[Highlight] Yesterday, Nikola Jokić (40 PTS, 13 REB, 8 AST, 3 BLK) and the Nuggets outdueled Victor Wembanyama (34 PTS, 18 REB, 7 AST, 5 BLK) and the Spurs in an OT thriller to win their 8th straight and snap San Antonio’s 11-game win streak.
You got the Jokic stats wrong. 13 AST 8 REB.
I wanted to make fun of you for doing an umackshully to the nba reddit account, then realized you were right.
Good catch. I knew this too because I bet on him to get a triple double and was surprised he only had 8 rebounds
Lol. Didn’t even notice this is the official NBA account. NBA got an agenda
Sure he had a lot of points, rebounds, and assists but he was very careless with the ball. He had (checks notes) 0 turnovers. Never mind
Hope they meet in the playoffs. Give me 7 games of this.
It’s looking like that’ll be the second round matchup at this point since Luka and AR went down. Nuggets will probably get the 3 seed, and then we’ll get Nuggets Spurs in round 2.
Despite this sub and media wanting it to be, wemby is not better than jokic
Wemby had 35 18 and 7 and 5 blocks and this is the game you try to run this narrative with lmao
And yet, Jokic was still better
Jokic would never guard wemby or he would get 70 dropped on him so no hes not
Jokic hung 40 on wemby
Jokic hangs 40 on anybody who guards him. Wemby is still a much better defender lol.
but as we see here his defense had zero impact on Jokic so who cares
wemby’s defense impacts entire teams, the hell do you mean who cares? jokic is probably the best offensive player ever so he’ll be fine, wemby is a problem for the rest of his team (yes im aware of the jokic vs wemby W/L record)
yet the nuggets as an entire team scored 136. wemby of course disrupts the way a team needs to think about their offensive possessions, but I think in the playoffs teams will game plan well enough around him. People want to put so much value into his blocks, but blocks half the time aren’t even ending the posession.
A team gets hot that’s what happens. You can just say oh the nuggets put up 500 in one game vs Wemby therefore his defense doesn’t matter. You cannot argue that he is the best rim defender in the NBA right now which makes it a game of if a team can make their shots outside the paint. Unlike Gobert he isn’t a black hole offensively which makes him insanely valuable. To argue otherwise is just insanity. Jokic also happens to be insanely valuable too as arguably the most dynamic offensive piece in the NBA. It’s possible to have two great players in the NBA believe it or not.
Wow a 22 year old is better at defense than a 31 year old. Let’s see if he’s still playing defense like this when he’s 30 and has 900 games under his belt like Jokic. I’d also like to see how great his defense is when he has to play 40 minutes a game and not 30 on back to back nights.
Wemby is better at defense then Jokic ever was. Give me a break. It’s not even a debate.
And Jokic is a much better offensive player than Wembanaya ever will be. And again, Wembanyama is a great player but before people want to act like he’s the greatest ever let’s see him play at this level for a couple years and play big minutes in big games.
ever will be
Dude we are seeing year 3 Wemby (year 2.5 really). Jokic at this point in his career was averaging like 18 points and a shade over 10 rebounds. His development is wayyy ahead of where Jokic was so he easily could be better in 3-5 seasons. Don’t even.
Congrats woulda lost if fox didn’t sell
And we would’ve been winning much earlier if we didn’t sell on like five layups if we’re doing this
Lmao what spurs were leading the whole game until we started smoking layups
You mean when the Spurs unsustainable three point percentage proved unsustainable?
It wasn’t even threes that cost us the game though, it was smoked layups
They sustained the “unsustainable” 39% from the first half like 30 times this season.
2x FTM as FGM, and his buckets were mostly lobs or being set up. He did have the nice bucket to match Jok’s fadeaway late in OT.
Eye test clearly went to Jok considering Wemby’s defense wasn’t shit vs him
Thats not true at all, he had that many fts beacuse he was getting hacked in the paints they also took away like 3 and ones and called them on the floor.
Can you recall any big field goal he made besides the one with ~30 secs or so left? Genuinely all of his baskets were lobs and the banked 3 besides that
I don’t agree with the hacking inflating his FTA, but he did get 3 free tech FTAs (as a result of slapping Jokic in the nose lol)
He made 2 3s, he dunked on Murray driving, he had multiple driving baskets in general, he was getting hacked otherwise as soon as he got in the paint.
Agree to disagree on this. Yes his numbers were good (mostly in part to the high FTAs, but 5 blocks is nice and 2 on Jokic himself iirc) but it was clear he still not on Jok’s level (the whole point of this comment thread).
Happy Sunday
Watch the game. Jokic was a full tier better and it was very obvious at every point.
Stop this nonsense spurs controlled the game the entire way till fox sold
Nah, but SGA will win MVP anyway. If neither had any MVPs I’m pretty sure Jokic wins this year again.
SGA’s consistency this year was insane. definitely deserving. Jokic is still a much better player when he’s giving full effort, but he doesn’t deserve it when he’s coasted through most of the season on defense
Just a few weeks ago Shai had 35pt, 15 assists, 0 turnovers overs against this Nuggets team, missing Chet, Hartenstein, and JDub.
Idk man they gave both been great but Shai has easily made a case outside of box score that is difficult to ignore
It’s wild how when Jokic gets 15 FTA he’s the real mvp but when Shai destroys said real mvp with 4 ft he’s just the voter fatigue candidate 😂
I don’t think that is the best way to go about it.
For online discourse it’s essentially “who played last”.
Jokic is the best player in the world.
sury buddy and if Fox, Castle or KJ would have made a single three this game would have been definitive proof that Wemby is better, yup that’s how we roll
Did people really think this? Wemby still deserves to be higher on the MVP ladder due to team record but it was always clear that it was Shai and Jokic at the top and has been for like 3 years at this point
If Wemby had Jokić’s team, especially with the injuries, they’d be play in team.
Interesting point, but have you considered that if Wemby had Jokics team, they would be 1st seed?
Wemby is playing his 2nd full season in the NBA and you guys are so salty already you are trying to discredit a 22 year against someone who almost everyone considers the best player in the world lol. I hope you got some cope saved up for the next decade cause its going to be rough for you.
There’s levels to this game….. and this the last year before wemby reaches that highest level 😂 bros probably gonna create 6 more levels after that too…. But for now, it’s Jokic on top. 4th in mvp voting is simply criminal.
Yea ok.
The west matchups are gonna be so fucking lit
West playoffs are just going to be stacked every single round
all of them will except whoever the Lakers lose to!
And I’m still hyped up. Can’t wait until the playoffs
Hope they meet in the playoffs
Only 2 rebounds away from a good game, what a shame
Its so nice when everyone hypes up a player so much and they live up to it. Hope Victor stays healthy for the long run. Face of the NBA soon, if not already
Good lord they’re both so good. Wemby is so huge and talented and Jokic’s touch just totally insane
The NBA conversations would be so much better if they scrapped end of season awards and we could just talk about awesome performances.
Man Wemby gets fouled liked twice on every drive and plays right through it. Crazy.
1 day late
What a game?!
That game fucking ruled lol
this is wemby at 23, jokic is a seasoned vet and in the middle of his prime at 31, wemby is fucking crazy
He doesn’t turn 23 til next January, actually lol
The title has it the other way around.
Generational choke by DeAaron Fox
I think wemby played great it was Fox and our 3 point shooters who came up short. I’m still sorta confident we could beat the nuggets if the bright lights don’t get to us. Even if we lose, one of us, the nuggets or the timberwolves has to complete the mission for the sake of basketball.