On January 31, Beijing time, the NBA regular season Nuggets defeated the Bucks 136-100 on the road, welcoming a five-game winning streak. Before the game, the Nuggets posted the same frame photo of Jokic and Alphabet Brother in the All-Star period, and wrote: "Tonight." MVP vs MVP！ But after the game began, the Nuggets almost always occupied the initiative on the court, jokic only played 28 minutes to get 18 points, 9 rebounds and 15 assists of the quasi-triple-double, easily led the team to win. Although the alphabet brother played 29 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists in this game, in this MVP-level confrontation, the alphabet brother still lost.
As the old and new MVP alphabet brother and Jokic's play style is two completely different styles, the alphabet brother's play style is more vigorous and more physically better, he is like the ancient general who led the army to fight. Jokic, on the other hand, relies on his mind, his physical talent is not excellent, so his playing style is more flexible and smarter, he is like the current prime minister who has been strategizing. The great general and the prime minister are also in high power, but one person is one and one martial, each with its own responsibilities.
And today the Nuggets can play the Bucks has two reasons: the first point is the number of assists, the number of assists can be a good reflection of the team's offensive ability, the Nuggets sent 39 assists in this campaign, while the Bucks only have 23 times, compared with the Nuggets' team basketball, the Bucks are more accustomed to pulling away singles, once the star feels bad or is defended by the lineup, it is difficult to play a good performance. The Nuggets, on the other hand, are all soldiers, and once the basketball runs smoothly, the game will become unstoppable.
The second point is the defense, the Bucks defense today is not excellent, they let the Nuggets get a 60% shooting percentage, it can be said that they did not limit the Nuggets' offense at all. The Nuggets' defense is more targeted, Holliday and Middleton were strangled by the Nuggets, Holliday only scored 14 points in this game, Middleton only had 9 points, and the two also sent 8 mistakes, which added a lot of opportunities for the Nuggets to convert points. So, the Bucks' loss is not unjust.
After winning this game, the Nuggets have a record of 10 wins and 3 losses in the last 13 games, all thanks to Jokic's individual performance. According to statistics, there have only been three times in the history of the NBA when the use of players in a single season exceeded 30% and the actual shooting exceeded 65%, and this season Jokic is one of them. This season, Jokic's usage is 30.4 percent and his true shooting percentage is 65.6 percent. He averaged 26 points, 13.7 rebounds and 7.8 assists per game and shot 57.4 percent, 37.8 percent and 81.1 percent from three fields.
The other two times were owned by Curry, who used 32.6 percent of the 15-16 season and shot 67 percent of his true shooting. He averaged 30.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game, shooting 50.4%, 45.4% and 90.8% from three fields. That was the season when Curry was unanimously elected MVP of the regular season, and if Jokic can extend this performance until the end of the season, then there is a high probability that he will be the MVP.
After the game, Jokic also accepted an interview with the media, and when talking about his performance of giving 15 assists to lead the team to win, Jokic said: "My coach in my hometown once told me that scoring can only make one person happy, but assists can make two people happy, so I like to give assists. And when it comes to Alphabet Brother, Jokic asks himself: "Do I want to do what he does in Denver?" (Leading the team to win the championship) That's of course. "If Murray and Porter Jr. can return to the field before the playoffs, do you think Jokic will lead the team to win the championship like Alphabet Brother?