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Nikola Jokić Joins Inside the NBA After Nuggets Game 7 Win vs. Clippers · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: It's my understanding that we have Nikola Jokic joining us
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  Speaker 1: from Denver and there he is a joker. Thank you much.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate you taking some time.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, let me ask you a question about how the
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  Speaker 1: season ended last year when you guys were up twenty
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  Speaker 1: in a game seven lost in Minnesota in the Western
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  Speaker 1: Conference semis, How did that memory play into your preparation
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  Speaker 1: for this game seven?
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, my personally zero because I don't think
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  Speaker 2: about failures. I didn't think about something to happen one
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  Speaker 2: year ago. My whole focus, my whole energy was today
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  Speaker 2: at this moment, to be present and tried to try
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  Speaker 2: to beat really really really talented team.
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  Speaker 3: Joker Shack here are you always looking for your guys
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to, you know, distributing the ball. But today,
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  Speaker 3: did you come in and say, okay, guys, it's game seven,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to double me. I need you guys to
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  Speaker 3: be ready when I kick it out. Did you have
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  Speaker 3: that conversation with the guys today, No, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think already, and I think that I think I think
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  Speaker 2: actually they were not doubling me that much. You know,
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  Speaker 2: David was a really kind of uh, kind of really
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  Speaker 2: hard shrink and but the guys are stepping up and
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  Speaker 2: making sure that you know, I think CB Russ, Mike
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  Speaker 2: ha had a really good, really good impact in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I think of Peyton Watso had a really big corner three.
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  Speaker 2: So everybody who played, everybody who played kind of step
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  Speaker 2: up and give something to the game.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you know your coaches knew obviously what impact has
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  Speaker 4: he had?
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  Speaker 3: Y'all trying to adjust to a different voice.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's new. He's with us like last five, six,
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  Speaker 2: seven years, I don't even remember. So he was always
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  Speaker 2: we heard him. He was always vocal. He was always
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  Speaker 2: giving us tips that are gonna help us. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think right now like he's more emphasizing those tips
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  Speaker 2: and those little little, little, little little details that he
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  Speaker 2: wants to amplify in our game.
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  Speaker 4: You know, congratulations personally, But as we move on, as
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  Speaker 4: you know, you guys have been in this position before,
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  Speaker 4: and like Chuck just said, new coach, do you also
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  Speaker 4: it seems I don't know if I'm afar, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if they're just showing more. Seems like you're more vocal,
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  Speaker 4: uh in the timeouts and the huddles as well. Is
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  Speaker 4: that's something that you're put in emphasis to. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're just showing more. To be honest, I
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  Speaker 2: think I was. I was vocal, I was talking to
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  Speaker 2: the guys, and I always say if I see something
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  Speaker 2: and I think they can it can help to the group,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna always say I'm gonna always say it. So
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  Speaker 2: I think the media is just kind of bumping up
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  Speaker 2: this sort a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: What are your what are your thoughts at this point?
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  Speaker 1: I know you're celebrating a win, but going up against
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  Speaker 1: the case. See, you guys were too too. You started
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  Speaker 1: the season, your first game of the season was against
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  Speaker 1: the against these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Your initial thoughts right now about meeting them in the
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  Speaker 1: Western Conference semis?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're definitely very very scary team on the
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  Speaker 2: both ends. They're really playing by pushing the place they're playing.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to attack your back and like trying to
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  Speaker 2: attack your inTransition and everything. What they do is really
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  Speaker 2: really hard, really like a full full, full full speed.
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  Speaker 2: So but hopefully hopefully we can we can match them
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  Speaker 2: and then even exceed it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolute last thing on our end it would be this
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  Speaker 1: we saw you on the sidelines. Uh, this was like
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  Speaker 1: the serbian thing with DeAndre Jordan. Let's just say, what
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  Speaker 1: is this and.
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  Speaker 2: The kisses and three kisses? Yes, it's a serbian thing.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to be a serbian so you know, the
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  Speaker 2: black balcon so I gotta, I gotta let him, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta let him have a little piece.
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  Speaker 1: Three kisses?
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  Speaker 3: Is that the ugnest person you have a kiss in
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  Speaker 3: your life?
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  Speaker 2: No? Actually, leave it alone, alone, leave it alone.
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  Speaker 1: You're the best man. We appreciate you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for taking.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy have a great night, all right, good luck.