TRADE: Luka Doncic to Lakers, Anthony Davis to Mavericks

[QUOTE=tontoz;14976372]His poor conditioning didn't matter when he was destroying a good defense against the Wolves. He averaged 32/10/8 against them with a 63% TS. Against the Cs his TS dropped by 10%. He didn't suddenly get out of shape in a week. [/quote] In the Wolves series he was allowed to rest on defense. Minnie's offense was three guys on the three point line watchingAnt play basketball with Gobert standing in the paint. So Doncic just stands there beside one of them and gets a breather. The Celtics are not that stagnant and intentionally involved him in the action often, either giving his man the ball (especially when he was on JB) or making him defend the pick and roll. The constant burning of energy was unlike what he had to do vs the WC opponents.
[QUOTE]Some of his defensive problems weren't just due to conditioning. After all the games are spaced out in the playoffs. They had 2 days off prior to game 1, game 2, game 3, and game 5 in the Finals. The only game they won was game 4 with one day of rest. [/QUOTE] There are always going to be multiple reasons, a lot is going on in a game. With the Celtics not letting him rest defensively a flaw was exploited.

[Quote]He has bad habits on defense which got exposed when the Cs attacked him repeatedly. Certainly better conditioning would help but he has to be willing to put in the effort consistently.[/QUOTE]I certainly don't dispute this.

Just saw this. Loool that face, so memey.

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Poor Luka.

-Smak

[QUOTE=999Guy;14975047]Luka's been apart of a rebuild. Why would he want to do it again? He's gonna control his own destiny, I'm telling you. But we'll see.

The Lakers could pull off some magical shit but they are absolutely on the clock.

Luka was mentally ready to truly win an NBA finals series this year with Dallas. Being expected to scrap up a play in berth and then lose in the second round at best will sour him fast.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE][Windhorst] The Lakers are under immense pressure to sign Luka Dončić to an extension. Dončić currently has “no incentive” to re-sign with LA: “He never said, ‘I wanna be a Laker.’ There are dozens of players over the years who have made it crystal clear they wanna be Lakers. Luka never said that.”[/QUOTE]


Told you.

The Luka sweepstakes will be crazy in a couple years.

[QUOTE=Nowoco;14974255]The more I think about this, the more it makes sense for Dallas.

Luka has issues with his conditioning, attitude and overall leadership. As great as he is, he is unable to stay in shape, stop arguing with refs or whining like a bitch when things aren't going his way. Would you really want to a supermax to someone like that with those reservations? Is he really going to start putting in 100% effort and get ripped when he's making that sort of money? The answer is likely, no. The chances of Luka declining prematurely are far greater than him still being a bonafide superstar into his 30s. He will start picking up more and more injuries too.

Would you really want to roll the dice with your entire franchise on Luka Doncic? I'm not sure I would.[/QUOTE]

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