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For all the talk of Jokic's offensive genius, the Nuggets are only 0.6 points better than the 76ers in offensive rating.
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For all the talk of Jokic's offensive genius, the Nuggets are only 0.6 points better than the 76ers in offensive rating.
dacomeup
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I think that’s a fair point and there are other metrics we can point to that show that Jokic is having a historic offensive season. But these little spliced up clips on Jokic playing defense just add nothing to this conversation, IMO.For all the talk of Jokic's offensive genius, the Nuggets are only 0.6 points better than the 76ers in offensive rating.
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For all the talk of Jokic's offensive genius, the Nuggets are only 0.6 points better than the 76ers in offensive rating.
Regardless of him being at the backend of his career, do the Nuggets have one of the top offensive guards on their roster ever?
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Are you saying Harden is the MVP?
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Of that team? Nah.
Someone just posted that ever since Harden came back theyve been the #1 team in the league. So yea if Jokic and Harden were on the same team that team offensive rating would be way higher too.
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.003 percentage points behind Bk. Race is too tight for comfort. First round could be Cle or anyone of the top 3 teams if they stay in 6th.
Them 3 gonna be in for a photo finish too.
Don’t think many teams in the East want to see a healthy Knicks team in the first round.
I know Boston don’t want that smoke. Philly don’t like the physicality.
Don’t think many teams in the East want to see a healthy Knicks team in the first round.
I know Boston don’t want that smoke. Philly don’t like the physicality.
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It’s so dumb that I have changed my position from being happy if any of Joker, Gianny or Joel wins MVP to strongly pulling for a Nikola 3-peat.
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Every big in the league getting hunted minus like bam. All of them. Brook is probably the DPOY of the year and Steph went at him down the stretch. Y’all saw what Steph was doing to the top defense in the league last year in the finals. It’s the nature of todays game.
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Still not sure why Denver traded for Bryant, they could have used a more defensive backup big like Plumlee
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LMFAO
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Literally nothing matters against Jokic. Can't make this up.
HOF level immunity
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It was Thomas' wish. He complained about not having enough minutes and as a result is getting even less
dacomeup
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The bus driver of the bad faith MVP debate has entered the chat. Followed by his assistant
WASHED KING
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The bus driver of the bad faith MVP debate has entered the chat. Followed by his assistant
ME???????
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Why you think that?
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That figure includes total team performance that includes minutes where the guy we’re looking at is not in the game.For all the talk of Jokic's offensive genius, the Nuggets are only 0.6 points better than the 76ers in offensive rating.
Looking at Jokic lineups only
ORTG: 126
DRTG: 113
Net: +13
Embiid lineups:
ORTG: 120
DRTG: 112
Net: +8
So yes, Jokic’s offense is as great as everyone says it is. And in a regular season environment, the defensive concerns are (significantly
) overblown and shouldn’t be a topic of discussion.Those Twitter clips are definitely relevant in a playoff environment which is part of the reason why I don’t expect that 113 D rating to hold up.
On top of that the Nuggets are terrible when Jokic sits. ORTG craters to 106
DRTG is a bit worse at 117.So basically, the Jokic lineups won’t come anywhere near +13 net in the playoffs & lineups with his backup in there are gonna continue to get killed.
Thats why I don’t think much of the Nuggets come playoff time & think they’ll be fighting for their lives early on.
But all of that has nothing to do with MVP of the regular season
He’s deserving, every bit deserving as any other candidate
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I got a team for every bump on your face, BKings too?
You a fan of half the western conference
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Thought we might get a day without the Embiid vs. Joker circle jerk 
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Ok, this makes wayyyyyy more sense
After experiencing the type of poverty he saw, not surprised he was fearful for losing his money, and didn't know how to handle so much. Plus he is young.
I knew there was more context
dacomeup
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Largely because the people who are doing so obviously aren’t doing so in good faith. But even so Embiid’s DFG% within 6ft of the rim is 62% vs Jokic’s being 65%. So what do these clips really add to the convo?
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Happy Earthstrong to one of my favorites growing up
