Peregrine01 wrote:MrBigShot wrote:No GM in the league, for one season, is taking any player not named Jokic to lead their team.
If it weren't for Jokic, SGA would be running away with MVP. But 30/12/10 on 57/46/82 is just downright absurd, Jokic is straight out of a video game.
What’s crazy to me is that he isn’t even trying. He racked up 9 assists in a single quarter today and it was the most ridiculously easy offense I’ve ever seen. Just lay-ups after lay-ups. I really wonder if the guy can literally see a second or two into the future.
yeah, he doesn't care at all. SGA is ahead atm because of the gap in team wins, but we saw SGA vs. the Suns checking back into the game in the 4th up 25 points just so he could get his 50, Jokic just doesn't care at all. he could average 35 and 15 assists if he wanted, easily. he's also mainly boxing out lately and just letting everybody else rebound. he might be the GOAT teammate, players must love playing next to this dude
but that ofc has nothing to do with the MVP race, you get votes on what you're doing not what you could've been doing
p.s Denver is still a much weaker and considerably less stacked team than most of the contenders, they're just not good enough. lately they haven't been healthy either,took a long while for AG to come back and he isn't really himself yet, Watson went down for at least a month, Russ has been injured and Murray sat the Magic game as well and doesn't look quite right when he is playing
Denver sat pat at the deadline while contenders got even better..best team in the East picked up Hunter for a bag of chips..now imagine Hunter on the Nuggets
Jokic is so damn good he can dissect mediocre by himself and he's shown that time and time again, remember that 2022 G-league squad he carried to near 50 win? but once they matchup with teams that have very few holes in their lineups (if any), that's just not enough, basketall is a team sport and we've seen that lately when they matched up with the Knicks, Wolves etc.
