WHEN JAMAL MURRAY is asked about playing the two-man game with Nikola Jokic, he replies, "The best part is we don't really don't know what is going to happen."
"And the beauty of that," Paul Millsap adds, "is if we don't know, then [the defense] can't possibly know."
The pick-and-roll partners are heavy on improvisation, but their attraction to the motion began a world apart.
When Jokic was a young boy in Sombor, Serbia, a reluctant basketball talent who cried when his father dragged him to practice, he knew what he liked.