luka is legitimately an extremely bad defender hes not close to where he should be
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:09 (two months ago) link
i agree that he is not close to where he should be but the individual numbers on his defense do not suggest that he is extremely bad specifically and the mavs have played great defense for long stretches w/ him on the floor
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:11 (two months ago) link
if you took shai off OKC and put luka in his place and told j dub and chet that they had to stand around for 5 extra possessions a game as they watched luka cook i think OKC would prob be a worse regular season team but i don't think their playoff ceiling would be lower and it quite possibly could be higher. and if shai was on dallas i don't think anyone would be saying that they have a significantly better shot of winning a playoff series. so how much of it is the warts of the player vs the warts of the roster
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:12 (two months ago) link
the mavs have played great defense for long stretches w/ him on the floor
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, April 4, 2024 2:11 PM (twenty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
mavs playing good team defense in the regular season in stretches against just ok teams is one thing, throwing luka and kyrie out there against a quality prepared playoff opponent is a completely different proposition, the mavs could just try to effort and swarm their was through it switch a bunch fly around and so forth it could even work thats what they did in that suns series, but what they cant do is just play solid and make minor adjustments, a fwiw they are for the season a not good defensive team
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:17 (two months ago) link
luka on okc is an interesting thought experiment would we even know that jdub is a good player, prob not, maybe close watchers of the team would figure it out, tho would okc let luka play the way he likes to idk hard to say
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:20 (two months ago) link
but yeah putting luka on a better team would be good for him he should look into that, not the nugs tho that would just be unfair
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:25 (two months ago) link
it would be interesting to see if joker could get him to play better ball tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:26 (two months ago) link
they’re bffs it is fated I’m afraid
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:18 (two months ago) link
Luka really hit Coach Shammgod with his own move 😅🔥(via @NBATV) pic.twitter.com/4yLXfKUlB6— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 6, 2024
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 June 2024 15:03 (three days ago) link
no dip finals
No idea how Sam Hauser did this pic.twitter.com/utQW58rlYu— Savage (@SavageSports_) June 7, 2024
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 June 2024 22:19 (three days ago) link
no dip zone
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Friday, 7 June 2024 22:24 (three days ago) link
does “dip” refer to the ball or knees?
― brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 8 June 2024 01:07 (two days ago) link
the ball
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 June 2024 01:15 (two days ago) link