Nikola Jokic on Nuggets clutch struggles: “I’m definitely concerned, because we are losing the games. We are losing the games, and we are not creating open looks. So that’s something that we need to change. … I don’t know what it is, but we need to figure it out.”

Genericthrowaw4y | Thunder

14 | 3 hours ago

Denver just doesn’t give a shit about defense, literally no one tries. Defense is 90% effort and these guys have no discipline or drive to play D

stove_stub

5 | 3 hours ago

Bingo. The strategy is to push the offensive pace in an attempt to outscore the other team and pray for misses on the other end. The offensive ceiling is indisputable. But good god the floor for their defense is indescribably bad.

johnjohnjohn93

2 | an hour ago

Tbf their two best defenders are Gordon and Watson and are out injured.

Murray-Watson-Johnson-Gordon-Jokic is a pretty good playoff lineup

FH261169 | Mavericks

11 | 4 hours ago

This game specifically was on the players, more specifically Jamal, but if it happens repeatedly its on the coaching.

jonsnowKITN

3 | 4 hours ago

Everyone blames Jokic for the defense all the time because it’s the easy thing to do but if you watch the games Jamal has a bad habit of lazy closeouts and giving up open threes.

lnb3456 | Nuggets

14 | 3 hours ago

Jokic definitely has defensive weaknesses especially rim defence, but holy shit people have started blaming him for every point the other teams scores.

Puzzleheaded_Fee_141

-18 | 3 hours ago

I don’t believe that at all. Historically Joker plays with G leaguers according to most.

If he only had more help he would have 6 rings is what people say.

Maybe we are getting towards more realistic attitudes.

Joker has played with stacked starting lineups and poor benches. Now he has a weaker starting lineup and stronger bench.

Results are what they are in the long run someone has to blamed. Forever it has been his team mates and now he has had a turn

Especially since they were 10-6 without him and 3-6 with him.

jonsnowKITN

8 | 3 hours ago

What are you yapping about?

The_NGUYENNER | DEN

9 | 3 hours ago

If he only had more help he would have 6 rings is what people say.

When you say ridiculous things like this to try and prove a point, it usually has the opposite reaction and people know to not take you seriously

Puzzleheaded_Fee_141

-9 | 3 hours ago

Joker has never played with an All star calibre player. He took Nuggets G league team to a title. Least help in history apparently.

Do you think he would have more rings if he had the help Shai has lol? I actually don’t, I think Nuggets team has always been stacked. They had the best starting lineups for years until they traded MPJ for spare parts.

Nuggets were very good but came up millimetres short. This year they look done tbh.

Colorado_designer | Nuggets

5 | 3 hours ago

You have not spent much time watching the Nuggets over the years, clearly

Puzzleheaded_Fee_141

-1 | 2 hours ago

They should have gone b2b but took Twolves lightly.

I have watched plenty.

Are you saying that Joker never had help?

Colorado_designer | Nuggets

3 | 2 hours ago

No. This is the first year Jamal has actually deserved an All Star, though. Facts are facts, he hasn’t had All Star teammates in the past, and it’s not because the voting was rigged against them. Their starting lineups were dominant because HE was dominant.

Puzzleheaded_Fee_141

-1 | an hour ago

When you have 3 guys shooting lights out and a massive over the rim threat that’s a lot of help .

Jokic was part of the reason not the reason.

TheAgeOfTomfoolery | Nuggets

4 | 3 hours ago

Bad news, it has happened repeatedly this season.

Plane-Shake9660

8 | 4 hours ago

This game seemed to me to be a combination of the drop defense with center in the paint vs. heavy 3-point shooting and the warriors shooting those 3’s better than their average and the nuggets own 3-point shooting landing below average.

heat_fan_ | Raptors

3 | 4 hours ago

Adelmam definitely deserves a lot of the blame

trmp_stmp | Bucks

3 | 2 hours ago

why do you say that?

ElChapo1515

2 | 4 hours ago

Couldn’t imagine my favorite team struggling to score late in the clutch. Nope. Not a Kevin Durant led team.

BigDaddyD1994

2 | 3 hours ago

If it were me, I’d win the games instead of losing them

RepresentativeAd1965 | Nuggets

1 | 6 minutes ago

Let me write that one down

MamaHadACow | Nuggets

1 | 4 hours ago

I thought i was watching a mike malone game, didnt use a timeout to get the starters back in when it was becoming obvious that the celtics were gaining momentum then burned 2 quick successive TOs because it turned into an goddamned avalanche.

Soteria69 | Trail Blazers

1 | 3 hours ago

They created a lot of open looks for gsw

anemonaeae

0 | an hour ago

They’re a second round exit at best at this point.