The size. The range. The positioning. The hoops IQ. The ability to play inside-out one minute, then outside-in the next. The matchup nightmare. It’s no wonder, then, that The Horse sees more than a little of himself in The Joker these days.
“I think the real key is the way the game is played today, they have the perfect big man,” Dan Issel, the iconic former Nuggets big man, says of Denver’s low-post star, Nikola Jokic.
“Jokic has the ability to shoot from the outside, his ability to pass the basketball … The old school, where you put your big man on the low post and get him involved, I don’t know how he would be at that game.