Nikola Jokic on BAD Shooting & Takes Blame After Nuggets Game 4 LOSS

Nikola Jokic on BAD Shooting & Takes Blame After Nuggets Game 4 LOSS

Nicola, uh, obviously you’re one of the most efficient players that we’ve seen play the game. What in your mind is kind of the root cause of of your shooting struggles over these last few games? And, you know, what can you do to maybe generate better looks for yourself? I mean, it’s a little bit of everything, you know. They’re playing really good defense on me. They’re really uh into my body, handsy, uh physical. Um some I I think I miss like two, three open looks tonight. So, it’s a little bit of everything, you know. They’re shrinking the ball, they’re shrinking the uh floor for me. Uh they have guy behind the defender. So, it’s a little bit of everything, you know. So, it’s I need to do better job, of course, but it’s part of the game. Nicole, a team scored eight points in the first quarter. Just how much effort do you think it took to dig out from under that and get you guys back into the game? Do you think you had anything left for the rest of I mean I think uh they scored 17, so our defense was kind of good too, you know, but we I think we had open looks. We just couldn’t uh um Okay, some some of them are local open looks. They were physical, of course. Uh and u you know, it’s like I said, it’s part of the game, you We we we took it and uh at the second quarter we scored 48 points. So it it was a good good uh kind of half for it was in the end it was a good half for us. We were down I think five after all all of that or six. Uh could you talk about just how up and down the fourth quarter was and what Shay was able to do to kind of win the game for Oklahoma City? Yeah, I mean of course we were we were trying to give him different looks. He’s a he’s a he’s a great player. Uh um we we didn’t do enough uh like we did first game maybe helping CB or whoever or Russ or whoever’s on the ball just to give him a little bit of extra attention let’s say like that and uh make him think about make make him think about a little bit more. Uh but Shay is amazing player. He was he was really good tonight and he he was one of the reason why they won the game. Noola, what kind of impact do you think, Nicole, what kind of impact do you think the short rest had on the game tonight? I mean, not much to be honest in my opinion because uh when I play, I don’t think about that. So, not not a lot. What What are the What are they doing well against you right now with with just a different double teams at you and and it’s how much is it affecting your shooting? Uh, I mean, I guess it’s everything. It’s a little bit everything, you know. It’s they’re physical, they’re handsy, they’re coming, they’re really they’re good with help and sometimes I just cannot make a shot. Uh so it’s a little bit of everything right now. So like I I think I had like a hook um at four quarter. I had a open hook. I messed two free throws big two free throws. I missed we were down four if I made it. We were down two. One possession game. So they score after that. So, it’s a six points, two possession game or even more. So, like I think we had the chances, we had a lot of we just didn’t we didn’t basically we didn’t make make shots. What was the uh breakdown on the 5-second call inbounds? Yeah, that was a big big play. I think 3 minutes is it 3 minutes to go. We can rebound the ball. It’s it’s literally everybody we that cannot happen. That was a big big moment, you know. uh it’s just going to happen. Nicole, how are you feeling about the series so far? How are you feeling about how you guys have played and how are you feeling about your guys’ chances to come out of the series? I mean, I think we are four and four in the global in the in the in the in the in the in the whole season against them. So, uh we need to give ourselves a chance. We need to play physical. We need to be more physical to them, aggressive, and uh of course they’re favorites. They’re they’re playing amazing. They they won six seven how many games they won. Uh but uh we we we need to give ourselves a chance to to to be close and to be like up and uh to to to just to give us a chance to win a game. Nola with with over here with the angles that you see as a facilitator. Is there something unique about what Oklahoma City is is doing to kind of get in passing length, their ability to kind of recover in certain windows or cut off cuts that you guys that you normally see? Yeah. Uh, of course, it’s it’s a playoffs and it’s um it’s a physical game. They’re really good at the play, not just not just playing passing. Whenever with dribble, they’re coming to tip the ball from from behind in position, they are playing pass. They’re not they’re not getting back. they’re going to steal the ball, you know. So, um even the passing ladies, they’re playing the passing lace, they are not afraid to um even if they go even if they go back door, they know the chat is going to be there. So, they’re really good team, you know, and there is a reason why they lost only 12. How many games? 14. 14. Where do you feel like you guys are at just with the different zone looks that you’ve been throwing at them and and just how you’ve executed those throughout the series? It was good. I mean they score 92 points you know I think our defense is not something that uh uh how to say like we we are fighting you know it’s I think that’s not a problem I think the shooting was tonight was a uh we shot 31% from the field so it’s really hard to win against that team if you don’t shoot the ball well good as

Nikola Jokic Press Conference After Nikola Jokic & Denver Nuggets LOSE Game 4 vs OKC Thunder to Tie Series 2-2 After Denver Nuggets Gave Away 4th Quarter Lead in Round 2 of NBA Basketball Playoffs

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