This seems personal to you

Jokic stans are the masters of goal post moving. They’ve practically got wheels on the posts at this point.

I mean Jokic is a Center. If he puts the works on Wemby or Embiid, great, Jokic vs XYZ. But this isn’t Jokic vs SGA. You could take from this that Jokic’s defense is weak, but not much beyond that.

Honestly, I would pay 1k to see Jokic and SGA 1v1 with no team?

The Thunder are 12-5 without Shai for the past 2 years

Even with that 10-6, the Nuggets are 500 without Jokic

Why would we be salty? OKC has the most recent championship?

Our team is doing better than expected despite our starting 5 only having played 44 minutes together this season.

We had a good trade at the deadline, and our players are getting into a groove at the right time of the year, nothing to be salty about over here other than injuries

Definitely salty but it’s funny when it’s a post salty about the Thunder it’s just people in here giving it a standing O lol then when a Thunder fan posts somethin salty back it’s “bro’s so salty lmaooo”

Literally makes no sense. Thunder fans aren’t salty, they are on top of the nba and reigning champs. Get over it…

Peyton Watson doesn’t compare to Chet+JWill+IHart+Caruso in some combination.

I felt like Shai was frying him in the last game but data could prove me wrong

Thunder fans are so cocky nowadays it’s wild.

your state’s education level is showing from your reply

They don’t, the thunder has lapped the league two years in a row defensively. The Nuggets didn’t have a top 3 offense last year and are 1st currently by a very small margin. Meanwhile the Nuggets have had bottom 10 defenses two years in a row.

No they do not

Unless Jokic is directly responsible for all the points Shai is scoring, then it doesn’t really matter in terms of their H2H stats. Which are bs anyways since there’s no such thing as a H2H for a pg and center. But OP wants to ragebait so whatever I guess lol

The main reason Denver’s defense is worse is because 75% of our roster is composed of weak defenders. We have literally 3 players in our rotation that are average or better defenders. This also doesn’t include the fact that two of those guys are currently injured.

You could have Jokic suddenly transform into prime Hakeem on the defensive end and it would barely make a difference at this point.

Jokic isn’t responsible for all of SGA’s cooking. This whole post is ragebait.

And they would be following narratives instead of watching the game. Nugget’s had little difficulty with their starting lineup guarding Shai and trapping him and getting the ball out of his hands (up until around the 4 minute mark in the fourth quarter). There’s a reason Jokic was +20 even with a horrid shooting night. Shai completely torched the Nugget’s bench unit and it’s weird to see Jokic getting blamed for the defense of the non-Jokic lineups. On the flip side, Jokic did shoot terribly inefficient and did basically shot them out the game in over time. But, he did also give the Nuggets a wide open corner three to a 50%+ spot up shooter for game in regulation.

I mean 8 more rebounds and 1 more assist (and TO) vs 5 points and defense is honestly not that egregiously mismatched

This isn’t even a valid rebuttal. If you had stats to prove that Jokic got cooked in the PnR vs Shai, then sure maybe, but otherwise you’re just doing the same thing lol.

every time… never give him flowers, ever🤣👏🏽 it’s good tho, that second mvp & ring stays forever

lmfao keep going through the entire thread repeating this talking point like anybody cares buddy

I’m sure they’ll really change their opinion if you post this comment 5 more times

Oh okay, I guess it’s just a coincidence that you all are set to spend $82 million on the center position next season

It’s so weird how people take this as some sort of personal attack, too. Like it’s just smart team building to construct your squad so that it’s strong against the best teams in your division. This isn’t me throwing shade. It’s just facts. Minnesota did the same thing.