Luka Doncic Discussion: Lean Mean Slovenian Extension Machine

That was widely reported everywhere, Luka would be traded somewhere else, if we had said no.

 

man, that call would have been tough for me as minny's gm. luka's clearly a better player than ant. but...you just can't pull that trigger, right?

milwaukee is also wild...like, giannis is the franchise and has been loyal...but he's got a lot of dame heel-turn potential, imo. like a ton. because he's kind of said it. you get ahead of that and end up with luka and basically being a finals contender for another several years? maaaaannnnn....i'd have thought about it...

anyway, again, their loss, our gain. we win.

 

From what I understand, there are advanced internal stats that point to Luka not being as effective as his numbers show. He gets his points, assists his team mates, but for whatever reason, it isn't as impactful as you'd expect it to be. Something like his big games don't lead to blow outs like Steph's do.

Likewise there are advanced stats that point to AD being a game changing defensive big. I'm not trying to excuse him... but I kind of get it. Where this breaks apart is, he didn't get AD, Reaves, Max and both 1sts for Luka. Which to be fair would have been an all time great return and probably sets up Dallas to compete.

Kyrie / DLO
Reaves / Christie
Flagg / Thompson / Naji
AD / PJ
Lively / Gafford

That's a legit team and they could maybe make a consolidating trade for another impact piece - sending out one of Gafford or Lively with 2 firsts for an impact SF.

 

Let's face it if some people b**** about LeBron's career with the ball dominance, LOL meet Luka Doncic. Definitely a ball dominant top gunslinger who can back it up but often it's not pretty basketball unless he involves the team to keep them sharp too and not standing around. AR so far has produced better looking team basketball including an arguably better so far one / two punch with Ayton. It's early and its just a joy to have ALL the alpha talent we have on this squad.

 

Should've done it in 20 games. Slacker.


Who said White Men Can't Jump?


Damn.

 

he’s BIG Boned so yeah

 

Bad Luka tonight, and that's probably an understatement.

 

Horrible shots selection at its finest

 

The questions asking Luka if he would ever go back to Dallas are tiresome.

 

Probably one of his worst games in NBA career
Trade him to Siberia
32:49 7-20 1-7 from3 4-7 FT -31 19 points

 

Luka is great but wish he could find some other way to control the game when things go downhill.

Get to the line, post-up. just not used to a guy at the level of Lebron or Kobe who seems to waive the red flag as easy as has during this road trip. Yeah you're getting blizted off the PnR and Lebron ain't there so change what you are doing. Stop the PnR every possession - feel the same thing happened last year if the PnR to get Gobert involved doesn't work where is the different look?

 

Non sensical. Luka had an off game. Do you know how many awful shooting nights Kobe had in his career? Luka is literally one of the greatest and most complete offensive players of all time. Did we really expect the kid to average 40 ppg all season? Cmon man that’s not sustainable.

 

yeah, luka's beaten okc before. in the playoffs. not reading much into this one.

 

He missed Lou Dort to super saiyan on

 

Feasted at the line. He enjoyed the the softer defense after his past 3 matchups

 

MVP Revenge Season is in full affect!

 

What's not to like about Luka so far

All the fears of him not being in shape or giving a full effort are gone

He's here to stay and looks he's enjoying being a Laker