Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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This is old now, but an interesting analysis of Luka’s game:

https://youtu.be/dZfufGaRhHg?feature=shared

He just took his team to the finals.   If the finals were a disappointment, reminder that many great players have had to pass through disappointments 

You have been trying your best to pump up this poor trade. 

I will remind you again of a few things

Pelinka is one of the shrewdest GMs. 
That GM when given this deal, asked if Nico was joking.   That’s how stunned he was 
There have been GMs who apparently said they would have given up “everything” if they knew Luka was available. 

All these GMs have access to the same analysis and data in this video. I will trust Pelinka over Nico. Forget that. Every player can be nitpicked.  Steph is not a great defender. Neither is Jokic. What you do though when you get those type of generational offensive talents is you surround them with long athletic guys in the other 4 spots. Kyrie is a better player than Jrue Holday but Holiday might be a better fit next to Luka.  

Yes the path is not easy when you do need to hide that but you were not getting a Wemby or a Giannis for him. Short of that every player has his warts and can be nitpicked.  So I will take a generational offensive player and try to craft my team as best as I can