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Wait who has he carried? He’s literally had to carry one year during this decade. Kyrie averaged 26ppg in the playoffs, AD averaged 27/10 during their finals run. And when AD got hurt in 2021 lebron couldnt even win 1 game in the playoffs without him. Tell me when he’s carried besides 2018
He didn’t choke his players did. Only thing I can blame him for is not calling timeouts to stop momentum and then allowing poor body language when you have a potential series win at stake.
Mike Malone deserves a lot of credit. Obviously your roster is loaded and Jokic is insane, but I’m sure it takes a LOT of time, effort, thought and practice to put together a beautiful play style and system like that
His defensive scheming to make up for Jokic’s shortcomings on that end is pretty amazing. I believe it was Thinking Basketball that had a great analysis of the scheme they run
They’re not loaded talent wise. Jokic is just so good at making guys around him better. Guys like Bruce Brown and KCP were just considered decent role players before getting to Denver, Jokic makes them look like high end starting level players.
@@harrygarris6921 They are the perfect players to fit alongside Jokic and as a Denver fan they were pickups I thought people underrated. CB has also fit well alongside Jokic
Its funny how for the last two years people called Jokic a negative on defense, but the minute he gets good perimeter defenders suddenly you can't expose him as easily. Crazy how that works. Reminds me of Gobert and Utah. Hard for a center to excel on defense when his other teammates sell him.
People tend to forget that defending as a center isn't the same task as defending at the guard or forward position. There are different things to watch and in some ways it's a lot more help-dependent because it's a lot harder to stop a guy with a couple steps behind him then just upfront
@@navonmyhand7999 Yeah I'm not 7 foot but I can't imagine trying to stop NBA athletes once they got a head of steam because they blew by your perimeter guy with an in and out move lol
tha is what you get when your front office is actually COMPETENT, if you have a offensive master mind, YOU HAVE TO cover his few flaws, imagine if the mavs was this competent? imagine
I honestly wanted Warriors for WCF because of how much more backcourt defensive depth we have now, almost seemingly in response to the series last season. I wouldn't doubt Curry would still go off, but a 7 game series being hounded by KCP, AG, and Bruce Brown (also CB) - and then having to run back and guard Murray and Nuggets dominant fast-break plays? At 5,280ft, he'd be winded by halftime.
It makes me happy seeing a team like Denver, mostly dominate the series because you can call me old even though I’m not even 30 years old yet but it’s way more fun seeing a team win and not just a superstar. Carry win. Yes Jokic is one of the best players in the world, the best in my book, but his game is not hard carry his game is do what is best that while making every person all the teamplay better with a great coach so much more fun to watch
I said this same thing to a friend that was picking the suns . like yes booker was insane but they still only won by 7 & 5 those 2 games meanwhile Denver wins by double digits every win even when Murray was inconsistent for most the series. They have a lot to work on.
@Mo13uckets are you dine cheerleading for jokic smh overrated at best jokic travels like Giannis could and gets help by the refs watch the Lakers expose him
@@darnellwilliams8783lmao I looked at ur past comments and all your comments is hating on other players and teams and then dick riding the lakers. Typical casual laker fan
@@waternotwater5562 I'm a Lakers and we drive tontge hoop jokic is overrated I remember jokic dominating him in the 2020 WCF WCF jokic is overrated unathletic and will be exposed again
They needed to let Ayton go like he wanted. They need him to step up but whatever’s happened doesn’t seem fixable. CP needs to just move to assistant coach
To be fair to Embiid he played a lot better than Jokic towards the end of the season (good move on Denver’s part, they already pretty much locked the 1 seed kept a lot of energy for the playoffs and it’s paid off). But yeah Embiid whined about it, his teammates and coach and franchise whined about it I think Embiid is the 3rd best player in the league and he definitely had a great case this year but I think the biggest reason Jokic didn’t get it is because the media only likes profitable players, guys who do tv time and sponsorships and commercials and brand deals and podcasts and interviews. Jokic never does anything but postgame interviews, he just balls and goes home, and that doesn’t make the league money. Not to mention he’s on a fairly small market team
I mean, maybe people couldn't believe that they lost in that fashion, but after watching The Suns vs Clippers series if you thought The Nuggets wouldn't finish this in 5/6 you're lying.. The Nuggets being the "underdogs" in this series is insane. I love your content Kenny but I'm shocked you had The Suns going all the way. Although I can see how it was easy to trust the process of 35/1. and not having CP i guess i sucked.
@@thomassankara1391 Honestly a sweep against these guys would be near impossible, but I do think it woulda been possible barring landry shamet's amazing game 4, and the Nuggets not getting some big calls down the stretch of game 4. The Suns bench also outscored the Nuggets by almost 20 in that game 4. Outside of that, it shoulda been a gentlemen's sweep.
@@TheBlackKakashi Everyone should. Jamal looked untouchable, and they were all still super young. MPJ just needs to get less streaky and this team would coast through the rest of the west with ease.
Mazzula was against playing Horford and Williams together the team convinced him to do for a more defensive look. It's the same starters as last year with JR,JB,Smart,Williams,Horford at the 4. Williams is an above avg. perimeter defender as well. Bostons weakness is coaching imo. First year coach that I've seen make 5-6 mistakes/errors thus far. We'll see, Miami worries me honestly if we can win this series and they win theres.
As soon as Jokic didn't win MVP I knew the Suns were fucked. That's a pissed off Jokic, that's a Jokic who's averaging 30, 12, 10. That's a Jokic who will drop 53,4,10 in a losing effort where even the manager is against you
This one doesn't feel as bad because Jokic and the Nuggets played like it's just another game and they happened to be up by 30. Luka, Brunson and those boys took that Game 7 personally, they wanted to run up the score and they enjoyed every single point of it.
Nikola Jokic averaged a game score of 33 in this series and leads all players in PER, VORP, WS, WS/48, & BPM by significant margins this postseason. He's 4th in points, 2nd in boards, & 2nd in assists per game for all players; 2nd, 2nd, & 1st respectively among remaining players. The Denver Nuggets are the first team in the conference finals. He is the best basketball player in the world until proven otherwise.
I never thought they would be a threat this year with the lack of chemistry. Depending on what moves they make in the offseason, I do think the Suns will be a threat in the west next year.
The suns missed Mikel Bridges and Cam Johnson in this series. They needed bodies and needed defenders to guard the Nuggets wings. Jokic was the best player in the series but the Suns had no defense at all
KD trying to carry the offense with bad efficiency, trading all their good pieces and depth to get another star, SG playing well until the elimination game, and the PG getting hurt at an inopportune time? It was the Nets all over again and it was glorious to watch
@@D.2Uthey play basketball with the idea theyre the warriors, when the warriors get a lead, rarely see them lose it. When theyre down, they claw back in. Suns only know how to frontrun, and play too cute. Especially Ayton
Last year's 'exposing' of Jokic was just because he didn't have anyone,Gordon was second best player . Jokic wins it all these year if they stay healthy
The curse of Doc Rivers if you lose game seven I’m pretty sure that’s probably his last there and who knows what else might have to start trading pieces
Nuggets have been my favorite since the regular season I’ve never seen a guy like Jokic before. If he wins a title he is already top 5-8 center in my opinion, I think he might be a guy that changes the game I mean let’s look at the center position after Curry where bigs had to be able to shoot to stretch the defense now you could see where more bigs enter the league being able to effect the game on all levels. For the first time since Ray Allen I have a favorite player in the league.
The thing with that is, you don't just get guys who can pass the ball like Nikola Jokic. Obviously you don't just get guys who shoot like Curry, but it's a lot more replicable with repetition & training adjustments to develop jump shooting whereas playmaking is not something that just develops. You'll see a few guys do it to some degree like Sengun or Sabonis, but they'll never be Jokic and there's a far smaller talent pool of elite court vision vs elite shooting. This is kinda where you start running into an IQ threshold that makes Jokic anomalous.
@@KnoxWheelerJr I’m not saying guys will be his level all I’m saying is more center will come in with the ability to score with the back to the basket, shoot jump shots outside of the key but now also if a guy can playmake as well from all areas of the court and I disagree I played basketball for a long part of my life playmaking and learning to be a great passer is something that is taught if you understand leverage and defensive assignments you can use that to force the defense to react and cause passing lanes and I think over the next 5-8 years you will see more playmaking big men not to Jokic level but maybe more like a Mason Plumlee type playmaking big if he could shoot
@@everythingbuzzcityEBC I mean a lot of guys definitely can develop it, but I think there's more who simply cannot and never will be able to see the game the way a playmaker does than there are who can't develop a 3 pointer. Playmaking is frankly an intelligence thing, as much as there is a necessary "feel" that has to compliment that intelligence, there's a lower bound of intelligence that's a prerequisite for playmaking which is mostly genetic. But I am surprised we haven't seen the system-based offensive model take over yet after the success Pop had with waning talent in the 2010s and I wouldn't be surprised if the value of playmaking across the board skyrockets for scouts in the coming years.
@@KnoxWheelerJr I think they just need to utilize centers more as facilitators and playmakers into earlier stages of basketball careers (high school, college, g-league). The center role is a typical baseline of rim-defender and paint threat, and even with the spacing talents from centers expanding on the role, playmaking is just rarely implemented by coaching staff. If it starts being used more in college game-planning, there's likely a lot more centers that would pop up into future drafts that have been able to cultivate the skill early on - hence "changing the game".
Weird how each conference has been playing out inversely based on the seeding. One side had the 1, 4, 6, 7 advance, the other had the 2, 3, 5, 8. Which set up these weird potential matchups where we could have a 1 seed against the 7 and a 2 seed against the 8 in conference finals. What would truly be interesting is a 7 v 8 seeded finals. Finally putting to rest the notion that the regular season has any meaning behind just qualifying for the postseason.
Surprised he didnt bring up the way the sixers was acting with like 2 plus minutes left. It was like Tatum hit his 4th shot of the whole game and they just gave up it was weird man
you hit the nail on the head Kenny us 6er fans are super sad because those are the games we have been winning all season! I was super nervous when we came back and I noticed Tatum only had 3 points.. I know it's always just a matter of time until he gets going. I am very nervous for game 7 but I believe we have what it takes to win it. SIXERS IN 7
Once CP went out because of their lack of depth I figured the suns would lose but it’s hilarious that they keep losing by a lot at home at least make it competitive man
I think Golden State is a more favorable matchup for Denver. LA is physically dominating them and Denver will too, like they did to Phoenix. Difference this year is Denver can match Golden State's shooting and still get high quality buckets when they're cold from the outside. LA's defense would disrupt their rhythm a lot more and their offense will apply more rim pressure which is really their main (only?) weakness.
Denver is almost a lock at this point. They've looked like they're playing at a different level from their competition and i don't think either the Warriors or Lakers can beat them. Their biggest threat in terms of matchups is in the east imo, and that's Boston
What strikes me most about Jokic is the incredible flow in his game. It's not flashy, but the way he manouvers around, shares the ball and creates these huge screens, it's just beautiful simple winning team basketball. How can you not appreciate that. Jokic was my MVP even before the playoffs. Witness greatness! 🏀🔥
Ayton isn't willing to accept that he isn't as good as he thinks he's is because we never see it. And I think it's just best for both parties to part ways.
