Should Nikola Jokic’s 2023 playoffs run be talked about as one of the individual all time great run?
Nikola Jokic averaged 30.0 points, 13.5 rebounds and 9.5 assists in 20 games in the 2023 playoffs. He won his first Finals MVP award and his first NBA championship.
First time in history that a player has less the playoffs in points, rebounds and assists.
Individually, he played the best defenders at his position in Gobert, Davis and Bam.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/NBA_2023_totals.html
Lebron Curry Durant
All generational talents and Jokic ran through all of them with ease.
Next year
Should _ 2024 player off run be talked about as one of the individual all time great run?
this dude still jerks off to that regular season win over the Nuggets
Yea, guys put 30/13/10 numbers throught the whole playoffs all the time.
Something something his opponents were a 5 seed on average, weak competition something something.
This, but unironically
Hardly.
Absolutely. Slepwalked to the championship without any playes who have ever been an allstar. Beating at leaat 7 hall of famers along the way.
Murray averaged 32 ppg in the WCF
He has never even been in the conversation to be an all star. Do you really disagree with that?
Just going off of eye-test/how unstoppable he felt, I’d say it was the greatest run since LeBron on the cavs. Booker was putting up peak MJ numbers, and yet Jokic was still dominating the game. And he did this every single game
Honestly, the only argument against his run is that the competition was weak last year. I think a fully healthy Bucks team could’ve made for an interesting series, but we didn’t get that.
Absolutely
Nah weak competition lol
If you have 4hrs to spend.
…it already is
The Jokic love train is kind of done at this point. Can we find a new circle jerk?
It’s the only run ever, imo
No
yall might not like to hear it but that isnt for us to decide lmao. Its for the fans in 10, 15 years to decide if it holds up.
An “All time” run that just happened isnt something people in the present pick.
Do I think people will reference it much in the future? Probably not. Not enough moments, not enough memorable opposing teams, etc.
Led the playoffs in points, rebounds, assists
Most triple doubles ever in playoffs (correct me if wrong, not 100% sure on this one)
Only lost 4 games
Shot as efficiently as one can get on volume
Had a 50pt piece
Beat teams who had the top 3 defensive bigs in the league
Won without another all star on his team
Won on the back of 2 MVPs and and an mvp-worthy season
Beat all of these players - Anthony Edwards, KAT, Kevin Durant (2x finals mvp), Devin Booker (led a team to finals), LeBron James (😊), Anthony Davis, Jimmy Butler
I’m the biggest ‘LeBron 2018’s playoffs run is one of the greatest of all time’ stan and granted the Cavs in that year didn’t have anyone like Jamal Murray and a worse constructed roster than Nuggets this year (and no GS juggernaut), but if that run against the Pacers, Raps and baby Celtics is considered an all time one, then this one ending with a chip is up there guaranteed.
Yeah, who would reference the only time in history a player led the playoffs in points, rebounds and assists, or smashed the record for the most triple doubles ever.
there wasnt a single team that was favourite to win over them
That’s how being a 1 seed works
ok? having a better team and winning once isnt historic
This post is about individual performance.
For one thing, the Suns were favored not only in betting odds, but also by analysts (here are 13 out of 17 ESPN analysts picking the Suns to win the Nuggets series),, so you’re making shit up, but even if you weren’t totally wrong, that logic is hilarious: “Can’t be that good if no one was favored over you.”
No brother, that means you are good. The Lakers and Heat weren’t favored over the Nuggets because Jokic was having one of the greatest postseason runs in NBA history, wafflestomping his way through the playoffs.
there wasnt a single team you went up against that will be remembered in 5 years, just being better than others doesnt mean you had a historic run lmao
In 70+ years of NBA basketball there have been hundreds of playoff teams, thousands and thousands of players, including all the legends.
In addition to blowing away Wilt’s record for most triple-doubles in the playoffs while coming within a few assists of a 30+ point triple double average for an entire NBA playoff run, which including 50+ point games, multiple 20+ rebound games, 9 games with 12+ assists, Jokic became the first player ever - over Wilt, MJ, Lebron, Bill Russell, Tim Duncan, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Magic, Bird, KD, Kareem, Kobe, Steph, you name - to lead the playoffs in points, rebounds and assists.
No matter the teams, no matter how good (or shitty) the competition, no player in NBA history ever did that, until Jokic just did it.
You’ve got a strange definition of “not historic.”
you can type 7 more paragraphs and it wont change the fact that nuggets didnt play against a great team in the whole run
Now that’s a take that is up for a nuanced and intelligent discussion!
People won’t remember the KD Booker suns? People won’t remember Bron AD Lakers? People won’t remember the heat that made 2 finals and 3 conference finals in 4 years?
He went through a hell of a center matchup though. KAT Gobert, Ayton, AD, and Bam. Doesn’t get much tougher than that. Also, he made some ridiculous shots over AD.
Compatively, nothing compared to the prior couple generations of basketball honestly
This point isn’t spoken about enough. That’s a mean list to casually dispose of.
No