Nikola Jokic may just have himself a future as a soccer player.

Jokic and the Denver Nuggets evened up their second-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves at two games apiece with a 115-107 victory in Sunday’s Game 4 in Minnesota. After leading by as many as 18 at one point, the Nuggets held off to a late comeback effort by the Timberwolves to hang on for the win.

After the game, a video from the “Hot Hand Theory” podcast went viral pointing out some shrewd time-wasting tactics that Jokic engaged in during the game. Following multiple made baskets by the surging Timberwolves in the fourth quarter, Jokic cleverly bled some clock by intentionally letting the ball bounce or by delaying in giving the ball back to the referee so that the five-second inbounds timer would not begin yet.

The video noted that Jokic successfully wasted nearly a minute of game clock during the fourth quarter through his tactics.

Of course, Jokic is far from the first or the only NBA player to use these kinds of methods to fritter away the clock. But with Minnesota cutting the lead down to six points (two possessions) late in the fourth quarter, Jokic’s ploy appears to have worked to perfection.

However, there are several clear limitations to the method. It is only effective when a team is maintaining a lead, so Jokic and the Nuggets must still take care of business in order for it to be used. However, this is just another factor that makes three-time MVP Jokic one of the league’s smartest players at the moment..