Denver last playoffs and this regular season so far have shown another level of defense to in the past playing at a borderline top 5 level in both instances
However many still view Jokic’s rim protection as a major issue and simply think Denver have done a good job of hiding this
Personally I’d probably say he’s obviously not All Defense level or anything but at this point is probably someone between a neutral and moderate positive overall
Not great at rim peotection, but the way he reads plays and coaches his team calling out plays is something else.
He often protects rim good enough from bigs as we saw in playoffs, only fast guards give him trouble but from time to time he will contest them well and protect the rim we saw him do it in playoffs so he definitely can do it
Still recall bubble where PG and Kawhi were driving alot on him and he shut them down on most of it .
Hes biggest strength are fast hands tho and great rebounding and rebounding is big part of D for C imo