SGA things
Never helps to have back up though. Nuggets have got a good one in Watson, some team is going to offer him a big bag, hopefully the Nuggets can match.
It’s going to get the bag one way or another
chet is way better than jdub
Their physicality definitely gets to him
Why do we need to tear Jokic down? Shai played great. Jokic had an off night for his second game back from injury…oh well. Two great players leading two great times in hopefully what will be a fun rivalry going forward. Let’s stop being toxic.
Despite OKC’s Jokic-stopper not playing too
Caruso?
Topic
Barnhizer
Shai outplayed him in basically everything lol
Average Luka Dončić game just need to add 12-15 more points.
his defense was also atrocious
Not gonna cut it
His team sucks!! Give him the mvp already!!
Crazy how this is a bad statline for Jokic lol
6 TOS this is a bad statline for most stars lol
Absolutely true but seeing less than a double double on Jokic is kinda odd ngl
This is a bad statline for any top ten player in the league
If you completely ignore the TOs then sure.
He would have less FG% if he tries to score more like Luka. With Jokic if he can’t find easy high percentage shots he won’t force the action even in the playoffs when they need wins. Whereas Lukas efficiency suffers a lot especially in the second half when he tries to score even when he’s tired or against very good defensive coverage trying to force the team to a win.
Both the Luka approach and the Jokic approach have pros and cons IMO
Surely this is flaccid for any top 2 offensive option on a good team?
Incredible MVP showdown between SGA and Watson!
That’s actually impressive given he just got back and it’s against the best defense in the league lol.
Edit: can someone point out the downvotes? Is there something illogical in what I said? He looked rusty tonight. And the thunder made him pay. That being said, 16 7 8 is a decent stat line when you’re coming back from injury and your playing bar none the best defense in the league
He just needs to stop the no shooting gimmick.
He shook it off by the end but 2 points for the first 12 minutes is just poor decision making.
Yeah. He looked tired from the get go. It’s also weird seeing him pulled halfway through the 1st. I’m not used to that
Holy Joker glaze. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yall weird
Normal jokic game
Dude cant stop noone. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I forget, are they the OKC Thunder or the OKC Hackers? … 🧐
I heard they’re the OKC Zodiac Killers
Trash statpadder cost his team the win he couldn’t stand watching his team be successful without him. Easy win if the overrated statpadder wasn’t there to hold his team back
statpadder 😂
I’d like to see refs allow SGA to be guarded like Jokic is
Oh brother
Here we go 😂🤦♂️
They did, it literally happened last OKC game.
And he still scored 30 lol
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award might go to bruce brown
his hands are up after every play
Cry more pussy haha
The fuck is there to cry about? OKC sent your favorite Serbian packing en route to a championship. Doesn’t he have more gambling ads to do?
You crying telling this guy you have nothing to cry about. Bothered another man is doing a commercial lol
It’s called talking shit, not crying.
talkin shit online after a W lol oh brother
That is literally what every other fanbase on the planet does. Is this your first day on the internet
Hell naw you celebrate not punch down little boy. Shows insecurity.
Lmao insecurity? Little boy? My team are the champs. This is the internet and it’s the NBA. Go watch your dogshit knicks disappoint like they do every year you nobody