12-27-2024, 09:36 AM
(12-27-2024, 08:09 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: https://x.com/YahooSports/status/1872423...h1FNqPQgOA&s=19
I can´t lie. If Orlando came to me right now and said Wagner, Suggs, their 2025 1st for Luka, I´d think about it. He´s this reckless with his body at age 24, what´s he going to look like at 27 at 80M/year, if he does not change his bad habits?
Can you do that trade? Probably not, cause you look like a moron, if he decides to get in shape in the weaker Conference and is a virtual lock for the conference finals every year for the next decade, but this is truly disappointing.
People make this comparison to Harden, but Harden imho is a surpreme athlete underneath his off-season hobby to live in strip clubs. Yes he had a habit to play himself into shape the first 15-20 games, but he also only missed 25 regular season games in his first eight years in the league and is still eating up minutes at age 35. Or take Rodman as another example. Dude was partying all night, jumped on a treadmill an hour before the game to warm up and then shut down Karl Malone and snatch 20 boards, while probably BUI (balling under the influence). Luka is not a great athlete in that sense; terms of health/fitness/maintenance imho.
After seeing the latest interview from Dakari Johnson about Westbrook, I´m still kind of disappointed we did not sign him for the minimum. Every teammate of his says he´s the hardest worker and the nicest person. I´m kinda disappointed Dirk wasn´t the guy in his final year, because Luka needed/needs somebody that gets on his ass and challenges him every day. Carlisle surely was that guy, but there was too much other bad stuff happening.
Divac was a complete moron to pass on Luka, but his concerns/assessment of his unprofessional habits relating to his father seem to have been validated ever since his mother disappeared from the public eye and his father has taken over.
Really down on Luka right now. I have rarely enjoyed a game he´s played this season. Certainly not as much as the games he did not play. I´m looking forward to the game tonight more, cause he ain´t playing.