Not just the GM. It's half of Mike Malone's coaching staff that went there. They know all his tricks and have a counter for everything. Malone needs to start from the drawing board if they want to defeat them. Maybe a little tweak in personnel. I'd let Murray and MPJ go for solid and cheaper role players. Then focus on the AG, Jokic tandem in the paint. The worst part is this Wolves team will only get better next year.
@@Polotongquitzyou’re crazy if you’d let Murray go. Yea he was bad this year for 90% of the games but he’s the reason they won in the close games this year and last year
@@TH-cq7bj yes, he's good but not good enough for what they pay him. Him and MPJ are taking huge amounts of the salary cap without providing the value expected from them. They're just overpaid and to top it up, injury prone too. But if I get to let one go it would be Murray. 1. MPJ has length and can be a good defender and rebounder at times. Murray is just an iso player reliant on Jokic's picks and passes. 2. Murray has more value on the trade market than MPJ, so it would be easier to trade him and get more value out of him.
“Perfect answer”? This series was absurd…up and down, up and down. No team seemed to have an answer. We finally get a game 7 that’s close and down to the wire, and jokic was gassed. He couldn’t stop the bleeding. Denver had a championship team, jokic just gassed out
I kept saying this for the entire season: without Jokić, this is a lottery team. The fact that he took them to joint 1st record in the ultra-competitive West is alone making his MVP case obvious.
@@d3adyoutubeaccountbruh what? No way they make a play in without him. The moment he leaves the floor they have a negative plus minus, check the stats.
@@Dukegrinds1 true, but at least they both averaged 20 points unlike here only Jokic showed up in the series and I guess Murray in game 7. If the other players were shooting good Jokic would have averaged a near 30 point triple double.
@@Dukegrinds1 Lebron has multiple teammates who put up 20 points or more in games where he's not hogging the ball to charge into the lane and get the refs to bail him out with a foul call. Or, better yet, when your king isn't clanking wide open threes off the rim rather than handing the ball off to an actual three point shooter.
Yeah but the problem is as soon as Jokic and Murray go to the bench the lead would disappear. I don't think it would change anything, after the second half was basically Jokic and Murray with the other 3 players watching the game on the court because they couldn't buy a bucket.
That was a bad look on the team. The two men game didn’t work. And they missed a lot of open jumpers as well. One thing was given; Nuggets bench was poor this year. Braun looked completely lost in offense and didn’t dare to shoot. I don’t even remember if Reggie Jackson played at all. Malone knew what was at stake and did not play whatever he had as a bench.
@AtracBreezy jokic was building hospitals from 3 last night what good is he if he has no legs and DeAndre Jordan could've put a body on Karl Anthony town's atleast
@@MrOnetedify I didn't watch the game. I thought apart of Murray and Jokic, Gordon should be that guy. He didn't play good or Wolves defense destroyed him?
Why are we giving teams so much shit for losing lmao. People act like the Nuggets lost to a G-League team. They lost to the third seed (one game away from the first seed). They were the best defensive team all season. Sixteen teams make the playoffs. Only one comes out on top. To hate on everyone but the winners is wild. The Nuggets won a championship last year and played well this post season. You cant put up a 40 piece every game unless youre MJ. The nature of basketball is that youre going to miss shots. No need to shit on the Nuggets. It was a great series. Give them props for competing. Give the Wolves credit for being the better team. And move on
About time someone makes sense about basketball or for that matter any sport. You are playing against professionals and to repeat as champs is very difficult in any sport. And to knock Jokic as a some have is so stupid it's pathetic. Just to get in the playoffs every year is difficult. To say Jokic scored garbage points when the game was only 5 or 6 points different is rediculous. Murray had his bad games BUT he had great games. Give it a break already. Congratulations to both teams.
I would love to see a regular guy off the street try to shut down Antman! He is a phenom and the Nuggets rattled him early on. That is not easy to do. Give them credit, and KAT is no easy slouch to contend with. And Na is something else. Give the Nuggets credit, if they hit a few more of their wide open shots in the third we would all be wondering how they are so good. Now we treat them like trash? C'mon, that is why we play sports, to see on any given night who wants it!
@@dominicdavino252 dont you get it- viewers like YOU & this channel has caused this. All your toxic hate of Lebron which unwarranted and nonsensical has transcended Lebron and filtered down to guys like Jokic. You want to blame anyone? Blame channels & viewers like yourselves!
This isn't a knock on the Nuggets or Nikola, it's just the expected thing to happen, repeating in the NBA is difficult, don't let Kobe's or MJ's resumes fool you.
@@oneironaut.indigoLeBalco bum needed to team up with his rivals just to even make it there while playing in the weakest conference for the past 20+ years. Context matters. 🤡
They obviously need to make changes to their roster, especially getting a viable back up center who can play quality minutes when jokic needs a breather
Sure, they should get every big man they can get, in today's league. But finishing his 8th season, maybe by now Jokic deserves to get his first all-star teammate of his career.
Exactly! They were crucial and important to last years championship run and I knew they would miss em when they didn’t resign them. Now this is the result, 5 bench points in a crucial game 7. They heavily relied on their starting 5(and I think it’s the best starting 5 in the nba) but you can’t win with just your starting 5, you need a productive bench and they didn’t really have that this year.
@@redchampion and he barely used Watson, only consistent player he put in was Braun. Then Reggie Jackson and it wasn’t like he was getting a ton of minutes. They didn’t really use the bench
Even as a Denver fan i wouldn't mind Minnesota beating us in a close match where everybody balled out but this? Brick after brick after brick from MPJ had me legit tweaking.
Yes, MIN showed us what an exciting basketball is all about, team effort on defense, plus trust on team mate helps a lot.. imagine Naz Reid blocking Jokic amidst height disadvantage... Thats a great one
@@whiteyobanion1104 I hope so. How sick would it be for Mavs vs Pacers? Turner would be balling out in Dallas....Mark Cuban could get embarrassed again. We could get revenge on Kyrie for his time with the Cavs. Yeah that'd be stupidly fun to watch. Boston is tough but we can scrap through and pull it off.
Murray did get his pocket picked that led to a AE dunk helping the Wolves comeback. He also looked scared the moment they put Ant-Man on him for the 2nd half. And he took several ill-advised shots down the stretch. In my book, he choked.
he's a sidekick and he did more than his part stop shiting on Jamal Murray just to make excuses for Jokic yes he needs a better team mates but jamal is not the problem
I think the title is accurate. The Nuggets were putrid in the 3rd Quarter and Ant was struggling all night. But, I already know the media is going to put Joker at fault.
Your star should be able to stop the bleeding, jokic couldn’t. He’s the leagues best player and looked helpless in the 4th. He was settling for 3s even when he was off, finally made 2. But he was gassed.
Fun fact: Jokic is 0-5 against 50+ win teams (Regardless of if the season was shortened or not) while being 9-0 against teams that won less than 50 games
It's a stupid stat for dummies .... Denver beat the same T-wolves team last year in 5 ... and the Lakers are good but lazy in the regular season. Lakers have enough talent to get to the finals if they don't have to face Denver. Plus Denver beat the KD suns last year as well .... Denver has beaten VERY good teams -- regular season depends on injuries and lots of factors. Denver beat HEALTHY playoff quality teams. (Heat were missing Tyler Herro but he wouldn't have changed the outcome.) Plus Denver has beaten the Celtics twice this season... according to your logic that should make them automatic world champions this year since Celtics won 64 games... Dumb stat for dummies.... who don't want to deal with Joker's dominance in the league.
Not a super team, just a better supporting cast. If Porter made his three's, they could have won the game without question but he's not a reliable 3rd or 4th option. Super teams has been eliminated throughout this playoffs so that is never the answer.
@@IceColdKeizMPJ did shoot poorly but for the whole nuggets team to go from being up 20 to down 10 is pretty bad. Jokic was 2/10 from the 3 point line and KAT was playing better defense against him than Rudy did. Maybe I should’ve been a lil more specific about the superteam statement. The last team to win back to back titles was a GSW superteam then a Miami Heat superteam both in their prime.
@@vishtakes I wished Durant didn't join the Warriors. Thunder had the 2016 Warriors on the ropes, they could have ran it back the following year and stop the Warriors legacy. But we already know Kevin Durant doesn't have that mamba mentality and wanted to follow the footsteps of Lebelco James.
@@IceColdKeizBilly Donovan was a terrible coach idk why they fired Scott Brooks. I guess since LeBron formed a superteam to beat KD when he was young and Steph when he was young they had to return the favor. They all still look bad at the end of the day for committing that crime. Kobe was truly the last player to win back to back titles without a top 75 player on his team.
Yeah if you're up 20 in a semi final game 7, and you blow it, it's on you. Players just collapsed. No defense is THAT good to shut you down and nest you by 10.
People pick and chose who they want to criticize. If it was Lebron who blew a 20 point lead in a game 7 he’d be destroyed by this exact channel no matter what his teamates did
Murray and the entire team other than Jokic disappeared in the second half. It’s a miracle they are as good as they are, being they literally only have 1 consistently good player.
@Romanus- I’m not talking about the whole game. I’m talking about down the stretch. He was getting locked up by naz Reid! They blew a 20 point lead. If he’s as great as you say he is maybe he should have taken control.
@Kobi.a300 I’m glad im not the only person who says this. I try saying this in every video he makes. His channel is just so bad. Having opinions are 1 thing. Having double standards, being bias, and being hypocritical is another.
99% of his account is about Lebron, loves mj and Kobe too much. Fact that he mentions him in unrelated videos makes it so clear how rent free he is in the average hater
Well I’m just happy that Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and the Denver Nuggets ended LeBron James’ 2023-2024 NBA season in by GAME 5 when Jamal Murray dunked on LeBron James via a face-to-face, one-on-one posterization that will never be forgotten - Jamal Murray BAPTIZED LeBron James - with a nasty facial, followed by a game winner that ended LeBron James’ career/LA Lakers’ career via a 4-1 Gentlemen’s SWEEP in only ROUND ONE of the 2023-2024 NBA Playoffs. Michael Jordan is the GOAT! And Kobe Bryant is better than LeBron James. 🍾🍾🍾🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
@@whatcolorareyour6championshipswow. That's funny. Cause the loss also means Lakers, I mean Bronze stans, dont have the "we lost to eventual champs" excuse like they've been using.
I was shocked when coach Malone said at half-time interview that what this team needs to do is execute on offense - that their offense triggers their (the Nugget's) defense. 🤦♀️ which is just backwards. Your defense should trigger your offense. (As the Wolves demonstrated)
He got arrogant. Their offense was putrid and over-reliant on stupid threes and didn’t know how to slow the game and pacing down. 20pt lead? Rest Jokic for 3 minutes, that way even if the lead went down to 8-9, you got a fresh Jokic.
And didn't he have a TO to use in the last 5 mins of the game to stall the momentum of the Wolves wh3n they started pulling away? He got exposed as a bad coach in this series multiple times
@@mladenstojanovic7279 FROM THE THREE POINT LINE!!! 😆 Reading is fundamental! Context is everything! He had the advantage around the rim. Why shoot 20% from three if you’re not spacing the floor and stretching the defense with made shot attempts. You aren’t bringing the bigs out from under the rim shooting 14/52 from 3 (26.9%)
@@Premium_Water Well, what they aren’t telling people is that the man from the front office that put the Nuggets together left for Minnesota and created a roster specifically designed to oust Denver from the playoffs
@@louiswilliams984 Man...first of all, basketball is a team sport, not an individual one, and despite a really bad 3-point percentage...you can't classify Jokic as having played poorly against Wolves! How can you say that someone who averaged 29/11.4/7.9 played poorly and compared him to the others. As the team's second best player and scorer, Murray averaged: 18,4/4,1/4,4 FG% 40 MPJ 10,7/5,7/1,2 FG% 37 KCP 7,9/3,6/2,9 FG% 42 THE ONLY TWO WHO DID NOT DISAPPOINT ARE JOKIC AND AG, DESPITE AG'S DISASTEROUS GAME IN THE LAST MATCH!
@@Jxmybucketsname another champioship team where besides of the “dynamic duo e.g. Kobe/Shaq, LeBron/ Ad, Steph/Klay etc.” the remaining 3 starters scored THREE points in the half and remainder of the team additional TWO points. But sure it’s Jokic’s fault for scoring 21 points in the half. Get real.
Jokic could pull a Lebron and move teams to get more wins, but the important thing is the Nuggets did the critical job of eliminating the Lakers and LeBron.
they failed if they didnt win a championship . this proves the 2020s is one of the best eras have more parity than previous era as nobody has been able to repeat
@@rrichmond14 this entire channel is pretty much solely about insulting Lebron in every way no matter what. One can only imagine what sort of video this guy would have made if the Lakers had been the ones to blow a 20 point lead in Game 7 in such a manner. He definitely wouldn't be defending LBJ the way he is Jokic, that's for sure.
I had my suspicions, but I am convinced now... The worst thing about the NBA is sycophants. The weirdest thing is that I came to this channel because i was tired of the LeBron jock-sniffers, but now He is becoming a Jokic lover... Why, as NBA fans, can't we just appreciate the awesome series we got from both teams and praise the effort accordingly? All of the sudden, all players that are not Jokic are absolute garbage because they lost a 7-game series against the best defense in the NBA? Furthermore, the level of competitiveness this year is awesome. 3/4 series in the 2nd round of the playoffs went to 7 games and there are no clear cut winners to the title.
Thank you! The toxic divisiveness of social media has made it next to impossible for many to exercise objectivity and nuance in their views. It’s always one extreme vs an entire other. Tim Duncan is a five time NBA champion, but never won back to back in his entire career. Does that make him any less of an all-time great player and winner? Bird never won back to back. It’s freaking extremely difficult to win one let alone more than one.
He’s not making an excuse for Jokic. What he doesn’t respect about bron is that he throws his team mates under the bus and then forces his way out to make a super team. Jokic is staying at Denver, no complaints, no recruiting for super teammates, just hard work and grind
@@zinkosmo "This team is top-heavy as shit". "We need another playmaker." He gets asked if he has confidence in winning with his team after getting gentleman swept in round 1 and answers "No, because we didn't win". He says all this despite stacking the team to his liking. Go ahead, say what you want. I'm out. ✌🏾
Yet, if this was LeBron in this situation, he'd immediately be calling him a loser and a choke-artist, for blowing a 20 point lead at home, I GUARANTEE you he would not give LeBron a pass, regardless of his statline, if he put up this exact same statline that Jokic put up tonight, it doesn’t matter, CHOKE ARTIST, STRAIGHT UP CHOKE ARTIST. If you watch his channel, you'd all that all he does is shit on LeBron and praise Jokic like he's Jesus. Keep in mind that I don't even like LeBron, and his only good take on this channel in my opinion is Kobe > LeBron, but other than that, he's an anti-media channel at best, but to be honest, he's just a straight up hate channel and a hypocrite if you ask me, I don't care how he tries to justify himself as not being one, it's just straight up hypocritical
@@thewhitepumpkin1859Exactly it's so obvious, you really need to be braindead thinking this is a legit basketball channel lol. Basically it's a place where all the diehard Lebron haters can meet and have some fun, and sure some of his videos about Lebron are even funny but that's about it, theh you get all the bias, fake narratives and hypocrisy just like in the mainstream media.
Jokic needs players that are consistant like most other teams That's the only problem that the Nuggets have The supporting cast doesn't show up half of the time
if anything Nuggets don't need more defense but offense. KCP, Gordon, MPJ are amateurs. They need reliable parimeter shooters like Malik Monk or anyone of that caliber
Jokic has played 8 seasons without a single all-star teammate, and he has a ring. What teammates are you talking about? Cause Jokic has been playing with bums.
Now you have haters coming out with these ESPN stats like "Jokic has never beat a 50+ win team" or something like the Nuggets aren't always a top seed and therefore playing "worse" teams
We all know Denver should have won this series. They just forgot how to shoot. Hit 30% of the wide open shots they got and we win easily. Brick after brick on good looks. Ugh. Pathetic. Guys at the YMCA can hit those shots.
@@Dottor_Jwtf those are supposed to count as 50 win teams. So he's technically not 0-5 vs 50w teams. These networks cherry pick to fit their narrative too much and get away with it.
Are we all gonna ignore that Jokic went 2/10 from three? The rest of his team outside Murray certainly didn't help, but that's not what a player of his caliber should do in a game 7.
Man anthony edwards was a no show today and timberwolves still won. Jokic has to play all time level to get wins. I don't remember a single game in wich jokic played bad and denver won.
@@jordanjenkins1671 Jokic shot 46 % overall from the field in game 7, scoring 34 points. And Jokic grabbed 19 rebounds. KAT was second in rebounds with 12. And Ant-Man shot 25 % from the field in game 7.
he didnt even want to take half of them, his teamates just refused to shoot and were passing up open looks. Jokic should cut this nice guy bullshit and team up with an allstar
And this is actually one of those scenarios, where it's not a bad thing to say, because he does. Jamal Murray was inconsistent this entire series. So was Aaron Gordon. But also their lack of bench depth hurt them tremendously, because last year the team had help from the starting five and the bench. The Nuggets have some decisions to make this off season that's for sure.
Sounds like something LeBron James would say. Oh that's right. He did both call themselves the best and now here comes the groupies with the excuses for The joker just like LeBron James fans did for him
@@pushthebutton8723See the only problem with that is the Lakers had one of the deepest rosters in the NBA Denver can't go anywhere near as deep as LA can, also Jokic isn't gonna throw them bums under the bus LeBron teammates actually come through but it's LeSuperstar who doesn't come through 🤷🏾♂️ nothing close to being the same here.
@@pushthebutton8723 Needing help on paper is nothing bad In LeBron's case it's annoying because the guy always had super teams and all stars around him Look what Jokic has to play with He actually needs some help
Minnesota and their defense was historic. Jokic and the Nuggets collapsed, also historic. And this guy Skap, is bailing out the MVP and not holding him accountable for any of it. When the Nuggets were high the last few seasons, and Jokic was winning MVPs in a very overinflated era, Skap said nothing of the Nuggets supporting cast. Now he's looking for excuses and excessively criticizing the supporting cast. Joker is the best offensive center in NBA history (no cap). But he's not a good defender. He plays like Larry Bird and Tim Duncan, both BTW were multiple NBA All-Defensive Teams alumni. He perfected stats in this modern era, where guys like Jalen Brunson can average 35-40 points in a playoff series (prior to the injuries). The excessive Jokic d*ck riding has to be pulled back now - this series is proof that he doesn't make his teammates better - but Skap will double down and get knee pads next year. Watch
"Jokic and the Nuggets collapsed" It's pretty obvious Jokic is the Nuggets. It's not a team. "And this guy Skap, is bailing out the MVP and not holding him accountable for any of it." You can have him accountable. He's the only player, so I don't see the point, though. "Now he's looking for excuses and excessively criticizing the supporting cast." As Darko says about the supporting cast, it's a complete crap. "But he's not a good defender." He is a good defender. "this series is proof that he doesn't make his teammates better" That line is always thrown around, when a superstar doesn't pass the ball. But Jokic is a top-3 passer in the league. Making teammates better is said by casuals, who don't have anything worthwhile to say.
This is some reactionary BS honestly. The team wasn't that bad. Nobody was saying all the other players were trash when they were beating up on the Lakers. The difference was clearly the Wolves' defense and the fact that the refs have been letting teams play better defense across the board in the playoffs. Some of these players aren't accustomed to it and don't know what to do about it. The video starts off with the saying that defense wins championships. Well, guess what Denver wasn't able to step up their defense to meet the challenge. As great as Jokic is on the offensive end, he's not that big a threat on the defensive end and that certainly didn't help in this game. So even though he was fantastic as usual, he's not faultless in this loss.
I love Jokic but you're correct. I watched game 6 and noticed how useless he looked under the rim against drives from the Wolves. They were intentionally going at him when he was the sole rim protector and he didn't contest anything. I get that he was trying to avoid foul trouble but it still resulted in easy buckets for Minnesota and helped fuel their momentum. Denver needs another guy to protect the rim, Jokic just can't do it.
Turns out beating a washed Lebron and an 8th seed doesn't make you an all time great. Jokic will never belong with the greats of the game. Most fraudulent 3x MVP in any sport.
Yes Skap, defense wins championships, and Jokic is weak at it. He had one block and a deflection or two but he got dunked on ferociously by his kryptonite, Naz Reid and gave up Kat's putback slam that sealed the deal for the Wolves win. Not to mention shooting only 46 percent which is poor for him, and a terrible 20 precent from three!!! Jokic will hold himself accountable, so why can't you follow his example?
That's tough. That's kinda wrong. Ant-Man acts like a brat without any upbringing. The Wolves would be an average team in the league without Gobert, but Ant refuses to give him his flowers. Ant is the new face of the league, and didn't deserve it in years. Probably ever, actually.
He talks about LeBron James fans for their unwavering love for their hero and he does the exact same thing for the joker..... Hypocrisy here he goes making excuses for his hero
Jokic has an absolutely mid supporting cast while LeBron had several all stars on every team he played in That's the difference LeBron loses with his insane supporting cast and still needs more help? Hell nah
@@aleksandar9873 He's the best in the world. There's no need of excuses when you're the best. That's what everyone says about the juiced up LeBron James keep that same energy
@@pushthebutton8723 his ability can't be shield from criticism, not for him not for his teammates. Teammates, aside from Murray are more at fault for this loss, as they weren't match for timberwolves, while Jokić and Murray were.
@@ChristIsLord077 Denver only got 2 free throws in the entire 4th quarter, to Minn's 15 free throws in the 4th. The refs weren't trying to save Denver.
Nuggets really had no bench. Only 5 points in game 7 come on. It's the organization's fault. They let go of bruce Brown and Jeff Green, who were key players, but also, their role players were a no-show that couldn't happen in a game 7 at home
@@ryanr20091 nobody stepped up against the lakers from the bench. braun averaged 3.8 points and he was the best they got, WTF are you talking about fool
I mean jackson played 5 minutes murray went off jokic barley sat watson was benched holiday saw like 1 minute in the 2nd half and nnaji dj were benched
I swear The guy practically plays alone or sometimes with Murray if he decides to actually play good and they still got a ring and dragged the team with the best defense currently to a game 7 Now imagine the Nuggets with 1 all star level shooter that can actually make something out of Jokic's support
@@That-One-Spy-Main Problem is they can't bring anyone now, and even if they could nobody wants to go to boring Denver, that's why Murray has such a fat paycheck not because he's good but because they got nobody else, they should put all their focus on Braun, kid got the balls and is far more skilled then pussy ass Murray, they need an edge like Rodman was and they are all nerds including Jokic.
Braun was actually a bright spot for the nuggets in this game. He got them some clutch baskets to try and get the nuggets back some momentum they were really losing in that second half
Denver’s entire offense is Murray dribbling around for 15 seconds, running a pick and roll with Jokic, and then shooting along with the inverse with Jokic as the ball handler. It’s incredibly frustrating to watch when it isn’t working.
MPJ is suppose to be a star player. They used to play him as the go-to guy occasionally around three injuries ago, but he was 3/12 from the field in game 7, so maybe not the best option. MPJ scored 11 points per game in the series. Jaden McDaniels, Naz Reid and Mike Conley outscored him in the series.
Lakers dominated nuggets in time with lead but failed to close games. They need a closer with an offensive arsenal they not afraid to use. Which is very strange given who's on this lakers roster. Nuggets played bad vs lakers and now bad vs wolves.
@@zerokiryuu-ig7wmMichael Malone has historically been a great coach but im dissapointed with him this game. He made some big errors in the 3rd that couldve prevented the lead being stolen.
How is the #1 story Not, MVP blows 20 point lead in historic collapse. Media never goes after Jokic. It’s all praise, no criticism. Did I miss the memo?
Sounds like what LeBron fans say after THEIR hero loses. Blame all the teammates, “we played against a super team”, “look at HIS stats, even though he lost, teammates need to help!!”- it wasn’t enough, and the MVP has to do more, no excuses!!
This video is more whiny than a child not being allowed to go on a ride in Disneyland. Bro, they won the championship last year and lost in game 7. Jokic got every call possible last night, Aaron Gordon played great most of the playoffs and Murray has had tremendous playoffs performances before....chill. you can't win them all.
All this channel does these days is glaze Jokic. If it was anyone else they would get hate and have their leadership skills questioned for blowing a 20+ lead with a supporting cast as strong as the nuggets. But nope, Jokic gets a pass.
Skap's content is for entertainment purposes only, just like the media, he seeks to destroy the media narrative, yet he's become the very thing he sought to destroy, except for Jokic, like the media is for LeBron.
Credit to the Timberwolves for their defense and shot-making, but it was absolutely breathtaking to watch the Nuggets get steamrolled starting in the mid-3rd quarter with so many bricks. MPJ is not only such a painful overpay for horrific inconsistency, he seems to have an allergy for defense that made it easier for whomever he was supposed to be guarding. Unfortunately, no team short of a lottery/money-surplus team would take on his albatross contract, which would probably require giving up draft picks in return... Jokic will need to do another Jokic '23/Olajuwon '94 performance to get back to the Finals...
Every star needs help. You can’t win in this league with one player dominating anymore otherwise doncic would have a championship by now. Now he has Irving and good role players so he has a chance to win.
"...Jokic needs help?" Well, yes. He can't need more help, because he has no help in the first place. He's played 8 season in the league, and never with an all-star teammate.
This is a failure that Jokic absolutely must bear the brunt of the criticism for, especially as league MVP. Jokic being "gassed" from playing a ton of minutes is a legitimate and observable fact - you could see it in his eyes. He's only human. BUT that's exactly why someone like Jordan is viewed as "other than human": A DOG, A GOAT. I think maybe just maybe MJ was also tired/gassed in that "Flu game", but he had something extra within him that was not subject to the limitations of human physiology. THERE IS NO STAT LINE FOR THE WILL TO WIN.
Jordan won 6 chips playing two man basketball. He didn't have anyone outside of Pippen. It was Jordan and another Bulls player who would contribute offensively, usually the other players was Pippen. One thing Jordan's Bulls did do was commit to playing solid team defense. This made up for the offensive deficiencies of the team. You don't need to be talented to play great defense. Defense is all about effort. This game came down to defense and the Wolves played excellent team D to pull this one out. Your shot isn't going to fall every night, but you can play hard nose defense no matter what.
Man stop 😂😂😂😂Jokic has the most complete team you can ask for. MPJ, Murray and Gordan can go for 25 on any given night. They all play well when clicking. Now that MPJ has a couple bad games now it’s he doesn’t have a good supporting cast? Stop it 😂😂😂
You unintentionally pointed out the problem yourself Murray, MPJ and Gordon are insanely inconsistent, half of the time they don't show up while the Timberwolves for example are full of guys who show up 95% of the time The supporting cast of Jokic is everything but consistant
Jokic failed the nuggets. It’s not the role players fault, it’s the 3 time mvp’s fault. Keep it consistent. If it’s not lebron’s teammates fault, then it’s not jokic’s teammates fault either. Defense wins titles, and jokic played little defense in that game. Simply put they just got out played as a team. Denver isn’t battle tested like that. But role players don’t take blame for losses, stars do. That’s jokic, he failed them in more ways than one. Jokic is great but he isn’t all that, this weak basketball we’ve seen the last 15 yrs has made everyone forget what great actually looks like. I’m disappointed in this video.
True and he shot poorly from 3 the last 2 games. Missed wide open 3s and contested nothing at the rim. I love Jokic and wanted him to repeat, but I gotta be objective.
True and he shot poorly from 3 the last 2 games. Missed wide open 3s and contested nothing at the rim. I love Jokic and wanted him to repeat, but I gotta be objective.
Correct. Joker's Defense is putrid and in a tight, physical game like this it has cost them dearly. This soft era has made some people forget that Rim Protection is still massively important, especially when the shots aren't falling.
This is the same tactic used by LeBron James fans. Blame the teammates. Jokic's team gave up a 20 point second half lead at home with him on the court. The so-called greatest offensive player ever couldn't manufacture enough scoring to keep that lead? Game 7's are when we expect all time greats to show up, not "the teammates".
lebrons teammates average prime shaq numbers, jokics teammates average todays shaq numbers, there is a difference, you just need to be not biased or stupid to see it
@@aleksandarstojanovski9193 No one on Lebron's team has ever averaged prime Shaq numbers in the playoffs. My guy was putting up 30 and 15 with over 3 blocks a night in the slowest era of all time. LeBron is a known stat padder, and he hasn't put up prime Shaq numbers in the playoffs.
@@jaketerpening3284 check AD out just this season in the playoffs, and he basically did it in 3 quarters because lebron froze him out consistently in the 4th
@@aleksandarstojanovski9193 I guess he's pretty close, though obviously the pace is much faster in today's game. I stand corrected though. I had his game 5 stinker still in my mind, but he was over 30 in the first 3.
They were up by a lot but they decided to start chucking three's instead of killing the clock and just trying to score in the paint. As much as I like the nuggets, they kinda deserved to lose this one. WP to the Wolves for not giving up.
Skap... We have to admit that Jokic wasn't dominant as last year despite his numbers. Murray got plagued with injuries and despite that... He still playing and performing good at the clutch as best as he could. Game 7... Despite Jokic scoring 34 points, he was under 48% which hurts the impact of those points a bit. He will get better...
Here is a another way to look at it. How often did you see the nuggets play their open style of offensive play? They did it in game 3,4, and 5. Also it’s hard to complain about the rest of the players getting single point scores when jokic takes 28 FGA, Murray takes 27 FGA, and the last 24 are spread around 6 dudes.
The bench was an issue, but not why they lost game 7 MPJ, Murray and Jokic missed a combined 21 three-point shots and had 8 of Denver's 10 turnovers. They also took 67 of Denver's 83 shots Denver is at its best when they get everyone involved
Bro is a bum, I get it when he's having a bad shooting night but he's one of the tallest guys on the floor and doesn't use his size to get to the glass, soft af
That's why is so difficult to repeat as champions, especially if the team is not constructed with at least two allstars who have different roles. The Nuggets are a great team but a lot revolve around Jokic to create offense for others, if you meet a defensive team like Minnesota other teammates may find a hard way to score like what happened this game7. They just need to regroup and find a deepee bench with more shot creator and they are fine.
He's spreading Jokic propaganda, that's what, if this was LeBron I GUARANTEE you he would be shitting on him like there's no end. Did you watch the video he made about the Celtics just days ago after they lost a single game? Where's that same energy here? He also made a video trying to justify himself a while ago but it's total bs, straight up lying to us because his actions clearly prove otherwise
For anyone that has a working brain if you do not now see the clear cut hypocrises & astounding similarities between Jokic apologists such as this man in comparison to the very fanbase he never fails to eviscerate... its time to unplug yourself & wake up... When I saw the way this man 🗑 the All-Star game, humorized KAT laughable 60pt performance in an open, spaced non-defensive layup line... only to use such months later to inform us just how "stacked" ANT supporting cast is in comparison to Jokic'.... BEFORE THE SERIES STARTED...I knew I'd be in for a treat... go in victimizing yourself & you'll come out doing the same This man time & time again has the gall to heavily criticize players such as LeBron James, Joel Embid, Kevin Durant etc. for the VERY SAME THINGS he continously praises Jokic for... & he masquerades it as being the stark difference between team hoppers & deck stackers w/ a homegrown talent... This fluff talk with NBA greats / legends pertaining to supporting casts & help, excuses, mediocrity, watered down & undeserving accolades, league rules & officiating, accumulative stats & longevity etc. (which I agree with) ... all this talk about "aLpHas" "oWnErsHiP" "lEaDerShiP" & yet here he sits... attempting to convince himself that Jokic supporting cast regardless of the reciepts is so 🗑 & useless, that no matter the outcome, his favorite player is *NEVER* to blame why? "JUST LOOK AT THOSE STATS" 🤡👎🏾 as if we didnt see the exact opposite transpire during that 3-game run... its never "the better team won" it's "We lost because..." I didnt hear all this "👶🏼" last season against those 3 play-in teams. Yea winning is hard when the competition gets real huh⁉️ (0-6 against 50+win teams) ... I was hearing talks of "best player of this generation" "Top 10 C" but now when treated like one like the average LeBron fan never fails to cower, backtrack, excuse, deny, & deflect... the best player in the world (according to him) ... I didnt see so many olive branches thrown to LeBron his 1st stint in CLE, or Embiid, Giannis, Steph, KD, Kawhi etc. so why now? Much like any other, is an inconsistent toe sucking fanboy with his head in the clouds like the very Bron fans he so hates... HES NOT CONSISTENT. HES A HYPOCRITE... Mark my words, "In 3 years, dependent on Jokic success, these 🍒 scratching Joker apologists will replace the very fanbase (LeBron James') they never fail to eviscerate & criticize"
The defending champs lost Game 1 at home. They then got annihilated in Game 2 at home. They were up 3-2. They lost Game 6 by FORTY FIVE POINTS. In Game 7, the other team’s 22 YEAR OLD best player was 6-24 and they were up 20 in the 2nd half. And they lost. At home.
Skap, I’m gonna disagree with you here. Jokic choked. His team choked. Simple as that. Dirk also had bums in his 2007 MVP season and choked. It happens. What we need to see now is his response next season. Will give credit that Jokic didn’t need to stack the deck to win a title last year, but he choked yesterday, no excuses. EDIT: The only thing that is annoying that they treat Jokic like 2007 Dirk after Jokic already won a title when they should’ve treated him more like 2011 Dirk. That slander is a stupid take. Still, every great besides MJ had a series they choked in. It happens. I respect that Jokic at leasts takes accountability. Now Murray though…
Terrible take. Dirk beat the 2011 Miami Heat for his ring. Jokic beat the 2023 Miami Heat for his ring (never beating a 50 win team in the playoffs). Context matters
@@Reaper13-hi3yo And it seems you don’t know what context means. Get a better bot Klutz. Hey LeDiddy , did you fiddle with the bot to make it as stupid with you, like pretending to read the first page of a book? LMAO 🤡
a great team has depth , a great team has a bench, the nuggets have the worst bench IN THE LEAGUE, clearly this team is not great they were good, good enough for a 4-1 series win vs bum ass lakers where every game was close and denver always had to play catch up. everyone knew this was concerning.😂
A great team? You sure? Don't get me wrong Jamal and Gordon are good players, but the Nuggets are great because of one guy. The wolves are great because they have a great team. Ant just puts them over the top. Ant has Rudy, Kat, a really good two way wing in JMD, and a 6MOTY in Naz Reid. I'm more surprised the series went 7 games. The Wolves had more firepower but that's the greatness of Jokic, he only had maybe one bad game this series iirc.
In order for any team to be "great", they have to play great. Nuggets not named Jokic simply don't. It's leftish to call facts "biased" only because they don't support the way somebody feels about something.
DON'T DO THAT...THE NUGGETS HAVE A GREAT TEAM....THE TIMBERWOLVES HAVE A GREAT TEAM ASWELL...AT THIS STAGE OF COMPETITION EVERYONE HAS A GREAT TEAM ..IT JUST COMES DOWN TO WHO DOES WHAT WHEN IT COUNTS....THE NUGGETS HAVE BEEN DOMINENT FOR THE LAST 4 SEASONS..THEIR NOT BUMS...THE WOLVES HAVE BEEN COMING THE LAST 4 YEARS. IT WAS JUST THE WOLVES TIME....FACTS!!!!!
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It's crazy that the GM that built this Nuggets team left the organization and went and custom crafted the perfect answer to it in Minnesota.
Not just the GM. It's half of Mike Malone's coaching staff that went there. They know all his tricks and have a counter for everything. Malone needs to start from the drawing board if they want to defeat them. Maybe a little tweak in personnel. I'd let Murray and MPJ go for solid and cheaper role players. Then focus on the AG, Jokic tandem in the paint. The worst part is this Wolves team will only get better next year.
@@Polotongquitzyou’re crazy if you’d let Murray go. Yea he was bad this year for 90% of the games but he’s the reason they won in the close games this year and last year
@@TH-cq7bj yes, he's good but not good enough for what they pay him. Him and MPJ are taking huge amounts of the salary cap without providing the value expected from them. They're just overpaid and to top it up, injury prone too.
But if I get to let one go it would be Murray.
1. MPJ has length and can be a good defender and rebounder at times. Murray is just an iso player reliant on Jokic's picks and passes.
2. Murray has more value on the trade market than MPJ, so it would be easier to trade him and get more value out of him.
“Perfect answer”? This series was absurd…up and down, up and down. No team seemed to have an answer. We finally get a game 7 that’s close and down to the wire, and jokic was gassed. He couldn’t stop the bleeding. Denver had a championship team, jokic just gassed out
Nuggets made 0 changes this season, it was good for this kind of run but not for a championship.
I kept saying this for the entire season: without Jokić, this is a lottery team. The fact that he took them to joint 1st record in the ultra-competitive West is alone making his MVP case obvious.
Bro I swear without Jokic, Nuggets wouldn't even reach the play in tournament
That's how badly he carries them
Denver is Joker plus some clowns.
2:05 this literally Happened to KD with a injured Harden and No Kyrie and Guarding Giannis but “ he Choked” 🤦🏾♂️
Without Jokic, they’re still in the play-in picture, stop it
@@d3adyoutubeaccountbruh what? No way they make a play in without him. The moment he leaves the floor they have a negative plus minus, check the stats.
The fact that outside of Joker and Murray, not a single player for the Nuggets scored more than 7 points, says it all.
Same thing happened to LeBron and ad😂
@@Dukegrinds1 true, but at least they both averaged 20 points unlike here only Jokic showed up in the series and I guess Murray in game 7. If the other players were shooting good Jokic would have averaged a near 30 point triple double.
@@Dukegrinds1 Lebron has multiple teammates who put up 20 points or more in games where he's not hogging the ball to charge into the lane and get the refs to bail him out with a foul call. Or, better yet, when your king isn't clanking wide open threes off the rim rather than handing the ball off to an actual three point shooter.
Nuggets thought they had dynasty😂😂😂😂😂 No excuses
@@G_Martin Who said the Nuggetd had a dynasty? It's clear there a lottery team without Jokic.
I thought Malone should've gave him a break when they were up 20 so just in case Minnesota made a run he'd be fresh in the 4th
Yeah but the problem is as soon as Jokic and Murray go to the bench the lead would disappear. I don't think it would change anything, after the second half was basically Jokic and Murray with the other 3 players watching the game on the court because they couldn't buy a bucket.
That was a bad look on the team. The two men game didn’t work. And they missed a lot of open jumpers as well. One thing was given; Nuggets bench was poor this year. Braun looked completely lost in offense and didn’t dare to shoot. I don’t even remember if Reggie Jackson played at all. Malone knew what was at stake and did not play whatever he had as a bench.
@@chironjo Malone didnt play Reggie Jackson. He played Potter Jr who shot bricks. 😅
Who they gonna put in his place tho? Deandre Jordan?? Once you take Jokic out, the abysmal bench is gonna lose the lead.
@AtracBreezy jokic was building hospitals from 3 last night what good is he if he has no legs and DeAndre Jordan could've put a body on Karl Anthony town's atleast
Jokic bout to turn his teammates into horse food
The Nuggets dismissing LeBalco in round 1 was their most important contribution to the 2024 season 🤣
Bron lives rent free in all your heads in this channel bro 🤣🤣
no bum's allowed
@@clarke2816 lebron is mediocre and always has been.
@@alanlee67lebron took Mediocre teams to the finals… how come jokic didn’t
@@Tayxsupreme you mean in the East.
Not Lakers
There’s no excuse for Aaron Gordon not being able to average 10+ rebounds a game!
cause he was not boxing out
@@MrOnetedify I didn't watch the game.
I thought apart of Murray and Jokic, Gordon should be that guy.
He didn't play good or Wolves defense destroyed him?
I mean he had 4 points in 42 minutes
@@nor-in5kj he was also left open multiple times, cause Joke was getting doubled and he was too scared to take the shot.
@@nor-in5kjhe played like a g-league-superstar
Why are we giving teams so much shit for losing lmao. People act like the Nuggets lost to a G-League team. They lost to the third seed (one game away from the first seed). They were the best defensive team all season. Sixteen teams make the playoffs. Only one comes out on top. To hate on everyone but the winners is wild. The Nuggets won a championship last year and played well this post season. You cant put up a 40 piece every game unless youre MJ. The nature of basketball is that youre going to miss shots. No need to shit on the Nuggets. It was a great series. Give them props for competing. Give the Wolves credit for being the better team. And move on
About time someone makes sense about basketball or for that matter any sport. You are playing against professionals and to repeat as champs is very difficult in any sport. And to knock Jokic as a some have is so stupid it's pathetic. Just to get in the playoffs every year is difficult. To say Jokic scored garbage points when the game was only 5 or 6 points different is rediculous. Murray had his bad games BUT he had great games. Give it a break already. Congratulations to both teams.
Man this comment was a breath of fresh air. We live in such a toxic era
I would love to see a regular guy off the street try to shut down Antman! He is a phenom and the Nuggets rattled him early on. That is not easy to do. Give them credit, and KAT is no easy slouch to contend with. And Na is something else. Give the Nuggets credit, if they hit a few more of their wide open shots in the third we would all be wondering how they are so good. Now we treat them like trash? C'mon, that is why we play sports, to see on any given night who wants it!
You know why, because those DEN fans are so arrogant saying we have the best starting 5... Ohh now, their excuse, Jokic has no help? 😂😂😂
@@dominicdavino252 dont you get it- viewers like YOU & this channel has caused this. All your toxic hate of Lebron which unwarranted and nonsensical has transcended Lebron and filtered down to guys like Jokic. You want to blame anyone? Blame channels & viewers like yourselves!
This isn't a knock on the Nuggets or Nikola, it's just the expected thing to happen, repeating in the NBA is difficult, don't let Kobe's or MJ's resumes fool you.
Exactly, those guys along with Bill Russell are the exception to the rule when it comes to repeating.
Or LeBron
@@oneironaut.indigoLeBalco bum needed to team up with his rivals just to even make it there while playing in the weakest conference for the past 20+ years. Context matters. 🤡
@@oneironaut.indigo LeBron only repeated once and with a stacked roster lol
@@Fixundfertig1Because MJ didn't have a stacked roster right?
They obviously need to make changes to their roster, especially getting a viable back up center who can play quality minutes when jokic needs a breather
Sure, they should get every big man they can get, in today's league. But finishing his 8th season, maybe by now Jokic deserves to get his first all-star teammate of his career.
Just revamp the bench. They missed bruce brown and jeff green who were consistent contributors
Exactly! They were crucial and important to last years championship run and I knew they would miss em when they didn’t resign them. Now this is the result, 5 bench points in a crucial game 7. They heavily relied on their starting 5(and I think it’s the best starting 5 in the nba) but you can’t win with just your starting 5, you need a productive bench and they didn’t really have that this year.
Yes, rotating with 3 players from the bench is crazy
@@redchampion and he barely used Watson, only consistent player he put in was Braun. Then Reggie Jackson and it wasn’t like he was getting a ton of minutes. They didn’t really use the bench
Our bench is young and new to the league. They are either rookies or second years
Jeff overrated....
Even as a Denver fan i wouldn't mind Minnesota beating us in a close match where everybody balled out but this? Brick after brick after brick from MPJ had me legit tweaking.
Felt like he was game fixing, like one of his brothers...
@@logomarkz I was thinking the same thing it was that bad.
I love how the Timberwolves are changing the league and reminding everyone that this is a TEAM game. Really fun team to watch.
Pacers vs Wolves would be a fun series...quick but fun.😊
@@markvogel5872 no
@@markvogel5872 Luka and Kyrie are going to eat the Wolves for lunch.
Yes, MIN showed us what an exciting basketball is all about, team effort on defense, plus trust on team mate helps a lot.. imagine Naz Reid blocking Jokic amidst height disadvantage... Thats a great one
@@whiteyobanion1104 I hope so. How sick would it be for Mavs vs Pacers? Turner would be balling out in Dallas....Mark Cuban could get embarrassed again. We could get revenge on Kyrie for his time with the Cavs. Yeah that'd be stupidly fun to watch. Boston is tough but we can scrap through and pull it off.
Murray did get his pocket picked that led to a AE dunk helping the Wolves comeback. He also looked scared the moment they put Ant-Man on him for the 2nd half. And he took several ill-advised shots down the stretch. In my book, he choked.
he's a sidekick and he did more than his part stop shiting on Jamal Murray just to make excuses for Jokic yes he needs a better team mates but jamal is not the problem
Maybe but with all the clutch plays he's made this season & last season-how tf can anybody complain?
@@jwright2939if he played to his standard. Heroics wouldn't have been needed
They won in spite of him. Not because of him.
Ant had that dude in JAIL
@meg-k-waldren Did you see Jokic shoot abysmally from 3?
I think the title is accurate. The Nuggets were putrid in the 3rd Quarter and Ant was struggling all night. But, I already know the media is going to put Joker at fault.
Jokic will be blamed. As he should be.
Isn’t this what happens to Lebron
@@evan4269 LeBron confirmed not even top10 if his chokes are compared to Jokic now.
Your star should be able to stop the bleeding, jokic couldn’t. He’s the leagues best player and looked helpless in the 4th. He was settling for 3s even when he was off, finally made 2. But he was gassed.
@@2kolbe010 Just like how Lebron should be blamed? Right? Right?
Fun fact: Jokic is 0-5 against 50+ win teams (Regardless of if the season was shortened or not) while being 9-0 against teams that won less than 50 games
yeah the nuggets are one and done if you ask me this era is full of parity and one of the hardest to repeat
It's a team sport
This fact lacks serious context. It’s not Den’s fault that all the 50 win teams last season lost to lower seeds
Nuggets is team not only jokic😭😭
It's a stupid stat for dummies .... Denver beat the same T-wolves team last year in 5 ... and the Lakers are good but lazy in the regular season. Lakers have enough talent to get to the finals if they don't have to face Denver. Plus Denver beat the KD suns last year as well .... Denver has beaten VERY good teams -- regular season depends on injuries and lots of factors. Denver beat HEALTHY playoff quality teams. (Heat were missing Tyler Herro but he wouldn't have changed the outcome.)
Plus Denver has beaten the Celtics twice this season... according to your logic that should make them automatic world champions this year since Celtics won 64 games...
Dumb stat for dummies.... who don't want to deal with Joker's dominance in the league.
This just goes to show how hard it is to win back to back titles without a superteam
Not a super team, just a better supporting cast. If Porter made his three's, they could have won the game without question but he's not a reliable 3rd or 4th option. Super teams has been eliminated throughout this playoffs so that is never the answer.
@@IceColdKeizMPJ did shoot poorly but for the whole nuggets team to go from being up 20 to down 10 is pretty bad. Jokic was 2/10 from the 3 point line and KAT was playing better defense against him than Rudy did. Maybe I should’ve been a lil more specific about the superteam statement. The last team to win back to back titles was a GSW superteam then a Miami Heat superteam both in their prime.
@@vishtakes I wished Durant didn't join the Warriors. Thunder had the 2016 Warriors on the ropes, they could have ran it back the following year and stop the Warriors legacy. But we already know Kevin Durant doesn't have that mamba mentality and wanted to follow the footsteps of Lebelco James.
They didn't have a super team last year, they just traded away 2 of their key bench guys.
@@IceColdKeizBilly Donovan was a terrible coach idk why they fired Scott Brooks. I guess since LeBron formed a superteam to beat KD when he was young and Steph when he was young they had to return the favor. They all still look bad at the end of the day for committing that crime. Kobe was truly the last player to win back to back titles without a top 75 player on his team.
These guys were up 20, all of this seems a bit nitpicky. This wasn’t the narrative over the last few games.
Yeah if you're up 20 in a semi final game 7, and you blow it, it's on you. Players just collapsed. No defense is THAT good to shut you down and nest you by 10.
This wasn't whose narrative? It's been the narrative on this channel
Narrative reminds me of free throws in game 7:
Wolves - 30
Nuggets - 16.
People pick and chose who they want to criticize. If it was Lebron who blew a 20 point lead in a game 7 he’d be destroyed by this exact channel no matter what his teamates did
@@goodguyscomelast2029 what makes this hilarious is that when the lakers choked a 20 point lead he started talking about bron LMAO
Micheal "Possession Ends Here" Jr.
Possession *
@@queenville2527 thank you
Michael "Season Ends Here" Jr.
Murray and the entire team other than Jokic disappeared in the second half. It’s a miracle they are as good as they are, being they literally only have 1 consistently good player.
This just shows Jokic really did disserve the MVPs trophies, cause this team is ass without him.
Lejokic mentality
@projectaletheia8707 No Jokic disappeared too
@@michaelmirabella842034 points and 19 boards is disappearing? Lmao this is just delusional
@Romanus- I’m not talking about the whole game. I’m talking about down the stretch. He was getting locked up by naz Reid! They blew a 20 point lead. If he’s as great as you say he is maybe he should have taken control.
You would never put on this type of pr for lebron. I don't even like lebron, but this is shameful.
He’s a hypocrite he contradicts himself EVERY time he makes a video
@Kobi.a300 I’m glad im not the only person who says this. I try saying this in every video he makes. His channel is just so bad. Having opinions are 1 thing. Having double standards, being bias, and being hypocritical is another.
Exactly lol. He's doing the exact same thing he accuses bron fanboys of, which is throw all the team mates under the bus and say it's their fault
99% of his account is about Lebron, loves mj and Kobe too much. Fact that he mentions him in unrelated videos makes it so clear how rent free he is in the average hater
Well I’m just happy that Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and the Denver Nuggets ended LeBron James’ 2023-2024 NBA season in by GAME 5 when Jamal Murray dunked on LeBron James via a face-to-face, one-on-one posterization that will never be forgotten - Jamal Murray BAPTIZED LeBron James - with a nasty facial, followed by a game winner that ended LeBron James’ career/LA Lakers’ career via a 4-1 Gentlemen’s SWEEP in only ROUND ONE of the 2023-2024 NBA Playoffs. Michael Jordan is the GOAT! And Kobe Bryant is better than LeBron James. 🍾🍾🍾🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
STR8 FACTS BROTHER 💯
Lakers fan celebrating on Timberwolves social media like it's Denver's fault that their team is garbage and can't close out
And to think that lebron and lakers had a chance to win the chip if they ever beat the nuggets. What a dellusional clowns.
@@whatcolorareyour6championships STR8 FACTS 💯
@@whatcolorareyour6championshipswow. That's funny. Cause the loss also means Lakers, I mean Bronze stans, dont have the "we lost to eventual champs" excuse like they've been using.
Seriously, how do you lose when you're up by *20* in the 3rd quarter, at home, in GAME 7?
I was shocked when coach Malone said at half-time interview that what this team needs to do is execute on offense - that their offense triggers their (the Nugget's) defense. 🤦♀️ which is just backwards. Your defense should trigger your offense. (As the Wolves demonstrated)
What he was saying if you score the other team can't get of on the break, have to inbound the ball
He got arrogant. Their offense was putrid and over-reliant on stupid threes and didn’t know how to slow the game and pacing down. 20pt lead? Rest Jokic for 3 minutes, that way even if the lead went down to 8-9, you got a fresh Jokic.
And didn't he have a TO to use in the last 5 mins of the game to stall the momentum of the Wolves wh3n they started pulling away? He got exposed as a bad coach in this series multiple times
@@MrRoda8143 bad and stupid and overly arrogant. Why spam the same play when it’s not working?
No, they just mentally collapse when they see their offense failing that they stop trying in defense. It is what coach meant.
Lejokic mentality has begun
😂 True.
Jokic was putrid too. He shot 14-52 from the three point line this series. It not just his teams fault.
All of em are to blame, including the coaching, and the ownership.
Last 7 games: JOKIC 29/11,4/7,9 FG%52...YES JOKIC WAS PUTRID TOO 😂🤦😂
@@mladenstojanovic7279 FROM THE THREE POINT LINE!!! 😆 Reading is fundamental! Context is everything! He had the advantage around the rim. Why shoot 20% from three if you’re not spacing the floor and stretching the defense with made shot attempts. You aren’t bringing the bigs out from under the rim shooting 14/52 from 3 (26.9%)
@@Premium_Water Well, what they aren’t telling people is that the man from the front office that put the Nuggets together left for Minnesota and created a roster specifically designed to oust Denver from the playoffs
@@louiswilliams984 Man...first of all, basketball is a team sport, not an individual one, and despite a really bad 3-point percentage...you can't classify Jokic as having played poorly against Wolves!
How can you say that someone who averaged 29/11.4/7.9 played poorly and compared him to the others.
As the team's second best player and scorer,
Murray averaged:
18,4/4,1/4,4 FG% 40
MPJ
10,7/5,7/1,2 FG% 37
KCP
7,9/3,6/2,9
FG% 42
THE ONLY TWO WHO DID NOT DISAPPOINT ARE JOKIC AND AG, DESPITE AG'S DISASTEROUS GAME IN THE LAST MATCH!
Now it’s his teammates fault that the nuggets lost 😂😂😂
He has no teammates.
Cifre same pokazuju SLEPCE.
@@penkima4923 Murray dropped 35? Thought Jokic was some elite playoff riser
@@Jxmybucketsname another champioship team where besides of the “dynamic duo e.g. Kobe/Shaq, LeBron/ Ad, Steph/Klay etc.” the remaining 3 starters scored THREE points in the half and remainder of the team additional TWO points. But sure it’s Jokic’s fault for scoring 21 points in the half. Get real.
Love how you called Jamal Murray a walking garbage can and then gave him his flowers
He’s an idiot.
He’s not consistent and contradicts himself
Jokic could pull a Lebron and move teams to get more wins, but the important thing is the Nuggets did the critical job of eliminating the Lakers and LeBron.
Yall really are obsessed w lebron.
they failed if they didnt win a championship . this proves the 2020s is one of the best eras have more parity than previous era as nobody has been able to repeat
Bro beating a 40 year old Lebron is not a flex lol.
@@rrichmond14 this entire channel is pretty much solely about insulting Lebron in every way no matter what. One can only imagine what sort of video this guy would have made if the Lakers had been the ones to blow a 20 point lead in Game 7 in such a manner. He definitely wouldn't be defending LBJ the way he is Jokic, that's for sure.
@joshweiner4645 omg. We'd have 5 vids alone on that already. 40 year old, out the playoffs yet he's still talking abiut him
Now this guy is blaming Jokic’s teammates? I thought you had to hold stars accountable? Blown 20 point lead at home in game 7? Yikes.
Seriously bro
Keep that same energy with the 2023 champions that you did with LeBron!!! 😂😂😂
I had my suspicions, but I am convinced now... The worst thing about the NBA is sycophants. The weirdest thing is that I came to this channel because i was tired of the LeBron jock-sniffers, but now He is becoming a Jokic lover... Why, as NBA fans, can't we just appreciate the awesome series we got from both teams and praise the effort accordingly? All of the sudden, all players that are not Jokic are absolute garbage because they lost a 7-game series against the best defense in the NBA?
Furthermore, the level of competitiveness this year is awesome. 3/4 series in the 2nd round of the playoffs went to 7 games and there are no clear cut winners to the title.
Thank you! The toxic divisiveness of social media has made it next to impossible for many to exercise objectivity and nuance in their views. It’s always one extreme vs an entire other. Tim Duncan is a five time NBA champion, but never won back to back in his entire career. Does that make him any less of an all-time great player and winner? Bird never won back to back. It’s freaking extremely difficult to win one let alone more than one.
They wouldn’t have even gotten past the Lakers without that so called “Bum” that hit two game winners
He’s not making an excuse for Jokic. What he doesn’t respect about bron is that he throws his team mates under the bus and then forces his way out to make a super team. Jokic is staying at Denver, no complaints, no recruiting for super teammates, just hard work and grind
since when did bron throw his teammates under the bus? yall just say stupid shit
@@zinkosmo "This team is top-heavy as shit". "We need another playmaker." He gets asked if he has confidence in winning with his team after getting gentleman swept in round 1 and answers "No, because we didn't win". He says all this despite stacking the team to his liking. Go ahead, say what you want. I'm out. ✌🏾
Yet, if this was LeBron in this situation, he'd immediately be calling him a loser and a choke-artist, for blowing a 20 point lead at home, I GUARANTEE you he would not give LeBron a pass, regardless of his statline, if he put up this exact same statline that Jokic put up tonight, it doesn’t matter, CHOKE ARTIST, STRAIGHT UP CHOKE ARTIST. If you watch his channel, you'd all that all he does is shit on LeBron and praise Jokic like he's Jesus. Keep in mind that I don't even like LeBron, and his only good take on this channel in my opinion is Kobe > LeBron, but other than that, he's an anti-media channel at best, but to be honest, he's just a straight up hate channel and a hypocrite if you ask me, I don't care how he tries to justify himself as not being one, it's just straight up hypocritical
@@thewhitepumpkin1859Exactly it's so obvious, you really need to be braindead thinking this is a legit basketball channel lol. Basically it's a place where all the diehard Lebron haters can meet and have some fun, and sure some of his videos about Lebron are even funny but that's about it, theh you get all the bias, fake narratives and hypocrisy just like in the mainstream media.
@@zinkosmoDLo? 😭 Darvin???
Denver needs more defensive Players if they want to win another championship Jokic needs better players around him
Jokic needs players that are consistant like most other teams
That's the only problem that the Nuggets have
The supporting cast doesn't show up half of the time
They have a weak bench supporting cast. And the rest of their starters are inconsistent. Only Jokic can be relied upon night in and night out
if anything Nuggets don't need more defense but offense.
KCP, Gordon, MPJ are amateurs.
They need reliable parimeter shooters like Malik Monk or anyone of that caliber
Gordon is the best player after jokic in that team without him they have no defense@@nor-in5kj
Or at least more consistent teammates. Can't believe the other three starters absolutely vanished.
When the Nuggets were up 3-2 I didn’t hear anything about the roster but when they lose it’s Jokic teammates fault. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
wasnt this dude talking about how good the nuggets were last round?
Out of hate for lebron
Nah we’re not doing this. He’s a 3 time mvp , he should accept the responsibility. You can’t be throwing teammates under the bus now
Jokic has played 8 seasons without a single all-star teammate, and he has a ring. What teammates are you talking about? Cause Jokic has been playing with bums.
Exactly
Exactly no other player outside of maybe a prime all time great player would have won a chip with this team@@penkima4923
@@penkima4923shut up
Shit apparently Jamal Murray a bum now, I’ll keep that in mind along with the other players
Now you have haters coming out with these ESPN stats like "Jokic has never beat a 50+ win team" or something like the Nuggets aren't always a top seed and therefore playing "worse" teams
A bit disingeneous since they beat the jazz and clippers when they were on pace to 50+ during the covid season
@@Dottor_J Yup. Some idiot narratives by salty haters lol
And last year they hated on the Nuggets' championship run, "They played against 8th seed Timberwolves". Duh, that's what being first seed means.
We all know Denver should have won this series. They just forgot how to shoot. Hit 30% of the wide open shots they got and we win easily. Brick after brick on good looks. Ugh. Pathetic. Guys at the YMCA can hit those shots.
@@Dottor_Jwtf those are supposed to count as 50 win teams. So he's technically not 0-5 vs 50w teams. These networks cherry pick to fit their narrative too much and get away with it.
I come here for the LeBron hate and to hear the quote "IT'S A COMPLETE CRAP!!!"
@marcdaddy33 what does lebron pay you to be your daddy?
@marcdaddy33 Keep crying buddy😂😂😂😂😂
Ticket called it last night lmao
He definitely smoked em with this bro
Ticket called it before the series started. 😂
Ticket called it! Iykyk😂😂
Why trash the whole team but Jokic lol, he played far from perfect and sloppy too. Whole video kinda biased.
If this was lebron he would be getting shitted on lmao dont pay these content creators no attention
@@brandangreen5422 Exactly smh and not even a LBJ fan but this is too much
Are we all gonna ignore that Jokic went 2/10 from three? The rest of his team outside Murray certainly didn't help, but that's not what a player of his caliber should do in a game 7.
Man anthony edwards was a no show today and timberwolves still won. Jokic has to play all time level to get wins. I don't remember a single game in wich jokic played bad and denver won.
I love Jokic but true can't ignore that he struggled from 3 the last 2 games.
@@jordanjenkins1671 Jokic shot 46 % overall from the field in game 7, scoring 34 points. And Jokic grabbed 19 rebounds. KAT was second in rebounds with 12. And Ant-Man shot 25 % from the field in game 7.
he didnt even want to take half of them, his teamates just refused to shoot and were passing up open looks. Jokic should cut this nice guy bullshit and team up with an allstar
@@penkima4923 I know. Not blaming Jokic solely but being objective and saying there are aspects to his game he could have played better.
Jokic Needs More Help!
And this is actually one of those scenarios, where it's not a bad thing to say, because he does. Jamal Murray was inconsistent this entire series. So was Aaron Gordon.
But also their lack of bench depth hurt them tremendously, because last year the team had help from the starting five and the bench. The Nuggets have some decisions to make this off season that's for sure.
Just like LeBalco Juice? 🤡
Sounds like something LeBron James would say. Oh that's right. He did both call themselves the best and now here comes the groupies with the excuses for The joker just like LeBron James fans did for him
@@pushthebutton8723See the only problem with that is the Lakers had one of the deepest rosters in the NBA Denver can't go anywhere near as deep as LA can, also Jokic isn't gonna throw them bums under the bus LeBron teammates actually come through but it's LeSuperstar who doesn't come through 🤷🏾♂️ nothing close to being the same here.
@@pushthebutton8723
Needing help on paper is nothing bad
In LeBron's case it's annoying because the guy always had super teams and all stars around him
Look what Jokic has to play with
He actually needs some help
Minnesota and their defense was historic. Jokic and the Nuggets collapsed, also historic. And this guy Skap, is bailing out the MVP and not holding him accountable for any of it.
When the Nuggets were high the last few seasons, and Jokic was winning MVPs in a very overinflated era, Skap said nothing of the Nuggets supporting cast. Now he's looking for excuses and excessively criticizing the supporting cast.
Joker is the best offensive center in NBA history (no cap). But he's not a good defender. He plays like Larry Bird and Tim Duncan, both BTW were multiple NBA All-Defensive Teams alumni. He perfected stats in this modern era, where guys like Jalen Brunson can average 35-40 points in a playoff series (prior to the injuries).
The excessive Jokic d*ck riding has to be pulled back now - this series is proof that he doesn't make his teammates better - but Skap will double down and get knee pads next year. Watch
"Jokic and the Nuggets collapsed"
It's pretty obvious Jokic is the Nuggets. It's not a team.
"And this guy Skap, is bailing out the MVP and not holding him accountable for any of it."
You can have him accountable. He's the only player, so I don't see the point, though.
"Now he's looking for excuses and excessively criticizing the supporting cast."
As Darko says about the supporting cast, it's a complete crap.
"But he's not a good defender."
He is a good defender.
"this series is proof that he doesn't make his teammates better"
That line is always thrown around, when a superstar doesn't pass the ball. But Jokic is a top-3 passer in the league. Making teammates better is said by casuals, who don't have anything worthwhile to say.
Stop throwing "historic" around.
This is some reactionary BS honestly. The team wasn't that bad. Nobody was saying all the other players were trash when they were beating up on the Lakers. The difference was clearly the Wolves' defense and the fact that the refs have been letting teams play better defense across the board in the playoffs. Some of these players aren't accustomed to it and don't know what to do about it. The video starts off with the saying that defense wins championships. Well, guess what Denver wasn't able to step up their defense to meet the challenge. As great as Jokic is on the offensive end, he's not that big a threat on the defensive end and that certainly didn't help in this game. So even though he was fantastic as usual, he's not faultless in this loss.
I will agree with this one. Jokic is at best average when it comes to defense. Minnesota Timberwolves was better and was just hungry.
Exactly
I love Jokic but you're correct. I watched game 6 and noticed how useless he looked under the rim against drives from the Wolves. They were intentionally going at him when he was the sole rim protector and he didn't contest anything. I get that he was trying to avoid foul trouble but it still resulted in easy buckets for Minnesota and helped fuel their momentum. Denver needs another guy to protect the rim, Jokic just can't do it.
Jokic didn't come through when it mattered. I gotta hold the MVP accountable
0-4 against 50 win teams in the playoffs.
@manz7860 say it louder for cap attack
@@michaelmirabella8420 weakest nba championship in the last decade between the nuggets and lakers
@@michaelmirabella8420 love skap, but that wouldn't fit his narrative this time lol
@manz7860 oh see I hate skap😂
Turns out beating a washed Lebron and an 8th seed doesn't make you an all time great. Jokic will never belong with the greats of the game. Most fraudulent 3x MVP in any sport.
Yes Skap, defense wins championships, and Jokic is weak at it. He had one block and a deflection or two but he got dunked on ferociously by his kryptonite, Naz Reid and gave up Kat's putback slam that sealed the deal for the Wolves win.
Not to mention shooting only 46 percent which is poor for him, and a terrible 20 precent from three!!!
Jokic will hold himself accountable, so why can't you follow his example?
Facts he need to hit the gym that will help his defence even Aaron Gordon look at jokic like come on you gonna let ant man drive contest the shot
Maaaaan losing game 7 at home when up 20 is diabolical. Everyone gotta get that smoke, including Jokic & Malone.
Notice jokic stayed after the game to congratulate the Timberwolves
That's tough. That's kinda wrong. Ant-Man acts like a brat without any upbringing. The Wolves would be an average team in the league without Gobert, but Ant refuses to give him his flowers. Ant is the new face of the league, and didn't deserve it in years. Probably ever, actually.
He talks about LeBron James fans for their unwavering love for their hero and he does the exact same thing for the joker..... Hypocrisy here he goes making excuses for his hero
Dude 21 pts 4 the rest of Denver I mean dammit basketball is teamsport
Where are Jokić Allstar teammates?
Jokic has an absolutely mid supporting cast while LeBron had several all stars on every team he played in
That's the difference
LeBron loses with his insane supporting cast and still needs more help?
Hell nah
@@aleksandar9873 He's the best in the world. There's no need of excuses when you're the best. That's what everyone says about the juiced up LeBron James keep that same energy
@@pushthebutton8723 his ability can't be shield from criticism, not for him not for his teammates. Teammates, aside from Murray are more at fault for this loss, as they weren't match for timberwolves, while Jokić and Murray were.
sounds like a bunch of lebron fans the way people are defending Jokic
This is Reverse LeBron fanboy rebuttal. Make a video about the Timberwolves and not your boo thang Jokić😂
He won’t, he’ll most likely switch to being to a Mavs bandwagon
How about those T-wolves ... Loud and arrogant but getting strangled by Luka and Kyrie.
Minn 30 FTs, Denver 16 FTs....
Misleading stat. Denver was fouling at the end to force free throws to try to catch up.
@@lightbeforethetunnel Thank you. I can't stand it when people just point at the box score like this, without even watching the game.
@@lightbeforethetunnel Anyone who watched the game would conclude the refs were blatantly trying to save Denver - and MN won anyway.
@@ChristIsLord077no, it was called pretty fairly. Mn fans just have a victim complex
@@ChristIsLord077 Denver only got 2 free throws in the entire 4th quarter, to Minn's 15 free throws in the 4th. The refs weren't trying to save Denver.
Nuggets really had no bench. Only 5 points in game 7 come on. It's the organization's fault. They let go of bruce Brown and Jeff Green, who were key players, but also, their role players were a no-show that couldn't happen in a game 7 at home
those same role players stepped up in the previous series so you cant just Cherry pick this series tomake your point
@@ryanr20091 nobody stepped up against the lakers from the bench. braun averaged 3.8 points and he was the best they got, WTF are you talking about fool
@@ryanr20091What? Their bench has had maybe 1 good game all playoffs
I mean jackson played 5 minutes murray went off jokic barley sat watson was benched holiday saw like 1 minute in the 2nd half and nnaji dj were benched
c'mon skap... this is the pattern of lemedia you are treading here...
I watched last night's game and Jokic is surrounded by role player bums. They had a high schooler named braun on the court with Jokic.
I swear
The guy practically plays alone or sometimes with Murray if he decides to actually play good and they still got a ring and dragged the team with the best defense currently to a game 7
Now imagine the Nuggets with 1 all star level shooter that can actually make something out of Jokic's support
@@That-One-Spy-Main Problem is they can't bring anyone now, and even if they could nobody wants to go to boring Denver, that's why Murray has such a fat paycheck not because he's good but because they got nobody else, they should put all their focus on Braun, kid got the balls and is far more skilled then pussy ass Murray, they need an edge like Rodman was and they are all nerds including Jokic.
Braun was actually a bright spot for the nuggets in this game. He got them some clutch baskets to try and get the nuggets back some momentum they were really losing in that second half
@@Ritokurotrue, and he also had some pretty good defensive moments in the first half and the 3rd quarter
Cant really blame Braun. Porter Jr shot bricks while KCP was afraid to take shot and didnt play well.
Denver’s entire offense is Murray dribbling around for 15 seconds, running a pick and roll with Jokic, and then shooting along with the inverse with Jokic as the ball handler. It’s incredibly frustrating to watch when it isn’t working.
MPJ is suppose to be a star player. They used to play him as the go-to guy occasionally around three injuries ago, but he was 3/12 from the field in game 7, so maybe not the best option. MPJ scored 11 points per game in the series. Jaden McDaniels, Naz Reid and Mike Conley outscored him in the series.
This is hilarious considering the talking heads have spent a month saying the Nuggets have Soooo much more talent than the Lakers .....😂😂😂
Anthony Davis is better than the entire Nuggets team outside of Jokic combined
Jokic is the only good player. The only thing abt nuggets is that they have a better coach than the lakers.
They do. It's just mostly in Jokic. But the better team won mate.
Lakers dominated nuggets in time with lead but failed to close games. They need a closer with an offensive arsenal they not afraid to use. Which is very strange given who's on this lakers roster. Nuggets played bad vs lakers and now bad vs wolves.
@@zerokiryuu-ig7wmMichael Malone has historically been a great coach but im dissapointed with him this game.
He made some big errors in the 3rd that couldve prevented the lead being stolen.
This was everyone on the nuggets fault… wolves came back from 20‼️ NO EXCUSES NUGGETS ARE DEFENDING CHAMPS AT HOME
Murray scored 35 Stfu. Jokic got stuffed in crunch time by a bench player
Sounds like jokic had more help than Jordan dud in 97 and 98
How is the #1 story Not, MVP blows 20 point lead in historic collapse. Media never goes after Jokic. It’s all praise, no criticism. Did I miss the memo?
Hes not a real mvp bro steph was lebron was kd was. Jokic is a hyped up product they try to market to gsin more European fans.
@@saucegod8852he amazing but he kd and he most def no steph and lbj better than all them
Sounds like what LeBron fans say after THEIR hero loses. Blame all the teammates, “we played against a super team”, “look at HIS stats, even though he lost, teammates need to help!!”- it wasn’t enough, and the MVP has to do more, no excuses!!
Was just about to comment this 🙌🏾
This video is more whiny than a child not being allowed to go on a ride in Disneyland. Bro, they won the championship last year and lost in game 7. Jokic got every call possible last night, Aaron Gordon played great most of the playoffs and Murray has had tremendous playoffs performances before....chill. you can't win them all.
All this channel does these days is glaze Jokic. If it was anyone else they would get hate and have their leadership skills questioned for blowing a 20+ lead with a supporting cast as strong as the nuggets. But nope, Jokic gets a pass.
Skap's content is for entertainment purposes only, just like the media, he seeks to destroy the media narrative, yet he's become the very thing he sought to destroy, except for Jokic, like the media is for LeBron.
He gets a pass because he dropped 35 points, if you want to shit on him for not being able to win 2v5 then go ahead.
@@sined9819good amount of those points were scored in garbage time 😂
@sined9819 check some of lebron’s stats in his losses. They dwarf jokic’s. Look your a hypocrite. We get it. Go cry in your pillow boy😂
@km2460 What I have been trying to tell people
I have to laugh. Malone was beaten by an Assistant coach
I can’t lie. Michael Malone’s arrogance sometimes gets on my nerves. 😂
Wrong. Malone was beaten by a player-coach.
@@penkima4923 lol 😂 you should delete that comment
@@pushthebutton8723 Why?
"You live by the three, you die by the three" What the league has become. So sad and painful to see...
Credit to the Timberwolves for their defense and shot-making, but it was absolutely breathtaking to watch the Nuggets get steamrolled starting in the mid-3rd quarter with so many bricks. MPJ is not only such a painful overpay for horrific inconsistency, he seems to have an allergy for defense that made it easier for whomever he was supposed to be guarding. Unfortunately, no team short of a lottery/money-surplus team would take on his albatross contract, which would probably require giving up draft picks in return... Jokic will need to do another Jokic '23/Olajuwon '94 performance to get back to the Finals...
Exactly!
Credit to the refs for those 14 extra FTs.
Props and respect to both Jokic and Antman for this series matchup.
Ant-Man acts like an absolute turd. Why would you respect him?
So are you in fact positing that........Jokic needs help?
Every star needs help. You can’t win in this league with one player dominating anymore otherwise doncic would have a championship by now. Now he has Irving and good role players so he has a chance to win.
"...Jokic needs help?"
Well, yes. He can't need more help, because he has no help in the first place. He's played 8 season in the league, and never with an all-star teammate.
@@penkima4923your saying Jamal Murray isn't all star level all bc he didn't win a popularity contest?
@@goodguyscomelast2029 Looks like they made the right decision to leave him out, and it's not a popularity contest.
This is a failure that Jokic absolutely must bear the brunt of the criticism for, especially as league MVP. Jokic being "gassed" from playing a ton of minutes is a legitimate and observable fact - you could see it in his eyes. He's only human. BUT that's exactly why someone like Jordan is viewed as "other than human": A DOG, A GOAT. I think maybe just maybe MJ was also tired/gassed in that "Flu game", but he had something extra within him that was not subject to the limitations of human physiology. THERE IS NO STAT LINE FOR THE WILL TO WIN.
Jordan won 6 chips playing two man basketball. He didn't have anyone outside of Pippen. It was Jordan and another Bulls player who would contribute offensively, usually the other players was Pippen.
One thing Jordan's Bulls did do was commit to playing solid team defense. This made up for the offensive deficiencies of the team. You don't need to be talented to play great defense. Defense is all about effort. This game came down to defense and the Wolves played excellent team D to pull this one out. Your shot isn't going to fall every night, but you can play hard nose defense no matter what.
Man stop 😂😂😂😂Jokic has the most complete team you can ask for. MPJ, Murray and Gordan can go for 25 on any given night. They all play well when clicking. Now that MPJ has a couple bad games now it’s he doesn’t have a good supporting cast? Stop it 😂😂😂
You unintentionally pointed out the problem yourself
Murray, MPJ and Gordon are insanely inconsistent, half of the time they don't show up while the Timberwolves for example are full of guys who show up 95% of the time
The supporting cast of Jokic is everything but consistant
Compared to KAT, Naz Reid and Rudy?? Nuggets don't have defense.
@That-One-Spy-Main so maybe Jokic should work on his leadership skills. Like I keep saying keep on crying buddy😂
Say this out loud so it will stick..... Joker has never played with an all star
@@redeyexxx1841they clearly do have defense as the won the championship last season and challenged the Timberwolves going to 7 games
Nuggets choke in the 2nd half by settling on bricks instead of attacking the paint.
Jordan would have won the title with this nuggets team
Jokic failed the nuggets. It’s not the role players fault, it’s the 3 time mvp’s fault. Keep it consistent. If it’s not lebron’s teammates fault, then it’s not jokic’s teammates fault either. Defense wins titles, and jokic played little defense in that game. Simply put they just got out played as a team. Denver isn’t battle tested like that. But role players don’t take blame for losses, stars do. That’s jokic, he failed them in more ways than one. Jokic is great but he isn’t all that, this weak basketball we’ve seen the last 15 yrs has made everyone forget what great actually looks like. I’m disappointed in this video.
Your right skap just doesn’t like lebron plain and simple as that I think there’s two videos on this channel where he says something good about lebron
True and he shot poorly from 3 the last 2 games. Missed wide open 3s and contested nothing at the rim. I love Jokic and wanted him to repeat, but I gotta be objective.
True and he shot poorly from 3 the last 2 games. Missed wide open 3s and contested nothing at the rim. I love Jokic and wanted him to repeat, but I gotta be objective.
@@jordanjenkins1671he’s kinda of a hypocrite because when the lakers bench was terrible he still blamed it on LeBron🤣🤣🤣
Correct. Joker's Defense is putrid and in a tight, physical game like this it has cost them dearly. This soft era has made some people forget that Rim Protection is still massively important, especially when the shots aren't falling.
This is the same tactic used by LeBron James fans. Blame the teammates. Jokic's team gave up a 20 point second half lead at home with him on the court. The so-called greatest offensive player ever couldn't manufacture enough scoring to keep that lead? Game 7's are when we expect all time greats to show up, not "the teammates".
lebrons teammates average prime shaq numbers, jokics teammates average todays shaq numbers, there is a difference, you just need to be not biased or stupid to see it
@@aleksandarstojanovski9193 No one on Lebron's team has ever averaged prime Shaq numbers in the playoffs. My guy was putting up 30 and 15 with over 3 blocks a night in the slowest era of all time. LeBron is a known stat padder, and he hasn't put up prime Shaq numbers in the playoffs.
@@jaketerpening3284 check AD out just this season in the playoffs, and he basically did it in 3 quarters because lebron froze him out consistently in the 4th
@@aleksandarstojanovski9193 I guess he's pretty close, though obviously the pace is much faster in today's game. I stand corrected though. I had his game 5 stinker still in my mind, but he was over 30 in the first 3.
@@aleksandarstojanovski9193Jamal Murray was literally averaging 32 ppg in the wcf last year you 🤡
They were up by a lot but they decided to start chucking three's instead of killing the clock and just trying to score in the paint. As much as I like the nuggets, they kinda deserved to lose this one. WP to the Wolves for not giving up.
Nuggets fans value beating Lebalco more than actually winning the title and series lol
Skap... We have to admit that Jokic wasn't dominant as last year despite his numbers. Murray got plagued with injuries and despite that... He still playing and performing good at the clutch as best as he could. Game 7... Despite Jokic scoring 34 points, he was under 48% which hurts the impact of those points a bit. He will get better...
Here is a another way to look at it. How often did you see the nuggets play their open style of offensive play? They did it in game 3,4, and 5. Also it’s hard to complain about the rest of the players getting single point scores when jokic takes 28 FGA, Murray takes 27 FGA, and the last 24 are spread around 6 dudes.
I feel like Michael malone should also get his fair share of blame, why did he leave jokic in when they were up 20?
Very good point
Great video! Pretty much sums up the whole Nuggets "dinasty" and their recent success.
The bench was an issue, but not why they lost game 7
MPJ, Murray and Jokic missed a combined 21 three-point shots and had 8 of Denver's 10 turnovers. They also took 67 of Denver's 83 shots
Denver is at its best when they get everyone involved
“This Fraud Bum” 😂😂😂
Bro is a bum, I get it when he's having a bad shooting night but he's one of the tallest guys on the floor and doesn't use his size to get to the glass, soft af
big L take skap, they may not be as deep as last year but what the hell are you talking about man
That's why is so difficult to repeat as champions, especially if the team is not constructed with at least two allstars who have different roles. The Nuggets are a great team but a lot revolve around Jokic to create offense for others, if you meet a defensive team like Minnesota other teammates may find a hard way to score like what happened this game7. They just need to regroup and find a deepee bench with more shot creator and they are fine.
He's spreading Jokic propaganda, that's what, if this was LeBron I GUARANTEE you he would be shitting on him like there's no end. Did you watch the video he made about the Celtics just days ago after they lost a single game? Where's that same energy here? He also made a video trying to justify himself a while ago but it's total bs, straight up lying to us because his actions clearly prove otherwise
What he said about everybody but jokic was just slanderous.
@Le_vonn I have made it my mission to get this bum or fraud off of UA-cam. His channel is the worst.
Jokic did everything possible to try and win that game but his team decided not to show up.
Murray bricking multiple consecutive 3s on the fast break was so frustrating to watch
For anyone that has a working brain if you do not now see the clear cut hypocrises & astounding similarities between Jokic apologists such as this man in comparison to the very fanbase he never fails to eviscerate... its time to unplug yourself & wake up...
When I saw the way this man 🗑 the All-Star game, humorized KAT laughable 60pt performance in an open, spaced non-defensive layup line... only to use such months later to inform us just how "stacked" ANT supporting cast is in comparison to Jokic'.... BEFORE THE SERIES STARTED...I knew I'd be in for a treat... go in victimizing yourself & you'll come out doing the same
This man time & time again has the gall to heavily criticize players such as LeBron James, Joel Embid, Kevin Durant etc. for the VERY SAME THINGS he continously praises Jokic for... & he masquerades it as being the stark difference between team hoppers & deck stackers w/ a homegrown talent...
This fluff talk with NBA greats / legends pertaining to supporting casts & help, excuses, mediocrity, watered down & undeserving accolades, league rules & officiating, accumulative stats & longevity etc. (which I agree with) ... all this talk about "aLpHas" "oWnErsHiP" "lEaDerShiP" & yet here he sits... attempting to convince himself that Jokic supporting cast regardless of the reciepts is so 🗑 & useless, that no matter the outcome, his favorite player is *NEVER* to blame why? "JUST LOOK AT THOSE STATS" 🤡👎🏾 as if we didnt see the exact opposite transpire during that 3-game run... its never "the better team won" it's "We lost because..." I didnt hear all this "👶🏼" last season against those 3 play-in teams. Yea winning is hard when the competition gets real huh⁉️ (0-6 against 50+win teams) ... I was hearing talks of "best player of this generation" "Top 10 C" but now when treated like one like the average LeBron fan never fails to cower, backtrack, excuse, deny, & deflect...
the best player in the world (according to him) ... I didnt see so many olive branches thrown to LeBron his 1st stint in CLE, or Embiid, Giannis, Steph, KD, Kawhi etc. so why now?
Much like any other, is an inconsistent toe sucking fanboy with his head in the clouds like the very Bron fans he so hates... HES NOT CONSISTENT. HES A HYPOCRITE...
Mark my words, "In 3 years, dependent on Jokic success, these 🍒 scratching Joker apologists will replace the very fanbase (LeBron James') they never fail to eviscerate & criticize"
The defending champs lost Game 1 at home.
They then got annihilated in Game 2 at home.
They were up 3-2.
They lost Game 6 by FORTY FIVE POINTS.
In Game 7, the other team’s 22 YEAR OLD best player was 6-24 and they were up 20 in the 2nd half.
And they lost. At home.
Skap, I’m gonna disagree with you here. Jokic choked. His team choked. Simple as that. Dirk also had bums in his 2007 MVP season and choked. It happens. What we need to see now is his response next season. Will give credit that Jokic didn’t need to stack the deck to win a title last year, but he choked yesterday, no excuses.
EDIT: The only thing that is annoying that they treat Jokic like 2007 Dirk after Jokic already won a title when they should’ve treated him more like 2011 Dirk. That slander is a stupid take. Still, every great besides MJ had a series they choked in. It happens. I respect that Jokic at leasts takes accountability. Now Murray though…
Terrible take. Dirk beat the 2011 Miami Heat for his ring. Jokic beat the 2023 Miami Heat for his ring (never beating a 50 win team in the playoffs). Context matters
jordan was terribly in the 96 finals
@@Reaper13-hi3yo And it seems you don’t know what context means. Get a better bot Klutz. Hey LeDiddy , did you fiddle with the bot to make it as stupid with you, like pretending to read the first page of a book? LMAO 🤡
I’ve been waiting for this episode😂
Congrats Wolves! You have a bright future. Hopefully Jokic and his supporting cast will bounce back
Hopefully Jokic leaves Denver.
He's definitely showing a huge bias here. Jokic has a great team, they just weren't better than the timberwolves
a great team has depth , a great team has a bench, the nuggets have the worst bench IN THE LEAGUE, clearly this team is not great they were good, good enough for a 4-1 series win vs bum ass lakers where every game was close and denver always had to play catch up. everyone knew this was concerning.😂
dude is a racist actually
like one of those racist gamers
A great team? You sure? Don't get me wrong Jamal and Gordon are good players, but the Nuggets are great because of one guy. The wolves are great because they have a great team. Ant just puts them over the top.
Ant has Rudy, Kat, a really good two way wing in JMD, and a 6MOTY in Naz Reid. I'm more surprised the series went 7 games. The Wolves had more firepower but that's the greatness of Jokic, he only had maybe one bad game this series iirc.
Skap bias? Wow that's a new thing lol.
In order for any team to be "great", they have to play great. Nuggets not named Jokic simply don't. It's leftish to call facts "biased" only because they don't support the way somebody feels about something.
If Jokic gets disgruntled in Denver, I’m sure he’d be warmly welcomed to the Knicks.
Brunson
Divencenzo
OG
Randle
Jokic
That’s a championship squad
I thought Jokic was so Good he made his teammates better 😂
DON'T DO THAT...THE NUGGETS HAVE A GREAT TEAM....THE TIMBERWOLVES HAVE A GREAT TEAM ASWELL...AT THIS STAGE OF COMPETITION EVERYONE HAS A GREAT TEAM ..IT JUST COMES DOWN TO WHO DOES WHAT WHEN IT COUNTS....THE NUGGETS HAVE BEEN DOMINENT FOR THE LAST 4 SEASONS..THEIR NOT BUMS...THE WOLVES HAVE BEEN COMING THE LAST 4 YEARS. IT WAS JUST THE WOLVES TIME....FACTS!!!!!