You too slow to realize that saying their starters don't play the top 5 minutes together doesn't mean shyt due to all their different lineups with games missed. It still could mean they sit their entire starting unit together, just that due to injury it's a different starting unit for some games. So it's disingenuous to only use one starting lineup for them as if that proves anything.
Except we know the Nuggets just don't go sit their entire starting lineup for games.
They've only played two games this season without at least two main starters.
That's only 3% of their total games this season where they've effectively had their starting unit out. Otherwise, it's been a combination of starters/second unit, where Murray and MPJ have been on load management (Murray has missed 14 games and MPJ 17 games). What's really disingenuous is bringing up this nonsensical talking point of
"it could still mean they sit their entire starting lineup together" and not actually looking at the lineups beforehand to see whether this is true or not, otherwise, you're just throwing shyt at the wall and hoping it sticks.
You just can't simply deal with the fact that Jokic has elevated his teammates more than any other player this season and you're desperately reaching for some shyt to manipulate to reaffirm your confirmation bias. You've done this all season. I've witnessed it.
You definitely full of shyt here. You acting like you talking to somebody that isn't watching games. Jokic often initiates offense from the three point line. How the fukk you gone act like the majority of Jokic's touches come in the front court. He does a lot of backing down from the three point line, or shoots, or pump fakes and drives. You really are sicking in sucking his dikk so hard that you just making up shyt now lol.
The three-point is
inside the front-court.
What the fukk are you even talking point?
Your dumbass tried to use general touches when it's typically Jokic touching the ball in the backcourt and then passing to initiate the first action of the possession. He rarely brings the ball up right from the backcourt, then backdowns his matchup and attempts a shot or pass that directly leads to a field goal attempt. He's typically making quick decisions where the ball doesn't stick in his hands.
He, Embiid and Sabonis are all touching the ball at a similar rate in the frontcourt.
AND touches only count when a player is within attacking position. So basically when they are within three point range. It doesn't count when players are dribbling the ball up the court.
You need to stop.
Touches count whenever a player touches the ball on the court - it doesn't matter where it is or what situation it is. It's just whenever a player touches the ball at the start of them possessing it. Are you suggesting it's counting touches for each dribble? Otherwise, you'd have the likes of Trae touching the ball 500 times with each dribble. Or are you suggesting touches aren't counted in the backcourt?
A touch is counted whenever they first touch it and then it's counted again when they get the ball back. From every space on the floor.
Jokic touches the ball more in the backcourt than Embiid and Sabonis, which again, rarely ever leads to getting box score stats.
In fact, it's even more impressive that Jokic is as dominant as he is given he touches the ball more times throughout a possession whereas the likes of Embiid and Sabonis might have 1-2 touches and they're getting a potential box score stat out of it. Jokic is running multiple DHO, give-and-go's, touch passes that are the first action of a sequence during any given possession. All his touches are based upon him making quick decisions, multiple times during a possession.
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