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Are The Nuggets Failing Nikola Jokic?

  • October 25, 2024



Are The Nuggets Failing Nikola Jokic?

Matt and Swipa go over the Denver Nuggets loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder and why things are either just as bad (or better) as the game felt in the moment. Have the Nuggets “failed” Nikola Jokic by not placing enough star power and shooting around him? Matt and Swipa discuss, sharing their DEFCON levels after Game 1.

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20 comments

  1. Yup it’s over jokic gets treated horribly no help no shooters around jokic who literally gets triple teamed because they know nobody else can do anything and washed jamal Murray max contract we won 1 ring and will never do it again and jokics prime is wasted

  2. To early to make call. Nuggets have to sacrifice a few games to integrate bench and new players. Staring five is not enough to win, end the experiment ingoing now will become clearer after a month or so.

  3. Dario should not ever have the ball in his hands, Westbrook Jokic Jamal are all proven with the ball, everyone can’t have the ball in their hands and also Westbrook did play well defensively.

  6. Booth thinks he can be a second warriors dynasty. Guess what, many teams have too. Jokic is in his prime and he wants to rely on young players and low to mediocre players? Booth is a menace for wasting jokics prime like this!

  8. Swipa half this video: "Mmm Hmm"……"Mmmmm.."…….."Yeah". Matt: Without a wink says the top 4 Nuggets players are all "great"…in what world do you have three "great" non-Jokic players who never make all-star games? 2 of whom (MPJ and Murray) have a horrible injury history and are both on max contracts. You can talk about the supporting cast and bench all you want (and it is a big problem)….but the real issue are the contracts for Murray and MPJ. Jokic has made those guys look better than they are for years and the subsequent contracts have handcuffed this team for roster construction. Does anyone seriously think if you put Porter Jr. and Murray, two max contract guys, on a cellar dwelling NBA team, that they'd actually elevate that team and at least become place-holding "main guys"? Hell no. There's your issue. Matt always wants to place more blame on Jokic and less on Murray….such a weird thing. It'd be like having 5 vehicles you used where only one is reliable and constantly cursing it while the others sit in your yard on blocks.

  10. This why I some what agree with people that not have ever stepped foot in a basketball court shouldn’t be able to talk it because saying Westbrook is a below average nba player is just ridiculous. Ask me to prove how, I sure can pretty easily. Just 1 season and 1 game ago Westbrook averaged 24/8/7 against the suns in the PLAYOFFS but he’s not good. There is no below average player in this league that will do that

  14. The season is far from over, but this should be a wake up call for my Nuggets, Jokic needs to get better as a shot blocker and rebounder, immediately. Go Nuggets!!

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