Raised the standard to ππππππ
The Pioneers are once again atop the mountain for a historic 11th national championship.
#GoPios | #C11ampions
Burying the competition π₯Ά
With the win tonight, weβve become the 4th team in the NHL since 1995 to have beaten every team in the league in a season.
Nikola JokiΔ is averaging 27.8 points, 12.8 rebounds, 10.8 assists and 1.4 steals in 34.8 minutes.
He's the first player in NBA history to lead the league in rebounds per game and assists per game in the same season.
He's on pace to set the all-time record for single-season box plus/minus.
JokiΔ trails only Victor Wembanyama among MVP candidates in net rating swing, but he has played 327 more minutes than Wemby.
JokiΔ leads the NBA in "points plus points generated by assists" per game at 53.4. Luka DonΔiΔ (52.9) and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (48.2) are second and third, while Wembanyama (31.5) is 38th.
With the exception of Spencer Jones, every Nugget with 100+ minutes alongside JokiΔ has a higher eFG% with JokiοΏ½οΏ½ than he has without him. Cameron Johnson (+12.9), Christian Braun (+24.0), Bruce Brown (+11.3), Aaron Gordon (+10.5) and Julian Strawther (+12.0) all have their eFG%s jump by at least 10 points when they play with JokiΔ.
JokiΔ trails only Jalen Duren (64.3% of Duren's field goals are assisted) and Deandre Ayton (80.2% of Ayton's field goals are assisted) in true shooting percentage. 60.8% of JokiΔ's field goals are assisted, and the average distance from the hoop for his made field goals is 11.7 feet. The average distances for Duren's and Ayton's made field goals are 3.7 and 5.1 feet, respectively.
JokiΔ leads the NBA in "actual" offensive estimated plus-minus.
He leads the Huge Nerd Index.
JokiΔ also leads the league in PER (player efficiency rating), in Opta Analyst's DRIP (daily-updated rating of individual performance, in DARKO DPM (daily adjusted and regressed Kalman optimized daily plus-minus) and in NBA dot com's PIE (player impact estimate).
JokiΔ leads the league with 30 triple-doubles, while Jalen Johnson and Josh Giddey, who are second and third on that leaderboard, have combined for 25.
The Giants went from 2004β2015 with one head coach in Tom Coughlin. Since then, theyβve gone from Ben McAdoo to Pat Shurmur to Joe Judge to Brian Daboll.
Bringing in John Harbaugh is the hope of restoring the stability the organization once had.