J.E. Skeets

Basically, Rudy Gobert fouled out.

They didn't want to risk Julius Randle picking up fouls, so they're like, we're going to try Nas Reed.

We're going to try Jaden McDaniels.

We're going to try Kyle Anderson for just a split second here.

None of that worked, but maybe it worked getting Jokic tired because he was getting some shots that he can easily make.

He had a couple of missed layups that looked pretty odd to me.

He had an airball three-pointer.

Gobert, I thought, was a really good defender, but only half the shots were even...

defended by Rudy.

So that was kind of crazy to me.

I even thought that Jokic probably should have taken the floater on this last pass he had where he drops it off to Christian Brown.

It's Ant closing.

Jokic catches the ball at the free throw line.

Ant's maybe at the restricted area, half circle.

Put that ball way up there.

But that was the second time in the game that Jokic had passed up a floater, and maybe he just wasn't feeling it touch-wise.

On the other side, though, Ant was making so many plays.

I was a little concerned for the way he was playing in the first half.

He was making some threes.

He was making some outside shots, but it didn't look like he wanted to get into the lane.