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Milwaukee Bucks Champion Gets Honest About Nikola Jokic

Milwaukee Bucks champion Pat Connaughton has a lot of respect for Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic
Milwaukee Bucks Champion Gets Honest About Nikola Jokic
Milwaukee Bucks Champion Gets Honest About Nikola Jokic

Recently appearing on the Dan Patrick Show, Milwaukee Bucks champion Pat Connaughton spoke on the dominance of Nikola Jokic.

"He makes everyone around him better," Connaughton of Jokic. "He obviously has great individual moves, great individual skill. He wants you to send two guys, he wants you double-team, triple-team him, because it makes the game easier for him. He doesn't have to move that much, he can pick you apart, and then he can kinda go to work and do what he does." 

This is what makes Jokic so unstoppable, because while other players can hurt a defense in one or two ways, Jokic has several ways he can pick the defense apart. Making the game look so easy, Jokic often doesn't even look to score, yet still draws multiple defenders. Able to facilitate out of double and triple teams as good as anybody in basketball, Jokic really makes a defense pick their poison, which makes him so unstoppable.

Jokic has been at this level for several seasons now, but many remained hesitant to crown him the best player in the league until he showed it throughout an entire playoff run. Doing that in historical fashion this postseason, Jokic silenced any of his remaining doubters by becoming the first player in NBA history to lead a playoff run in points, rebounds, and assists. 

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Joey Linn
JOEY LINN

Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA and WNBA for On SI. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined On SI to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts and in the classroom earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Joey covers the NBA full-time, primarily serving as a Clippers beat writer.