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This detailed film breakdown & scouting report explores Coach JJ Redick’s gameplan for the Los Angeles Lakers to shut down Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets offense, focusing on ball denial, ignoring shooters, keeping Jokic off his spots and double teaming off the ball.
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36 Comments
Question is, how many wings are there that can wrestle with Jokic pretty much all game while giving up 50-60 pounds and then on the other end knock down 3s with a quiet but efficient 20+pts
Rui underrated
Call JJ Reddick as a podcaster is totally wrong and show a little bit of disrespect of the man’s career.
lol. The nuggets got blasted last year by the Timberwolves. They were figured out a long time ago.
“Solved Jokic” lol.. I’ve heard that one before. Multiple times
Also this entire defensive system would fall apart if Westbrook or Strauther go off on a hot streak and make their shots. So beating the nuggets in 7 is still a Herculean task
He is a retired and experienced NBA player, yes he is also a podcaster, but the title is misleading
And if they meet in the playoffs jokic will average 30 14 10 in a series and there goes that solving….
Y'all giving the lakers too mucb credit. They just face the nuggets at rhe right time having guys coming in & out the line up
it’s like somebody beat him before with 3 7 footers… but nobody cares until the lakers beat them one time in 11 games in the regular season
Great breakdown, really cool to see the callbacks to JJ and Lebron's podcast.
putting a forward and a roamer to help has worked before against the nuggets they foreshadow too much of their offense
Don’t call jj a podcaster, he’s an nba player and coach.
This will be funny next time when Joker counters this…
So basically, Nikola is the modern Wilt.
Referring to LeBron and JJ as "two podcasters" is one of the highlights of this video for me.
Vando is a DAWG
It's insane the amount of glazary the Lakers get. Guys win 1 game and their championship favorites. The Lakers can't keep this pace of defense. Luka played defense for once but as long as that traffic cone is a Laker Luka ain't winning a chip.
This proves Darvin Ham was the problem
Rui Hachimura is basically fouling Jokić all the time without the ball, and then when Jokić does receive the ball he hand checks him all the time, while referees turn the blind eye to it all… briliant tactic!!!
Lakers can go for a title with this shenanigans.
I think one of the crucial factors is height, you know it’s done when Darvin Ham put AR, Dennis Schroder , DLo 3 guards on the starting lineup in the first game of 2023 western conference finals.
a podcaster ??
This clip also shows Luka's limitations in that he is, at least so far, completely incapable of this sort of energetic determination on defense for 48 minutes
This what team can do when you only have 1 allstar
Bro pulled out the 1957 national championship game. A Redick-Mazzula matchup is gonna get us some basketball strategies from the peach basket days
This is an incredible video. I really enjoyed it.
if this isn't proof jokic deserves mvp Idk what is, triple teaming him off ball being the best way for the lakers to beat the nuggets is crazy
JJ is going to be a Hall of Fame Coach ALA Erik Spo
LeBron defending like this at age 40 is crazy to me.
Remember when people were criticizing LeBron for “bringing in his buddy to coach”?
Funny how all of that talk has gone away…
The only problem is…. Once in a while people think they figure out Joker but he’s too smart and ends up solving that problem the next game.
Lakers won a single game vs the Nuggets, I dont think that solved Jokic haha. Nuggets beat them by a similar score in LA in November, so the solved thing isnt that accurate.
Ok he is the mvp
Lebum still losing in a series one game ain’t enough kiddos
How many times have the Nuggets beaten them the last three years? This is "thinking basketball" if you have downs syndrome. Unreal.
The fact that you found college Wilt footage is CRAZY Lol
should’ve waited until playoffs to do that cuz you’re dumb if you think jokic won’t adapt now 😭