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Lol you actually couldn't be more wrong here, "picking up plays easily" is something Jokic called one of his biggest strengths in this Serbian interview original source here at 10:52

“I think it's a big advantage I have. In a recent conversation I had with Gregg Popovich, I told him I could play for them since I know all their plays. I even know the signs he throws. I think it can really help a player to know what to expect. That has stayed with me since Europe, where our coaches say: ‘This is where we stop their play with a double or deny them.’ It really helps me and makes my job easier offensively and defensively."

Further on in that interview at 13:01

Interviewer - "Does it happen sometimes that you know all of the plays of opposing teams? I'm talking about the top teams not the average teams, just the big games. Do you know all of their plays?

Jokic - "Well maybe for the teams we play often, for example Portland. Now that they have changed their coach we see a big change in their game. They have changed their defence, implementing some zone defence. They have bought in Simons as a second, and sometimes the first option. That shows... Sorry he is the second or third option after Grant. However that shows the difference a coach can make in a team. They've had Terry Stotts for five years. I knew the plays then.

Interviewer - "As the back of the hand?"

Jokic - "You play with someone four times a year, twice during preseason, then two times in the playoffs. It's nearly impossible to forget. Before each game we go through five or six plays, maybe through two or three special situations. I do remember them sometimes. During time-outs I look at what their coach is telling them, showing them. That's something I like to do. And why not if I can realise what they are going to do.

Then the discuss the golden state lob pass incident and he says he recognised the layout from two months previous. But overall Jokic really is good at picking up plays.