Is Nikola Jokic the new prototypical superstar? 🧐 | Get Up
The Get Up crew discusses Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic’s impact on the NBA.
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You cannot just fuse all the skills that he has into 7 footers like that, this is not possible, and certainly that nature doesn't work that way.
We can maybe expect one similar player to emerge every 10 years or so, but Jokic's replica will not exist.
Clearly these idiots never saw sabonis play in his prime.
Love the idea of NFL quarterback concept. Watching Joker as Qtrback on the court is so much fun. His bluffing, no eye contact, involving his teammate all that is just great.
You are inventing hot water again. In Serbia we teach our kids from start to play as PG to hoon passing skils and post skils to. So when you grow up you have it in you. That positionless game.
Centers are now the dominate force again. If you look at the top 10 players currently in the league many of them are centers from Jokic, Giannis, AD, Embiid, Ayton. So maybe centers will become the superstar position.
Skilled bigs (pretty much anyone 6’8 and up) who can do almost everything are usually the best players in the league. Look at the past few MVPs.
The first guy talks about the "future" eventually having 10 guys like Jokic, tall and can play and shoot like a point guard, and the other guy starts listing 3 current players as a counter argument. What an idiot.
The reason you didn't learn perimeter's skills is because you didn't have any perimeter skills!!
Imagine if jokic had 8 more games worth of stats on that🤣🤣
u guys are unbelievable… u call yourselves sports commentators, analysts, journalists… u r a JOKE!
click bait, absolutely nothing more. shameful journalism!
embarrassment of your profession, and disappointment for all true sport fans.
Why are saying new? Newest quiet superstar makes more sense. Dream was quiet, Karl, David and Tim were quiet. Bird was quiet outside smack talking his opposition. That is the norm.
I don’t think there will be another player like Jokić, simply because his talent to always do the right thing on the court is I think unparalleled. And he does it without having the ball in his hands which is what I think makes him and his triple-double’s different than guard triple-double’s. He most of the time looks like he doesn’t want to make a triple double, but because Jokic is always looking for the right play, the stat comes to him naturally. Never forces anything, and to play like that and still be so impactful is something I think nobody will ever copy. Plus a lot of stuff for him has fallen in right place. Big guy, strong enough to make for himself position to shoot, with an elite touch and has superb game sense? That’s why he is changing the game.
Jackson is a 🤡
You can’t teach IQ. Not sure how having high IQ can be a prototype unless you wanna give IQ tests to every NBA player coming in and hope that their regular IQ translates to basketball IQ.
The biggest quality of Joker is not passing, not sombor shuffle but IQ. Not sure how this can be thought
ESPN has to eat their racism now
Joker is the best post player in the legue. Thats what opens up his passing.
Like there will be no other Shaq
No other curry
There will be no other jokic
Isn't Magic Johnson supposed to be the first center point guard?
Jokic is overrated SMH 🤣🤣😂🤣
I hope so I rather hear about this guy than an old man that’s time is up. Is he the GOAT now.
He doesn’t love basketball it’s just work. And I respect that.
There is only one Kareem not to be emulated.
There is only 1 Micheal Jordan.
Only 1 Shaq.
Only 1 Curry
Only 1 Jokic.
You can't find another one.
He is too smart and humble to be liked by the NBA Americans.
He is also too white and too heterosexual and too Christian for Disney lol.
Nah, what you will continue to see is more European players coming over and dominating the league. American AAU style basketball is so predictable and cookie cutter in the eyes of seasoned European players.
He's an actual unicorn, a once in generation basketball wizard so no, he can't be a prototype but he might push teams to look for centers who can actually be playmakers.
He's a Unicorn, good luck finding that.