Michael Pina

I think that even with the injury, him coming back, the defensive issues, shooting percentages dropping for a few weeks,

his team 10, 11 wins below the Thunder and the Spurs, and not having a chokehold on all the advanced numbers like he normally has for the last five or six years, I think that a more credible case could be made for Jokic than I've heard.

uh and i think that like i know you've talked about this a ton in your show i i still think he's the best player um in the world i don't know how much longer that will last

And I do think like some of the turnovers that he's throwing now, I don't, some of them, I just can't, I'm not taking that seriously.

I'm just like the, the, the kick aheads where his like eyes are closed.

Like he had a turnover against the Utah jazz last night where they, he, Ole defense layup and he passes the ball into the dude who just, I forget who it was on the jazz who just made the layup.

So gave up four points in about two seconds.

And I know I'm not really helping my case by saying all the bad things up front here.

But I will say, like, no one has ever led the league in assists and rebounds in a season, which he is going to do averaging point per game.

He's the most efficient player out of all of these guys who are candidates.

He generates the most points.

per game out of all of them.

He generates, in terms of just scoring the ball and assisting baskets, he generates 20 more points per game than Victor Wimbanyama.

Um, he's the only one who, when he takes, when he, and this is a, I think this is kind of a semantics argument.

Um, but he's the only one when he sits, the team falls apart.

Like Victor women, Yama, when he sits offense is okay.

When he sits in Luke Cornette's on the court team is pretty good.

Like things are fine.

Shea Gilgis Alexander is amazing.

And the fact that, you know, him and Victor, them being plus 17, plus 16, whatever they are net rating when they're on the court is incredible.