Breaking: just now 1 key tweak to his game Nikola Jokic has already made to mask the Nuggets’ warts…..

There’s no sugarcoating the fact that the Denver Nuggets’ first three games of the season have been awful. On Monday night, they finally started to win, but it required a spectacular late-game comeback to force overtime before defeating the Toronto Raptors 127-125. The Nuggets will now take a victory any way they can, but this didn’t exactly allay worries about the team. A win is a win. Even though the Raptors are a bad team, the Nuggets had a terrible time separating themselves.

For a third straight game, the bench was a disaster, they didn’t shoot nearly enough threes, Jamal Murray looked like he had lost a step (despite his clutch heroics, making an impressive reverse layup to force OT), and Russell Westbrook was actively hurting the team during his minutes.

With all the issues plaguing the Nuggets to start this season, leave it to the best player alive to have a fix for everything. Make no mistake, Nikola Jokic is the reason the Nuggets won this game. He’s the reason they’ve been at all competitive through their first three games. And he’s the reason that as bad as the team has looked, they still have a chance this year.

Jokic had an impressive triple-double in the season opener against the Thunder, but the Nuggets scored 87 points and got blown out. He realized what was needed and he immediately adjusted, becoming much more aggressive.