If any other all-time center was getting guarded by a guard in a game 7......

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Well, he certainly didn't have a great game.

But that's besides the point.

The loss wasn't the cause of what he wasn't doing, or could've done, it was because his team was injured and incapable of making open shots/reads. He put up more than 9 shots, it's just some of those were on shooting fouls where he went to the line. This narrative about Caruso clamping Jokic is completely untrue. It was OKC selling out as a whole on defense to limit him and just leaving others open. Whenever Westbrook was on the floor, OKC just refused to defend him.

That's not a reflection on how bad Jokic played.

It should be commended he led his team to 7 games with the state the roster was in and with an interim coach.
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Was always silly, and never made sense. He was being propped up by the national media and certain analytic guys in large part because he’s white and “wholesome” to some

Right smack in the middle of your prime as the best player in the world and going out with a whimper

If people are gonna be saying he’s the greatest offensive peak ever, we gotta start judging him like that

Prime Curry ain’t going down like that in an elimination game

Prime MJ ain’t going down like that in an elimination game

Prime LeBron ain’t going down like that in an elimination game

Kobe would be in that discussion too but he would do chit like not shoot in the 2nd half of game 7 so he can’t be up there
 
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Was always silly, and never made sense. He was being propped up by the national media and certain analytic guys in large part because he’s white and “wholesome” to some

Right smack in the middle of your prime as the best player in the world and going out with a whimper

If people are gonna be saying he’s the greatest offensive peak ever, we gotta start judging him like that

Prime Curry ain’t going down like that in an elimination game

Prime MJ ain’t going down like that in an elimination game

Prime LeBron ain’t going down like that in an elimination game

Kobe would be in that discussion too but he would do chit like not shoot in the 2nd half of game 7 so he can’t be up there
The team went out with a whimper because they were broken, both mentally/physically.

It's patently ridiculous to ignore the fact that OKC were defending him with 2-3 guys, leaving Westbrook open, leaving MPJ open, leaving Braun open, leaving AG open, all due to their own inabilities to either shoot or because they were injured. This team has played 14 high-intensity playoffs games in 28 days, all with a short ass hell rotation, dealing with a litany of injuries and health concerns to where they eventually broke.

That speaks more to how they quite literally left everything out there on the floor and had nothing left to give.

As the homie @Bigblackted4 said above, they couldn't even get the ball to him in the post, the spacing was that bad for him.
 
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He neutralized “the greatest offensive player of all time” in his prime…in game 7 of a wide open playoffs

Alex Caruso :mjlol:
This dude really said a "wide open playoffs" as if OKC isn't a near-70 win team and one of Denver's best players wasn't out there hobbling up and down the floor with a Grade 2 hamstring injury.

Nasty.

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OKC neutralized Jokic in a Game 7 throwing multiple defenders at him, all because his teammates were either too injured or too trash. That's the war of attrition, ain't got shyt to do with this narrative y'all are painting about how Caruso was locking him up.
 

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Let's be honest. If Jokic was vertically athletic he could just spin off that shyt Caruso was doing and get lobs and better positioning at the rim.

They were collapsing on the catch and back down and forcing him to pass or shoot over 3 people. Even tho he has GOAT touch in the paint his lack of athlectism allows him to be schemed this way.

Usually he has Gordon or Russ there in the dunker spot for help but with injuries and them keeping Russ in the corner it took that away too.
 
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There are posters on this site who stipulated or strongly implied that we live in a reality where Jokic is better than Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon
I think you might wanna go and watch some of Hakeem's playoff exits. However bad you think this one is for Jokic, I can promise you, Hakeem had much much worse.
 
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Let's be honest. If Jokic was vertically athletic he could just spin off that shyt Caruso was doing and get lobs and better positioning at the rim.

They were collapsing on the catch and back down and forcing him to pass or shoot over 3 people. Even tho he has GOAT touch in the paint his lack of athlectism allows him to be schemed this way.

Usually he has Gordon or Russ there in the dunker spot for help but with injuries and them keeping Russ in the corner it took that away too.
Spin off Caruso and go where, exactly?

OKC were packing the paint and leaving his teammates open. There was nowhere for him to go, that's why you see him getting the ball by the 3-pt line because OKC were just playing off MPJ, Russ, Peyton, Braun etc and throwing multiple bodies at him. If they had dependable shooting, then OKC wouldn't have been allowed to cheat and he'd by going 1v1 and winning that matchup 90% of the time.

Russ couldn't even throw him basic entry passes when he had his man sealed off. That's how bad it got.
 

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So we're just going to act the Nuggets and particularly Jokic weren't a) Exhausted b) The team was hobbled.

I think Jokic deserved more blame last year and it was warranted. This year not nearly as much.

Very few people had the Nuggets winning this series against a team that many consider to be contenders despite being among the youngest players in the league.

The Nuggets have peaked in their current form and they also made a mistake in firing Mike Malone.
 
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