ESPN reacts to Nikola Jokic has triple-doubled against every team as Nuggets beat Wizards 130-110

ESPN reacts to Nikola Jokic has triple-doubled against every team as Nuggets beat Wizards 130-110

A lot to celebrate in this Denver Nuggets win first game back from the break you’re going against a Washington Wizards team that struggled with only nine wins so far this season but the approach the Nuggets came in with the way they handled their business what

Stood out the most to you H well I I like the the defense was great early third quarter not so good and the passing holy cow DS the Nuggets head ended up with 41 assists why as you mentioned 88 points in the paint they only average 52 on the season and they

Had that number at half that’s a good number 88 yeah yeah no it’s a that’s a great number um I I think to kind of piggyback off of what you’re saying um I like the aggressiveness they settled for nothing here tonight they took everything that they wanted on this

Basketball court and they snatched a victory from the Washington Wizards who quite honestly just handed it over to them as the Wizards will but uh certainly you wanted to see this kind of a performance from the nuggets and you got it all right Nicole yic has now recorded a triple double against every

Team in the NBA well besides the Denver Nuggets but that doesn’t need to be said 29 te anyone he’s gone well look this is rare but tonight the nuggets are going to thank the NBA schedule makers for sending a post Allstar gift of the Washington Wizards

Yeah they’re every bit as good as their nine win suggest which means they are bad bad bad the Nuggets were good good good look at that pass from Nicole yic to Aaron Gordon and they straight out Vanquish the Washington Wizards 130 to 110 waving goodbye to Washington

For the season they swept the season series welcome in to the Nuggets locker room report Christopher dimsey alongside Bill hands licking hands like this was Annihilation from start to finish it really was and that Anni Annihilation started with the MVP DS how close to Perfection was Joker tonight you go 21

Points points well that’s not much except he only took 10 shots and he made all 10 but then he threw in 19 rebounds 15 assists and 31 minutes again they tried to Hodge project guys on them nothing worked uh Joker just phenomenal tonight well let’s dive into him a

Little more this is the future in your hands presented by Ball Corporation uh Joker’s Knight look he almost had a triple double at halftime is what he almost had but to to your point those are massive numbers and so efficient yeah he you know what we got to get on

Him cuz he missed a free throw he was one out of two there that’d be perfect Joker just did it all I mean they’re not you know guys that usually go 10 for 10 it’s all Labs but they’re not labs for him got one put back D spin moves around

The hoop the guys try to get physical with him sorry that’s not good enough Joker with a great pass I mean uh or Jamal with a great passer Joker I mean d the last well here we go most triple double joker now number five about to surpass King James regular season and

Postseason included here on that list and the Washington Wizards were the last one on a list that he checked checked off tonight this is the last team that he didn’t have a triple double against and he got it tonight you know what’s interesting the last four games we did a

Whole thing on the last three games but his numbers went up against the Washington Wizards 4-0 34 points shooting 82% for the field 14.3 rebound 9 and 1 half assists and and that’s not even that’s playing about a little about 31 32 minutes a game yeah he bumped

Those assist numbers up against the Wizards here tonight uh in this game uh meanwhile Jamal Murray also had himself a nice night really got off to a good start early ended up with 18 points uh in hands uh he really was just kind of in control the entirety of the night

Yeah he really was he you know he got to the Rim made some outside shots back door Cuts I I love his movement his legs look good to me so that’s a good sign you know tomorrow obviously will be a back toback game but Jamal threw an

Eight assists he just had a really really good game yeah and a lot more efficient than the one he had back on January 21st in Washington still 18 points eight assists as you said um impacting all the stat categories the Nuggets absolutely needed his leadership on the court tonight all right let’s

Take a look um at our Fanatics sports uh book to the night you rolled on the I think you is that the way that you were hoping the team would sort of pick things up out of the All-Star break yeah I I think we came out with a uh tremendous sense of

Urgency and uh you know handle this game the right way and uh you know when you we build a big lead you know in that third quarter we got real sloppy with the turnovers I think seven in that quarter but uh you know he score 88 in

The paint 27 on the break 21 uh on the glass and 41 assists so there were just so many positives and 52 points scored off of our bench and I thought Payton and Zeke their defensive activity four blocks a piece that was uh that was just

Fun to watch so a lot of guys played really well we handled our business but now we got to do it again tomorrow night in Portland Nicole yic goes for another monster game in his own right and this is now the like first time that in the

Long time that anybody scored a triple double versus any team every team that they faced just what can you speak to the way that he kind of keeps himself prepared for these moments just coming out of the allstar break so was Washington the only team he did not have

A triple double against and Denver I I hope he never gets that me too and I think I speak for everybody in this room uh so he can cross Washington off the list finally um well I think it just speaks to Nia I mean he only took

10 shots he made them all um never forcing it 15 assists 19 rebounds uh and and what’s unique about him is that he can impose his will in so many different areas you know some guys were great scorers you know but Nico he can score

He can rebound he can playmake um he can just impact the game across the board and uh as we always talk about just a definition of greatness uh you know but you know Jamal 188 and4 only one turnover Michael 22 Aaron 17 got in foul trouble and then all the contributions

Off the Bench but yeah another special night for nicoa and you know um just another triple double and that’s almost what you come to expect from him when when he throws the the outlet pass without even bringing his arm down after a rebound where where does that sort of

Rank for you among some of the other types of passes that he can pull off whether it’s the behind the back stuff or the not look where does it sort of reside well I mean it’s funny man cuz like when he gets the ball he had the

Three quarter cor pass to Aaron for layup um like any great passer his head is always up he’s surveying the floor he’s seeing who is open where the defense is and um he just has a tremendous IQ and he sees a lot of things before they happen so the outlet

Passes behind the backs over the heads um eyes closed eyes open whatever you want to call it he is one of the best passers to ever play this game and that’s saying a lot because this game has seen some great players in his very long history Zeke and pyton had four

Block shots a piece and they were electric how much stop you put in a block shot what it does to a team well I think it can be a real momentum changer you I mean um and it’s funny you know you go back to Bill Russell and the reason I talked about

Bill Russell being a great shot blocker was when he blocked the shot he kept it in bounds and that fueled the break and I thought we had a bunch of those tonight Vic where we blocked shots and we ran off of that you know what I mean so yes everybody likes somebody blocking

A shot into the third row hitting the Popcorn Lady in the ass but I would rather keep it in bounds and get out and run and um and that we had really good examples of that tonight but you know we talked pregame about Zeke and you know

What he did tonight is what you need from Zeke Nagi tremendous effort he attacked the basket he rebounded he was a rim protector Payton Watson same thing so to have 10 blocks in one game um is is obviously a tremendous number for us and Jamal had two imagine that how

Impactful was Mike around the rim I five offensive rebounds and um he was almost perfect inside the AR yeah I mean Michael just uh 11 boards total to your point V5 on the offensive end 22 points 22 and 11 um obviously CB had his first double double Off the Bench but Michael

Um two or seven from three so if the three is not falling for you find other ways to impact the game and uh and I thought on top of the rebounding I thought Michael had some really good basketball plays tonight not forcing the issue coming off drawn to making the

Pass to NOA and those are all signs of his continued maturation as a player but uh yeah it was it was a good performance by Michael as well as everybody that I got a chance to play tonight how was Cas uh you know I I think when you’re talking through this basketball game

We’re going to talk my and yic we have but Michael Porter led the team in points here today and and he really got off to a good start um what’s what’s going to keep him in this space as we go forward I think the break did him some good ref

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ESPN reacts to Nikola Jokic has triple-doubled against every team as Nuggets beat Wizards 130-110