Reggie Jackson calls Jokic & Nuggets’ Starters the Best in the World

Reggie Jackson calls Jokic & Nuggets’ Starters the Best in the World

Oh man Reggie you’ve had some success playing these games with your M Mar is out in these spot starts and I’m just curious if anything at all changes for your for you in that approach anything feels different for you out there just the way it’s it’s shaken up uh usually

Before the game starts I’m just thinking I just want J mom back so happy Easter hey happy Easter y’all got my boy no they don’t need me no have Easter no hey we got excuse me excuse me what’s the special occasion why You Look So Clean you know it’s Easter hey looking quite

Da my boy yes sir he has risen um no the team today I just they just want me be aggressive to be myself play um trust my instincts and honestly hats off this group I’m very apprecia of this group um been having some struggles I know I’ve

Had ups and downs been slump quite a bit lately trying to find my way out of it but um just honestly playing on this team having this group of guys uh constantly believing me from my teammates the coach St the front office honestly harping on just trusting the

Work um I’m very thankful for him and very appreciative so just happy that we could find a way to get a win honestly um hopefully get back on track we know playoffs are right around the corner so we just want to be training the right

Way the last two um been ugly we didn’t get we didn’t secure defensive rebounds and we felt like we got good shots they just haven’t gone in so today we’re very fortunate um it’s going to be very hard to shoot damn near 64% from three again and consistently on a

Nightly basis but but I think we can at least generate the same type of looks that gives us a chance to um reach those numbers again was there anything specifically for you that made your shot feel so much better today um just being myself honestly the guys telling me I’m

A scoring point guard just trust my instincts stop looking around so much um it’s open shot shoot it and believe in it um believe in the work that been that’s been put in all year and like I said those words were words of encouragement and I’m just allowed the

Basket to a little bit bigger I was just happy that shots went in but um yeah I just got to be myself and then like I said trust my instincts trust how I make plays and understand also that I’m very fortunate to play with the best player

In the world uh the best team in the world um honestly the best starters in the world so go out there try to make a mark on the game but um understand that you have the greatest backup ever the greatest safety net and um top five um

Our starting unit does help when kcp just hitting shots right from the jump too like just kind of like oh okay uh definitely uh I think it also just raises his energy um which is hard to believe he lives to play the defense he loves the matchups um especially when he

Gets to go against all stars um all NBA guys guys like Donan Mitchell he did a wonderful job today but um I think it’s is just icing on the cake for him when he gets shots going people got to respect him people got to guard him so

Then everybody else gets even more open shots um so we love when kcp can get going when AG can get going because they do a lot of the Dirty Work um and what they do for us is they guard on a 9090 basis the best player so um when they

Can get going as well guys the other teams can’t hide as much you can um you have to be honest defensively and the name of the game is very simple I believe everybody understands the NBA’s draw to if you can get two on the ball then um plays become easier teams are

Going to try to shade you try to get shots that they want you to take but it’s hard I think it’s very hard um when our to force us into bad shots especially when we have great SPAC and we play the right way we have guys that

Can shoot from all over guys that can make secondary plays um we’re very unselfish so like I said if we get especially our def finish we get Aaron gor going we get caseb going we get Christian Brown going we get pton Watson feeling great about themselves um it

Only UPS what they’re going to do on the defense end and um that’s a scary um group of four the way that they defend how much these guys like actually relish getting to share the floor with Nia and and have minutes with him knowing just the way that opens up the floor for

Everyone else sort of improves the quality looks a lot me how could you not like playing with Yol um I think everybody saw the behind the back pass um you know if you play the right way you always got a chance of getting a shot and you know that he’s one of the

Most encouraging guys like he one of the best Superstars at building you up and putting you in position to be successful and at just playing the right way so um you always Rel a chance to play with him um a chance to share the court with him and

Then also I think what we’re getting better at is we want to relieve him of some of his stressor some of his everything he has to do we understand he is he’s a supernova he he’s the brightest star um honestly he’s the sun everything RS around him but uh

We all have to do our part so if we can make it easier um if we could all be stars in our role we can take something off his plate at times um we definitely try to do so um defensively which like I said um previously before he’s gotten

Tremendous honestly his work ethic everything he does for us defens but if we can just relieve him with some pressure on the defense end as well as taking advantage of uh these great shots and make plays for ourselves um getting easy baskets for each other and then allowing him to get

Some easy ones allowing him to just feel good see the basket go through the do the rim whether it be a drop off and not always having to work so damn hard um we feel like we’re a scary team what were he and Malone uh telling you at the end

Of the first quarter shees probably uh the last down play or something oh oh uh I was trying to little miscommunication I was trying to rush to get the ball when we were trying to first talk about hopefully there’s more time on the clock um I wanted to try to

Get the ball to attack hopefully like it was point8 I was hoping there would be 1.2 I seen the team wasn’t really locked in um I thought I could probably get play try to go out Garland real quick but honestly um yeah that’s on me I got to be the one

To take the ball out got to get guys settled got to make sure that we get the play um set up because like I said shoot we seen what he did um a long time ago with with his gamewinner against I want to say the Warriors so you just got to

Give him a good look honestly so if I can get guys set up get guys put in the right position um and if we run the play correctly he’s either going to get a great look or his attention is going to free somebody else up for a great look

So that I take ownership on that one and I just got to be better at uh placing our guys and getting us set within a play so we can get a good look in that third quarter it felt like the Cavs were just starting to throw stuff out the

Wall to try and get slow down the cola I mean they ran two on ball like a dho at free throw line um with inverted pick and roll like do you sense that do you guys sense that when the other team is like man we just cannot figure out what

This guy’s doing do you sense with the opponent by far um shoot is hard it’s very hard to try to stop him like I said one of our most gifted scorers in this league and he doesn’t want to score he wants to pass the ball he want to

Play the right way which makes him extremely hard to guard um one of the smartest players I’ve ever been around he can handle it pass it shoot it scored all three levels so when he if we can get him going we all know we’re going to get easier shots

But just trying to free them up honestly whether it be like you said setting screens early but um we also understand that’s it’s on us to push a pace we got to run with Pace we got to run with the right spacing so that um once you do

That we can kind of then you can see the floor you can try to take advantage of mismatches whether it be setting proper step UPS then so that we can get a smaller guard on them um whether they want to hedge whether they want to switch then you get doubles and you get

Guys flooding from other side so I think we can do our part more and when we when we’re playing really well is when we’re all running for each other when we space for each other it makes the floor easier um to see what’s going on out there um

It leaves more space for everybody to make plays and just makes re easier I think it makes the pitcher for him a lot easier and um it makes it very difficult on the defense cuz now everybody’s set everybody knows where where each other’s at nobody’s on top of each other and um

Everybody’s very willing to make the very next play the correct play and um yeah I think that’s our biggest thing we got to find a way to get stops find a way to um get defensive rebounds and then run with proper spacing and run with um with urgency and with a proper

Pace one more question call lesby dunk seen him he was flying one pointy was up there so we was super hyped trust me um he might have to get gift or something for that and we’re going to he might have to hang on the rim next time

Might have to pay the tech for him I mean it’s a rare occasion so next dunk he gets if it’s two hand I might have to let him know in advance I just hang on the rim I might have to pay that tech for you thank all right oh and uh shout out

Colin definitely with the dunk he proved that uh our point guards between Jamal him Jaylen pick and myself we definitely are the most athletic position on the team y have a great one happy Easter man happy Easter

Reggie Jackson Press Conference after Denver Nuggets 130-101 WIN over Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the press conference following the Denver Nuggets’ 130-101 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, Reggie Jackson expressed high praise for his team and Nikola Jokić, calling the Nuggets’ starters the best in the world. Jackson candidly shared his mindset of aggressive play and self-trust, acknowledging the ups and downs of his performance but crediting the supportive environment of the team. He highlighted the importance of teamwork, especially in alleviating pressure from Jokić, and emphasized the team’s strategy of playing with proper spacing and pace to maximize their effectiveness on the court. Jackson also took personal responsibility for in-game decisions and celebrated the team’s athletic ability, particularly among the point guards.

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