lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 5 November 2023 17:21 (eleven months ago) link
jokic is the rare player rn where taking long 2s is actually a better shot (for points per shot) than his 3 (which is v good), just insane
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Sunday, 5 November 2023 20:39 (eleven months ago) link
I just feel like his scoring isn’t enough of a focus of conversation, like I’m happy that everyone understands what a passing savant he is, but he’s *also* possibly the most unguardable complete three-level scorer in the league, the splits he puts up are truly silly
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 November 2023 01:02 (eleven months ago) link
one of the reasons his scoring is so good is hes impossible to double because of his passing
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 November 2023 01:04 (eleven months ago) link
also if he wants to be recognized as one of the best scorers, hes doesnt care, if kevin wants him to be recognized as one of the best scorers he should shoot more
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 November 2023 01:05 (eleven months ago) link
high level one of the things that makes him so great is his decision making, he makes the right play consistently, which naturally leads to shooting less than the very top scorers, if he shot more his percentages would come down cause he wouldnt be making perfect decisions, however he has so much wiggle room he could probably lead the league in scoring and still be the most efficient high usage guy, tho steph maybe could beat him there
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 November 2023 01:09 (eleven months ago) link
I just feel like his scoring isn’t enough of a focus of conversation
the conversation around here is comfortably unfocused and that's how I like it
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 6 November 2023 01:10 (eleven months ago) link
i for one would like to see a shooting more joker and in fact have been a long time supporter of said concept
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 November 2023 01:11 (eleven months ago) link
also worth considering that moving a 7th 300lb body around is a lot of work and scoring more involves more moving than not scoring
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 November 2023 01:13 (eleven months ago) link
all I was saying was that for a guy who scores 27 points a game his shot appetite is quite varied and equally impossible to stop! his passing opens up plenty for sure, but it’s still pretty hard to score as consistently from so many different places on the court, it’s just a cool thing that should be talked about more
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 November 2023 02:56 (eleven months ago) link
jokic has zero (0) dunks so far this year btw
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 November 2023 02:58 (eleven months ago) link
why does he hate the famous shot
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 November 2023 03:02 (eleven months ago) link
jumping takes a lot of energy
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 November 2023 03:17 (eleven months ago) link
hollinger:
Jokić’s start, in particular, has been a revelation. If you thought he’d spend his post-championship offseason resting on his laurels and blow off basketball for more enjoyable pursuits like mucking stables, think again. Through seven games, he leads the league in PER with a 33.1 mark, one that would be a record if he kept it up for a full season.Dig deeper, and the numbers get more hilarious. After mostly abandoning 3-point shots last season, he’s actually taking them again and making 40 percent thus far. He surprised Chicago’s Nikola Vučević by letting it rip on an early-clock pull-up 3 on Saturday. He’s eighth in the league in assists; he’s a 6-foot-11 center, and everyone else in the top 15 is a point guard. Already one of the league’s most dangerous offensive rebounders, his 11.0 percent offensive rebound rate this season would be his first time in double digits in seven years.Most notably, he’s shooting 69.4 percent on 2s despite the fact that barely one in five of those attempts come at the rim. I’m sorry but … what?!?!? That doesn’t even seem real.The skill level on some of his shots is simply preposterous. He makes this slow-mo Euro step into a floater over Andre Drummond look like the most casually easy shot attempt; in reality, having the touch for this shot both while taking a shot and decelerating to avoid the charge is something few guards could emulate consistently. It’s just that Jokić makes complicated footwork seem about as challenging as the recipe for ice cubes. This shot also is part of a massive larger pattern: He makes one-handed, on the move, non-rim paint shots like this over and over and over again
Dig deeper, and the numbers get more hilarious. After mostly abandoning 3-point shots last season, he’s actually taking them again and making 40 percent thus far. He surprised Chicago’s Nikola Vučević by letting it rip on an early-clock pull-up 3 on Saturday. He’s eighth in the league in assists; he’s a 6-foot-11 center, and everyone else in the top 15 is a point guard. Already one of the league’s most dangerous offensive rebounders, his 11.0 percent offensive rebound rate this season would be his first time in double digits in seven years.
Most notably, he’s shooting 69.4 percent on 2s despite the fact that barely one in five of those attempts come at the rim. I’m sorry but … what?!?!? That doesn’t even seem real.
The skill level on some of his shots is simply preposterous. He makes this slow-mo Euro step into a floater over Andre Drummond look like the most casually easy shot attempt; in reality, having the touch for this shot both while taking a shot and decelerating to avoid the charge is something few guards could emulate consistently. It’s just that Jokić makes complicated footwork seem about as challenging as the recipe for ice cubes. This shot also is part of a massive larger pattern: He makes one-handed, on the move, non-rim paint shots like this over and over and over again
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 November 2023 18:24 (eleven months ago) link
Coach Malone said the Jamal Murray hamstring injury is not a “one or two game injury.”Said this is something that will “be longer than we like” but the Nuggets “need to have big picture in mind.” Malone said they don’t want it to linger.— Katy Winge (@katywinge) November 7, 2023
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:27 (eleven months ago) link
not great
just as long as hes healthy for the offs, seems like hes maybe not a super durable guy, might be good to not play a whole season
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:30 (eleven months ago) link
plus maybe joker will shoot more
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:33 (eleven months ago) link
malone is right too with those hammys you really want them fully healed
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:34 (eleven months ago) link
yah some aren’t meant to be great in the regular
― that genius dn i thought of on Zing but couldn't update to (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 02:22 (eleven months ago) link
would be good for murray to make the all star team tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 02:23 (eleven months ago) link
doesnt look that bad
Jamal Murray will miss tonight’s game against New Orleans with a hamstring strain. Here he is chopping it up with the coaching staff. pic.twitter.com/trpHDQ128E— DNVR Nuggets (@DNVR_Nuggets) November 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 02:25 (eleven months ago) link
yeah should hopefully be a 3-4 game thing
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 02:31 (eleven months ago) link
jokic already has a behind the back pass to a wide open layup and a through the legs backward pass tonight, neither of them led to buckets tho
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 02:32 (eleven months ago) link
2021 jokic out there tonight with murray out. this is the future lagoon wants smh
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 03:15 (eleven months ago) link
hell yeah lets do this
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 03:16 (eleven months ago) link
the pels shot like 75% on jumpers in the first half it was not too cool to watch
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 03:21 (eleven months ago) link
you know what they say its a shooting league
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 03:21 (eleven months ago) link
jokic first dunk of the season!
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 03:29 (eleven months ago) link
julian strawther!! love this kid
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 03:54 (eleven months ago) link
jordan hawkins from uconn (the best college) is having an insane game this guy is steph curry
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 03:57 (eleven months ago) link
hard to even describe what’s going on right now, jokic is out and the nuggets rookies are like the harlem globetrotters now, what an insane run
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 04:01 (eleven months ago) link
jokic finishes with 35-14-12. nuggs out score the pels 75-45 in the second half. sick game
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 04:25 (eleven months ago) link
Sequence of the Year. pic.twitter.com/uUWA81MouT— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) November 7, 2023
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 06:31 (eleven months ago) link
sick
wed night espn nugs v dubs baby
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 06:39 (eleven months ago) link
Most 2-pointers from 5 feet and out (plus FG% on those shots)Nikola Jokić (45 2P, 75.0 FG%)Kevin Durant (43 2P, 47.3 FG%)Cam Thomas (34 2P, 50.0 FG%)Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (30 2P, 49.2 FG%)DeMar DeRozan (30 2P, 36.6 FG%)— Andy Bailey (@AndrewDBailey) November 7, 2023
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:08 (eleven months ago) link
Bench guys stepped up last night.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:25 (eleven months ago) link
it was incredible to watch
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:47 (eleven months ago) link
― k3vin k., Monday, November 6, 2023 9:32 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Nikola Jokic made these two passes in a four-minute span. pic.twitter.com/oR6IKrsAlY— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) November 8, 2023
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 8 November 2023 18:45 (eleven months ago) link
murray out a month :/
― Clay, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 23:23 (eleven months ago) link
ESPN Sources: Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray will be likely sidelined for the remainder of the month because of his right hamstring strain. pic.twitter.com/yfdxUZ5bkK— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 8, 2023
ban legs
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 8 November 2023 23:28 (eleven months ago) link
remainder of the month is better than a month
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 23:30 (eleven months ago) link
three weeks honestly not that bad
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 23:31 (eleven months ago) link
my 9 year old shook me to wake me up this morning and when i came to... "dad.... warriors play the nuggets tonight, should i wear my curry jersey to school?"
best alarm clock ever
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Thursday, 9 November 2023 00:06 (ten months ago) link
DeAndre Jordan was on The Great American Baking Show (Celebrity Holiday Edition)𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩:Jordan was one of six contestants along with Arturo Castro (Broad City), Ego Nwodim (Saturday Night Live), Joel McHale (Animal Control), Heather McMahan (Everything's… pic.twitter.com/hlbM7bNwRR— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) November 12, 2023
― k3vin k., Sunday, 12 November 2023 21:56 (ten months ago) link
heh
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-tw-m6WsAALs25?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 November 2023 00:32 (ten months ago) link
I’m sorry was that random shot in the middle…lefty?!?!? pic.twitter.com/YxStTZYfaF— Katy Winge (@katywinge) November 12, 2023
that lefty three looks pretty good…
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 November 2023 00:45 (ten months ago) link
https://stathead.com/basketball/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=perchoice&player_id1=jokicni01&p1yrfrom=2021&p1yrto=2024&player_id2=jordami01&p2yrfrom=1990&p2yrto=1993
just something I’m keeping an eye on…
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 November 2023 11:01 (ten months ago) link
ESPN Sources: The Denver Nuggets’ Michael Malone — who led the franchise to the 2023 NBA championship — has agreed on a contract extension that’ll make him one of the league’s highest paid coaches. pic.twitter.com/klyGsLSYKO— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 13, 2023
malone extended
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 November 2023 20:14 (ten months ago) link
riding the gravy big honey train
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 13 November 2023 20:28 (ten months ago) link