MAVS NEWS:

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/boring

I would have found this funny in years gone by... but after becoming a CC fan, and because I now have a different barometer to compare him to... when I see stuff like this, it just seems like Luka is clueless, immature and not a winner. Plays pretty offensive basketball but is simply not a winner.

Honestly, Caitlin has replaced Luka as my favorite basketball player, and videos like this one, as well as him coming into this season as tubby and unfit as he has ever been... well, it's a no-contest at the moment. Luka needs to make a better effort... with his fitness and defense first, but also at everything else, like his awareness... which includes him being clued into when his team plays the ex-team of the star that just left them to join his team.

I'm also a big CC fan.  Not necessarily of Women's basketball, but I do watch it quite often.  CC is really on a different plane than most, if not all, other players.  There is quite a lot that men can learn from the women's game and adapt to men's basketball.

But...there is little comparison between the respective games...or the players.  I agree that the maturity level between Luka and CC is different.  Luka would learn a lot if he went back and watched CC play.  I think Luka has at least 1 possibly 2 levels of play that he can achieve.  He must "mature" to achieve either level--emotionally, physically, technically, and desire.  Luka plays the way he does because he has never learned better.  Nobody has ever held his nose to the grindstone.  The Mavs need to find someone he respects and will listen to.  Maybe someone like Chandler to Lively.  I don't know.
 
Maybe it's Kidd?  ***  *** *** hmmmm.   Naw...I don't think so.  Stranger things have happened, I guess.  Kidd had some of the same problems.

Luka is my favorite basketball player...despite his shortcomings.  But CC is right up there!