Nuggets begins with the victory when Nikola Jokic puts a new career high

Nikola Jokic threw most of his career on Monday evening when the Denver Nuggets defeated the Indiana Pacers 125-116 to start a road trip in Eastern costs.

Two nights after Joker couldn't get the ball, he couldn't give it up better. Career-high, throw 19 helpers. The three -time MVP also scored 19 points on 16 shots and added nine rebounds and four steals. Jokic is now 20 templates above the pace he needs to only become the sixth time that a player has achieved a triple double double for a whole season. Jokic would be the first non-dot wachmann to ever do that. The now teammate Russell Westbrook (four times) and Oscar Robertson and Jokic are even the only player who shoots this out of the field over 50%.

“He has no weakness as if there is no saving in this armor,” said Michael Malone after the game. “The guy is just a great, complete basketball player. And I think the most remarkable is not just the 19 templates, but the satisfaction and joy that Nikola prevents from doing his teammates better. He would be happy to get 19 assists, and we will win more than any other superstar I ever came across and that speaks for who he is. He is a modest person and understands that this whole is always much larger than the individual for the collective … He is simply an incredible player and what a luxury if you can simply play through him on the route of a close game and You know something good every time. “

Against the Pacers, Michael Porter Jr. had his best game after the all-star break with a double double of 19 points on 16 shots and 11 rebounds. Aaron Gordon scored 25 points and sprayed two threes. Jamal Murray Goss four from depths and came 16 points when the team only made eight to the Pacers 14, which the home team kept around.

But it was the Nuggets Plus-14 on the boards that were the big difference when Christian Bruan scored eight rebounds with 17 points. He went in color late in color to hammer in the last nail. It was the sixth time in the history of nuggets All five starters scored at least 15 points, while doing more than half of their shots.

Jokic had previously achieved 18 templates in one game twice and reached 17 twice this season. His new assist high means that Jokic received both his career as well as his career as a high (56) and assist high this season. Jokic has obviously driven the nuggets, who are now 10 of their last 11 winners and rose back to second place in the west with Memphis Idle. Denver is almost 10 games from Oklahoma City.

“It was good to get this bad taste out of our mouth, we saw the (Lakers) film, we had it and we went out and beat a team that played the really good basketball, so we won't celebrate because we know That we have an enormous challenge in Milwaukee, ”said Malone. “We will only be this four-game trip, one game after the other company.”

The Nuggets continue their road trip with a strenuous weekend, from Thursday with Milwaukee on TNT, followed by Detroit on Friday and an ABC television game on Sunday afternoon in Boston.

A new career high of 19 assists for Nikola! pic.twitter.com/lry6ignk4

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