This year I'm watching every single Nuggets game and I've learnt something... In order to play well with Jokic you have to love him, and you need an incredible faith in his abilities... Look AG... Every action he's sure, absolutely sure his big man knows exactly where and when giving him the ball... Just keep your eyes open
Error. Jokic is the best passer of all time. Magic is is the second, but people still don't have the courage to say it out loud. Pistons Isiah Thomas believes that Jokic is the best passer after Magic so that the biggest legends of basketball already recognize him as one of the greatest. It is not disputed that there are extremely strong arguments for Magic, but Jokic is in any case side by side with the great Magic. Centers are three ranks below Jokic in that segment of the game. Pistol Pete, Bird, Stockton, Kidd, Nash and Chris Paul are right behind them, and LeBron is nowhere near the best passer of all time. His personal analysts will say that LeBron is the best player in every segment of the game and the best human being since the beginning of the world, but we don't all have to agree with that. LeBron is a smart passer and Jokic is a magician.
Hahaha….bravo, Lebron one of the best passers… give me a break! It makes me sick. The others,I truly enjoyed watching ( Kidd, Paul, Nash, Ginobili, J. Williams, Teodosic)
Not a horrible take, but you're wrong on this one bro. Magic Johnson had a 24-assist game, led the greatest fastbreak offense in basketball history, led the NBA in assists four straight seasons, had a season with an assist percentage of an insane 45 percent, averaged at least 10.5 assists in a season from 1983 to 1991, including one 13-assist season and two 12-assist season, and finally, had an entire season of at least 800 assists in 10 of his 12 seasons. He only played 12 years and had a passing resume that no one will be able to eclipse. Jokic is a transformational passer, but he's not Magic; nobody is Magic Johnson passing the ball. The eye-test ultimately says it all.
@Adel Ahmad You seem to forget the number of hof players Magic was blessed to play with. Stacking passes with someone who can score isn't as hard as it is when you don't even have a single all star teammate. Let that sink in.
Jokic has the potential to be the best passer ever, but calling he's already the best ever is wrong, He still has a lot of to prove. I would say Jokic might have the most unreal passes watching him cause hes taller and he use that height and vision as an advantage compared to all time great passers.
also Ive been seeing a lot of people underestimating playmaking ability when it comes to Jokic, like saying assists are easier for center, like if it is why every big man is not doing what hes doing. Cause having the vision is a rare skill. that's why we see a lot of high volume scorers every era but we only get a few great passers every era
Jokic is already one of the best passers all time. In terms of the quality of pass. His no look is really no look. He's not peaking. He brought us to the point that we do not find "touch down" special any more. That is how frequently he is making them. What I enjoy the most is how Stephen A is explaining Joker. Heck, I like it so much that I recorded it LOL
A game away from leading the next category, team record. He kinda already is the leader: when he plays, the Nuggets are 43-14. The Bucks are 39-13 with Giannis - who's really the only other guy in the vicinity of Jokic. One of the most clear-cut MVP decisions I can recall, it wouldn't take me a second to think about whom I'd give my vote.
It's unfortunate that Wilt Chamberlain isn't alive to see how Nikola is playing. If Wilt was alive, he'd be the first person in the Nikola Jokic fan club. Nikola is Wilt without being the freak of nature athlete Wilt was. And if my memory is correct, when Wilt played for the Harlem Globetrotters, he played point guard/ center.
He's just a savant with an insane basketball intuition. Infact he's so good he doesn't need athleticism at all. And even then he can phisically crush you
When you’re so good that winning 2 (and maybe 3) mvp in row and it still considered underrated. He could win the championship and still probably be underrated. People literally can’t process just how good he is. It’s called being way ahead of your time.
The Smartest and best athlete is seen in the last 3 years. He is a chess player on court! He looks slow, but can see that game 3 steps ahead of his opponents!!
Jedno finale konferencije protiv tima koji je osvojio te godine. Posle toga tim oko njega jednostavno je bio katastrofalan, bukvalno 70 posto saiigrača više ne mogu ni da pridju NBA klupi a Jokić ih je odveo u plej off.
Hey, last year he was without his 2nd & 3rd option...without a single top 75 player with him during the whole season, and year before, they were in WCF...
Why name guys as assist leaders without naming John Stockton who leads the all time list with 15,806 assists, followed by number 2 Jason Kidd who had 12,091?. It’s ridiculous the disrespect Stockton gets!!
He's just proved that Jokic as well as Lebron are playing against the real plumbers! Not during Jordan, Magic, Bird era, but this era. Bunch of plumbers!!! But excuse me I love Jokic. I hated Jordan when he was ruling the NBA, still respect on both men.
In terms of creativity and flashiness, I agree with you, J Will is easily top 5. However, we should keep in mind that for his every highlight reel pass he would botch at least 5 of them; they would be either overhit or pure turnovers. In short, he was highly creative yet highly inconsistent passer.
Now they are 7 ganes ahead on the west. But there are still people on the television saying that he's going to win this MVP award because He's white, using lies to justify his argument. (yeah.. straight wrong information). He's creating a narrative of Jokic being a stat-padder. Nah.. This year it will be hard to take this award from him. Only a tragically awful end of the regular season would change things. I'm really rooting for him to get to the finals (because people forgets the MVP award is a regular season award, and will start complaining because of the lack of playoff success)
Well, they, (the media) have taken it away from becoming MV3, + he also felt that he doesn't need the backlash from the very same media, and he put his foot off the gas as well; It will be the free-throw merchant from Philly, (but clearly out of pity).
Great Video putting Highlight on a very special talent in Jokic. But c'mon man, when you talk about the all time assist leaders, it's not fair to put him in there yet. I give you best passing Center in the history when it's said and done for him. But he's not even in the top 50 yet of the all time assist column yet. Also not mentioning Stockton and Chris Paul (1st and 3rd overall) in that category is just blasphemy imho. I guess names like Magic and Lebron are more catching
I love & respect Stockton, I’m a teen of the 90´s but think about it this way: John was pretty much doing ONLY assists. Jokic is also catching rebounds like crazy and scoring more than Stockton ever has. Also he’s 27. He can still play 10 years in the NBA if no accidents. So we’ll see in 10 years of +/- 10 apg where he stands ;)
Another highly underrated player. My all time fav pg. Yeah Magic was good, but he had, probably, best teammates ever (alongside MJ). Stockton has the most assists, in total, and I really doubt anyone will surpass him on that list or even come close, but I still prefer Jokic, cause his no- looks passes are second to none.
Maybe kids will idolise passing and finesse now? We are at the tail of the Curry revolution, and we had the Jordan/Kobe revolution of athleticism and ISO ball
I'm a really big LeBron fan... but the last 5 years I've not been impressed with how he's playing. Giannis, Jokic, Curry, and KD's game are much more enjoyable to me now.
There is a huge difference morris bumped him in his side a foul to stop the shot, jokic elbowed him the spine while he was walking away which is a very dangerous thing to do. Could leave someone paralyzed...
The nuggets are ahead of second place by 6 games, not 4&1/2 games get your stats right and on top of that they have won the series between the second place grizzlies so if the season were to end as of this morning they are technically seven games ahead of the grizzlies
Have you ever been elbowed in ur ribs? Cops beat me once so bad, several of those punches were close to armpit and I can't explain it to you how much that hurts, I thought they were broken, took an x ray but they werent. I coudnt move or breath properly for couple months. You can clearly see that Morris didnt just push Jokic, he elbowed him straight in his ribs, and I absolutely understand impulsively reaction of Jokic, pain makes your brain not run right
Jokic There is a ball, there is a ball - there is no ball - where is the ball - here is the ball, oppp... points... Let's go again! Let's finish as soon as possible because my horse races are starting soon!
