Game 11: New Orleans Pelicans (5-6) vs. Dallas Mavericks (8-3) | 110-131 loss

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I think we are beyond the potential expectation of Luka eventually acting like a seasoned pro night in night out. Everyone of Luka's teammates says Luka acts like a little kid all the time. I have a feeling it's not him "acting" his age, and more it's just straight up him. Maybe by his late 20's the stuff changes, but I get the feeling his overall attitude to the game is kinda kid like, and that includes both the positives that come from that but also the negatives. And this is the most extreme example of the negative.

I think it's potentially gonna be a Draymond like situation, where you either accept the cons that come with him or you don't accept him at all. Hope I'm wrong. Either way, thankfully these types of outings, despite being more common than we would like aren't that common, especially when the team is doing well.

I don´t know whether a night out is the explanation for the performance, but if it was, then Luka wasn´t alone. The whole team played drunk. The reaction times, the errant passes, the horrible decisions. There was so much unusual behaviour, not just bad play. Once sequence at the start of the 3rd quarter an errant pass by the Pelicans hit DJJ on the hip. By the time DJJ finally reacted to it, the ball had slowly rolled six feet around the court, before getting into a ping-pong contest between three other Mavs players and some Pelicans players before finding it´s way to another Pelicans player for another three.