Asked whether he appreciated watching Nikola Jokic go to work against Brook Lopez, the potential Defensive Player of the Year, in Saturday’s 129-106 romp over the Bucks, Gordon stared knowingly up from his locker room stall.“Can’t nobody stop Joker, man,” Gordon said. “I don’t care, Defensive Player of the Year. It doesn’t matter. And he was getting fouled. If you’re not fouling him, you’re not stopping him. And he was fouling him, and he was still getting buckets. They weren’t calling and-1s.
Jokic battered and bludgeoned and spun his way to 31 points on 10-of-20 shooting, with 11 assists and six rebounds. He went to the free-throw line 11 times, abusing Milwaukee’s decision to play him one-on-one. If he wasn’t muscling through the No. 1 defense, then he was pirouetting around it. “His footwork, his touch around the rim, the way that he feels the defense and plays off of the defense, it’s incredible, levels ahead of anything I’ve ever seen,” Gordon said.
Late in the first quarter, Jokic set up on the left block and drilled Lopez deeper and deeper into the paint. It was the equivalent of hand-to-hand combat but for NBA giants. The pace and conviction that he forged his position suggested he knew Lopez couldn’t contain him. I can't stop watching this. One of the most ruthless, devastating post moves I've ever seen Jokic make.
I watched old ass washed up PJ Tucker stop him like two months ago
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