Nikola Jokic Press Conference after Denver Nuggets Lose Game 7 to the Minnesota Timberwolves to be Eliminated in Round 2 of the NBA Playoffs. #nba #denvernuggets #nikolajokic
Choked a 20 point lead at home as a 3x mvp and lost 3 games at home being the reason they lost those two games Yall didn’t let Gianni’s off the hook for being injured and losing those games, Jokic choked and he’s not that guy
Stop the BS Nikola. Wolves were missing shots just as well. The shooting accuracy was NEARLY IDENTICAL. The only significant difference were free throws: 30 for Wolves & 16 for Nuggets. Nuggets lost because of the SAME REASON they lost 15 to 20 other games this season in which they blew 20+ point leads. a. Settling for 3PT shots when they have a lead, despite shooting horribly b. Failing to battle for rebounds Chucking up all those 3PT meant no free throws & it allowed Wolves to break out transition offense, scoring easy points & gaining momentum.
😮Denver without Jokić is a non-existent team! Denver has no depth and the whole season is based on one man's back! Today, Minnesota played against Nikola. The rest of the Denver players were in the audience! Jokić showed why he deserved the MWP title!
Well said. It takes 5 players to contribute at all times. Many missed shots and a terrible second half is the reason Denver blew a 16-point lead and ultimately lost. The bench also needs to be better, and Denver needs another big man who can help Jokic. Can’t wait to see what happens in the off season, but I do expect Denver to be back in the race next season.
@@itsteej Let's give you glasses with a bigger diopter! We were leading by +20 when Murray started going for three points for no reason. Then he "passed" the ball to Jokić as if he was throwing it into a well and in the most important moments he sold clean four balls in the initial phase of the attack. In the end, even the Olympic pool was not capable of hitting and disappearing from the field. On the field, Jokić was left from the whole team to push against their three tall players in the low post. I'm in transition, I'm under the basket...Where's Murray??? Assists Minnesota in the middle of the field! Horror! He should have been traded immediately! The Hornets can't wait for him!
@@maglatrendekspert3197 you're right he threw in the second half but in my opinion the main reason the nuggets lost was because of mpj, gordon, and a non-existent bench.
Jokic is a living legend. Every team that he plays in a full series, win or lose, the opposing players and the fan base ends up loving him and realizing how great he is.
He is honest and humble in his greatness. Stop the “best player in the world” nonsense. There’s lots of good ones. He IS great but why compare?And he’s a great teammate and seems to be a wonderful person. God bless him and his family.
MPJ unfortunately not a factor in this series. And the Nuggets bench was not the bench of an NBA champion although Braun did his part. Better luck next year still a championship core. Anthony Edwards is gonna learn about class some day. Hopefully Mavs can teach him.
Totally agree, the bench needs to be replaced completely apart from Braun and Watson. Edwards won’t learn class, American culture encourages his behavior. He learned it from previous superstars, and he’s teaching aspiring basketball players to be cocky and arrogant. To each their own tho.
I was going to say that Anthony Edwards is only 22 years old so in time he'll learn then I think of Victor Wembanyama and realize he's only 20 and has a lot of class. He's mature way beyond his years and I look forwar do watching him grow as a player. Jokic is the reason I got back into basketball. I like his honesty and sense of humor. I was getting tire of the me me me generations.
Joker is a class act one of the greatest versatile centers. Unfortunately, sometimes big leads are like the most comfortable shade under a tree in a blistering summer day & then a storm of relentless rain leaves you clueless.
Replace any super star on any team with Jokic and that team will be better. People need to cut the cap about this dude not being the best player in the league. The fact that some of their players didn't show up for most of these 12 playoff games is really annoying. They're probably going to need to cut some of these high cap players and get some more consistent players.
Jokic was sh1t too my man. he took nonsesical 3s with murray in the third and didn't do anything for his team to change that. they were all planless, leadlerless.
@@jasonyounger2531 lmao, go rewatch what Jokic was doing when Denver got the 20pt lead, missing wide open 3s with Jamal and the rest of the nuggets, 0 paint aggression as if he isn't a center. the Jokic glaze is real, either that or you didn't watch the game
He took responsibility for his poor showing from distance. Honestly those 8 misses really hurt. He had an ok game for him, but he wasn't able to get his teammates as many easy shots as they needed. This was a huge game and he was just good, not great. We'll have to hold off on the Bird comparisons for another couple years. Plus there is no way this team around Jokic is of the caliber of the Bird era Celtics. Bird, as great as he was, had better players around him for sure
Jokic had a great game despite him missing more shoots then usual and so did Jamal Murray despite a bad start to the second half, but the supporting cast was struggling in the entire game, the entire supporting cast had only 21 points
It's time to get back on planet earth for the Nuggets. Team last year looked much better than what they actually are. Jokic was basically a one man show in this series, joined by Gordon in a couple of games and Murray in another couple including the one tonight. Roster needs some serious upgrades.
Tall athletic excellent at playing D - , & rebounding , & scoring . Nikola Jokic & Murray can't be the only two that are going to score points. Wolves are too talented ; athletic , several men who can score ! 🏀🎷
@@Dark_rl898 don't be ridiculous now. They lost 4-1 in one of the easiest gentleman sweeps ever. With Herro maybe they'd have won another game, but that's it.
@@Dark_rl898 you mean they beat the Bucks without Giannis, and? Nuggets killed the Heat easy, Herro is an elite scorer but a defensive liability, the Nuggets would've picked him apart. Plus, injuries are part of the game, look at Murray this year.
Malone is a bad coach. He was too afraid to lose the lead. He didn't know what to to when Jokic was out. He seemed to forget Jokic is a human. Both Malone and Booth should be held accountable for the lost.
West was brutal and everyone wanted to beat the champs. I don't remember other teams trying to beat the Raptors all season this hard in 2020 as a raptors fan.
Nuggets need a playable back up big and a decent combo guard, i don't know how they get that but the bench is killing them...shows the importance of Green and Brown last year
im a raptor fan and always love watching the nuggets, i can see how they need players like bruce brown and jeff green. they made clutch plays when mpj or jamal cant score. best of luck jokic
@@richardcampbell7272 The team must not be one man, and unfortunately, that's exactly what we are right now! Denver needs better at position 1! If we want the title again, then we can't worry about which leg Murray got out of bed on today. We can't waste Jokić indefinitely on someone's bad mood! Yesterday, Jokić distributed so many excellent finishing passes, and in the end he had a measly five assists! We all know why! Jokić makes the difference and allows others to have a clean shot for the basket, while the others miss as if they were throwing a refrigerator! Minnesota understood that, and in the end they only rode on Jokić. The others disappeared from the field! Denver needs a serious reconstruction because it's a shame that with Jokic like this we miss out on titles just because we and the rest of the team don't have someone who has a cool head and a steady hand to see off the master. For an annual salary of 36 million dollars, much more is expected than what Murray has provided us so far! Four lost balls in the initial phase of the attack in a match that has this significance??? Well, not even a below-average playmaker from the Euroleague would allow himself to do that!!!
I mentioned it that MPJ will be the deciding factor for G7 if nuggets is to win - he has to have a great night and Aaron Gordon with his best too. But, both did not have a good night. that is basketball for you. Painful but it is what it is. I was worried about this and I mentioned Nuggets need to close it in G6.
what did Jokic do 3rd quarter? oh yea, bunch of nonsensical 3s, no aggression inside the paint. if you blame the others blame Jokic too cuz he disappeared as a player that he should be in the 3rd and as a leader
Coach Malone lost this game, His tactics for this game were zero, Murrey pointless bowl dribbling for twenty seconds Instead of moving the ball from the player to the player
Nikola needs a few more players who can score , tall & athletic ! ----------- Wolves have many more athletic players who are tall , very athletic. ! 🏀👍🙋♂️
Go home, enjoy vacation, play with horses, go to olipics, bring the medal, put it in a shelf, f. around during the regular season, and then take another championship. There. Now U got a plan 👍
This roster isn't built for the way the game is officiated post all star break. There is no way so much pushing and shoving isn't called in the last 8 years. Can you imagine curry being pushed around like that? Or LeBron? We are back to the days where a mediocre offence might get to the NBA finals. I guess if that the price the league wants to pay to get ANT to the finals....
Must be a nuggets fan my guy. No way you think all the ticky tack fouls and flops being rewarded are good for the game. You had back to back phantom fouls on gobert as is. Nuggets got outplayed brother, don’t blame the refs
@@isaiahlahr9650Come on man! McDaniels fouls the whole time, you can see the hands, pushes, showes. Gobert holds everyones hands and uses his elbows all the time. I get it its a physical team, but those are indeed fouls
@@isaiahlahr9650 thanks for the response. There's a difference between flops, marginal contact, which should not be called, and hand checking. There was hand checking on this series. I like defence. I don't think any of us want to see hand checking being introduced again. But I don't think it would, it's ANT specific. I'm a jokic fan. Surprise
@@isaiahlahr9650Why does the NBA have to go from one extreme to the other? I think the NBA likes to keep their officiating ambiguous, so they can call fouls whenever need be. The amount of grabbing and shoving the Wolves do isn’t defense, but the refs let them get away with it.
Repeating is hard. Repeating with a worst team is close to impossible. I think some people overlook how important was Bruce Brown last year coming from the bench. And even Green. Without them someone else needed to step up this year. That didn't happen, so here we are. No shame in losing to this team though.
The only thing that could be different for Nikola, if he had shot all those threes. And then he would have 50 points and nobody would continue to shoot except Murray. They would lose either way, cause no-one-fucking scored.
They only lost by a few points….. And I’m old school…I’ve seen coaches…coach right up to the last 0.3 seconds of the game ….. they could of kept on fouling and put them on the line … instead of throwing in the towel with 25.7 seconds still left in the game and being down by 7/8 points….Minnesota is the better team this season…. Big Up Both Teams For giving the fans a thrilling series 👍🏾🔥
There are two good things about this. The first is that you won't lose to Luka (who would later make fun of you for the rest of your life) and the second is that you can go to the Olympics if you want.
Great series and great player. The wolves were equals this year, but then proved they were the better team in game 7 when both team’s backs are against the wall. Despite that Denver showed why they were the defending champs, all respect. Go play with your daughter and run with your horses big fella
In the games that they won they shot under 30 3s. In the games that they lost they shot 30 or more 3s. The big lead they had started to go away when they started chunking 3s.
im not even mad they lost to the wolves.... Joker only had 1min rest time.. thats all one needs to know that denver is out classed and the bench is a no show.
I don’t think that the Nuggets oligarch “governor”, the GM, and/or the head coach deserve to have this guy. You never hear that the Lakers, Suns, Celtics, or Golden State fretting about the cap, but it is insurmountable for the Nuggets. Keep leaving him by himself with no other all star help, and I wouldn’t blame him if decides, eff’it, I’m going home! 🙃🙃🙃
the coach is the main culprit for the defeat!!! if Porter is bad, and the result is critical, why didn't JULIAN STRAWTHER get a chance...if he had a shot, Denver would win...HE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE IN ANY OF THE 7 GAMES!!!!!
A Wise Man was asked what Denver players need do to improve their game; he answered: Two players in particular.... MPJ_ would best he shut down his consumption of Rabit Food, fill the void with a diet of red-meat, become a Carnivore. Thus achieved, the Lithe, Feeble essence will have been replaced with the Incisor, Fang-Tuned Grrr and Presence of the Warrior Dog!... AG would do well to "cold turkey" on his Hippie Intakes. The accompanying "Don't Worry, Be Happy" laissez-faire attitude may would be supplanted with the hard charging energy found at Metallica and ZEP concerts and music.... Wild Turkey® now n'then, anyone?! In sum, the Warrior in the Pro must be fed! (The Joker is sure to affirm!)
YOU STILL THE BEST NIKOLA AND YOU DONT NEED TO TALK TRASH TO WIN ....BUT KARMA IS COMING TO THE BIG MOUTH ANT ....DALLAS AND BOSTON ARE WAITING ....THE HIGH YOU FALL THE HARD IT HURTS
MINNESOTA JUST WON THEIR CHIP & DENVER LOST ITS BACK TO BACK THIS WAS IT! THE WINNER OF THIS G7 WILL WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP. Nuggets had this game, but reverted to their culture of blowing 20 point leads. Denver lost 15 to 20 games this season after blowing massive leads. This includes 2nd to last game of the season, which they lost to Spurs after leading by over 20. That loss cost them the 1st spot in the west & its why they had to face Wolves in 2nd round. This is a legacy shattering loss. Jokic was on the way to lead them to a back to back, but shat the bed in such a pathetic manner. Blowing a 20 point lead in a G7 at home, after losing G6 by 45 points. This team may never recover from this catastrophic failure. Hopefully Nuggets look into trading MPJ... at $35M/year, he is simply not good.
Nuggets lost! Jokic always throwing elbows and grabbing people off ball but no calls. Murray not getting suspended for throwing stuff on the court and all the illegal screens. Yet you still want to blame refs? Have you ever played basketball??? Lol
Samo ga mi pljujemo ovde i tudji navijaci. Denverovi navijaci samo reci hvale za njega i bukvalno govore jbg sta da se radi bice bolje drugi put. Divan si primerak naseg naroda.