Giannis Antetokounmpo should now be in the lead for MVP. 🦌

[Bonk]

the analytics still point to joker, the same analytics that pointed to giannis when he won 2 in a row. jokic 41 wins in games played, giannis 38 wins in games played. the only way jokic will lose is if he gets injured, hes got too much of a cushion.

Analytics is a Ponzi scheme Denver Nuggets stay exploiting to steal MVPs for Jokic.

This breh (John Wilkes) explained it (this might be one of the best takes ever when it comes to Nuggets & Jokic):



Now, look at Nuggets starting 5 being top-10 in Net ratings:



It’s a scam.

 

[TheNig]

We got a problem?

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Good choice.

 

[In The Zone '98]

Meh.

Their substitution pattern supports winning.

 

[Walt]

We must stop these white supremacists

 

[Rekkapryde]

I genuinely don’t know what Jokic did to bring this ire. He talks shyt but is ultimately inoffensive. Is it because he fukked up one of the Morris goons and then pulled up on the return game?

Morris Goofs

Their whole fake goon image is over

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Analytics is a Ponzi scheme Denver Nuggets stay exploiting to steal MVPs for Jokic.

This breh (John Wilkes) explained it (this might be one of the best takes ever when it comes to Nuggets & Jokic):



Now, look at Nuggets starting 5 being top-10 in Net ratings:



It’s a scam.

This is one one of the most idiotic takes I've seen this season, which says a lot with all the bullshyt @Squirrel from Meteor Man posts.

You nor this cracka John Wilkes Booth knows how to contextualize plus/minus properly.

To even infer that the Nuggets are structuring their roster and rotations any differently to any other team to make Jokic's plus/minus look better is psychotic. Anybody that seriously believes the Nuggets set out this season purely to make Jokic's plus/minus look better in order to win MVP has a mental disorder.

Jokic is the entire reason why those players are ranked high in plus/minus because anyone that's in the same lineup as him benefits from how impactful he is.

Or do you seem to think that Aaron Gordon and MPJ have superstar-impact to where they're making Jokic look better than he is? Why was Gordon ranked 400th in plus/minus when he was in Orlando? How has he gone from 400th to now where he's among the league leaders? What do you think has changed? Why has Jokic been one of the top-ranked players in plus/minus over the past half a decade no matter what personnel he's had to play with?

Monte Morris was 29th in plus/minus last season, purely because he played alongside Jokic. He's 168th this season and barely in the positive.

To put this further into perspective -

Jokic was missing his #2 and #2 options [Murray and MPJ] last season and yet he still ranked 7th in plus/minus.

Marinate on that.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

@Bonk

bu-bu-but Jokic's teammates.

 

[Regular_P]

I genuinely don’t know what Jokic did to bring this ire. He talks shyt but is ultimately inoffensive. Is it because he fukked up one of the Morris goons and then pulled up on the return game?

They had to find a new boogeyman after Curry won it all last year.

 

[1thouwow]

Only 3x mvp with no ring and no pressure to get one

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Think he’ll end up with the first 30pt 10rb 5ast 50% FG all defense 1st team season in league history

 

[Jermio]

Yeah, why do some of y'all dislike Jokic so much? Giannis is eating. He won a chip, he's been MVP 2 times, the team is playing well. Jokic is not an existential threat to Giannis. You don't need to act like Jokic winning is unreasonable.

 

[Jermio]

Only 3x mvp with no ring and no pressure to get one

So who would you have given the MVP these 3 seasons? Westbrook won an MVP despite clear evidence that he was the worst decision maker among stars all-time in the sport and would never win a ring barring extreme circumstances like him doing 5 minutes off the bench for a Bulls/Warriors level team. Jokic plays smart and efficiently on a not great team at a time where nobody in the league is going nuclear night to night. Giannis of course has played well, but had some lulls early on. Why is this controversial?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

The most hilarious thing about trying to bring up Jokic's teammates plus/minus in argument for Giannis being the MVP, as if Giannis doesn't have the best support cast in the entire league, and Jokic has a support cast with no All-Stars or All-NBA players.

The Bucks have put a hole in some of the best teams without Giannis this season, but let's all gloss over that fact.

 

[Biscayne]

I swear y'all only hate jokic cause he is white, man is having an incredible season. Y'all gotta stop it lol.

The furor this man causes fans and analysts is great for the league

They have to give it to him! They just have to!

Jokic leads the league in TS%

Giannis is 71st in TS%

Cool numbers this month though.

Aren’t the bucks first in the east? Y’all are acting like the fact that ppl are making it a competition, is a disservice to Jokic. Like Jokic should be running away with it, and considering anyone else is disrespectful. Embiid, Tatum and Giannis are putting up great numbers and leading their teams to wins as well. Yeah, Jokic has the nod and should be in the lead considering what he’s doing in the West(1st place, record breaking numbers). But why shouldn’t it at least be close? His Nuggets teammates aren’t horrible. Jamal Murray is a decent player. What am I missing here? Defensively the Nuggets seem solid too. Is that Jokic doing? Maybe I’m wrong.