Nikola Jokić
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Sep 17, 2026
John MiddlekauffCORRESPONDENT
It's not really possible at defense to do that.
John MiddlekauffCORRESPONDENT
And that, that to me is gonna be the question mark I think with both these two teams is, like, is their personnel good enough when push comes to shove? Can Josh Allen really be the equivalent of an NBA player like Jokic, like LeBron, like Steph in their prime and just carry you week after week after week? It, it becomes difficult because their margin for error if something goes wrong is basically zero.
John MiddlekauffCORRESPONDENT
Like it, it doesn't exist.
John MiddlekauffCORRESPONDENT
Same thing, like once the Lions offense scored 21 and then they kind of hit the skids, it was like, "Well, our defense is bending but not breaking here," and now they're breaking, and it, it becomes a problem really, really quick.
John MiddlekauffHOST
It's not really possible at defense to do that.
John MiddlekauffHOST
And that, that to me is gonna be the question mark I think with both these two teams is like, is their personnel good enough when push comes to shove? Can Josh Allen really be the equivalent of an NBA player like Jokic, like LeBron, like Steph in their prime and just carry you week after week after week? It, it becomes difficult because their margin for error if something goes wrong is basically zero.
John MiddlekauffHOST
Like, it, it doesn't exist.
John MiddlekauffHOST
Same thing like once the Lions offense scored 21 and then they kind of hit the skids, it was like, "Well, our defense is bending but not breaking here," and now they're breaking.
Ben BeeckenHOST
He's three years younger than SGA.
Ben BeeckenHOST
He's six years younger than Nikola Jokic.
Ben BeeckenHOST
He's a couple years younger than Luka Dončić.
Ben BeeckenHOST
And obviously Ant's game should age well.
Ben BeeckenHOST
Ahead of Minnesota by a couple spots, which I can at least see the argument for the Nuggets.
Ben BeeckenHOST
But if we're-- if this, this is future power rankings, so we're talking about, like, youth matters.
Ben BeeckenHOST
Go check the ages for Nikola Jokic.
Ben BeeckenHOST
He's 31, by the way.
Dustin SwedelsonHOST
I almost wanna do the Kendrick Perkins thing, 'cause, like, he was biased.
Dustin SwedelsonHOST
Remember a few years ago, Jokić was gonna win an MVP, and somehow the, the argument that, that, that dinged Jokić was, "Well, he's never won a championship," for a regular season award.
Dustin SwedelsonHOST
Somehow that negated him winning the MVP, but people listened.
Dustin SwedelsonHOST
People, if you're influential, which I am not, I am, I'm literally here and the sun is not out and people are in their beds, okay? But we appreciate you hanging out with us.
Shamit DuaGUEST
But that's not where you want him to make his money.
Shamit DuaGUEST
Where you want him to make his money, again, you put him next to, like, a Nikola Jokic.
Shamit DuaGUEST
The supercomputer's gonna make all the decisions, and then you're leveraging, okay, this guy can shoot out to 33 feet and dunk on you.
Shamit DuaGUEST
Like, that's the frontier where you have a computer like Jokic feeding him shots and, and they're high value shots.
John MiddlekauffHOST
And that to me is going to be the question mark, I think, with both these two teams.
John MiddlekauffHOST
Is their personnel good enough when push comes to shove? Can Josh Allen really be the equivalent of an NBA player like Jokic, like LeBron, like Steph in their prime and just carry you week after week after week? It becomes difficult because their margin for error if something goes wrong is basically zero.
John MiddlekauffHOST
Like, it doesn't exist.
John MiddlekauffHOST
Same thing, like, once the Lions offense scored 21 and then they kind of hit the skids, it was like, well, our defense is bending but not breaking here and now they're breaking.
Danny CunninghamHOST
He was a much different player last year than he had been at any other point in his career.
Danny CunninghamHOST
Part of that was Nikola Jokic got hurt for a little bit.
Danny CunninghamHOST
And part of that was Jamal Murray got hurt for a little bit.
Danny CunninghamHOST
And when those things happened, Peyton Watson was able to kind of take off quite a bit.
Danny CunninghamHOST
He was playing that many minutes out of necessity for the Nuggets last year.
Danny CunninghamHOST
But averaged 21.9, 5.5 boards, 3 assists, did so on 49% from the field and 46.2 from three-point range.
Danny CunninghamHOST
And Nikola Jokic missed a bunch of time during that because I believe he had a knee injury, if I'm not mistaken.
Danny CunninghamHOST
I don't think it's fair to expect him to shoot 46% from beyond the arc.
Carter RodriguezHOST
I don't think that that's something you want to build the whole boat out of.
Carter RodriguezHOST
And I think Giannis is one of those kind of singular players who's kind of hard to build around offensively, kind of like a Jokic or LeBron in the sense that it's really hard to have an identity when he's not out there.
Carter RodriguezHOST
Yeah.
Carter RodriguezHOST
And I just think he's at the point in his career where you really should be penciling him in for 50-ish games.
Raphael BarlowHOST
And he had all of his homeboys from Serbia hanging with all the, kicking it with all the college students.
Raphael BarlowHOST
And one of the guys that was in his entourage was Jokic's brother.
Raphael BarlowHOST
Now, here's the part that doesn't get talked about enough.
Raphael BarlowHOST
This was an international kid, right? It wasn't an inner-city kid from the United States that had an entourage.
Erik RubyHOST
He's not Wemby.
Erik RubyHOST
He's not Jokic.
Erik RubyHOST
Does the conversation start there as far as like, can he be an all-star level center for the Suns? I feel like best case scenario, he certainly can be.
Erik RubyHOST
But again, that's best case scenario.
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