Jokic in the loss to OKC: 32/14/13 on 12⁄19 FG and 3⁄6 3PT
https://www.nba.com/game/den-vs-okc-0022500933/box-score
I like how he stayed on the court and congratulated everyone and looked for Shai. He didn’t run into the tunnel after like most superstars would.
Yea jokic a good dude
Jokic has no issues with most players, he has nothing but respect for guys like shai and ant, but fanbases of all these guys just hate each other. Instead of respecting each other, its about how x or y is bad.
Denver’s defense was atrocious today…
25 million for a 2 guard who can’t shoot and is good defender at best is insane. Cause today he was awful defensively
Jokic making him a serviceable piece in an elite offense is gonna slam their window shut he’s atrocious if he’s not getting transition buckets
Not entirely fair to him. Not many players are doing much better than him with his assignment
But HE has been doing better with it though, it was a poor game by any measure for him and he can certainly do better on it
The problem is the Watson new contract. If Braun gets 125x5 then he could así for more and Denver has no room for Big contracts.
Not really, just the personnel matchup was atrocious for Denver.
A small ball team will always 5-out against a much larger Denver team and stretch them out on the floor. Then they have to double team SGA otherwise they give up a near 100% middy or a stepback dagger.
Then you just have the age gap between OKC and Denver. Nugs can’t close out games bc of their stamina. The core isn’t getting any younger. They’re too big, too slow, which is why Adelman had to sub off Jokic in the final frame.
The daggers were an Ajay Mitchell breakout game (wasn’t really a breakout game bc we’ve seen this a bajillion times at this point) and a JWill who did not miss. Add in JoeCain who you have to respect and it’s a recipe for disaster.
Braun 1 on 1 vs SGA was above average defense. Unfortunately for Denver, SGA, best player in the world, cooks above average like a chicken dinner.
Denver was always gonna lose.
Said in a game decided by one 3-pointer. Sure, fam
Against the hospital Thunder, 3-0 btw
been atrocious all year.
hopefully gets better in the playoffs with everyone healthy at the same time
2 of the best in the league showing out tonight. Fun night for neutrals, absolute hell for Denver/OKC fans LOL
absolute hell for denver fans ☹️, cant blame thunder fans though, okc seems unstoppable this year. hopefully we can take you guys far if we meet in the playoffs!
In the most respectful way possible, please God I don’t want to see y’all in the playoffs. I’m already 10 years older because of the last playoffs series. Playing y’all is stressful
it would be really entertaining if we somehow managed the 8th seed and it was a first round matchup 😭
I’m sure whoever gets that 2nd round matchup won’t be mad about our two teams hitting each other with bats for 2 straight weeks to start the playoffs 😂
Its crazy how we had a great game, both guys went crazy, and had great games but all people can talk about petty ranking bullshit instead of enjoying a good game.
Welcome to Reddit my friend 😂
I made a comment saying its shais mvp to lose, which hopefully is pretty clear that shai is the favourite and the only way he can lose it is if he misses the season. I had a guy responding by writing an essay saying jokic is a choker and murray is a loser because I “insulted” your team. Like the fuck?
(not trying to bash on your fans, I’ve seen nuggets fans do the same, just crazies on both sides going rabid giving normal everyday people a bad rep).
Oh 100%, we all have our loudmouth fans and morons. Honestly ever since the Thunder have gotten good, I feel like we got even more dumbasses running their mouth on Reddit now than ever LOL. “Going rabid” is a good way to put it, and I do hope the day comes where more fans can just sit back, not react so emotionally, and enjoy some damn basketball. I guess we’re asking for too much LOL
I wish we could just enjoy civil basketball discourse on the internet instead of constant tribalism. We need more people like you in the world and not people that think with their mouths instead of their brains.
Great player
2nd best player itw I would say
Quite Valuable Player
I’ll take it
Almost Most Valuable Player
Great game by Jokic, can’t be mad at all, he played insane.
(Offensively) he about let Jwill put up a 30 pt triple double
Unironically, Jokic’s man was Lu dort who shot 2⁄11. But Denver’s tactics is hiding Jokic on Dort to compensate for his deficiencies
Jokic wasn’t his defender lol
Also was “about” a 30 pt double double (29⁄12) unless you think 3 assists is near 10
To be fair every single player besides Shai was unbelievably open all game. Should’ve had like 30 assists lol
He played a great game. Only small critique for him tonight is he should have probably been a bit more aggressive with shot attempts throughout the game. During a lot of the game, he didn’t shoot the ball much. The Thunder were without both Chet and iHart. Caruso was also out. Jokic probably should have taken more shots, but he still played a great game.
he is unfortunately the right play every single time kind of player. That’s why i like watching people like him and Lebron. Sometimes he is more aggressive as a scorer if he runs into a defender he really respects (Rudy, Wemby, AD) with Taj Gibson also turning him into a score first player
Sometimes kicking to Braun for a 3 is the wrong play
Hes not been 100 percent since coming back and had his longest stretch out so the mental and physical aspect are still probably getting to him. The good news is hes been slowly ramping up and getting back to his norm, so hopefully he shows more aggression.
RVP (Really Valuable Player)
He did everything he could
Really good game
top 2 itl
He played great SGA was just better, happens
Dude was a waking traffic cone on defense. One of the worst defensive players of this generation
And? One title for Denver, it is worth it.
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Nope.
Best player ITL but 0 reason he should have a chance at MVP unless Shai misses 3 more games
Even then Wemby and Luka should be right there
Shai is better and showed it today
He’s not. You Joker fans have to realize that Shai has done everything in his power to take that mantle away from Jokic. It’s over with
Jokic fans trying to convince me that I shouldn’t care about defense. 😭😭
You absolutely should which is why Jokic because the thunder are a better defense team and the nuggets are not
Not a Jokic fan. I said Luka and Wemby should be with Jokic in MVP talks if Shai misses games
Jokic fans think it’s a no brainer him, even over SGA
Luka is not “right there”