It depends on what you call taking heat. To me there is a difference between hating and saying shyt like he can never be the best player on a championship team or that he's a loser versus hitting him with legit criticism.
With Giannis they pointed out that it was too easy for teams to take the Celtics and Heat approach of throwing bodies in the paint to wall it off and force him to shoot jumpers. He worked on his outside game and added to his back to the basket game and eventually won.
If people point out that teams target Jokic on D and that he needs to fix it I think that is a justifiable criticism. He's not to blame and his greatness is why the Nuggets are even competitive. At the same time his defense last year did play a factor in the team leading and nothing wrong with pointing that out.
EVERY superstar has gone through that but for some reason only Jokic fans cry about it.
There's a difference between saying Jokic's defense (or lack thereof) played a factor, and saying it was the main cause (which has been one of the main talking points around his play). There's a reason why there's this dominant narrative about his defense, and less talking about the flaws of the Nuggets, as a whole. Especially since folks like you would rather talk about his limitations on one end, but not his play on the other in relative measure. When you're bringing up bullshyt like
bu-bu-but why isn't Jokic getting criticized like Boogie did, that becomes less about having a valid criticism and more about hate for the sake of. Nobody has ever cried about Jokic's limitations being discussed, it's the fact they're overrexaggerrated because of an agenda.
And like I told you, ain't nothing wrong with hating a player, but just be honest about it. Don't cover it up with bullshyt.
