Bard Maddox posted:

Toxic Mental posted:

Qmass posted:

its interesting seeing some people having so much internal conflict over jokic. worrying about his marketability and if the media will embrace him. the guy earns an insane amount of money, enough to go retire into what he likes back home when hes had enough of dominating at the highest level of a game. why are some people so consumed with these weird concepts that would be more at home in pro wrestling than the life of this guy?

kingcobweb posted:

I thought Jokic was screaming as his teammates because he wanted a championship but it was really because losing meant an additional three days before he could go back to Serbia 🇷🇸

Beefed Owl posted:

Frankly it's the only part of this that sucks because gently caress the guy but then again he owns all the teams I like so what the gently caress can you do plus he got all those titles within 2 years

Ugh. Yay, but ugh.

Lockback posted:

I'm not sure people are hand wringing over that, it's more like the Nuggets probably (still) won't get as much media attention and column space due in part to Jokic not fitting the mold of "super star athlete". And that's fine. I think all the years of NBA champion Lebron and Curry has kind of skewed us to thinking that that's the media mark NBA champions should hit. Nuggets aren't going to be like the Warriors or Lebron lead Heat/Cavs teams. But that also probably shouldn't feel so alien.

NickRoweFillea posted:

RaySmuckles posted:

imagine your 47th rando pick turning out to be the best in the world and taking you to your first championship ever

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Hope teams start bringing all their lovely Eurostash picks over in hopes of replicating Jokic. I want to see Petteri Koponen getting minutes next year

ex post facho posted:

Horse

RASHIBA WALLACE posted:

Idk (idc) about the media reaction, I just find it fascinating how little Jokic seemed to be affected by winning. He was clearly happy and very proud to share the moment with his family (especially carrying his daughter everywhere awww) but also clearly much more reserved/detatched than a guy like Murray, whose reaction was awesome but also way more typical. Jokic said the bare minimum in his interview, he loitered toward the back of the stage on the court, he even seemed frustrated that he had to stay a few more days for the parade! Honestly if I were a Nuggets fan I might be annoyed that he seems to care less than I do about him winning. But that’d be on me, he gets to react however he wants.

Instinctually you want to assume it’s a cultural thing, like growing up in Europe and having America/the NBA be a world away makes it natural for him to care less than someone like Murray who fully grew up in it. But we all saw Giannis break down a couple of years ago and party all night and eat 50 Chick-fil-A nuggets. I remember Dirk couldn’t even stay on the court as time expired, he had to go collect himself in the tunnel before rejoining everyone. I guess Joker is just a fully unique dude, cool as a cucumber even in the biggest moment of his life. I dunno if we’ll ever see another guy win the dang Finals MVP and barely lift the trophy off the table. I for one am on board with it. You do you, Big Honey. The job is done, and now you can go home

RaySmuckles posted:

imagine your 47th rando pick turning out to be the best in the world and taking you to your first championship ever

The Glumslinger posted:

Throwing Murray into the pool is way more the kind of celebration antics I would expect

Riven posted:

Not saying they would all be Jokic, but how many more rando 47th picks would turn into really good players if they had a supported and consistent coach and system to grow with for 7 years?

RASHIBA WALLACE posted:

Idk (idc) about the media reaction, I just find it fascinating how little Jokic seemed to be affected by winning. He was clearly happy and very proud to share the moment with his family (especially carrying his daughter everywhere awww) but also clearly much more reserved/detatched than a guy like Murray, whose reaction was awesome but also way more typical. Jokic said the bare minimum in his interview, he loitered toward the back of the stage on the court, he even seemed frustrated that he had to stay a few more days for the parade! Honestly if I were a Nuggets fan I might be annoyed that he seems to care less than I do about him winning. But that’d be on me, he gets to react however he wants.

Instinctually you want to assume it’s a cultural thing, like growing up in Europe and having America/the NBA be a world away makes it natural for him to care less than someone like Murray who fully grew up in it. But we all saw Giannis break down a couple of years ago and party all night and eat 50 Chick-fil-A nuggets. I remember Dirk couldn’t even stay on the court as time expired, he had to go collect himself in the tunnel before rejoining everyone. I guess Joker is just a fully unique dude, cool as a cucumber even in the biggest moment of his life. I dunno if we’ll ever see another guy win the dang Finals MVP and barely lift the trophy off the table. I for one am on board with it. You do you, Big Honey. The job is done, and now you can go home

RaySmuckles posted:

imagine your 47th rando pick turning out to be the best in the world and taking you to your first championship ever

Strawberry Panda posted:

Nuggets made the right call getting rid of Nurkic, huh?

Riven posted:

Not saying they would all be Jokic, but how many more rando 47th picks would turn into really good players if they had a supported and consistent coach and system to grow with for 7 years?