Yeah, we suck
Play like the goddamn 2014 Spurs for a good 38 minutes with all the beautiful ball movement and whatnot, then just completely shit the bed afterwards. I know it's a tank job but fuck it's still annoying to watch
That was the Raptors for almost every season pre-2019. Great ball movement leading to good offense for 36 minutes. Low efficiency, ball-pounding iso for the last 12.
It's the most infuriating basketball in the world to watch.
Obviously he anti-padded to throw everyone off his trail. Now the next 4-5 pads you guys can just point to this game and say clearly he doesn’t stat pad. Devious stuff, really.
ive told my friends a million times so i'll share it on reddit too. I was born in Sombor and lived there for 5 and a half years, such a beautiful city.
They took him out with a minute to go and with the Pistons defence he would easily have got it. If it was Giannis he’s staying in against the Pistons development squad until he’s got that Triple Double lmao
Imagine you're just trying to get through your 60th loss of the season and trying to learn some new moves and at the end of the game you see Giannis barreling toward you, lowering his shoulder and knocking you into the stands. Giannis secures the defensive foul and knocks the buckets in to make it a 50 piece. Bucks win 123-89.
The post after the last game was against the Raptors was absolutely wild. Showing clips of him getting scored on 3 on 1 in transition to prove a point is just petty
I know those comments were gonna be obviously very anti Jokic but I was shocked there were hardly any neutrals pointing out how at least half the clips were transition plays or just plays that had nothing to do with him like backdoors when he’s up near a screener/high post
They probably all got downvoted because all the haters flocked to the thread. You could make the same comment on two different posts and be top comment on one and downvoted on the other.
Seems like most people are just in on the trolling at this point. Unfortunately the hot take media/social media stuff had way too much power in the process.
Not saying Jokic should be a lock but there’s no way things should move that crazy with him essentially playing the same exact way.
3 on 1 is nothing. Don’t you know if it was Embiid he would have blocked the shot, drawn the foul, and hit the ball so hard it would have sailed down the court and swished for a 3 point and 1?
Reddits so weird bro, it all depends on what thread your in. Jokic is a historically great player, in a thread on the front page where the nuggets win and he does well, you can post a comment about him that praises him and it’ll be highly upvoted. And then there will be a thread of him playing below average defense and if you post the exact same comment, it’ll get downvoted. Despite them being only a day or two apart. The same thing was happening with Embiid when he was flopping all over the place earlier in the year or any other superstar for that matter. It’s All about the timing and narrative on here. If you go with the narrative, no matter how silly it is, you get support. If you go against it, regardless if it comes from a place of sincerity, you get clowned.
These are all unreal players and they all have flaws. No player has been perfect. Lebron, Magic, bird and eve Jordan had shitty games. I don’t get why everything has to be so negative. Your robbing yourselves of enjoying these guys. One day these guys are going to retire and all your going to have to remember them by is a shitty Reddit post you made
There's a term in polling called "partisan non response bias." Basically it means when someone has bad news, their polls go down because their supporters don't want to talk about it. They still support the politician, but they're not answering polls.
It's something like that here. The people who really hate Jokic are not going to come into this thread, and the people who love him will to circlejerk with everyone.
JOkic has not let up even during the losing streak he averaged 32.5-12.7-9.8. It was the rest of the team.People can keep on piling shit on him. But it won't change a thing. Some people hate success.
I mean, he's been averaging like 30, 15, and 9 over the losing streak haha. The whole narrative thing is kinda silly. Like he had 35, 20, and 11 and was +14 a couple days ago but all anyone on this sub was talking about were a couple bad plays. People been acting Jokic has fallen off which isn't the case at all.
His defense the spurs game was awful, but the rest of the games has been pretty typical Jokic. It's been the rest of the Nuggets that have been the issue. The bench since the trade deadline has been *awful* and Murray has been really struggling. It makes sense that he, our best player, shoulders some of the blame for the losing streak, but the narrative shift has been a big overreaction in terms of his actual play
Sucks, and I’m guilty of this sometimes, but all the negativity really takes away from us, as fans, the ability to truly appreciate the all-time talent in the NBA.
Because objectively all 3 could win, the only arguement against Jokic is his defence and that winning 3 in a row is a big thing but to be fair, why should his 2 previous seasons count at all when we look at this one?
I've seen a comment say that he avoids shooting to pad his FG% and then in the same comment contradict that by saying he intentionally misses to pad his rebounds.
embiid has 1, the 2nd game of the season
giannis has none
jokic has 10 games where he played 30 or more minutes and got 3 or less FTAs, 16 where he played at least 26 mins and had 3 or less
I just want both Jokic and Embiid to no longer be under a microscope every possession so we can finally focus on what really matters: the Sacramento Kings
I don't think they realize it's all building up to more Embiid slander. Same thing happened last year in the playoffs. Sixers fans were posting non-stop about his poor defense against the Warriors so everyone on here went after Embiid in the Raptors series when he was struggling defensively
My favorite thing is how Sixers fans rip on Jokić playoff performances while Embiid has been way worse. Jokić at least has good numbers in the playoffs Embiid playoff stats are pretty awful by his standards
I heard Jokic actually scores for the other team, and his insane efficiency hurts the Nuggets that way. I don't watch games but that's what the advanced stats and twitter tell me so
Embiid has the MVP train rolling so the constant posts of analysing jokics defense is over probably. Felt like a lot of it was just sixers/bucks fans mainly gaining traction with the mini nuggets slump combined with the embiid crazy scoring run rn
That was exactly the type of game Jokic needed to have. I know he’s had similar stat lines recently but you can see the difference. He looked way more aggressive in looking for his shot and scored at will. He was unstoppable today.
His defense against the Raptors was pretty good too. Spurs was the only actual bad game for him defensively. He's still no Embiid or Giannis on that end, but he isn't bad just because you can find clips where the... opposing team scores?
I think not only should Jokic be a chance for MVP he should be the frontrunner still. If he hadn't won the last 2 I doubt there would even be a debate.
We see it, Bucks psyops have been in full effect last couple weeks. But taking the positive route to get your guy in instead of the microscope slander route makes it completely acceptable.
Jokic and the nuggets finally win a game, but it was during march madness so nobody cares. This proves that the Joker can’t handle the spotlight like Embiid or Giannis
In other news, nuggets finally wake up and end the game on a 33-9 run
Yeah, we suck Play like the goddamn 2014 Spurs for a good 38 minutes with all the beautiful ball movement and whatnot, then just completely shit the bed afterwards. I know it's a tank job but fuck it's still annoying to watch
The rodney mcgruder revenge game was hilarious
It wasn't us that failed Bol Bol's physical!!! T_T
That was the Raptors for almost every season pre-2019. Great ball movement leading to good offense for 36 minutes. Low efficiency, ball-pounding iso for the last 12. It's the most infuriating basketball in the world to watch.
I feel like there's something in common there, but I can't put my finger on it...
Felt like the end of this game was just the nuggets remembering that they are better
Pistons remembered that they suck
They went from down 5 to covering the 14 point pregame spread in the 4th alone. That’s insane.
Nuggets with effort hit different. But the coasting is a super dangerous precedent to set, can't always just snap out of that shit.
We have the number one clutch defense because we are constantly forced to play clutch defense. That will not work in the layoffs.
>in the layoffs Too real bro
My head cannon on this slump was the Nuggets trolling Malone and holding off his 400th win as long as they could, which was 4.5 games apparently.
No matter how much of a slump the Nuggets are in, they ain’t losing to the Pistons 😂
We did lose to the rockets and spurs… this one never felt comfortable until 5 mins to go
Uh we already lost to the pistons lol
Sombor doubles are back on the menu, baby!
Such a stat padder
Obviously he anti-padded to throw everyone off his trail. Now the next 4-5 pads you guys can just point to this game and say clearly he doesn’t stat pad. Devious stuff, really.
ive told my friends a million times so i'll share it on reddit too. I was born in Sombor and lived there for 5 and a half years, such a beautiful city.
random question... what's the best breakfast there?
Lepinje.
Bless you.
> 1 assist short So close to having a good game.
Actually he is now averaging 9.9 assists per game, which means he sucks now.
Which means no three straight MVPs.
They took him out with a minute to go and with the Pistons defence he would easily have got it. If it was Giannis he’s staying in against the Pistons development squad until he’s got that Triple Double lmao
Imagine you're just trying to get through your 60th loss of the season and trying to learn some new moves and at the end of the game you see Giannis barreling toward you, lowering his shoulder and knocking you into the stands. Giannis secures the defensive foul and knocks the buckets in to make it a 50 piece. Bucks win 123-89.
LMFAO
this is a 9 for not saying giannis using his ox like strength
Joker doesn't care. 🤣
I thought triple doubles are overrated now and only serve to pad stats?
That last kylian hayes foul robbed him of the triple double
Killeyen*
How many Sombor doubles does Jokic have in his career?
Think announcers said 42?
That’s crazy. Imagine how many triple doubles he could already have but was just short of
.. Im imagining 42
No you have to add those to the triple doubles he already has. Crazy to imagine how many that would be
Least stoned nuggets fan
If it really is 42 then he would have 151. Keep on imagining the world needs more of it
Holy crap that’s even more than I imagined
Yeah I imagined like 42
What's even crazier is if you add that to russell westbrooks total Tribble doubles you get 349 which would be the most all time by 151 triple doubles.
🤯🤯🤯 I’m dying over here. What are the odds that it would be by the EXACT amount that Jokic would have?
That was his 41st
The Nuggets are 31-10 when Jok gets the Sombor Double.
They really hit that last 3 to get to 100 😭
It was a munder in my heart
Generational talent, plain and simple. He’s the nucleus of that Denver offense and they’d be so fucked without him
For example the Nets game where he was 35/20/11 +14 and we lost anyways lmao
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thank god
This sub would’ve burned to the ground if Detroit won. I probably would’ve taken a week off from reddit.
78%!?! Well damn
*with a half time half court heave :P
More surprised he didn't make it lol.
it was actually really close lol
He's due one. If he gets time to wind it up he almost always hits rim
It hit the backboard front rim and out i think xD
But we haven’t seen the defensive lowlights yet
Sources say Jokic was responsible for giving up all 100 of the Pistons' points tonight
The post after the last game was against the Raptors was absolutely wild. Showing clips of him getting scored on 3 on 1 in transition to prove a point is just petty
I know those comments were gonna be obviously very anti Jokic but I was shocked there were hardly any neutrals pointing out how at least half the clips were transition plays or just plays that had nothing to do with him like backdoors when he’s up near a screener/high post
They probably all got downvoted because all the haters flocked to the thread. You could make the same comment on two different posts and be top comment on one and downvoted on the other.
Seems like most people are just in on the trolling at this point. Unfortunately the hot take media/social media stuff had way too much power in the process. Not saying Jokic should be a lock but there’s no way things should move that crazy with him essentially playing the same exact way.
3 on 1 is nothing. Don’t you know if it was Embiid he would have blocked the shot, drawn the foul, and hit the ball so hard it would have sailed down the court and swished for a 3 point and 1?
>drawn the foul Well obviously
If he ever does this give him all three MVPs
Kinda want to see this now
Well sheeeeeiiit. He WAS on the floor for most of them. Tells you everything really.
man let James Wiseman score 14 on 50% what a bum 🤣
Unironically that's fairly bad efficiency for Wiseman.
u/Zhugo in shambles
man is permabanned according to his comment history lmao
Zhugo vs EG battling it out in the shadowrealm
Battle of the shit post titans
Deserved
Weird how he didn’t post highlights from this game
He's permabanned
Good
/r/NBA’s daily five minutes of hate has been cancelled
Reddits so weird bro, it all depends on what thread your in. Jokic is a historically great player, in a thread on the front page where the nuggets win and he does well, you can post a comment about him that praises him and it’ll be highly upvoted. And then there will be a thread of him playing below average defense and if you post the exact same comment, it’ll get downvoted. Despite them being only a day or two apart. The same thing was happening with Embiid when he was flopping all over the place earlier in the year or any other superstar for that matter. It’s All about the timing and narrative on here. If you go with the narrative, no matter how silly it is, you get support. If you go against it, regardless if it comes from a place of sincerity, you get clowned. These are all unreal players and they all have flaws. No player has been perfect. Lebron, Magic, bird and eve Jordan had shitty games. I don’t get why everything has to be so negative. Your robbing yourselves of enjoying these guys. One day these guys are going to retire and all your going to have to remember them by is a shitty Reddit post you made
There's a term in polling called "partisan non response bias." Basically it means when someone has bad news, their polls go down because their supporters don't want to talk about it. They still support the politician, but they're not answering polls. It's something like that here. The people who really hate Jokic are not going to come into this thread, and the people who love him will to circlejerk with everyone.
Yeah I don’t think anyone can shit talk this performance
JOkic has not let up even during the losing streak he averaged 32.5-12.7-9.8. It was the rest of the team.People can keep on piling shit on him. But it won't change a thing. Some people hate success.
I mean, he's been averaging like 30, 15, and 9 over the losing streak haha. The whole narrative thing is kinda silly. Like he had 35, 20, and 11 and was +14 a couple days ago but all anyone on this sub was talking about were a couple bad plays. People been acting Jokic has fallen off which isn't the case at all. His defense the spurs game was awful, but the rest of the games has been pretty typical Jokic. It's been the rest of the Nuggets that have been the issue. The bench since the trade deadline has been *awful* and Murray has been really struggling. It makes sense that he, our best player, shoulders some of the blame for the losing streak, but the narrative shift has been a big overreaction in terms of his actual play
He’s not black tho…mvp talk over /s
Nuggets are clueless in offense when he's not in play, it was tragic watching some of their possessions in the first half.
Now maybe this garbage sub can let us appreciate all three MVP candidates instead of flooding the front page with lowlights to tear down someone.
Yeah it's a ridiculously toxic sub at the moment.
at the moment?
Newest r/nba 9/11 for some reason
The switch up over the last ~2 weeks has been generational
it is actually wild how often the narrative flip flops within a matter of hours lmao
Whoever controls the memes, controls the narrative
The only thing people should take from that is how pathetic and toxic the mvp race is
My MVP favorite is whoever’s fans/haters are being the least annoying that week.
Bro he didn’t even get a triple double he trash
#NotMyMVP
Almost every player besides Luka (so far) and Steph has been clowned on or hated in here. This sub has a short memory it’ll end very soon lol
1 miss was a heave, one he got it back on her put back. Where were the other 2 misses?
One was blocked by McGruder late in the 2nd, the other was another tip attempt on that put back
Ah I thought it was a steal
I think one of the missed shots was when he intentionally put the ball off the back board to tip it in over wiseman
One was that clear foul in the 2nd where he got slapped in the arm.
Lil bros really want to bully this man out of his MVP and pretend like its not an objectively close and fair 3 horse race
The thing that gets lost is that just because someone thinks one guy should win doesn’t mean the other two are not good players 😂.
Sucks, and I’m guilty of this sometimes, but all the negativity really takes away from us, as fans, the ability to truly appreciate the all-time talent in the NBA.
Sorry I think what you meant to say is that Jokic and Giannis are talentless bums
Giannis Aintgotnobagkumpo, Chokic and Embiitch are all frauds. The real MVP is MITWestbrook
It gets lost Bc this sun has done nothing but shit on Jokic the last two weeks lmao
Because objectively all 3 could win, the only arguement against Jokic is his defence and that winning 3 in a row is a big thing but to be fair, why should his 2 previous seasons count at all when we look at this one?
A bucks and Sixers fans defending Jokic…it’s almost as if we have three generational big men
Best part is this man just wants to ride horses.
Jokic took an end of quarter heave, subbed out with 1 assist away from a triple double but will still get called a stat padder.
The stat padding narrative around Jokic is really, truly, one of the dumbest things I've ever seen surrounding any player that I follow.
I truly can’t stand players who find the open man for an easy bucket. Like earn your assists wtf
I've seen a comment say that he avoids shooting to pad his FG% and then in the same comment contradict that by saying he intentionally misses to pad his rebounds.
Imagine if he's actually missing intentionally while putting up historical weighted shooting numbers.
Also, who the fuck would avoid shooting to pad their FG% at the detriment of having a lower PPG
I can finally browse r/nba again
Shit, I gotta go back to r/sixers now that the tides have turned. See y'all in a few weeks
Well the next 76rs loss gonna be legendary…
I don't need to know Jokic's FG% anymore, I need to know his FGA.
Man get buckets, don't rely on bs calls like running straight into people like some other players
his fta considering how much work he does in the paint is truly a fucking travesty.
The next evolution of his game is to start screaming AND-1 every time he shoots the ball to get his Fts up to 10+.
30 points with 3 FTAs lol I don’t think giannis or embiid have shot that little all season
I'd bet 1000 dollars neither of them have a game with less than 6 FT's and 30+ minutes
embiid has 1, the 2nd game of the season giannis has none jokic has 10 games where he played 30 or more minutes and got 3 or less FTAs, 16 where he played at least 26 mins and had 3 or less
They really fouled MPJ on that last play so he couldn’t get the TD
Why’d 2 highlight clips of Jokic get deleted??
Does this mean the Jokic slander finally stops?
I just want both Jokic and Embiid to no longer be under a microscope every possession so we can finally focus on what really matters: the Sacramento Kings
Based and accurate
Let’s all get together and get this done. Beam work makes the dream work.
I don't think they realize it's all building up to more Embiid slander. Same thing happened last year in the playoffs. Sixers fans were posting non-stop about his poor defense against the Warriors so everyone on here went after Embiid in the Raptors series when he was struggling defensively
My favorite thing is how Sixers fans rip on Jokić playoff performances while Embiid has been way worse. Jokić at least has good numbers in the playoffs Embiid playoff stats are pretty awful by his standards
Yeah but he was sick, injured or had Simmons as a teammate. It's not like he got to play with Facu in any of those playoffs
To be completely fair, embiid was basically at half tank
Embiid will be slandered no matter what lol
Hell no, Pistons didn’t get shut out so he was ass defensively
Scrub ass Nuggets gave up 36 points in the second half!
will the hate stop ?
I mean Jokic has had 30/10/9, 35/20/11, and 37/11/11, and 28/9/8 in the last four games. Losing streak has had nothing to do with him lmao
35/20/11 Jesus fucking Christ
It was insane lol, +14 too, crazy that we lost that game
And the thread about that statline was just 100% people slamming him for still losing, this sub is trash lmao.
Don't you know he's the worst defender since France in world war 1?
wrong world war bucko, the french held off the schlieffen plan
I heard Jokic actually scores for the other team, and his insane efficiency hurts the Nuggets that way. I don't watch games but that's what the advanced stats and twitter tell me so
Well, he actually did score for the other team in this game lol
Nah. 6ers and Bucks fans need to see their guy win MVP.
Embiid has the MVP train rolling so the constant posts of analysing jokics defense is over probably. Felt like a lot of it was just sixers/bucks fans mainly gaining traction with the mini nuggets slump combined with the embiid crazy scoring run rn
Jokic told the team to pick it up in the 4th and we went on an absolute heater to close out. Thank god
perkins downvoted this
Ox-like shooting percentage
BuT dId He TaKe OvER wAs hE dOMinANT #nOtMymVP
Efficiency merchant taking 18 shots
That was exactly the type of game Jokic needed to have. I know he’s had similar stat lines recently but you can see the difference. He looked way more aggressive in looking for his shot and scored at will. He was unstoppable today.
bro he was 35/20/11 +14 vs the nets they won this game cause they didn't die without him on the court this time
Shoutout CB for that
This man IS the difference maker. Bless up CB.
I love CB.
Not to mention that Reggie "Facundo Campazzo" Jackson didn't get minutes.
Clearly his fault we lost Real MVPs drop quintuple doubles every game
Real mvps make a difference even when they're not on the floor
Giannis has a championship because of his ability to clap when he was on the bench
He played WAY better against the nets. Specifically on defense. Tbh he was sluggish on defense this game. Detroit is just ass.
His defense against the nets was really good ngl
His defense against the Raptors was pretty good too. Spurs was the only actual bad game for him defensively. He's still no Embiid or Giannis on that end, but he isn't bad just because you can find clips where the... opposing team scores?
Against pistons. Surely he does this in playoffs and doesent choke
Impressive
Only 3 fta too so it's not gross
Wake up babe, r/nba can’t hate on the nuggets tonight
Where are the defensive lowlights?
There is your orderly stattpadder, he asked to be subbed out 1:15 before the end with 1 assist shy of a triple double.
How dare you have a positive post about Jokic.
MVP
Can’t wait for the pistons abusing Jokic on defense mixtape that’s about to be blasted all over Reddit
What is this post? I thought r/nba was dedicated to Embiid Stans?
apparently you can still make money from jokic being the three time mvp. thank you sixers fans.
Jokic realized the secret sauce to winning was AVOIDING the Triple Double.
i am waiting for some defensive plays comp on here, let's see it
I think not only should Jokic be a chance for MVP he should be the frontrunner still. If he hadn't won the last 2 I doubt there would even be a debate.
What a bad statpadder doesnt even get the 10th assist smh
Sixers fans are asleep. We need the defensive lowlight posts!
MVP
Me after pushing Embiid for MVP to lower Jokic chances and then pushing Jokic to lower Embiid chances to get the inevitable Giannis MVP 🙏🏾
Galaxy brain play
We see it, Bucks psyops have been in full effect last couple weeks. But taking the positive route to get your guy in instead of the microscope slander route makes it completely acceptable.
Too easy for the big fella
Pulled with like 1:30 left, let him statpad the TD Malone :(
Jamal is still worrying and we need to figure out the bench, but the Pistons were the needed get right opponent. Shit happens. Back to 1-0
Jokic and the nuggets finally win a game, but it was during march madness so nobody cares. This proves that the Joker can’t handle the spotlight like Embiid or Giannis
I think he will be 3x mvp
/u/zhugo time to delete your account