Looks like no Giannis, no Damian - no problem for the Milwaukee Bucks. Game's now in the 3rd quarter with a 15 points lead with under 5 minutes remaining to the clock.
Jamal Murray is definitely what made Nuggets win this easily, because we are talking about someone who made Jokic 2 time MVP as well. How? Well simply enough, Jokic can't be a great Center if he had no help at all, he needs some help to be who he is, like we all know him as a great passer right? Who could he pass to if he had terrible teammates? His teammates missing all their shots would make him not be the MVP, but when there are other threats like Murray who plays like this, he ends up getting better looks as well.
Individually, Jokic is unstoppable and he's on his prime. With his height and vision to the paint makes him a great play maker but it's true that without Jamal, he won't make it. I hope that if ever they win the championship this time, it's going to be Jamal that will win the MVP award. And that last two shots that he made to win the tie game on a playoffs, that's something else and it's on the books and records now.
Murray definitely played amazingly and I believe that he is going to end up being the Kobe to Jokics Shaq in the future. We are going to see people start talking about Murray like the star he is, but it may take some time because all eyes are on Jokic right now.
This tandem is for keeps of the Nuggets unless one of them wants to get out of the team. But I don't think that they'd do that since they're enjoying their moments there and this kind of chemistry is hard to find so for sure the Nuggets heads won't do something crazy of trading them. That's why it's all on them and contracts like this is freedom for them and they know what they want to. I guess that they will be settling down with only one team until retirement.