OFFICIAL DTB DISCLAIMER: Mason Plumlee does not get any assists to Nikola Jokic in this video. Neither does he receive any assists from Jokic. Plumlee and Jokic don’t even really seem to share the court in this video. There are no plays that one makes facilitated by the other. If you are a Serb trying to catch any scrap of Nikola Jokic footage to be found on the internet, you might as well leave this video right now because you aren’t finding him here.
What even is the point of having two centers who can rack up assists if you’re not going to play them together? There’s no team in the universe that has a gameplan for having to defend two passing bigmen at the same time. Their gameplan would be to lose the game, because The Twin Towers of Passing would slice up defenses like cheese in a grater.
I understand Malone’s trepidation to follow through with this genius plan. It’s tempting to want to platoon Plumlee and Jokic so that there is a passing big on the court at all times. He’s also seen how the Millsap experiment has failed in Denver. The thing is, Plumlee isn’t Millsap. Millsap thinks he’s a true PF version of LeBron; Plumlee just wants to make passes and sometimes catch lobs. He’s way lower maintenance and thus a way better pairing for the Joker.
You know, I re-read this whole thing and I don’t think I’m even trying to be funny. I’m trying to be serious right now. Maybe I should put something here at the end to frame the entire thing as maybe a joke so that when someone more knowledgeable than me comes in here and rips my ideas to shreds using evidence and facts, I can say that he got trolled.
Nah.