Luka Doncic Discussion: Lean Mean Slovenian Scoring Machine

he missed some easy 2 point shots against the clips, too. wonder if he's got some hand issue we don't know about or something. that's always how it was with kobe back in the day.

 

He finished the Clips game with two fingers taped. Against Boston he didn't have any tape

 

yeah, i remember he hurt his left hand in the clips game, but his three point shot seems largely unaffected. then again, he's always been a streaky three point shooter but is generally really solid inside 15ft. really solid is probably an understatement there. so if he's missing twos, something's off. i read that boston just sat everyone in the paint and dared us to shoot, so maybe he just had lower shot quality.

 

It will never be allowed. It would be like a triple stuffed Oreo x 3. No way they allow that much elite creamy filling in one location.

 

We need to investigate why Luka fades in the 2nd half of games. I'm still looking at JJ for this one.




https://fadeawayworld.net/nba/los-a...ps-massively-during-second-half-of-every-game

 

2 things:

1. all minutes are equally valuable in games. in fact, if you play better earlier, the later minutes matter LESS. someone tell that to people who only believe in trying in the 4th quarter.

2. i think it's hard to balance when to take it yourself and when to involve others when you're in the luka/kobe class. it may also be that he feels like he has to see the ball go through the hoop a few times in order to play his game.

anyway, luka is also one of if not the most feared clutch player in the game, so i've got a big yawn for half by half analysis.

the thing i do hope/expect he and jj (or jj's replacement) figure out is how to empower talented teammates. guys like luka (and harden, for another example) are GREAT at making marginal guys look good, but you can't win it all that way. like, luka can get slovenia to the bronze medal game with guys a little better than me in my prime flanking him, but to win it all, you need to take guys like reaves and rui and help them elevate further, too. that's on the player and the scheme/coach, but given luka's issues in dallas with carlisle, he's definitely got a way he prefers to do things.

once again, this is just a vastly superior problem to deal with than "how do i find a top-5 nba player"?

 

We need a top 5 coach brother. You shouldn't be running a prime thoroughbred, like he's a quarter horse.

Now maybe..It's on Luka to dial it back a notch..I say that's the coach's job to orchestrate the rhythm of his team. Again Austin has missed a lot of games, so that may be a factor too.

However I still don't know what the hell our "scheme" actually is.

 

why didn't he shoot?????

ugly a** games recently

 

that's the second time he's done that this season too. so odd

he was trash tonight

 

He froze for a half second..it happens sometimes, he was having an off shooting night.

 

well his cornea was shredded so there's that

 

in the replay, it looks like he hesitates when lebron puts his hands up for the ball, and by the time he unfreezes, neither the shot nor the pass is there.

honestly, it's a bit of a microcosm of the season. luka's not quite ready to take full control of the team, and lebron's not quite ready to give it up.

guessing next time he'll just go with his gut (i think he was going to shoot it at first).

 

Just saw a bit of the game and it happens. There's 5 seconds on the clock, he's not expecting to launch it straight, he was expecting the defender to come, but notices he gets caught in a good screen by Ayton and the opportunity is there which messed up with his motion, then it all derails after that

Really unfortunate

 

Lebron should NEVER be calling for the last 2nd shot from deep lol. Not when he has half a dozen better snipers on his team.

 

i can't tell if he was actively calling for it, but it seemed like luka thought so.

lebron's argument will be that he just put his hands up just in case the ball was coming? to keep his defender thinking he was going to get a pass and thus prevent a quick help/double?

who knows? it was clearly a miscommunication due to lack of experience playing together in that situation, along with luka uncharacteristically looking to defer. i mean, most of his detractors complain he doesn't defer enough. again, we saw this with kobe.

 

Lebron would had a better look if he keeps his distance from his defender when Luka was going to pass the ball. Cant ball watch and expect Luka to chuck a deep 3 even if Luka should had taken the shot.

 

excerpt from an article about denver, with their high-performing two-way player explaining how he's learning to play off jokic:

i'm still a firm believer that you can have a good offense with luka and guys like this, so the key is to find guys who can defend. it's how denver built their team, and it's how we need to build ours. reaves is very similar to murray in many ways, too. it's about the other 6-7 guys being defenders who can slot in and figure out how to play around these two on offense.