Jadoogar wrote:Klomp wrote:Lots of decent misses in this thread...
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I don't think this one is fair. Jokic had one of the most unbelievable turnarounds in NBA history, if not the craziest.
I also feel like Jokic is a great example of how NBA success is made up of a million tiny plays and small skills that you can or can’t execute in real NBA games over and over again, not a couple ‘traits’ or whatever that are the things we usually talk about at draft time. At draft time people were more or less correct that Jokic wasn’t a great enough shooter, driver, post-up guy, or anything else to make a good living in the NBA, and how was anyone to know he’d become an all around kinda genius at all the mental and coordination stuff in the NBA? One thing to say he had good feel but Jokic makes the right play almost 100% of the time, and has figured out how to use his coordination, timing, touch etc let him be effective in nearly any situation, and then he repeatedly executes using all those things really really well. That’s all stuff that becomes clear only when someone’s actually playing in games, and no one could’ve been sure about it happening in the NBA until it was happening. Especially for a guy who wasn’t going to be able to rely on his other skills to be a starting level dude. Even if everyone could’ve done a better job saying ‘I don’t know man, guy really looks like a baller out there.’