Lots of interesting things happened in Saturday night’s road win over the Cleveland Cavaliers so I decided to make a notebook style list of things I found interesting.
Beating the trap
Trapping the ball-handler when Nikola Jokic is on the floor should spell suicide for opposing teams. If Denver’s guards can get the ball out of the trap, Jokic has a four-on-three attacking the basket and he is as good as anyone in the league in those situations. Unfortunately, for much of the third quarter against the Cavaliers, Jamal Murray and the Nuggets either failed to make the pass to Jokic on the roll or made the pass far too late to create an advantage.