Watching Nikola Jokic is like a video game! – Tim Bontemps 🎮 | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to discuss the possibility of LeBron James retiring and the Denver Nuggets making it to the NBA Finals for the first time.
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Jokic a.k.a. Big Honey is changing the sport of basketball by revolutionizing the center position
He's the NBA harlom globtrator
Can you imagine if you had done your job and followed this Denver team for the last couple years they were building this, and instead of sounding surprised, and as uninformed as anybody else who doesn’t watch the game, you actually were informed about what they did, and could teach us more about all the things that they’ve been doing to get to this point? Almost like reporting? Let the fans have a feelings, focus on your job and learn how to talk about a team it’s not the Lakers or Boston for more than 10 minutes.
Americans think just because you can’t jump like ja morant your not athletic
White euro nba players > black euro nba players
He can't jump, how is he a video game?
Everything Jokic does is simple yet nobody else can do it. You cannot copy greatness.
Jokic will never get the widespread love and hype of Steph Curry but in my opinion he is going to go down as a greater all time player. And I'm not saying that to hate on Steph because he's in my top 10 alltime with an argument for 5.
But since it's unfair to compare Steph with 6 more seasons of experience I compare them through their first 8 seasons.
Steph First 3 seasons 2010-2012
No allstar appearances, no playoffs
Jokic First 3 seasons 2016-2018
No allstar appearances no playoffs
Steph 4th & 5th seasons 2013-2014
2nd Round L 2013, 1st Round L 2014
All-NBA and Allstar in 2014
Jokic 4th&5th seasons 2019-2020
2nd Round L 2019, Conference Finals L 2020
Allstar and All-NBA both seasons.
In Steph's 6th and 7th seasons he wins back to back MVPs
In Jokic's 6th and 7th seasons he wins back to back MVPs
The difference is the level of help around Steph is significantly better.
Klay, Draymond, Iguodala, Bogut, Barnes, Livingston
While Jokic has
Porter Jr, Gordon, Morris, Barton, Rivers, Green and his 2nd best teammate Murray out.
So Steph won a title 2015 with Cavs stars out , 2016 Finals plays way below superstar standards and loses a 3-1 lead.
Jokic drags teams to the playoffs who would probably be bottom 2 in conference without him , loses in 1st round 2021, 2nd round 2022.
So Steph's 8th season he has prime
Durant, Klay, Draymond
Jokic this year has
Murray, Porter Jr, Gordon
Looking at both resumes through 8 seasons I'm significantly more impressed with Jokic .
So for the next 6 seasons Steph
2018 back to back
2019 Finals L KD , Klay hurt
2020 IR
2021 Great season lost play-in
2022 Finals MVP
2023 Lost 2nd round
I think Jokic the next 6 years will be better than that. He will win 1 or 2 more mvps and will win 2 or 3 rings and finals mvps on top of the finals mvp he's about to win in a couple weeks.
why not retire on top?
all of these cats picked Suns and Lakers over Denver both times round 🙂
The fat Embiid and Lakers lover cannot accept how wrong were his NBA views.
Wow. They actually talked Nuggs and Jokic. 🤯
A video game I don't know about that more like video study
Joker is faking slow sleepy cat motion, in order to move faster than any big man when running. His hands are ultra fast and jump is high only when truly counts and is needed. Other big man jump on any ball and pay dearly by skipping games injured. Fat fella Joker hater cannot comprehend how Joker with so many rebounds does not play defense.
It seems like euro players have significantly better fundamentals even at a younger age. In todays NBA this makes a difference.
Y’all late to the “Joker is insanely good” train. Keep sleeping on him you hacks 😂
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So, why is the title says Jokic is like a video game yet all the medias are doing are talking about Lakers this Lakers that and Lebron this Lebron that. Let's talk real about how great Nuggets were.
"The Lakes lost"… no, it is Nuggest who won LOL
Something Stephen a won’t talk more that 3 seconds Jokic mvp… perk and Stephen a promoted Embiid … period
Eat crow perkins and Stephen a
Every finals game as Nuggs win championship
So many people criticised him for his 23.5ppg in the regular season. He upped it by 7-8 points in the playoffs. Embid well less said the better. Jokic is just a pleasure to watch
Jokic is incredible, no defense works on this man, that sambor shuffle on AD in the 4th, MAN. And thats not even his brst ability, his passing is, and his IQ
Thank you. Folks immediately jumping to the Lebron retirement talk, which is non-sense. Lets celebrate the most successful nuggets team ever lead by what maybe there be player ever. That should be front in center.
That shot is the Sombor Shuffle. He practices that.
Can't even pull off some of his passes in 2k
I love watching Windy squirm throughout that whole segment. He picked the Lakers over and over and over again. Just could not handle the fact that Denver is so much better. He was hating every minute of going over that game.
Jokic goes through his reads exactly like a quarterback…either he hits the open guy or 'runs' for the score himself. Add in his offensive rebounding and he is an unstoppable offensive force. He is Bird/Nash/Duncan in one dude: something we may only see once just like Nash, Duncan, and Bird were, and who certainly had their own influences. And anybody that large, tall, smart, and long is a defensive asset. He could play for 10-15 more years. If he does he could be the NBA's Tom Brady and the GOAT of GOATS by the time he's done
Nuggets disrespect: (should/could have been)–》
AG – an All-Defensive Team, Dunk Contest, All Star
KCP – 3pt contest, All-Defensive 3rd Team
Bruce Brown – 6th man of the Year
Murray -All Star, an All NBA team
MPJ -3pt Conteest
Joker – MV3, All NBA 1st Team
Sideline reporter admits to never watching the 2-Time MVP
Game announcer omits Joker from MVP ballot all together (to boost Embiid)
Will this be the 1st NBA Champion without a 2nd All-Star or 2nd All-NBA guy on the team??? I'm curious if/when the last time a Star won 🏆 a ship without a 2nd All Star / All NBA on the team like Jokic and the Nuggets are about to do with no other All-Stars on the team.
Vanderbilt was drafted by the nugs and we've all liked him since but there's a good reason he's now been traded multiple times
AG has guarded Kat, KD, Lebron and will either be tasked with Jimmy Buckets or Jason Tatum in the finals. How this man was snubbed for an All-NBA Defensive team is. a. travesty.
Windhorst wouldn’t have a career if he didn’t jump on lebrons jock in high school