Mastodon
@National Basketball Association

Eric Spoelstra shuts down the final question in his post-game presser about “making Jokic a scorer or passer”



Eric Spoelstra shuts down the final question in his post-game presser about “making Jokic a scorer or passer”

by WhatTheRickIsDoin

45 Comments

  1. Falt_ssb

    lmfaoooo spo called her a fucking idiot basically

  2. MySilverBurrito

    Jeff Green shuts down the same question too lmao.

  3. Beermen69

    He should’ve played 2-3 zone with the reporters.

  4. “That’s the untrained eye that says something like that.”

    That’s gold.

  5. lazzysmalls

    Did the Heat win or did the Nuggets lose ass question

  6. TheRealDevDev

    lmao absolutely bodied ramona shelburne. i get it with annoying questions but this one seemed relatively tame, especially considering she prefaced it with “this is probably oversimplifying things…”

  7. Character_Shelter_38

    As diplomatic as insult can get

  8. Reporters getting challenged is one of my favourite things

  9. moneycarlo98

    Of course it’s Ramona Shelburne lmfao

  10. Balls_of_Adamanthium

    “That’s the untrained eye that says something like that”

    This might be the most polite yet most insulting way to tell someone they don’t know ball

  11. Legitimate_Secret_79

    the question isn’t even that bad

  12. Comfortable-Army1058

    Just called all the armchair analysts here dumbasses

  13. mmaguy123

    It’s clearly just fluff politics.

    It’s glaringly clear that the heat pivoted from doubling jokic to him being a score first guy.

    And jokic is a great scorer, but the team functions a lot better when he doesn’t have 4 assists and 5 turnovers

  14. SocratesPolle

    In MMA it would be a 10-7 round for Spoelstra. Nobody will be asking him this question in the future.

  15. Victor_Wembanyama1

    The best part is him saying

    >we try to control what we can do

    And they’ve done that very well to the tune of stealing homecourt.

    They just keep running their sets, play zone like madmen.

  16. timurjimmy

    I do not know more about basketball than Spo but I’d say there’s at least some merit to the idea that having Jokic primarily look to score rather than play-make is a good strategy.

    You obviously have the 53 point game he had against Phoenix in a losing effort but beyond that when he isn’t getting guys involved Denver doesn’t really have anybody that can reliably create a shot for themselves outside of Murray.

    Now the “untrained eye” part comes in when you oversimplify how easy it is to do that, because the vast majority of the time Jokic is a scorer AND a playmaker. Could be that next game Miami tries its damndest to have Jokic isolate and game plans for him to become a scorer and he still drops 39/12/14 because he is the best player in the world. It’s not that easy.

  17. yazboy13

    “Untrained Eye” is elite stuff right there

  18. MarcusSmartfor3

    Ryen Russillo is gonna love this one

  19. ahnyudingslover

    Didn’t draymond green popularize this “make jokic a passer or scorer” thing? At the very least, talk about it certainly got loud ever since his lakers nuggets podcast.

    That makes dray an ‘untrained eye’ according to spo lmao.

  20. TriteContrivity

    “Fuck you and your ESPN narratives” – Spo

  21. carbine23

    This is literally for all of us in this sub, jokic will get what he wants.

  22. Brooklyn_MLS

    tbf to Ramona, she prefaced the statement by saying “it might be oversimplifying it”. It seems she just wanted a statement on what they did to limit Jokic’s passing.

    Spoelstra totally dissed her lol, but I think its also calculated—by shutting it down he didn’t need to discuss gameplan, and he can simply credit Jokic, and not poke the bear.

  23. Wedundidit00

    Lmao spo went after the entire nba podcasting community calling them clowns basically. That’s been their “analysis” non stop

  24. RoyalRumbleSTi

    Us Lakers fans know how awful Ramona is. Hate hearing her voice on 710.

  25. luke_workin

    He can deflect the question all he wants, but everyone in that Miami locker room knows that was their gameplan tonight.

  26. DTFpanda

    “best player on the planet two seasons in a row”

    Sorry Embiid, Spo’s word is final

  27. Unciano404

    “Untrained eye” = r/nba catching strays

  28. Huge-Split6250

    Well yeah but they played him 1:1 knowing he’d score more and assist less. Like they weren’t just making it up.

  29. by_yes_i_mean_no

    Translation: “yes we tried to make him a scorer but I’ve done this too long to say anything that could be construed as bulletin board material”

  30. SeeingThings123

    I love Spo but respectfully he didn’t say why it’s ridiculous outside of he’s amazing at basketball lol.

    It’s been a pretty strong correlation between Jokic having 20-30 with 10+ assists and his team winning, vs him having 40+ with less than 10 assists and his team losing.

    But I’m sure someone will just respond with “You’re gonna tell the NBA COACH he’s WRONG?? Reeeeee” without, again, explaining anything lol.

    Obviously there’s no “flip” Miami can switch on to just decide “Hey, Jokic is ONLY gonna score today. Got it?!” to arguably the greatest offensive player oat, but you obviously give yourself a much better chance to win when you don’t double him and you stay disciplined on off-ball movement to get him to look to score more….

    Especially with this Denver team, who doesn’t have really any reliable off the dribble creators outside of Jokic and Murray.

  31. MF_Jones_6172

    Jokic only turns into a scorer when one of the following happens:

    1. It’s the right basketball play
    2. Teammates aren’t hitting shots
    3. Nuggets are losing
    4. Somebody pissed him off

    That’s it. He always makes the right plays from a basketball standpoint.

  32. SolarClipz

    Spo is a dick for that one lol tf

    Maybe he took the question the wrong way but if Jokic is getting 50 pts and 5 assist its much better than 20 and 20…

  33. TheMidnightRamblerrr

    Interesting take from Spoelstra.

  34. yanansawelder

    Spo downplaying this so the Nugs don’t catch on to make adjustments for the next game lol.

Write A Comment