The MVP race is in full swing between Jayson Tatum, Giannis Antetokounmpo or Zion Williamson? Lol, a nice ogre just remembered last night that he held the last two trophies and it wasn’t ridiculous to think of him for a third this year. This ogre is Nikola Jokic, and the Wizards defense is still quite shocked.
Home stats of the Serbian feast is right here
43 points, 17/20 shooting and 9/10 throwing.
14 rebounds, 8 assists and 5 steals.
In 33 minutes, sorry?
Nikola Jokic has this particularity, like other all-time players, of having trivialized the exceptional. 33/10/9, 31/12/14/4 and therefore 43/14/8/5, here are the figures for the last three releases of the Joker, perfs to which we can obviously add a bunch of others since the beginning of the season… but there you go, the problem is there: this has become “normal”, to such an extent that we don’t really pay attention to it anymore. The Nuggets are third in the West but Nikola does not yet appear in the heights of the MVP rankings, probably because his 23.8 points, 10.1 rebounds and 9.1 assists average are too weak, especially in scoring.
But sometimes Nikola sneezes, he coughs, he farts, and last night the beast farted so hard on Washington’s racquet that Taj Gibson and company are still all disheveled (not Taj Gibson following all).
In a disputed match once morest a weak team, deprived of Bradley Beal and Kristaps Porzingis and played once morest former MVP teammates Will Barton and Monte Morris, the Serbian pivot had NO difficulty in establishing his domination and making every second spent on the floor a success, what am I saying, a demo.
We will come back to the Nuggets defense (117, 121, 116, 120, 110 and 128 points conceded in the last six games), but let’s say that when Niko decides to take a match-up on his own in this way… we often know the end of the story. At the arrival a season high, a third victory in a row for the Nuggets who therefore remain on the Western podiumand this still without being able to count on Michael Porter Jr., but if you know, the young winger there, of whom we say the greatest good.
