Not to say that he isn’t a great playmaker, but just because he averages 10 assists and makes some unnecessarily fancy passes from time to time does not at all justify him as having one of the highest offensive peaks ever.

10apg is good but nothing crazy especially when he’s the primary playmaker of the team to begin with. There are plenty of PGs in the league who can do that.

He also averaged 4 turnovers per game last season which is pretty sloppy but everyone seems to ignore this.

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    Jokic can thread the needle, but what makes him special is his ability to anticipate cuts, process how the defense reacts, and then throw a dime all in a split second. He also controls the tempo of the offense masterfully, a true maestro on offense akin to the #10 on a soccer field.

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    11 months ago

    There are plenty of PGs in the league who can [average 10 apg]

    No there aren’t. Especially not while averaging a hyper-efficient 25 ppg.

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      11 months ago

      even if he was right, he’s comparing them to a Center…that helps Jokic.

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      11 months ago

      I think he’s mainly talking about assist in reference to usage… not scoring, not anything out of the context of his post. Harden has averaged 10 assist per game the last 5 years for example.

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      11 months ago

      Also, turnovers from a ball-dominant guard and from a player in the post are different. They’re still turnovers, of course, but they’re from different parts of the game and don’t happen the same way.

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    11 months ago

    The best playmakers also average a lot of turnovers. Trae, Giannis, Doncic, Westbrook. But point aside, you still have time to delete this idiocy. Unless you’re just that Bucks flair Jokic hater lol

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    11 months ago

    Watch him play. A whole season. You’ll see he’s a conductor on the court. He points at where people should be and go to make the perfect pass. Positions his teammates for the open cuts and oops as well.

    Really, watch his past few seasons… He’s a fucking basketball genius.

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    11 months ago

    I don’t think Jokic’s passing has ever been about ‘flash’, not ever a little bit. It’s about manipulating the defense so that if the pass is completed it generates an easy bucket for his teammates.

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    11 months ago

    There are plenty of PGs in the league who can do that

    Except Jokic is doing that as a center