Nikola Jokic undeniably an impactful player. There's more than one reason that he's racked up three MVP's and a multitude of All-Star selections, but it's not just the stellar individual performances that he puts up night after night, but it's the way he makes the team around himdo better that makes him so impressive. 

He naturally demands so much attention defenses that double or triple team for any team to have a chance of defending him, which means that it naturally frees up the other major factors on the team to take advantage. 

"I thought he did a great job of freeing up Jamal, freeing up Cam and letting those guys make plays," Adelman said (via Nuggets). "Sometimes that's the way it's going to have to be for us to produce offense.... Nikola just being out on the floor creates offense, that's he's the best player in the league in my opinion. It showed tonight."

Jokic's talent for creating offense around him was on full display in the Denver Nuggets' comeback win over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday. The Nuggets came back with a huge second-half surge to come from behind against their conference rivals and to do that the whole team needed to be involved.

Jokic of course had a great performance in his own right. He scored 31 points while shooting 9-17 from the field along with 20 rebounds and 12 assists, but as Adelman pointed out, the Nuggets scored another 105 points beyond what Jokic contributed.

While that's obviously a credit to what the team as a whole is capable of, the opportunities that Jokic creates with his presence is crucial to supporting that success. 

Jamal Murray led the game as a whole with a huge 39-point performance while shooting 11-21 from the field. 

The pace that Murray brings to the offense along with his shooting from the perimeter is what makes him such an ideal combination with Jokic's presence inside the paint. Defenses have to pick and choose which of the two to target, inevitably leaving one open to dominate.

Or, the more ideal situation for the Nuggets, it that there simply won't be any answer for the pairing of Murray and Jokic and they can dominate together, as what happened against the Spurs where they combined for 70 points. 

The lethality of the two of them together is why the Nuggets can't be counted out no matter the circumstances and why the Nuggets remain one of the most formidable offenses in the NBA.