Nikola Jokić Full Post Game Press Conference vs. Wizards 🎙

Nikola Jokić Full Post Game Press Conference vs. Wizards 🎙

Ni how was your how was your break did you come back you feel rested physically and mentally I mean not so much I Friday and I came back Sunday morning Sunday 2:30 so it was not uh really bad it I’m used to it so it was normal do you think

It affected you anyway I know you a lot of guys were able to get a long stretch of time off but did you feel at least well rested enough just going into today how have you learned to handle playing in the All-Star game and then getting

Back to to the team um I kind of use the allstar game just to run around just to do something so you know I don’t know how many minutes I played but I was just running around just to do something you know just to not be lazy 5

Days if you weren’t feeling rested coming out of it do you want to use any games at any point upcoming to try and get that we will see maybe hopefully or not we will see like I I’m going to see how I feel so we will see I have a good

Communications with coach and and training staff so we’ll see how do you think the the team approached this first game coming back out of the allstar breakout good it was defense was great first half uh we felt a little bit winded like we felt like uh out

Of condition but I think they push the pace and then we kind of break that and then after we were feeling good uh third quarter of course was a little bit bad for us they scored 34 points but um you know that happens as we finish the game

Real well and we won the game Z had a really good game going into the break which can be tough to sort of keep a rhythm going after that but but what did you sort of think of his minutes coming out yeah he was good he was good defense

Was a really good he was a really good um he he had a couple blocks right four he had four four blocks uh he was on the glass he was just you felt his energy and his presence while while he’s playing here just been the third player

In the NBA history to have a triple double against any other team what does that mean to you I mean it was like I always say it was just something after I finish career Legacy Milestone like I’m going to do bad look back and I going

Say that’s really cool thing to do did you know going into tonight that that was the only team you had never gotten one against yeah I mean I remember when I play when we played over there they told me that so how did you think uh Peyton and

Christian just coming off the bench they they had a lot of great defensive activity tonight just I think they both played good they they both played good uh Christian first double double uh he was he was helping us on the glass of course and then and P was really good defense he’s

A really good Defender you know he can he can guard multiple position and he never quits and he has a great length and great mindset so they they were really good today what sort of progress and Improvement have you seen from Payton defense play this season I mean

Just knowing who you’re playing guys I think that’s going to be the main key you know just be smart use your attributes let’s say like that and uh just know who you’re guarding like if you’re guarding shter if you’re guarding small fast guy if you’re guarding a just

Just no no no experience probably couple he needs to have more games you know in his leg so I think that’s going to be the The Experience knowing who who is playing who he’s playing against probably but that’s going to be the most important thing for him I think early in

The game you and Mike ran a pick and roll and then maybe also like a dribble hand off where he got to a floater have you seen him kind of become more comfortable in in those kind of situations I mean I I see him improving

On that I I see him working on that you know so why not use it you know that can help us of course but um and as long as he feel comfortable with that he should use it you guys have uh last year you basically get the one seed and then you

Have earned basically in mid-march or so and then you’re able to kind of take your foot off the gas a little bit U just Year you guys are in a race with a whole bunch of these other teams just does it change your mentality in any way

Shape or I think the most important is just to to to to play the right way and when the players come just to be the most focused and the most uh the team that click the most I’m going to say that that’s the most important thing Michael sort of describe as it’s not

Necessarily the top priority you guys aren’t going to be overly concerned if you don’t get that number one seat obviously you want it but is that kind of the feeling in in the the room as a whole that you guys can sort of manage

It deep on as a whole as long as you’re getting healthy I mean my my my my opinion is you need to be just the best version of yourself in the playoffs you know if you even if you’re top seed and you’re you’re not playing good I think

That’s not good you going lose in the first round especially how West is really tough nobody wants Lakers in the first round or Golden State in the first round you know so I think is the most important thing is uh uh the the the Focus that

We play in in the in the playing the playoffs

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Nikola Jokić Full Post Game Press Conference vs. Wizards 🎙