Jokic’s HIGH Basketball IQ 📈

Gilbert Arenas of the Gil’s Arena podcast gives Nikola Jokic his flowers. The way he can play in the NBA shows he has natural instincts. When a player gets doubled and you know where to pass that is instinct. And that is all the Denver Nuggets superstar Center does. He plays great basketball in the paint and can pass and assist. The Denver Nuggets have a hall of famer in Jokic and he can do everything right in NBA Games.

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[Therockdmx]

Kobe warned you everyone that the European players were going to take over the game. Europeans players are taught the fundamentals of basketball 🏀 while American players are not.

[mattskizzy]

Why does this feel like Gil's IRL default look 😂

[Yimmy-it]

Gil finally grew up from the "Nobody is gonna care who you are" to Jokic to "Jokic understands the ball so well". Lol.

[jacktheleper]

You know the spooky thing? Jokic is top 10 in defense. Top 10 stls/blks and top 3 in deflections. Plus, a couple of advanced analytic models show Jokic as top 10 defensively

[ThePat-yust]

This is one of Gil's best breakdowns.

[priztucker]

I think the whole panel should’ve done different versions of the Joker for Halloween.

[edwardsadventures]

Joker does it well. It's not as easy as it looks.

[howardwayne]

I used to tell the young guys I hooped with when they would ask me how I was still so productive on the court at my age....

I know where everybody's supposed to be so I know where to go with the ball at all times....

The only way it goes wrong is if I do it wrong💯

[Kmathews]

He’s the only triple double guy of this is era that isn’t after stats but just knows how to compliment his team well. A lot of guys, including LeBron don’t understand how to do that

[Okac-buyg]

They laugh at me because I'm different.
I laugh at them because they're all the same.🃏

[ocben]

McCant like “I don’t know what he is saying but imma nod my head”

[quirkasaurussaurus]

exactly. mike breen made some ridiculously obtuse call the other night: "WHAT A PASS BY JOKIC!! HOW DOES HE KNOW WHERE RUSS WAS!?!?!?!" And I was like. Russ is standing at precisely the 2:00 o'clock spot where he's supposed to be. In fact, there was another player perfectly spotted up in the far corner, and another perfectly set at the 10:00 o'clock position. The question really is: "how have you been commentating on basketball games, FOR A LIVING, for 40 years and can't recognize that?"

[DrugzMunny]

In the Halloween episode when 2 different dudes dressed as the Joker (Heath Ledger, Joaquim Phoenix Jokers), they should've just talked about the Joker (Jokic) all episode

[unfixablegop]

Jokic's perplexing court awareness is more sophisticated than him guessing blindly as this short suggests.

[mattreynolds]

He's gonna B higher than any one thinks in the pantheon of NBA Legends when he calls it to go love on his horses one day. He's Him!!!
⛏️🏀🏆☮️

[StickyIckyy]

In 2k mfs, don't sit in one spot long enough to pull this off they response is "you just want me to sit there"

[ConsCope]

GA’s last minute costume was from the night before. I would know because I was there…

[jaseplet]

Whole generation corrupted. This is not the same man that used to break records for the Wizards.
This guy right here never wore 0.

[psuperfly]

Gil coping. KIND of explaining it … but after watching Jokic since he was a rookie - the dude has a sixth sense. I have never seen it before - it’s uncanny. His touch is insane, too. Many players may know something’s open but not be able to make that pass.
I say this as a Gil (the player) lover, and I wish we signed your ass over Andre Miller.

[kgkg-nkrd]

Its wasnt that long ago that Gil was hating on him 😂😂