Harten: Being Jokic s substitute is the hardest job in the world. You can t be better than Jokic

Recently, Thunder player Harten accepted an interview with the media, in which he talked about his feelings about playing for the Nuggets before.

Hatten said: "I was in the Nuggets at that time and often wondered why I couldn't get more opportunities. Being a substitute for Jokic was probably the hardest job in the world: you can only play for ten minutes, no matter how good you play, you will never do better than Jokic. This is the hardest thing. Later, I started to exercise my mental resilience, and everything gradually improved."

"But playing with Jokic taught me a lot, and I learned to pass the ball. I was not bad at all, but in some details - such as how he guided his teammates with his eyes... I improved a big step in this regard because I began to look at the game from a different perspective; I learned to 'manipulate' the rhythm of the game. But he was really smart, and his basketball IQ was simply outrageous. In the playoffs, he was like a coach: telling his teammates where to stand and how to play."