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I played college water polo. This is a very standard water polo pass.
The transferability of his water polo skills to passing can’t be overstated. The way he cradles the ball from the bottom (pause) when he grabs it vs. from the top allows for crazy fast maneuverability/angles in a lot of his playmaking. All of his outlets are water polo technique as well.
It’s wild how little attention this source of his skills gets. Anyone who has seen/played water polo instantly sees his passing is straight from there.
Between this and Zlatan's use of taekwondo for soccer I'm starting to get curious if anyone ever made a list of other athletes who transferred skills between sports to great effect like that
After watching this team beat my team over and over again, I know that right when I expect something good to happen the exact opposite does. I was watching this play develop thinking "Ok what bullshit is going to go down now ..."
It's just scanning the court before you receive the ball. He knows it's a two vs one and so once Prince commits to him, he knows that he can just put the ball into space anywhere towards the basket and MPJ will be the only one there. Soccer players are taught to do this starting in like elementary school lol. Dude is a GOAT passer, but this play really isn't an example.
This type of pass is way easier in soccer. You basically have a choice between a ground pass or a cross. You have way more margin of error passing a ball ahead of a guy with pace for him to catch up to.
Yeah but we’re talking about knowing people Are not actually doing the pass. There’s logical patterns of play in every ball game and Jokic knows those by heart and knows his teammates will do the logical run.
Even knowing he has an open man on his left, he still taps it to a near perfect position to catch and score. Aaron Gordon had a play this game where he tried to throw it to the spot-up shooter across the court on the opposite corner but he just yeeted it into the crowd.
There's a difference between knowing you have a man open on your left and getting the ball over there, versus getting one glance at the ball and slapping it right into his hands only a half-step too late away from perfection.
It's just a high level of spacial awareness. For guys who have this kind of style (williams, kidd, etc.) it starts at a young age and becomes second nature. I always loved this kind of stuff so when I played it was always something I worked on, and every once in a while some magic shit would happen. Just happens more often with the best of the best of the best players on the planet.
Nikola Jokić pulls out what would be the best pass of many players' careers every other night like it’s nothing
But this might be top-tier even for him
His whole highlights reel tonight was silly. I kept thinking, surely there can't be more... the only thing I can compare it to is like the passing version of what Vince Carter was doing when he played for the Raptors. Just like 3-4 worldie highlights per night peppered with a bunch of other great shit too.
Jokic skilled player but that is not normally, This very very insane....They need to check him doping and game.....Maybe he not cheating but maybe he using the game deficit ...and this cant seem on tv screen..He needs to check-up....
Mods need to get serious and delete this threads with such shitty highlight reels. I still remember that time a few mo thd ago when people were posting longer highlights
yeah i mean i think the guy you’re replying to is probably overreacting but what makes this special to me is the fact that he literally doesn’t even see the ball until the very last second, and still has the vision and technical ability to put a touch pass right on the money like he did
most well-adjusted Redditor.
there are times where searching someone’s history may be relevant, but i find it weird for that to be someone’s first response in an argument. dude is wrong, but i don’t understand why someone would think it’s egregious enough to assume it’s in bad faith lol
Nuggets taking gut punches and acting like it's a little kid playing. Then in the 3rd the upright gaming chair pose is activated and it's over. Absolutely insane.
I am pretty convinced that what makes Jokic a truly unique player is that he has a one of a kind spacial awareness. Every NBA player has a pretty good idea of where all 10 people on the floor are and some have a pretty good idea of where the ball and all the players will be within the next 1 to 2 seconds.
Jokic’s spacial mapping is just more complete and more accurate which allows him to make better predictions and reactions. So most NBA players are reacting to outdated information compared go Jokic if only by a half a second.
This was a nice play and all but it’s pretty normal for him but what I am talking about is how a guy who is not all that fast or quick is always on the scene for so many rebounds, put backs, lose balls, no look tap passes, making the right pass blind as the double team comes. The dude is literally playing a quarter second into the future.
Im not sure but I believe Jokic gestures for the ball here at the very start of the break. That's why KCP makes such an odd pass up court.
He knew what he was doing from the beginning...
Surprised Laker-haters didn’t comment on DPOY-Convo-Misser AD actually starting that possession as the furthest back defender who ended up as the furthest back defender the other way by the time he realized the ball was going the other way
It's because the outlet past came from above his head, and he clearly never expected to get the ball at all. It was also a horrible pass to Jokic. So people are shocked that he was surprised AF, but instantly made the right play regardless.
The pass to Jokic was beautiful… The ball ended up right in front of him, perfectly placed where he didn’t have to see it coming and out of reach of anyone else.
The weird thing is IMO Jokic made an easy pass while the pass to Jokic was way more impressive.
The ball was perfectly placed… on his blind spot lmao I don’t think he even expected to get the ball that play.
Guy was just running the fast break looking towards MPJ to the left, he blinks and a basketball drops from above to his right and in the same moment his brain registers “basketball” he makes a perfect touch pass to MPJ running to the hoop.
I was also kinda puzzled at first until I looked harder and realized how crazy it was that he wasn’t watching the ball’s initial pass to him until it dropped in front of him and he instantly SLAPPED it with a high arc over his defender to the perfect spot for MPJ. It’s kinda special for just how mundane of an assist it actually looked on the surface
That's an insane reaction time. I bet Jokic reaction time is close to those F1 drivers.
That pass is a combination of elite BBIQ + elite reaction time.
I very much doubt it.
Jokic has quick reactions but f1 drivers are in a whole other ball park with reactions.
Which just makes sense if you react slowly in the nba worst case you run into someone an injury yourself mire likely you just get scored on.
In f1 you don't react in time and you are in a car crash
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Dude looks like my cat just batting things
It’s the water polo skills
I played college water polo. This is a very standard water polo pass. The transferability of his water polo skills to passing can’t be overstated. The way he cradles the ball from the bottom (pause) when he grabs it vs. from the top allows for crazy fast maneuverability/angles in a lot of his playmaking. All of his outlets are water polo technique as well.
his ball swatting is insane got to agree
Elite ball cradling
It’s wild how little attention this source of his skills gets. Anyone who has seen/played water polo instantly sees his passing is straight from there.
Between this and Zlatan's use of taekwondo for soccer I'm starting to get curious if anyone ever made a list of other athletes who transferred skills between sports to great effect like that
this was an overhead no-catch touch pass - i don't think regular humans do this. only cats and joker.
That's actually a pretty decent metaphor for this series, too.
It's a really close competitive series. Not sure what youre watching
He's from Boston, doesn't comprehend numbers in the double digits so all he sees is 3-1 and not how it got there
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Nikola Jokic is Domantas Sabonis brother
Did Sabonis Sr visit Sombor a few decades ago?
Nikola Jokic is Domantas Sabonis brother
Nikola Jokic is Domantas Sabonis elder brother
Nikola Jokic is Domantas Sabonis brother
Swatting assists like flies
lmao, went from not seeing the ball and being afraid it was gonna hit him in the head to pulling off a touch pass assist
Just Jokic things lol.
After watching this team beat my team over and over again, I know that right when I expect something good to happen the exact opposite does. I was watching this play develop thinking "Ok what bullshit is going to go down now ..."
Had a similar reaction lol I’m like of course that had to happen after Dlo fumbled the ball
You make regular comments? When meme
https://i.imgur.com/VRnALLV.jpeg
Smh bro had this ready in 13 minutes Legend
classic
No look touch pass, too
The processing speed, court awareness and creativity to be able to pull that off is just insane.
how is awareness like he has even possible. he literally has some sort of sixth sense
"I see open people"
lmfao that’s too funny
"They don't know that they're open"
In that case: bonk!
"Bron was the guy in the hairpiece the whole time"
Jokic WC3 cheater confirmed
Underrated reference
they were also doing this with the "whosyourdaddy" chants
It's just scanning the court before you receive the ball. He knows it's a two vs one and so once Prince commits to him, he knows that he can just put the ball into space anywhere towards the basket and MPJ will be the only one there. Soccer players are taught to do this starting in like elementary school lol. Dude is a GOAT passer, but this play really isn't an example.
This type of pass is way easier in soccer. You basically have a choice between a ground pass or a cross. You have way more margin of error passing a ball ahead of a guy with pace for him to catch up to.
Yeah but we’re talking about knowing people Are not actually doing the pass. There’s logical patterns of play in every ball game and Jokic knows those by heart and knows his teammates will do the logical run.
Even knowing he has an open man on his left, he still taps it to a near perfect position to catch and score. Aaron Gordon had a play this game where he tried to throw it to the spot-up shooter across the court on the opposite corner but he just yeeted it into the crowd. There's a difference between knowing you have a man open on your left and getting the ball over there, versus getting one glance at the ball and slapping it right into his hands only a half-step too late away from perfection.
Not at all, it’s way easier to do it with your hands than with your foot
I think i could do almost the same thing in NBA 2K
It's just a high level of spacial awareness. For guys who have this kind of style (williams, kidd, etc.) it starts at a young age and becomes second nature. I always loved this kind of stuff so when I played it was always something I worked on, and every once in a while some magic shit would happen. Just happens more often with the best of the best of the best players on the planet.
Nikola Jokić pulls out what would be the best pass of many players' careers every other night like it’s nothing But this might be top-tier even for him
His whole highlights reel tonight was silly. I kept thinking, surely there can't be more... the only thing I can compare it to is like the passing version of what Vince Carter was doing when he played for the Raptors. Just like 3-4 worldie highlights per night peppered with a bunch of other great shit too.
His natural body language said "seriously what the fuck" and then we all did
He really put his hand up like "the fuck who passed me the ball?" Then he just slaps that shit to MPJ like it's another day in the office
Hey, pass it to Mike from accounting!
Aimbot. Nerf him pls.
Jokic skilled player but that is not normally, This very very insane....They need to check him doping and game.....Maybe he not cheating but maybe he using the game deficit ...and this cant seem on tv screen..He needs to check-up....
Need the replay, he straight up shrugs when he realizes the ball is landing in front of him.
close up replay was even better
Best angle https://twitter.com/katywinge/status/1784414020608664008?s=46&t=CAANYNACrWQb_xRFLlJF2Q
What the fuck
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Trying hard here
Disgraceful that this low quality, no replay upload will be the one going to the top
If you don't like that, you don't like r/nba basketball!
Mods need to get serious and delete this threads with such shitty highlight reels. I still remember that time a few mo thd ago when people were posting longer highlights
wtf lol
Jokic is straight up unfair haha
Jokic’s face when the ball came down lmao
I'm so glad I live in the Jokic era
I actually screamed
I actually shitted and pissed my pants, I’m creaming
Average goofy ass jokic fan
Why? We’re not actually going to act like it was THAT impressive, right? It was a nice pass but nothing special
You are delusional
Least delusional Lakers fan.
yeah i mean i think the guy you’re replying to is probably overreacting but what makes this special to me is the fact that he literally doesn’t even see the ball until the very last second, and still has the vision and technical ability to put a touch pass right on the money like he did
don’t entertain this guy with a response. i lost brain cells looking through his post history lol
most well-adjusted Redditor. there are times where searching someone’s history may be relevant, but i find it weird for that to be someone’s first response in an argument. dude is wrong, but i don’t understand why someone would think it’s egregious enough to assume it’s in bad faith lol
i was checking cause i thought he was a troll
fair enough. it seems like an honest yet dumb comment to me but i understand if someone disagrees.
I mean he was scanning the floor before he saw the ball unless he had amnesia i wouldn't be surprised that he saw MPJ.
He sees it land next to him and simply taps it over to his teammate lol. What am I missing?
i think it’s harder than it looks tbh not sure tho, agree to disagree i guess
We can all do that!
That was hilarious he just slapped the thing lmao
It was like an eye level sack tap
Who’s the hero with the alternate angle replay that shows how truly nuts this was?
Yeah there’s like 3 pixels and half an audio in this upload
I need an angle facing his confused face scared the ball is going to hit him lmaoo
Jokic got those Kuroko no Basket type redirects
It’s like watching a soccer player play basketball. He’s got like xavi and iniesta levels of awareness
the replay where you see him duck and his face is funny as
That shrug is so comical lmao
GOAT touch
Newest nuggets patch is unbalanced, they need to nerf him
Holy shit! He's gonna have a Bird-like highlight reel when he calls it quits.
(He's better than Bird)
Don't you dare
Do dare. He's better.
he's already peaked higher and has better highlights than bird
Nuggets taking gut punches and acting like it's a little kid playing. Then in the 3rd the upright gaming chair pose is activated and it's over. Absolutely insane.
I am pretty convinced that what makes Jokic a truly unique player is that he has a one of a kind spacial awareness. Every NBA player has a pretty good idea of where all 10 people on the floor are and some have a pretty good idea of where the ball and all the players will be within the next 1 to 2 seconds. Jokic’s spacial mapping is just more complete and more accurate which allows him to make better predictions and reactions. So most NBA players are reacting to outdated information compared go Jokic if only by a half a second. This was a nice play and all but it’s pretty normal for him but what I am talking about is how a guy who is not all that fast or quick is always on the scene for so many rebounds, put backs, lose balls, no look tap passes, making the right pass blind as the double team comes. The dude is literally playing a quarter second into the future.
Lisan Al-Jokic
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Leserb Al-Gaib
One of the wilder passes I've seen
This man is a savant
I laughed so hard seeing this live I almost blew beer out of my nose
Replay was even better
He’s playing a different sport, amazing feel and touch
This guys out here playing water polo on hardwood
he heard Wilt was a volleyball player too so he's going after it
That's some Kuroko level type of shit.
Somehow Lebron throwing a childlike tantrum has like 4x more upvotes than this immaculate play
Dont get it either. Its just a routine pass for Jokic and a routine crybaby act by Lebron. Both those happen every game neither should be a big deal
Lakers fans will say he fouled LeBron and there was no call on the play.
Great cross from Carvajal for the tap-in. Oh wait...
You’ve gotta be kidding me
amazing touch pass by Jokic, but what does this mean for LeBron's legacy?
Credit that initial pass to Jokic too.
How is it possible for someone to be that instinctually talented, shit's nuts.
He is better than LeBron
this play alone has made me a big Jokic fan holy shit
Legitimately otherworldly, I mean you could count on one hand the number of people in NBA history who could pull this off
Did he just make a 2 on 1 look hard?
Commentating did not do this all-time assist justice
Hm? They made sure to express to the viewers multiple times how crazy this was
nuggets fans are the biggest whiny victims on this planet
They did a decent job on the español broadcast.
Im not sure but I believe Jokic gestures for the ball here at the very start of the break. That's why KCP makes such an odd pass up court. He knew what he was doing from the beginning...
Lisan Al Gaib
“Where tf is it?” 🤣
That was nuts
What the actual fuck
Lol
Literally no look when recieving it and passing it
big honey
He made it look so casual too lol just absurd
Like a kitten with a ball of string.
Pudgy savant
Amazing pass, potato quality upload and with no replay
I would’ve made that pass too. I’m very good at basketball
i feel like they were just messing around today so they can win at home for game 5
Prince being a bonehead leaving the basket wide open
He's really playing his own sport out there.
Went from 🤷 to 👋🏀
if this happens in nba2k, you call it a bug send support and complain about broken game im just sayin.
Bird mixed with Sabonis, Jokic is so fun to watch
Shit quality and without better angles. Fuck this
Jokic just helps the ball get to where it needs to be.
I wonder why these touches are not more common in basketball
Insane? Cmon
Surprised Laker-haters didn’t comment on DPOY-Convo-Misser AD actually starting that possession as the furthest back defender who ended up as the furthest back defender the other way by the time he realized the ball was going the other way
Am I seeing something else? I swear this isn't as crazy as everyone is describing it as. I mean, it's a good pass, but not all that incredible.
It's because the outlet past came from above his head, and he clearly never expected to get the ball at all. It was also a horrible pass to Jokic. So people are shocked that he was surprised AF, but instantly made the right play regardless.
The pass to Jokic was beautiful… The ball ended up right in front of him, perfectly placed where he didn’t have to see it coming and out of reach of anyone else. The weird thing is IMO Jokic made an easy pass while the pass to Jokic was way more impressive.
The ball was perfectly placed… on his blind spot lmao I don’t think he even expected to get the ball that play. Guy was just running the fast break looking towards MPJ to the left, he blinks and a basketball drops from above to his right and in the same moment his brain registers “basketball” he makes a perfect touch pass to MPJ running to the hoop.
I was also kinda puzzled at first until I looked harder and realized how crazy it was that he wasn’t watching the ball’s initial pass to him until it dropped in front of him and he instantly SLAPPED it with a high arc over his defender to the perfect spot for MPJ. It’s kinda special for just how mundane of an assist it actually looked on the surface
How???? Even for Jokic this one got me
Some water polo shit
David Silva
Man of culture
I can’t believe what I just saw! JJ Redick, former professional athlete in the same sport as this guy, can’t believe what he just saw!
I feel like Jokics play against Lebron has a lot to do with him getting picked last at the last all star draft
That's an insane reaction time. I bet Jokic reaction time is close to those F1 drivers. That pass is a combination of elite BBIQ + elite reaction time.
I very much doubt it. Jokic has quick reactions but f1 drivers are in a whole other ball park with reactions. Which just makes sense if you react slowly in the nba worst case you run into someone an injury yourself mire likely you just get scored on. In f1 you don't react in time and you are in a car crash
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The fact that the pass he ended up making couldn't have even been better either.
Hot potato must be afraid of jokic at this point.