"2001 Shaq vs 2025 Nikola Jokic, what happens?" Shaq: "Slovenian chicken... Imma make his brothers want to fight me."

[threattonature]

It's funny because Shaq said Big Country Reeves always gave him trouble who had the same build as Jokic. Shaq was known to bite on pump fakes as he loved chasing down blocks. Shaq and Jokic I think would basically offset each other.

 

[CHICAGO]

It's funny because Shaq said Big Country Reeves always gave him trouble who had the same build as Jokic. Shaq was known to bite on pump fakes as he loved chasing down blocks. Shaq and Jokic I think would basically offset each other.

SHAQ AVERAGED 27PTS TO REEVES 11 PTS.

HE SAID HE HATED PLAYING REEVES
BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE TO HELP
HIS GUARDS ON DEFENSE
LEAVING REEVES OPEN FOR MID RANGE JS



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[CHICAGO]

Duncan outplayed Shaq in their head to heads.

Games Played Between Tim Duncan and Shaquille O'Neal

This is the detail of NBA games in which Tim Duncan and Shaquille O'Neal played against each other, including head-to-head record, stats average, game highs and game-by-game data both in the Regular Season and Playoffs.

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Not inconceivable jokic could do the same

1. SHAQ HARDLY EVER GUARDED DUNCAN.

2. THE NUMBERS GOT SKEWED
LATER IN SHAQS CAREER
WHEN DUNCAN WAS STILL IN HIS PRIME.

3. NO ONE IS GUARDING SHAQ 1V1
LIKE THESE OTHER PLAYERS GET.
DUDE WAS GETTING DOUBLED OR HACKED
75% OF THE TIME AND STILL GETTING
THESE NUMBERS.

LAKERS USED TO PLAY THE SPURS
AND THEY WOULD DBL, TRIPLE SHAQ
WHICH WOULD ALLOW KOBE TO GO
CRAZY IN 1V1 COVERAGE.

YOU SEE JOKIC KILLING DUDES
LIKE GOBERT IN SINGLE COVERAGE.

SHAQ WOULD AVERAGE 50
WITH SINGLE COVERAGE.


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[Yayo Toure]

Would be a great match up.

In the end Joker wouldn't have Kobe to bail him out so Shaq would win. Then they'd get to the finals where Shaq shyts on Bill Wennington or someone, gets finals MVP and intellectually dishonest ppl will say Shaq carried Kobe.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Jokic would eat his lunch

You finna tell Kenyon Martin?

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Would be a great match up.

In the end Joker wouldn't have Kobe to bail him out so Shaq would win. Then they'd get to the finals where Shaq shyts on Bill Wennington or someone, gets finals MVP and intellectually dishonest ppl will say Shaq carried Kobe.

He did though

And we seen what happens if a prime player like Kobe had no Shaq.

Harden, Dame, Orlando TMac showed us that

Shaq saved homey from being a 6’5 Allen Iverson

Spoiler

Seriously, people. Dont get mad and take it to other levels with these jokes. Keep it on wax. shyt is weak if it turns personal

 

[CHICAGO]

You finna tell Kenyon Martin?

THIS IS WHAT I SAID EARLIER....

nikkaS POSTING SHAQS NUMBERS
FAILING TO REALIZE HE GOT THOSE
WHILE ROUTINELY FACING DBL/TRIPLE TEAMS
AND GETTING HACKED TO DEATH.

JOKIC BE OUT HERE GOING 1V1
WITH PFS AND WEAK nikkaS LIKE GOBERT.

THE GAME WHERE THE LAKERS
SENT HELP EVERYTIME HE
TOUCHED THE BALL DUDE BARELY
TOOK ANY SHOTS
AND ONLY HAD 2 BUCKETS.



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[Blackrogue]

Shaq is unguardable. Jokic can hoop but we forget how dominant Shaq was. As good as the legend Kobe was. Shaq was just a game changer. Adding Kobe on top of that was unfair.

 

[Po pimp]

I mean, Shaq got swept by front lines/center rotations of Greg Ostertag and Adam Keefe

Hell, in the hypothetical where Shaq just kicks Jokic's ass from beginning to end... does Shaq still get a top 3 superstar hof shooting guard to take all the clutch 4th quarter shots and hit all the freethrows, flanked by dead-eye Horry and Fisher to hit all the series-saving shots? Pretty important, since being an unreliable front-runner who couldn't take the last shot (bc he couldn't shoot) was the big criticism levied against Shaq... a handi-cap that no longer mattered once Kobe became Kobe.

I get that it's been well over 20 years since "Shaq and Kobe" and over half the ppl in this thread never actually watched them play in real time nightly with the same microscope they use to dissect current teams and players...but for those of us who did... (and can recall that his career didn't just start in 1999/2000...) Shaq was great just like Giannis is great but oooh boy imagine how all of Giannis's shortcomings would disappear over time if he was traded to OKC and they went on to 3-peat with SGA as his "sidekick".

You’re being disingenuous if you were actually old enough to have seen these games. You know damn well they didn’t neutralize Shaq in a one on one situation. They would hack him and the refs didn’t call EVERY foul, otherwise they’d foul out in the first half. There’s a reason none of their centers averaged 30 minutes…because they would be in foul trouble.

Also, why mention Adam Keefe as if Karl Malone wasn’t on that team?

 

[staticshock]

Shaq would dominate anyone in league history.


Jokic would get his too tho

 

[Peruvian Connect]

Shaq is unguardable. Jokic can hoop but we forget how dominant Shaq was. As good as the legend Kobe was. Shaq was just a game changer. Adding Kobe on top of that was unfair.

And that's why Kobe went on to appear in 3 finals and win 2 without Shaq.....

 

[Peruvian Connect]

Who cares. Who has accomplished more individually?

Jokic

 

[Peruvian Connect]

Jokic couldnt handle Embiid but he would beat prime Shaq?

Embiid better than Shaq too.

 

[Hathaway]

Shaq would get switched off Jokic 2 mins into the game. Derek fisher trying to guard the Jokic Murray 2 man game by himself because shaq’s lazy ass wont leave the paint.

 

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

This is the correct basketball watcher answer. granted I was like 7 when the Lakers had Kobe and Shaq but I don't ever remember him being a perimeter defender or having to deal with a 5 that can shoot like Jok

The only stretch 5s that existed at that time were Sabonis Sr. (Who was washed) and Okur (who actually could play but because he played no defense never got major minutes)