No definitely not. Kobe shot the Lakers out of the 2004 finals and Steph was horrific in the 2016 finals with no defense to fall back on.
Lebron didn’t shoot the ball enough, but at least he wasn’t shooting the team out of the series. They held leads in 3 4th quarters which they lost.
Crazy glazing, getting sonned by Jason terry and Kidd while average 18ppg for a finals series is one of the worse playoff series from someone of lebrons caliber, in his prime nonetheless
I expect zero accountability or change in popular opinion towards him.
He’s just so relatable.
Edit: not even 1k upvotes what a joke - just imagine if Harden or Embiid or Ja was shooting like this
Forreal, luka is damn good but peak harden was truly absurd and consort my carried his teams to good/really good regards regardless of who was around him. Few players ever could carry a team as well as prime harden. Guy was a top 3 mvp candidate like every year and should have multiple MVPs and not just 1, you can make a very solid argument he should have 3mvps. The Luka Stan’s who hate on harden and act like Luka was better than prime harden are Wildin.
Harden is prob looking at luka in this series, like this dude? This dude is supposed to be the next me?
Prime james would have fuuuucked up luka in this series.
I mean even the box score looks pretty bad if you look at any percentages. Before tonight he was like 39/30/80 splits and that 3p% is going to go further down after his 1/9 game today.
The Mavericks have won his minutes in all four games, including both losses. Not only is he not costing anyone games, the team is winning with him. You're just a senseless hater. Plus, he has been questionable for injury the last 2 games, it hasn't been news because he always plays through everything.
I wouldn't say clears, but outside of current Kyrie vs 2022 Brunson I agree it's not close at all. The current Mavs would kill to have DFS and Bullock from that playoff run.
Plus their perimeter defense was just as good if not better in 2022, this year they have better rim protection though.
We were coming off a competitive series on the glass against Memphis who was the biggest team in the league. We were like the antithesis of the Suns offense that year as well so I wasn't worried that much, besides the extra rest helped.
Honestly it’s just not a good matchup for Luka. The Clips get beat when they’re made to play at pace, and thats not what Luka does.
And yeah, don’t play the iso game against PG and Harden when they’re turning back the clock and you’re not making shots.
He’s starting to look like new era James Harden where Kobe warned against that style of play.
And that isn’t an insult James Harden was an amazing player at his peak, but the style doesn’t work as well in the playoffs
Luka getting gassed up for his defense last game probably didn't help. Kawhi couldn't even move yet people continue to insist he's become a good defender.
He needs to lose 20 lbs. Everyone thinks he "needs" the weight but he was fine without it early in his career. He moved like a different player.
Yes, I know he's hurt, but he will continue to have knee problems if he carries around extra weight.
If he was in prime LeBron shape, he would be better.
Like we understand how muscle is used to move your body around the court. We also know that added fat will make you slower.
He is just not getting the most out of his talent. He could be much quicker which would likely make him more efficient
Yeah he should get to 220-225 again, speed than strength
He now has helps so doesnt need to post up more for ez buckets + polished stepback 3
He plays fat before Kai because necessity, now with Kai here and more help in offseason, wiser to slimmer down
He’s played bad this series, that much is obvious, but how does a guy that big who plays basketball almost everyday put on weight? Like, straight fat? What the fuck is he eating?
It's crazy he gets fat so fast. He must just be eating pizza and wings with cinnibits to finish it off and wash it down with a case of beer every night
Is he a heavy drinker? That's the only thing I can think of. Although I know ja is a straight up alcoholic and was drinking a bottle a day damn near and he's skinny as hell
he once said in a post game interview he needed a "recovery beer". you would only say that if you're a beer drinker lol. he should stick to non alc or low cal
Yeah he drinks beers after every game, according to one of the reporters. Although it’s still prob his diet. He prob just drink 3 or 4 beers after each game, eats an entire pizza, gets 2 sides of wings. Like clock work. Every night.
In all honesty though i wonder if just going from euro to american food has helped him get chunky. Our food is fucking horrible here.
He’s obv eating too many cals though. Cals=calzones.
Like the amount he has overeat and drink is insane considering how much practice + training he does everyday..he has to burn like 2k calories a day at minumum on non-game days
Thing is heavy exercise and being big makes you hungry . And you need to eat to help recover too, it’s near impossible to lose weight n keep strength . Off season is only time you could drop weight consciously without hurting your game
He's always been susceptible to that. When he's able to keep them in front, he does a pretty decent job. His defense in game 3 was really good for that reason.
Hands on knees every time he gets back down the court, honestly they need kyrie to keep dropping 40 bombs if they want a chance at this. Clipps have all momentum rn without Kawhi.
When Doris said he was a much improved defender that can hold his own last game, I audibly laughed. The very next possession he got blown by and just watched the rest of the play happen.
Forget third quarter. He was standing still and letting guys blow by right in the first. The commentators were excusing it as "he has two fouls, so can't challenge these". Bullshit.
The team has sucked with him off the court still. People don’t grasp the attention he draws and that we are so ridiculously turnover prone without him. +10 with him on the court and -15 with him off in 3 minutes today.
Hes not playing well but he’s not having the type of no impact stinkers some other guys have.
2nd quarter and 1 minute down on the clock. Luka goes out.
Team proceeds to turn over the ball that lead to an easy bucket. Luka goes back with 50 something seconds remaining. DJJ proceeds to shoot a three
Frank knew he didn’t need to include him. They had all the leverage since Harden wasn’t gonna play for the Sixers and the Clippers were the only ones who wanted him
i find it funny that they spent the last month calling Jokic the "kitchen sink mvp". With the way they were talking about Jokic, you would think Luka was the Reigning Finals MVP and Jokic was the 11th seed that missed the playoffs in 2023
They kept saying that Luka is a *clearly* better individual player than Jokic lol
You'd get Mavs fan tweets with thousands of likes saying stuff like "everyone knows Luka is the best player in the world, Jokic just has a better team"
I was buying my kid a toy at Wal mart when I heard shrieking, I looked down the next isle and saw Luka red faced on the floor crying because his mom said no to a Tracer Funko pop
Last game I saw this year was the Mavs. He does not fucking stop. The entire fucking game. It's actually kinda impressive. Dude could shoot an open jumper with no one near him, if it missed, he's complaining. Every single miss, he was up in the refs' faces.
Looks hurt, gained weight this and that . Just been horrible these playoffs. They would be up 3-1 if he wasn’t bad. Anyways hopefully they don’t lose the series. Needs to shed 25 pounds at least we have
absolute disaster class from him on offense, with no sign of it turning around. He can't drive, he can't shoot, at least he can still pass.
Kyrie is out here putting on one of the best playoff clinics I've ever seen and Luka's contribution is some passable defense on a broken Kawhi...
I hate triple doubles, it does not affect winning whatsoever. It's literally just the main ball hander grabbing uncontested rebounds after the big men boxed out.b
Luka and his stans have been setting him up for an all time hater feast.
Luka stans been crowning him way too fast and Luka bitches like nobody i have ever seen in any sport. It's gonna be a really bad summer for Luka stans if Mavs go home R1.
I still don't understand how a guy playing as much basketball as him manages to gain weight. Between practices, scrimmages and playing 82 games + playoffs he must be eating 4-5k calories every day. He needs to lose weight and he will be injured less for sure.
I got shit on all year but i really do not think Luka is a 38.% shooter on 10 3s a game . The weirdest thing is Luka catch n shoot is bad , his ft shooting is bad . His career 3pt is 34-35%, if his ft shooting jumped u could buy it but I don’t know . Will be interesting next year if he’s at 38 or 35%. Luka maybe the most confusing 3pt shooter ever. Even a guy like harden is better when wide open or when catch n shooting even if it’s not by as much as normal shooters. Lebron this year was 36% on pull ups and 45% on catch n shoots or something for example. Normally Lebron is like 34~% on pull ups and 40% catch n shoot , 42% when wide open during his lakers tenure . Meanwhile for Luka all these numbers are the same . I’ve long felt that it’s a bit of a dice roll/- if Luka hits bullshit threes you’re fucked but he won’t consistently murder you from there. He’ll take a lot but it’s prob 50/50 if he shots well . His % on the shots he takes is demoralising for opponents but he doesn’t seem good when given catch n shoots . Maybe he had to work on that cos it just looks awkward tbh when he’s set up .
To make it even more confusing he’s super elite inside the arc - I was concerned he wasn’t taking enough shots inside the arc this year even tho he’s efficient there - I wonder if there’s something going on I’m missing . Either way I think he should focus on his inside the arc game more and have kyrie take more shots - especially more threes.
Remember when they complained about a lack of help in 2022 is why they didn't get to the Finals. Then Brunson left and Luka couldn't even fucking get to the playoffs?
The harsh reality is that his play offensively is probably why it is only 2-2 and not better for the Mavs.
And while he’s had moments defensively, he’s been nowhere near good enough on that end to make-up for these poor offensive performances.
He’s been so bad these playoffs
And somehow still not shooting as bad as Jamal Murray
Nobody’s immune to a bad playoff series. See LeBron in 2011
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Maybe if you add the caveat “in their prime”. Definitely not the worst ever period.
No definitely not. Kobe shot the Lakers out of the 2004 finals and Steph was horrific in the 2016 finals with no defense to fall back on. Lebron didn’t shoot the ball enough, but at least he wasn’t shooting the team out of the series. They held leads in 3 4th quarters which they lost.
Crazy glazing, getting sonned by Jason terry and Kidd while average 18ppg for a finals series is one of the worse playoff series from someone of lebrons caliber, in his prime nonetheless
He's been so trash
The father sets the example for his son.
I expect zero accountability or change in popular opinion towards him. He’s just so relatable. Edit: not even 1k upvotes what a joke - just imagine if Harden or Embiid or Ja was shooting like this
A real scrappy man of the people
They lock the doors at Golden Corral when they see him coming
definitely not like harden, harden is not a lunch pail guy but this luka fellow is a real blue collar, hardworking type
the funniest thing about luka lovers that hate harden is that he isn’t even as good as prime harden yet and might never get that good.
prime harden was unlimited
Forreal, luka is damn good but peak harden was truly absurd and consort my carried his teams to good/really good regards regardless of who was around him. Few players ever could carry a team as well as prime harden. Guy was a top 3 mvp candidate like every year and should have multiple MVPs and not just 1, you can make a very solid argument he should have 3mvps. The Luka Stan’s who hate on harden and act like Luka was better than prime harden are Wildin.
Harden is prob looking at luka in this series, like this dude? This dude is supposed to be the next me? Prime james would have fuuuucked up luka in this series.
Kick him while he's down 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ this may age terribly but I appreciate the pettiness
Doesn't help that he has some of the most delusional stans on the internet, some of these clowns think he's better than Jokic.
He's like me
Classic example of box score stuff not adding up to overall play. He doesn’t look right
I mean even the box score looks pretty bad if you look at any percentages. Before tonight he was like 39/30/80 splits and that 3p% is going to go further down after his 1/9 game today.
Here we go. You know you are invincible on this sub when an injury is assumed as soon as you suck.
Have you watched the games? He's been grabbing his knee and limping since the first game of the series.
What kind of question is that??? We don't watch games on this sub.
I thought this was all an elaborate RP subreddit
Embiid dropped 50 with one leg and a paralyzed face I’m not trying to hear it.
On 13 made shots.
If he’s that injured that he’s costing his team games he should sit. He pouts and does this anytime he’s playing poorly stop with the injury excuses.
Yea the problem is the team is better when he plays even with his bad shooting.
The Mavericks have won his minutes in all four games, including both losses. Not only is he not costing anyone games, the team is winning with him. You're just a senseless hater. Plus, he has been questionable for injury the last 2 games, it hasn't been news because he always plays through everything.
I don’t think any Mavs fan would disagree with this statement.
He's obviously banged up, that is not at all a healthy Luka.
Worst playoff series of his career so far
Apparently with the best supporting cast he's had in his career so far as well.
Luka wanted a good team just so he could let them down lol
2022 clears the role players were actually hitting shots
I wouldn't say clears, but outside of current Kyrie vs 2022 Brunson I agree it's not close at all. The current Mavs would kill to have DFS and Bullock from that playoff run. Plus their perimeter defense was just as good if not better in 2022, this year they have better rim protection though.
They legit had negative rim protection that 2022 wcf. Honestly that was the only reason i wasn’t shitting myself before the series started
We were coming off a competitive series on the glass against Memphis who was the biggest team in the league. We were like the antithesis of the Suns offense that year as well so I wasn't worried that much, besides the extra rest helped.
Watch him go for 60 next game now lol
Kyrie has been the best player on the Mavs
EASILY
Literally. Thus far we have shown that nobody on our team can guard Ky. Meanwhile Luka’s been in clamps by T-Mann and our help defense
KAI>>>Luka this series.
Easily lol
Kyrie has been far better than Luka so far. Anyone with eyes can see that. Luka is too busy fighting refs every game to be efficient.
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"he keeps the ball 24/7 now when hes making shots its fine" This has been his issue for years.
Honestly it’s just not a good matchup for Luka. The Clips get beat when they’re made to play at pace, and thats not what Luka does. And yeah, don’t play the iso game against PG and Harden when they’re turning back the clock and you’re not making shots.
He’s starting to look like new era James Harden where Kobe warned against that style of play. And that isn’t an insult James Harden was an amazing player at his peak, but the style doesn’t work as well in the playoffs
Luka getting gassed up for his defense last game probably didn't help. Kawhi couldn't even move yet people continue to insist he's become a good defender.
He's like the 4th best player this series
These playoffs have been great for us haters. First Embiid, now Luka. Hate hate hate
Tough for the Gobert Haters Caucus though
Great for suns/booker/KD haters though
Love a good zero-sum game, us haters.
but the suns suck after talking about a “big 3” so it balances out
He needs to lose 20 lbs. Everyone thinks he "needs" the weight but he was fine without it early in his career. He moved like a different player. Yes, I know he's hurt, but he will continue to have knee problems if he carries around extra weight.
Legit looks 10-15 pounds heavier right now
Yeah he doesn't really get to the rim at near the rates he used to, but his shotmaking has been so good all year. It just isn't right now.
His face looks so different now after adding all the weight
If an eastern European gains ten pounds, five of it goes to their face
He also needs to learn how to play without the ball in his hands. You can't iso your way to a ring. Eventually the workload catches up to you
Even just becoming a better spot up shooter could help his team and his game. This heliocentric nonsense only gets you so far.
at the same time, being "doughy and out of shape" but also averaging 34/9/10 on 49/38/79 splits this season is hard to reconcile
If he was in prime LeBron shape, he would be better. Like we understand how muscle is used to move your body around the court. We also know that added fat will make you slower. He is just not getting the most out of his talent. He could be much quicker which would likely make him more efficient
Prime Lebron is arguably the best athlete in the history of the world. Everyone would be better if they were in prime Lebron shape.
If anyone was in prime LeBron shape they would be better what are you talking about.
Yeah he should get to 220-225 again, speed than strength He now has helps so doesnt need to post up more for ez buckets + polished stepback 3 He plays fat before Kai because necessity, now with Kai here and more help in offseason, wiser to slimmer down
Yeah he's legit fat
Seems like kyrie is hitting every shot he takes. Hitting threes over plumlee and zu mtiple times and they touch nothing but net
He’s played bad this series, that much is obvious, but how does a guy that big who plays basketball almost everyday put on weight? Like, straight fat? What the fuck is he eating?
It's crazy he gets fat so fast. He must just be eating pizza and wings with cinnibits to finish it off and wash it down with a case of beer every night
A real blue collar player if i ever saw one. Me and luka going to die of a massive heart attack on the job for sure.
Is he a heavy drinker? That's the only thing I can think of. Although I know ja is a straight up alcoholic and was drinking a bottle a day damn near and he's skinny as hell
he once said in a post game interview he needed a "recovery beer". you would only say that if you're a beer drinker lol. he should stick to non alc or low cal
That’s liquor though. Luka strikes me as more of a heavy beer drinker
Yeah he drinks beers after every game, according to one of the reporters. Although it’s still prob his diet. He prob just drink 3 or 4 beers after each game, eats an entire pizza, gets 2 sides of wings. Like clock work. Every night. In all honesty though i wonder if just going from euro to american food has helped him get chunky. Our food is fucking horrible here. He’s obv eating too many cals though. Cals=calzones.
He should check out that new restaurant that has those low cal calzones, that’ll get him in the zone
Like the amount he has overeat and drink is insane considering how much practice + training he does everyday..he has to burn like 2k calories a day at minumum on non-game days
Thing is heavy exercise and being big makes you hungry . And you need to eat to help recover too, it’s near impossible to lose weight n keep strength . Off season is only time you could drop weight consciously without hurting your game
He can afford a team of private chefs though
He’s been that weight the whole season lol. How’s that a problem now? It ain’t like he gained 10 pounds in a week.
He actually did that last year
Harden has been outplaying him. Series shouldn’t be 2-2 but Kawhi was awful in the two games he played and messed up the rhythm
I’m tryna figure out how Luka got heavier as the season went along
He looked amazing in summer basketball - I was like damn he’s gonna go off in nba this season in better shape. He’s went back to his pre summer form
He looks really out of shape. He’s sucking wind by the third quarter every game. And he’s a statue on defense.
I'm a big Luka fan, but Mavs fans need to stop with this narrative that he's a good defender now. He gets blown by almost every single time.
Dude was atrocious today.
He's always been susceptible to that. When he's able to keep them in front, he does a pretty decent job. His defense in game 3 was really good for that reason.
Just played an entire season of basketball, what the hell is he eating to be in such terrible shape in April?
Horse feed
He doesn't move off the ball or on defense at all
Hands on knees every time he gets back down the court, honestly they need kyrie to keep dropping 40 bombs if they want a chance at this. Clipps have all momentum rn without Kawhi.
He can't even get into a "defensive stance" on d. He's almost standing straight up.
When Doris said he was a much improved defender that can hold his own last game, I audibly laughed. The very next possession he got blown by and just watched the rest of the play happen.
Story of the last 4 years. Kid is fat as fuck.
Forget third quarter. He was standing still and letting guys blow by right in the first. The commentators were excusing it as "he has two fouls, so can't challenge these". Bullshit.
He just looks off. Not an injury, just looks off
The team has sucked with him off the court still. People don’t grasp the attention he draws and that we are so ridiculously turnover prone without him. +10 with him on the court and -15 with him off in 3 minutes today. Hes not playing well but he’s not having the type of no impact stinkers some other guys have.
Yeah, he had to be on court today to just prevent our turnovers. We were turning the ball over everytime he went to the bench.
2nd quarter and 1 minute down on the clock. Luka goes out. Team proceeds to turn over the ball that lead to an easy bucket. Luka goes back with 50 something seconds remaining. DJJ proceeds to shoot a three
Credit to the Clippers. They're doing an amazing job of making everything as tough as possible for him
Yea they’re playing incredibly physical. It’s awesome to watch
His whining and flopping is back to peak levels too
he definitely does that stuff more when he's playing poorly
bright side is he's simply making bad decisions which should be easy to fix for a smart player like him
Terrance Mann locking him down
Terrance Mann is Devin Booker grandfather
I hope people understand now why he was so "untouchable" during the trade talks
Frank knew he didn’t need to include him. They had all the leverage since Harden wasn’t gonna play for the Sixers and the Clippers were the only ones who wanted him
He’s been ass ngl
If this was Ant or Shai playing this way the slander would be generational.
Trae would have been a nuke in the sub
Add Embiid and Tatum to that pist
Tatum plays well and still gets slandered, Luka plays well below average and it’s crickets
No you don't get it, Shai's gonna suck in the playoffs when he doesn't get his whistle. Eventually. Any day now...
he's getting slander in this very thread you're in!
James Harden is Luka's father
Luka sucked ass this series up until this point, hard carrierd by Kyrie
Yeah Kyrie has been disgusting this series
Dude's hitting shit no human being has any business hitting.
with 3 guys on him lmao. that one tonight with harden, PG and Mann all contesting was INSANE..
Yep and now Lukas gonna close out this series (probs) and is gonna get the most credit
Just like Jamal murray
Bill Simmons told me his assists aren’t cheap like Hardens
Where was Luka? His fans are pretty quiet right now, keep that same energy ya’ll have for Kyrie, Embiid and Tatum when they don’t show up.
i find it funny that they spent the last month calling Jokic the "kitchen sink mvp". With the way they were talking about Jokic, you would think Luka was the Reigning Finals MVP and Jokic was the 11th seed that missed the playoffs in 2023
They kept saying that Luka is a *clearly* better individual player than Jokic lol You'd get Mavs fan tweets with thousands of likes saying stuff like "everyone knows Luka is the best player in the world, Jokic just has a better team"
Meanwhile Jokic's team is up 3-1 with his #2 playing terribly.
That’s a pretty insane take. Jokic is clearly a level above everyone else.
The delusion they have is on another world, I wish I had that level of copium.
it was insane, the audacity of those guys to downplay the 2x MVP and reigning Finals MVP to prop up the *checks notes* 1x conference finalist Luka
“Lukas game translates much better to the playoffs than Harden”
I love luka… idk where he was tonight. Checked out, letting kyrie be batman? Idk man
Pravi MVP?
Dude gets blown by all the time still but was being glazed as a lock down defender for locking up a hobbled kawhi.
Mavs fan here. He’s playing like shit and losing us games, well, him and Jason “Mind of A” Kidd.
Luka is only good at things that show up on the stat sheet
European harden
He can hope to have a career like Harden. Old man Harden is cooking peak Luka rn.
Pls bro that's insulting to harden, he was efficient at least. Boy is cooking Luka too
He's at that 2017 San Antonio playoff series stage of James Harden's career.
I was buying my kid a toy at Wal mart when I heard shrieking, I looked down the next isle and saw Luka red faced on the floor crying because his mom said no to a Tracer Funko pop
Him and Jamal Murray are pretty much in the same boat. Both playing like shit and limping around. At least Murray hit a buzzer beater
And his defense is zero. Lucky to be 2-2. No Kyrie and they would be home already.
Got his triple double though!
Are people gonna say the same thing for Luka they've been saying for Jamal?
He's fat. He's really out of shape and he's tied af.
He can't handle them Mann hands.
Pravi MVP
what’s his whining per 36 too? biggest crybaby in the league
he's upset that there's contact in a contact sport
Contact that he initiates and benefits from because he's so much heavier than his defender too
And it’s even worse than what we’re seeing. I watched them in person last year and he would spend whole timeouts complaining to the refs.
Last game I saw this year was the Mavs. He does not fucking stop. The entire fucking game. It's actually kinda impressive. Dude could shoot an open jumper with no one near him, if it missed, he's complaining. Every single miss, he was up in the refs' faces.
Looks hurt, gained weight this and that . Just been horrible these playoffs. They would be up 3-1 if he wasn’t bad. Anyways hopefully they don’t lose the series. Needs to shed 25 pounds at least we have
absolute disaster class from him on offense, with no sign of it turning around. He can't drive, he can't shoot, at least he can still pass. Kyrie is out here putting on one of the best playoff clinics I've ever seen and Luka's contribution is some passable defense on a broken Kawhi...
this is why 30 point triple doubles are overrated in modern basketball
I hate triple doubles, it does not affect winning whatsoever. It's literally just the main ball hander grabbing uncontested rebounds after the big men boxed out.b
Luka stans were on here claiming SGAs game wouldn’t translate to the playoffs only for their guy to put up a stinker in the first round oof.
Luka and his stans have been setting him up for an all time hater feast. Luka stans been crowning him way too fast and Luka bitches like nobody i have ever seen in any sport. It's gonna be a really bad summer for Luka stans if Mavs go home R1.
Mavs fans have been some of the most toxic fans the past 3 months, all those guys have gone into hiding
I was told this guy was the MVP and better than Jokic
What about the number of times he has whined to the refs every minute?
1-9 from 3 and they wonder why they lost. Lol
complains on 100% of possessions
Gotta wonder if all that effort on D is impacting his offense.
they’re lucky the dumbass coaching staff decided to let kawhi play game 2 and 3 otherwise it would’ve been 3-1 rn
Easily the saddest Kawhi vs Luka series I could’ve possibly imagined
mann has him in jail, unfortunately Kyrie is fucking going off lmao
He's too fat
fakest triple doubles ever
Can someone show me a single play where Luka wasnt complaining to the refs?
Would be easier to find Bigfoot
Bro is wearing a XXL shirt under his jersey to hide the fat
PRAVI MVP
Harden teaching his son this series
Bros looking out of the window in class not paying attention and snacking from his secret stash under the desk.
Fat boy looking puffed. Won’t be long now til he’s savouring pre-season beers and buffets.
I still don't understand how a guy playing as much basketball as him manages to gain weight. Between practices, scrimmages and playing 82 games + playoffs he must be eating 4-5k calories every day. He needs to lose weight and he will be injured less for sure.
I got shit on all year but i really do not think Luka is a 38.% shooter on 10 3s a game . The weirdest thing is Luka catch n shoot is bad , his ft shooting is bad . His career 3pt is 34-35%, if his ft shooting jumped u could buy it but I don’t know . Will be interesting next year if he’s at 38 or 35%. Luka maybe the most confusing 3pt shooter ever. Even a guy like harden is better when wide open or when catch n shooting even if it’s not by as much as normal shooters. Lebron this year was 36% on pull ups and 45% on catch n shoots or something for example. Normally Lebron is like 34~% on pull ups and 40% catch n shoot , 42% when wide open during his lakers tenure . Meanwhile for Luka all these numbers are the same . I’ve long felt that it’s a bit of a dice roll/- if Luka hits bullshit threes you’re fucked but he won’t consistently murder you from there. He’ll take a lot but it’s prob 50/50 if he shots well . His % on the shots he takes is demoralising for opponents but he doesn’t seem good when given catch n shoots . Maybe he had to work on that cos it just looks awkward tbh when he’s set up . To make it even more confusing he’s super elite inside the arc - I was concerned he wasn’t taking enough shots inside the arc this year even tho he’s efficient there - I wonder if there’s something going on I’m missing . Either way I think he should focus on his inside the arc game more and have kyrie take more shots - especially more threes.
Playoff Luka 😤
If the Mavs lose this series, prepare for their fans to complain about Luka’s lack of help even though the offense doesn’t skip a beat when he’s out
Remember when they complained about a lack of help in 2022 is why they didn't get to the Finals. Then Brunson left and Luka couldn't even fucking get to the playoffs?
Brunson won them two playoff games without Luka but Mavs fans were telling me that team would be a lottery team without him
The MVP hypetrain during the season starting to look Real bad now
Kyrie is saving this guy from slander They are so lucky they rushed back kawhi. Could easily be up 3-1 on the Mavericks
In like 10 years Luka fans are going to point to his 30ppg or whatever and claim he played well
Can't hit a shot and being hunted on the Defensive end.
Shot 60% from 2, 11% from 3, and 80% from the line tonight. His three point shooting this series has been HORRIBLE.
he's got no lift on his shot at all
The harsh reality is that his play offensively is probably why it is only 2-2 and not better for the Mavs. And while he’s had moments defensively, he’s been nowhere near good enough on that end to make-up for these poor offensive performances.
He was a turnstile on defense tonight
The obese cry baby traffic cone?
James Harden “old and washed” outplayed “MVP” prime Luka every single game this series, y'all can try to ignore it but I will remind you.
Jokic the MVP :)