Much like people wouldn’t care about Russell Westbrook’s season if he wasn’t averaging a triple-double, people won’t care about this game because Nikola Jokic was a single assist short of one. Realistically, it was about as good of a performance has some of his other triple-doubles, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is if the performance can be affixed with the “trippy-dubby” label, and this one can’t be.
He also almost had a 5×5, if you consider being 4 blocks short “almost”.
This wasn’t a great game for him scoring the ball, as he had trouble dealing with the physicality of Nene (who is definitely roiding by the way how the heck is he still good his hair is greying for Christ’s sake). The refs didn’t give him any free throws, and he only made a few shots, so 12 points is all we got. Far below his usual standards, and the Nuggets lost, so it might be time to declare the Nuggets’ season over and put him on ice for the rest of the year. More minutes for Roy Hibbert? Yes please.