Nuggets rookie Christian Braun has already made the most astute observation he’s going to make all season: if he doesn’t have the answer, Nikola Jokic inevitably will.
It started in San Francisco, when Braun had his breakout defensive game against the Warriors on Friday night. On several occasions, he approached Jokic during a stoppage and picked his brain on positioning and timing.
“If you see something and you want to know, you go to him,” Braun said. “You try to learn from him because he knows your spot probably better than you do.”
Braun did it again Saturday night, when he, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Michael Porter Jr.