Nikola Jokic once identified and called out a play the Timberwolves were planning to run before it happened, a trick so elusively intuitive that it left Minnesota stars Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert openly bewildered in the locker room afterward. It was entirely dependent on memory and intellect.
Edwards has a simpler method of figuring out his opponent’s strategy before a key play.
He just asks.
Before Jokic could assemble the highest-scoring overtime period in NBA history, Edwards had to get it there first. His miraculous game-tying 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left in regulation ended up being a footnote in Denver’s 142-138 Christmas win for the ages.