3 posts tagged with "s2_pick1"

Have you ever noticed that players have career games when playing the Wizards? Thats easy enough but how many players have the gas in the tank after playing 2 title contenders in the 76ers and the Celtics? Despite fighting allegations of being a 'Fat Sloppy boy' this Denver centerman continues to evolve the game shifting from massive assist numbers to soul crushing boards combined with unimaginable efficiency. His 65% on 20 attempts per game, which is good for 3rd in the league above 10 fta combined with the second highest rebounds per game. Not to forget his roots though he's still cruising to nearly seven assists per game despite Pat Bev's best efforts to lock down the nuggets. Nikola Jokic has seen a massive increase in shots per game which has somehow boosted his draft stock from 1 to 1++.

Day in day out Jokic has been out there doing it for the horses and for that we are proud to declare him the week 13 bread and butter pick of the week,

What a tremendous race this week. In NBA week three we saw an explosion of individual perfomances many of which were desterving of a pickle in the own right. We saw SGA average 35 a game at nearly 2 steals per match. Tyrese Maxey made his first major push to take the top honors by dropping 50 with 7 3pts and 3 blocks against the pacers. We even saw Embiid have a pretty standard Embiid week.

However all these pretenders only served to awaken a sleeping beast. After having won 3 pickles in each of previous seasons and losing out on his deserved regular season MVP the reigning finals mvp and champion has to remind everyone just how he's broken the game. By combining 2 35 point trible doubles with a 36 point 3 steal game the numbers pushed in his favor. A 21 rebound triple double set the tone for statistical domination. But managing a block per game and less than 3 turnovers per game. Who cares if this dude shot 600 from the line two games in a row.

At the end of week 3 we keep rolling out the hits and grant the one and only Nikola Jokic with his first of likely many pickles of this season, as our bread and butter "Pick of the week".