[Highlight] Nikola Jokic’s moving screen goes uncalled as Jamal Murray sinks the 3 to put the Nuggets up with 5.6 seconds remaining

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  1. Mods removed the previous post because saying Jokic was keeping Knecht from falling over was “misleading” and the only other clip of this is awful so here it is

  4. Jokic might not get a lot of free throws, but God does he get away with a lot of physicality when it comes to rebounding, screening, and his postups

  5. Lively got called for similar, if not often less egregious, moving screens multiple times in the playoffs last season, especially in clutch time and in the finals.

  6. Yeah, as much as I love to shit on the Lakers and watch them lose, that’s pretty egregious.

  7. To be fair, that’s not a moving screen per se. That’s a foul on Jokic for grabbing Knecht and using Knecht to set a moving screen.

  8. If he was a lineman he would’ve been called for holding with all the jersey grabbing.

  10. Not a moving screen. What players do away from the ball like battling for position doesn’t count. Dalton had bad positioning trying to fight Jokic from coming to top of the key to set screen. Koloko (however you spell his name) was the primary defender on Murray and he ran into his own guy. Murray recognized it too and went left, at that point, that’s when Jokic establishes a screener.

  11. I know 80% of screens in the NBA are illegal but this is particularly egregious lmao

  13. Look, every big in the NBA gets away with illegal screens all the time. But I also saw Julius Randle get called for back-to-back illegal screens less egregious than this in the Wolves game tonight. The problem is that when people get away with these sorts of things on the regular, it creates an area of vagueness in the rules such that ref discretion is able to swing the outcomes of games more than ever. Not sure what the solution is, just observing a problem.

  15. Moving screen is an understatement. Jokic picked Knecht up and made him set a moving screen. The refs *fucked* up not calling that.

  16. The screen looked legal, the moving the defender for them part is what looked particularly bad

  18. 2 screen violations

    1st he just carries a player with him,

    second one he uses the player as a human shield and pushes him into the other defender

  22. Tomorrow bogus ass ref last minute report,” after further review we noticed a missed call by a moving screen on Joker. Our condolences”. Fucking ridiculous

  24. Switch > fronting > battle for position.

    Then Jamal used the whole sequence as a screen.

  25. I thought the same after watching it from this angle, but from another you can see that Knecht purposely lock his arm on Jokic and blocking pass to him while trying to stand in front of. And Jokic took advantage of it.

  26. Another game where ref were just bad and inconsistent in general. They called everything for most of the game. Nuggets lived at the free throw line in the first half. Then they just randomly stopped calling anything in the 4th for a couple of minutes. There were clear fouls on almost every possesion and nothing was called. Then they started calling fouls normally again.

    I can see why players get upset. They’ll do the same thing 5 times and get a defensice foul 2 times, no call 2 time and offesive foul 1 time. So frustrating

  27. Jokic is in a legal position and Knecht initiates the contact. At that point Jokic is free to move with Knecht, who has relegated himself as the Joker’s veritable sock puppet. It’s 10000% on Knecht for flailing his arms up in a vain attempt to draw the whistle, instead of pushing off Jokic to get back into a guarding position. Had Jokic kept hold of him in his attempt to do that, whistle foul. Had Jokic moved into Knecht initially, whistle foul. Can yall really not be bothered to look up the rule/interpretations?

  31. The other night the lakers wrestled Joker with three – four guys all night.

    The room was mighty quiet then….

  34. Jokic had to reach inside his bag of tricks to beat this group of citizens lmao

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