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Nikola Jokić & Victor Wembanyama BATTLED IT OUT In Two Classic Duels!
On Friday, Nikola Jokić notched 41 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists against the Spurs. But Victor Wembanyama stole the show — and the game — with 35 points, 18 boards and a clutch stop on Jokić to seal the win. 24 hours later, in another classic duel between the two superstars, it was the…
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@tompratt7125
January 5, 2025 at 3:06 pm
Jokic averaged 43.5 points, 13.5 rebounds and 9.5 assists in the 2 games v the guy a lot of people–including myself–think will be the DPOY. It seems impossible that Jokic could continue to get better and better but he does. He’s playing at a ridiculous level this year. Wemby has made big strides since last year. Jokic is still in his 20’s so this could be the new rivalry to replace the Jokic/Embiid face off. Unlike Embiid Wemby is actually available to play every time. Bring it on!
@OhhWeally
January 5, 2025 at 3:55 pm
Watch the full games. Wemby wasn’t on jokic all the time lol both teams swapped a ridiculous amount and Zach Collins is a straight liability on defense
@joshuaalvey
January 5, 2025 at 4:09 pm
Classic big man battle
@HUGEPoWERFULMooN
January 5, 2025 at 4:38 pm
When guarded by Wemby, Jokic scored 39 points on 15/27 FG, 5/10 3PT, and 4 FTs made, along with 8 assists and 2 TOs. When guarded by Jokic, Wemby scored 9 points on 3/12 FG, 2/9 3PT, and 1 FT made, along with 2 assists and 1 TO.
@Ejgotitfr
January 5, 2025 at 4:58 pm
@@OhhWeallyeverybody knows a player can’t be on another player for every shot they take. Over the two games Jokic was 15/27 when guarded by Wemby. Wemby was 3/12 guarded by Jokic. Wemby will be the best and he’s incredible but Jokic gave him work.
@OhhWeally
January 5, 2025 at 5:07 pm
@ so he didn’t average 43.5 points against Wemby like the op said 🤦🏻♂️
@danteditan3774
January 5, 2025 at 3:08 pm
This team will meet in a playoff,excited to watch.
@barbarjinks4247
January 5, 2025 at 3:18 pm
NBA crying about ratings while not promoting either of these two because of small markets…
@ericbarsenas6077
January 5, 2025 at 4:04 pm
the small market teams are keeping the NBA breathing because the big market teams are trash and killing the NBA 😢
@zivkovicable
January 5, 2025 at 7:26 pm
Easy…Because they are not American.
@hyunterks
January 5, 2025 at 3:49 pm
다른 선수들이 Joker 한테 파울을 많이 하는데 휘슬이 불리지 않는다. 왜 그러는거야? Joker는 자유투 6개는 더 던졌어야 했어.
@eiman_i
January 5, 2025 at 4:02 pm
What we’ve learned from these two games is that Wemby is already getting that superstar whistle. Should have fouled out early in the 4th in 1st game, but they let him play. 2nd game last possession, he fouls Jokic for free throws for the win, but nah. They literately gave Brown flagrant for identical defensive play in the same game. Not to mention few Wemby’s goal-tending plays in both games. So funny to watch, they wonder why ratings are ass.
@makapuukid1
January 5, 2025 at 4:41 pm
Stop ur crying
@SuperYoungjb
January 5, 2025 at 6:13 pm
Goaltending?? Only one his blocks were gold tending and the refs called it
@ahfei6847
January 5, 2025 at 7:54 pm
Lol. You’re making stuff up. Just enjoy the game
@HighlanDre4573
January 5, 2025 at 4:23 pm
🔥🔥🔥NBA needs a 7 game series between Spurs vs Nuggets very soon🔥🔥🔥
@nikolabraco5521
January 5, 2025 at 4:24 pm
Jokic 👍🏽
@f_e_4_r_.
January 5, 2025 at 4:33 pm
Should have been nationally televised smh…
@Lancelotxxx
January 5, 2025 at 4:40 pm
i hope the spurs make the playoffs, ideally 6th seed.
@ordnice-uo9yn
January 5, 2025 at 4:45 pm
11:47 Russ and number 3 faces…
@Rastajevo
January 5, 2025 at 4:50 pm
Europe domination.
@zivkovicable
January 5, 2025 at 7:24 pm
& American domination at every position in European leagues…Weird.
@Scrubik1
January 5, 2025 at 5:08 pm
It’s so closed between them and wemby has no team. What’ll happen when the spurs get a contender roaster ?
@1.2.1.0.R.I.O
January 5, 2025 at 5:17 pm
It’s really about timing and angles against Wemby man… You miscalculate and bam, swatted.
@tylermcmichael8515
January 5, 2025 at 5:29 pm
Wemby was great the first game but got scouted hard for the second game. It was obvious that more pressure in the paint causes him to hang around the perimeter and choose bad shots. To be honest, watching him jack 2-12 from three land in an OT loss was disappointing. I mean he didn’t score a SINGLE point in OT, and had only 3 points in the whole 4th. With less than 4 assists and 4 TO, he’s already showing his limitations and how easy they are to exploit.
@SuperYoungjb
January 5, 2025 at 6:11 pm
The nuggets told him he’s not going to be beat them. They wanted Vassell and CP to beat them.
Mike Malone pulled off playoff style adjustments by making Jokic, Peyton Watson and Westbrook shade over to him no matter who they were guarding. Malone put Jokic on Chris Paul and Jokic shaded to whatever side of the court Wemby was on every time down. Nuggets didn’t bother guarding CP3 and Sochan with how much they sagged off them. Wemby just took what defense gave him because he already has to exert so much energy being the Spurs defense and being left on an island most times against Jokic. He didn’t have the legs from playing in altitude the night before.
But if a coach has to devise up playoff style adjustments on a player who just turned 21 and is far from a finished product says a lot about coach and teams than the player. Yea he has his limitations as of right now look at KD his first 3 seasons. Tony Allen/Kobe/etc gave him fits inside the paint. But coaches having to pull out defensive adjustments they solely use in the playoffs during the regular season should concern every single human around the league.
@tylermcmichael8515
January 5, 2025 at 7:53 pm
@@SuperYoungjb That’s a pretty big cope. By that same logic, why didn’t the Spurs make adjustments for Jokic? Because it wasn’t the playoffs? C’mon. The point I make is that Wemby’s game is easy to stop at this point. I was shocked at how hard it was for him to be in the paint with some extra pressure. I was even more shocked at how ineffective he was when a team didn’t want him to be effective. This never has been, or will be, the case with Jokic.
@SuperYoungjb
January 6, 2025 at 1:29 am
@@tylermcmichael8515 There are no adjustments for Jokic. The only adjustments that could work on him are to prevent him from getting on the glass and keep his assists low. Did you not remember how much Jokic struggled in the paint against AD and Dwight Howard/Marc Gasol. Mike Malone literally said hes going to make defensive adjustments solely on Wemby. Why else would Mike put 3 guys on Wemby while sagging off CP3 and Sochan? There’s a reason Mike Malone played Peyton Watson more and benched Christian Braun? The only adjustment you can make against Jokic is guarding MPJ. I thought Mitch Johnson should have put Barnes on Jokic and Wemby on Peyton Watson but that matchup never came to fruition because AG is not in the game so having Wemby as a backline spy would also help conserve his legs on offense.
What adjustments would you have written up against a sagged-off Jokic showing front-side help, Peyton Watson on-ball, and Russell or MPJ drifting over as a backline spy? Mind you Mike Malone wants the spurs “others” to beat them because they dont respect their abilities as players?
@lawrencegardener8616
January 5, 2025 at 5:38 pm
First of all, Jokic is the best player in NBA. With that said, what these games show me more is that Wemby is even more special at 20 yrs old. Split two close games with Wemby lacking a supporting cast. Denver has seasoned champions on that team. Records about the same. Joker the best right now but no where near Wemby level when he was 20.
@zivkovicable
January 5, 2025 at 7:21 pm
Where did you see Jokić play when he was 20?
@JakeStine
January 5, 2025 at 5:42 pm
Denver’s play-by-play announcer actually calls the opposing team’s actions when they’re on offense. Spurs play-by-play announcer doesn’t even seem to be paying attention when Nuggets are on offense.
@fernandopaterno3710
January 5, 2025 at 5:48 pm
Jokic is a far more experienced in top levvel games compared to Wemby. Still wemby is already showing he’ll be there among the greats i. Its only a matter of time.
Jokic is the best player on the planet now. But I like him most because he is a good decent man on and off the court.
@Junior-Didi
January 5, 2025 at 6:46 pm
😮
@thoughtsuponatime847
January 5, 2025 at 6:47 pm
Was jokic the most improved player this year?
@zivkovicable
January 5, 2025 at 7:19 pm
He’s is best in the World this year, last year, the year before that, and the one before…So no.
@thoughtsuponatime847
January 5, 2025 at 7:22 pm
@ agreed, but he seems so much better this year. And last year was incredible.
@poyaaax1
January 5, 2025 at 7:04 pm
7:00 westbrook vs westbrook
@biyah22
January 5, 2025 at 7:10 pm
WE NEED MORE WEMBY AT NATIONAL TV
@Jefemcownage
January 5, 2025 at 7:59 pm
ratings tank show
@865style
January 5, 2025 at 8:06 pm
Jokic vs Sga vs Giannis vs Tatum for mvp stats.
Points
1. Giannis (1st with 32.3)
2. Jokic (2nd with 31.5)
3. Sga (3rd with 31.2)
4. Tatum (4th with 28.2)
Rebounds
1. Jokic (3rd with 13.0)
2. Giannis (6th with 11.6)
3. Tatum (17th with 9.4)
4. Sga (70th with 5.4)
Assist
1. Jokic (2nd with 9.7)
2. Sga (21st with 6.1)
3. Giannis (25th with 5.9)
4. Tatum (29th with 5.9)
Steals
1. Sga (3rd with 2.0)
2. Jokic (7th with 1.7)
3. Tatum (32nd with 1.2)
4. Giannis (129th with 0.8)
Blocks
1. Giannis (11th with 1.5)
2. Sga (23rd with 1.1)
3. Jokic (78th with 0.6)
4. Tatum (120th with 0.4)
FG%
1. Giannis (7th with 60.1%)
2. Jokic (18th with 55.3%)
3. Sga (25th with 52.5%)
4. Tatum (69th with 46.4%)
@865style
January 5, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Jokic vs Giannis vs Sga vs Tatum vs each other. **Obviously less points the better.** I ranked them where they finished vs each other in these 6 different categories.
1. Jokic gets 11 points ( 2nd in points, 1st in rebounds, 1st in assist, 2nd in steals, 3rd in blocks, 2nd in fg%). Total= 11
2. Giannis gets 12 points (1st in points, 2nd in reb, 3rd in assist, 4th in steals, 1st in blocks, 1st in fg%). Total= 12
3. Sga gets 15 points (3rd in points, 4th in reb, 2nd in assist, 1st in steals, 2nd in blocks, 3rd in fg%). Total= 15
4. Tatum gets 22 points (4th in points, 3rd in reb, 4th in assist, 3rd in steals, 4th in Blocks, 4th in fg%). Total= 22
@865style
January 5, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Now Jokic vs Giannis vs Sga vs Tatum vs everyone in the league. **All there rankings in the 6 categories added up**
1. Jokic total 110 points. ( 2nd in points, 3rd in reb, 2nd in assist, 7th in steals, 78th in blocks, 18th in FG%). Total= 110
**3 finishes in the top 3. 4 finishes in the top 10.**
2. Sga total total 145 points (3rd in points, 70th in reb, 21st in assist, 3rd in steals, 23rd in blocks, 25th in FG%). Total= 145
**2 finishes in the top 3. 2 finishes in the top 10.**
3. Giannis total 179 points. (1st in points, 6th in reb, 25th in assist, 129th in steals, 11th in blocks, 7th in FG%). Total= 179
**1 finish in the top 3. 3 finishes in the top 10.**
4. Tatum total 271 points. (4th in points, 17th in reb, 29th in assist, 32nd in steals, 120th in blocks, 69th in FG%). Total= 271
**0 finishes in the top 3. 1 finish in the top 10.**
@mikeyshanghai9801
January 5, 2025 at 8:13 pm
What’s all this hype about?? As far as I am concerned, let’s compare Wemby to Jokic when Wemby has at least won one MVP, if not a championship.
@Jaywrites23
January 5, 2025 at 10:47 pm
I don’t see how anyone watching games can say the nba isn’t great! But that’s the issue, I couldn’t watch this live because black out restrictions. Please fix this!
@andresmatiasriossalinas8157
January 5, 2025 at 11:20 pm
dos europeoss liderando dos equipos de NBA
@db974
January 5, 2025 at 11:43 pm
Jokic needed 71 shots + 15 FT to get 85 PTs…
Don’t oversale him. Add to it that he scored 80% of these on everyone but Wemby and you’ll have a different statement.
It is too easy to only look at the bottom line 🧢
@jcliu
January 6, 2025 at 12:31 am
Extremely fun that these games have the best 20 year old vs the best 30 year old, with near 40-year-olds Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook still around as two of the few point guards in the league who still remember how to throw good post-entry passes.
@richmanz447
January 6, 2025 at 1:03 am
Clash of the Titans!
@damianlopez3315
January 6, 2025 at 1:39 am
10:26 KD type move
@slobodanstojanovic8125
January 6, 2025 at 3:04 am
Luckily for you Americans that have to see them on NATIONAL TV as “PRIME-TIME TV” 🙂 because its the Best NBA player going against future best, level of SKILLS(although i understand skills are not whats important to american bball fans but still…) the quality of bball, team bball by both, shooting from every positions at high level only efficient rather then just runnin’ and gunnin’, passes/assists at high level, all this by CENTERS !!! Again you’re so lucky to be able to see all this in prime-time…NOT !!! Its crazy