05-30-2024, 05:00 PM
(05-30-2024, 01:46 PM)HoosierDaddyKidd Wrote: Look, I love Luka's game as much as the next guy. He's a tremendous talent. But let's call a spade a spade. Luka gets to the line as much as anybody in the league. His incessant crying and bitching to the refs, is a major turnoff, and he expects to get every freakin foul call known to man. But he always wants the benefit of the doubt. Most refs deem hand slaps, and other incidental fouls, as play on fouls unless they are blatant. He also acts like he never commits fouls. If he would quit barking at the refs so much, he would probably get more calls. Refs don't want to be showed up in games, and they give you some rope if you stop being in their ear all game.
No problem with calling him out on that. I get the dudes frustration because he takes a beating, especially in the playoffs. Plenty of fouls go uncalled every game both ways, sometimes more one way than the other.
I do absolutely believe Luka takes more uncalled contact on a nightly basis than anyone else on the floor. There’s reasons for that. He has the ball more than anyone. He’s so damned big and strong he can play through a lot of contact. He tries to sell contact as a result of those first two factors which honestly can make the refs job harder.
My point is really that the dude is going to get hacked and pushed and grabbed all night. To your point, bitching and moaning about it changes nothing. Accept that the contact is coming. Accept that it isn’t all gonna get called.
Luka showed he can be a zen like assassin in Game 5 vs OKC…oddly enough his lowest FTA game of playoffs I believe. That’s what I want to see.