Houston’s strategy of “let Jokic have whatever he wants” was incredibly effective last night. When excluding Jokić from the Nuggets’ stat line, the Rockets’ held Denver to 48 points on 28.5 percent shooting from the field and 14.2 percent from behind the arc.
It’s only one game but I wonder if other teams will experiment with this. It really exposed a vulnerability with Denver.
This doesn’t work with Murray. Teams should feast while they have the chance.
That being said, there is a strategy that works with jokic, but requires sound offensive execution with low turnovers. Basically making him hedge and work a bunch on pnr to tire him, and having a big that he struggles backing down 1:1. I think Lakers, suns have good personnel for that.
Houston’s strategy of “let Jokic have whatever he wants” was incredibly effective last night. When excluding Jokić from the Nuggets’ stat line, the Rockets’ held Denver to 48 points on 28.5 percent shooting from the field and 14.2 percent from behind the arc.
It’s only one game but I wonder if other teams will experiment with this. It really exposed a vulnerability with Denver.
This doesn’t work with Murray. Teams should feast while they have the chance.
That being said, there is a strategy that works with jokic, but requires sound offensive execution with low turnovers. Basically making him hedge and work a bunch on pnr to tire him, and having a big that he struggles backing down 1:1. I think Lakers, suns have good personnel for that.