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His teammates (Porter Jr. and Murray) and the coach shower him with compliments, but the Serbian center in Denver already has the seventh game in his sights: “We go out on the court and have fun, without pressure. The pressure is now all on the Clippers, “He says
Last spring Nikola Jokic’s debut in the playoffs was (rightly) defined as incredible: more than 25 points on average, more than 50% from the field and just under 40% from three points, 13 rebounds and more than 8 assists on average. This year it is no exaggeration to say that the Serbian Nuggets center is doing better.: the average of points exceeds 26 in the afternoon, the percentages have even improved: more than 52% from the field, even a sensational 46.3% from three points (37/80). Sure, some rebounds (10 at night) and assists (5.5) are down, but maybe this is just what coach Malone, their leader, wanted to see. take most of the responsibility offensive paired with Jamal Murry. And so did Jokic also in Game 6 against the Clippers, with his back to the wall: 34 points, 14 rebounds, 7 assists with 4/6 of three, all figures above the average in the fifth race in which his Nuggets had to face elimination from the playoffs (three against the Jazz in the first round and two against the Clippers). Your averages in these five races, when the pressure is very high? They are gruesome: 27.8 points, 10.4 rebounds and 5.8 assists on average with 55% from the field and even 54% from three. Pressure? “We do not care”answered No. 15 from Denver.
Congratulations from teammates and coach: “The best in the world”
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Denver is almost unbeatable with its back to the wall: it is 6-1
“Nikola Jokic was the best basketball player in the world tonight”, He declared after race-6 Michael Porter Jr. “I think so too – he repeated Jamal murray – Why not? Mark with one leg, falling backwards, with the opponent’s hands in the faceAnd he doesn’t do it once, but two, three, four… Sure, we won as a team, but he was the best player in the world ”. “He doesn’t get excited often, says coach Michael Malone -But when we did our set, the defense worked, the ball traveled very well in attack and they were forced to call time-out after time-out. I saw him scream and shout: that’s where I understood that we could win the game ”. In the comeback of the second half of the Nuggets -19- are the traces of the Serbian center: 11 of his 34 points came in the fourth quarter, he understood three triples: “When we accelerate, when we have the right momentum, I let go of my emotions,” says the interested party. That already charge batteries for race 7: “The pressure is on them now” – says of the Clippers, reassembled from 3-1 to 3-3 – we just go out on the field and have fun.
