AleksandarN wrote:One_and_Done wrote:AleksandarN wrote:The dominate pick and roll teams you said would expose Jokic.
Harden's old Rocket teams are a good example. The 21 Suns are another. The younger Curry Warriors too. How many more of these do you want?
What teams last year did they avoid? 2018 Rockets? Come on you are reaching. The younger Curry warriors? So you want to go back in time now to try and find teams to expose Jokic ok lol. What teams now that would expose Jokic? I like how you try and change the goal posts. 21 Suns? What was Jokic's backcourt during that series.
Last year the good high PnR teams they didn't have to play, which I named already, were teams like Boston, Memphis, GSW, the Kings. I am not saying the Kings beat the Nuggets necessarily, but they are a tough match up due to playing to Jokic's weaknesses. The Suns last year didn't play alot of PnR between KDs age and Booker getting hurt. I've long said a healthy Suns team last year probably beats the Nuggets. Wolves can play alot of high PnR with Ant, but Gobert ruins it somewhat because they can't go 5 out with him. Jayden was also hurt last year.
This year there is a good array of high PnR teams, so hopefully Jokic has to play some and we get a better idea of how he holds up in the playoffs against more PnR heavy teams; Boston, Bucks when they go small, GSW, Mavs, Suns when healthy, Kings, OKC. These are all teams designed to stress test Jokic on D. Even the Clippers got Harden, so might be able to finally overcome their generally poor match up with Jokic. If you want the teams that match up poorly with Jokic, ir's teams like the Lakers, Heat, Pelicans, etc.