jazz make stopping Jokic look easy
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Will Hardy asked for someone to email him a better way to guard Nikola Jokic. After watching the Jazz hold the MVP to some remarkably pedestrian numbers, I think I found the answer and it involves a 6-3 guard and some serious “dark arts” in the post.
In this breakdown, we look at how Elijah Harkless and the Utah Jazz used a lower center of gravity, jersey grabbing, and psychological warfare to get under the Joker’s skin. We’ll analyze the legality of the Jazz’s “junk defense,” why the officials missed certain calls, and how the Nuggets’ offense had to pivot to a 45-point masterclass from Jamal Murray just to keep pace.
In this video:
The “disrespectful” strategy of putting a guard on a giant.
The mechanics of “rooting out” a post player.
How fronting the post leads to turnovers and frustration.
Why doubling from the baseline is the ultimate Jokic counter.
Is this a blueprint for the playoffs, or just a chippy regular-season anomaly? Let’s get into the film.
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Pedestrian numbers 22 points on 11 shots.
Imagine if Joker was a brother. His whistle would be generational.
The HUGE point you are missing here is that Jokic is pissed that game is officiated differently not just on perimeter vs the post, but for smaller players vs the bigs specifically. You can't lay a breath on a smaller player without fouling him, and in comparison, you are allowed with all the shenanigans as a small guarding big because bigs have the advantage. Well what advantage does a big really have if he can't use it without getting called for an offensive foul. He tried playing physically for years vs this type of bs and he just gets himself in foul trouble with 3-4 quick offensive fouls, and then the whole team offense and rythm suffers. So he resorted to foul baiting (which I dislike so much) this year, but only because he is trying to counter this giant BS.
They would be calling Lebron a flopper if this happened to him
Easy = Hand checking/fouling lol its like the way teams would try and defend Shaq. Front, multiple players, be physical and force the ref to call fouls. Like Shaq its impossible to defend him straight up.
What a big flopper this jokic. Don't be like SGA
Finally a honest analysis without putting all blame on Jokic
Ref appologist, peddling sports betting and now this, calling for blatant fouling, how far have the mighty fallen
JAZZ was playing dirty…NBA needs to rewatch this game..this could put the NBA in danger since NBA teams would just get a L.DORT on every team a player who is just there to injury and foul the other teams star…
SGA gets to the FT without players touching him…funny how NBA looks like they have an AGENDA
You know you're the best player in the league when you get an efficient 22pts, 12rebs and 5ast on a night when you get to play second fiddle to your All-Star teammate who is on a heater going off for 45, and people say the other team "stopped" you.
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Jokic and Luka both their body language in game can be an irate to watch sometimes. They get so obssessed by noncalls and blindsided by their emotions unable to stick into the game and play ball. Its the same entitled behaviour you see in kids nowadays.
LOL, its not true XD
Exhibit #143,576,451,491,784,001 on why the NBA is unwatchable.
Even through the illegal contact, seems like Utah won the war on Jokic mentally. If the ref isn’t calling it or “misses” it, he doesn’t seem too inclined to just play through it to get back into his game/style of play. His immediate reaction every time is to flail or throw his hands and show the visible frustration, teams might start doing more stuff like this to knock him off his game. He got kinda checked out, even though what the jazz were doing wasn’t really fair.
Detroit did this to Wemby
Jokic is probably my second favourite player, but with this and the OKC game… They've gotten to used to no defence that when a team plays it, they carry on like children.
1:14 Lol
If this happens to shai harkless would of been sent to the gulag, can’t stand that shit
So the same thing Wemby been dealing with since he was a rookie
Okc special, Just foul him all game
Why jazz is doing homework for other guys when they are preparing for flunking the class already.
Not super dissimilar to what OKC did in the play-offs last year as well. The focus was rightly on Caruso's success guarding Jokic, but they were super physical with him as a team as well, so much so that it felt like he was getting fouled on ALL of Denver's possessions .
Thats how caruso guarded Jokic in game 7 last year
This is why Jokic can’t be the greatest offensive player of all time to me. You couldn’t just take LeBron and MJ out of games. They would almost never struggle this much with Tb fr not good defense. The jazz are one of the worst defenses in the league and the fact that they can do that to apparent best offensive player just doesn’t make sense at all