He was deadass drawing atleast 2-3 defenders every time he passed for an assist. Left everyone open for a shot. Gravity

M V P

I’m bad at math what’s that ratio

Getting tripled

Amazing shot making from both Shai and Jokic down the strech today!!! Denver’s defence is perfect for Shai to violate every time. Especially compared to the other contenders in the west.

The lack of a real point of attack defender kills them along with not being a super fast or athletic team. So the last 5+ games they’ve played OkC they just do a weird 1.5-2.5 man show to Shai to try get him off ball but it’s so slow and they are both either not aggressive enough early or down work hard enough to work back to the open man & often are just caught inbetween.So all Shai has to do is locate to wide open man and they get a great shot every time. Thats why Denver is like the only team he easily reaches double figure assists against.

Obviously he is amazing so he will score again basically any team but he doesn’t get to kick it out to an open man nearly as easily as he can Vs Denver. Literally his dream match up.

SGA has one of the best AST/to ratios in the nba. And is by far the best when it comes to high usage players

Didn’t even notice until now. That’s absolutely prolific considering the amount of pressure & doubles Denver sent at him

Cant blame them he had 15 assists with 0 TOs he will make the right play.

What can you do. He’s already on 15 assists with 0 Tov lol

Your best hope is pick a strat and pray

If I’m gonna let him take a shot as a defense, it’s gonna be a stepback three.

Hell nah. Fuck this blitz/doubling on the last shot, most of the iconic game winners happened on iso. I hope this blitz/doubling on the last shot won’t become a trend.

Lot of this sub doesnt like basketball lmao

For real. This subreddit is insufferable 9 times out of 10.

Yeah no slander on Jokic will be tolerated either. His floaters are damn automatic

I just ignore all of it. If SGA had lost, you just know there would have been a million slander posts popping up, and tons of people questioning his MVP status. Now that Jokic is the one who lost, all of a sudden people are saying SGA is the unanimous MVP and Jokic is the second best player in the world. Which completely ignores how utterly insane and impactful Wemby has been playing as of late, by the way.

Both MVP-level players had an MVP-level game, but r/nba is full of toxic children with nothing better to do than spin up narratives.

Was fully taken aback by this post just being stats with no editorializing because most of the other posts I’ve seen about this games are agendas

I mean it was a little bit of a problem, game was down to the fucking wire. One of my fav games of the season

Our 4 centers

I legit got half season tickets last year, this year, and renewed for next year in a large part so I can go watch him live quite a few times

I get to be at the Celtics game where he (hopefully) breaks the record

Crazy take

Tbf the nuggets coach chose to take Jokic out even though they didn’t have any timeouts to bring him back in. He could’ve had the last shot, but his coach didn’t trust him to play defense.

It’s early. Jordan Magic Steph Kobe are the only ones I’m putting definitively above him. This run he’s on competes with any peak any player has had in my biased opinion. (I also think he’s coming for Kobe, and soon)

Cause there are two versions of this team. One version runs through Jamal Murray and one that runs through Jokic. Jamal Murray ran this game for a lot of this game and Jokic was just the useless passenger. Whenever they played Jokic ball, they got incredible shots every single time

Basically 4 of the closing lineup.

OKC is just that team right now. They’re a well-oiled machine with argubaly the best player on the planet. Even if a gear is out of action, there’s another gear ready to fill in the space the best it can. They’re gonna be damn scary for the rest of this decade (and possibly beyond).

No. No you’re not.

Bruh we barely lost and took OKC to overtime in the last game. We took them to 7 in the last series.

Nahh you just got Phokich’d

Really feels like we’re the early 2000s Kings and OKC is our Lakers 

Denver just lost to the Knicks by 40. That was getting owned, this is squeaking by

you also need to factor in iq on defense - jokic is able to make his teammates cover each other’s weaknesses unlike anyone else can, so while he struggles 1v1 he is an above average defender when it comes to impact. sga is better but its not a landslide

We got Ajay Mitchell and Jared McCain now

We finally got shooters

Oh stfu

hey aaron gordon isnt terrible, and jamal murray sometimes plays well… MPJ also averaging 25