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In a game of 1-on-1 ?
Or 3-on-3 ?
5-on-5 ?
Jokic for me.
I don't think it's head and shoulders tho.
I can see arguments for Giannis or Embiid pre injury.
Jokic is the best floor-raiser and seems the most versatile on the offense. He's the best offensive player in the league. Imo, he is in that goat lvl offense.
Giannis, despite being limited in his way to score, he is unstoppable. We'll see in the POs when defenses get more complex, but he is having a great season. Great help defender, great rotation defender, solid passer. Probably underrated on that front. He isn't getting talked about as much as he should this season despite him putting up monster stats.
Embiid was there. The best scorer in the game before he got hurt. Improved on his passing. Defense was solid, but I think he might've been one of the most difficult to guard. His midrange was unstoppable this year. I think he falls in love with his jumpshot too much and doesn't exploit the mismatches, but he was so good. I honestly was thinking he might've been the best player this year before he got hurt.
Luka is great, just too much iso but it could be due to the team. SGA is so consistent. He's up there as well.
But ultimately I feel it's Jokic. The way he plays off the ball and his passing game is so good. How he sets the screens and his lvl of threat of scoring either from the pop or the roll gives his teammates some good shots. I think he is one of the best screen threats I've seen. His vision and passing game are on that goat tier. Even though he leads the league in touches, he doesn't hold on to the ball much at all. I love some of the sets they run with him coming off screens and shooting a midrange or going to the basket. It's really hard to defend. Since he is one of the best screen threats, there are times where he'll have a mismatch on him. He'll exploit it, and if you double, he's one of the best passers in nba history and just sets up his teammates. It's amazing to see. Plus he has a great touch in the paint. Jokic is crazy unselfish when it comes to scoring tho. He legit would only have 7 FGA, be cool with it, and still be the best player cuz of how he controlled the game. It reminds me of Magic and Bird back in the day.
His defense is okay. He has good position, but he doesn't contest sometimes. Probably because he doesn't want to get into foul trouble. And he lacks lateral quickness. He has great hands and deflects a lot. He isn't a bad defender. And there is a lot of underrated stuff that doesn't appear on the boxscore. The guy has a high IQ and tell the teammates where to position themselves on the opponent's plays. Dude is the best floor general in the game rn. I remember LeBron and cp3 would do that on both ends.
[QUOTE=beasted;14893317]Based on playoff history, last season was a heavy outlier for Jokic. Otherwise his playoff numbers are certainly not better than Giannis.[/QUOTE]
Certainly better than Embitch :oldlol:
[QUOTE=SouBeachTalents;14893329]Jokic averaged 30/12/5 on 61%TS in the playoffs the 2 seasons before they won the championship. Granted, it was a small sample size, but that's what happens when you're missing your 2nd option for 2 years. But that's pretty damn close to what he averaged during his title run, and showed what he was capable of when he had a championship caliber team around him.
If anything, you could argue Giannis' title run is the real aberration, as outside of 2022 he never came close to averaging 30 ppg in the playoffs again, and even in 2022 his efficiency fell off a cliff.
While I don't think I need to even delve into Embiid's playoff track record, that shit speaks for itself :lol[/QUOTE]
Well, he certainly impacts his team a lot more in the playoffs than this guy.
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