I disagree. That’s how teams generally fail. You can’t match up with jokic, so trying is trying to fail. You build the best team you’re capable of building and then hope for health and luck.
Absolutely.
Around the turn of the century everyone out west was picking up every garbage 6'10"+ player they could, just to have bodies to throw at Shaq, the result was teams wasting money and draft slots on garbage players. The Suns alone picked up Luc Longley, Jake Tsuckaleetass, Chris Dudley and Scott Williams... all in an effort to counter one player, and they all were absolute garbage.
In response to Jordan, who could seemingly score on every possession, teams slowed the pace to a crawl, the strategy didn't work, it made slow paced, ball hogging, ISO players even more dominant and didn't go away until the Mike D/Nash Suns decided to blow the doors off the league and focus on speed and ball movement.
Jokic is going to do his thing, unless the league changes the rules or he gets fat again (which I think is kinda likely at the moment), he's going to get his. You just gotta make a great team. Denver was not unbeatable. We had zero depth and even KD sucked in a few of those games and I think if Paul doesn't go down, that series goes 7, or maybe in our favor, same for if KD didn't crap the bed in a few games. Those are not excuses, especially not for Paul, because he is cursed by some voodoo god, but this certainly isn't some juggernaut.
Make a great team, don't worry about what everyone else is doing.