02-14-2025, 07:36 AM
(02-14-2025, 01:09 AM)ThisIStheYear Wrote: No one has done more with less than Luka (Lebron and Moses had similar successes with deficient teams) dragging the Mavs to two western conference finals and a finals. That’s tough to do. He led all players last year in the playoffs in points, rebounds, assists, and steals. How many times has that been done? Anyone who thinks Luka was bad in the playoffs is certifiably dumb.
Guess I'm dumb, then, because I've seen him in multiple playoffs, and while he was AMAZING during past seasons, when the team wasn't quite ready to benefit, I was "certifiably" disappointed in he is performance last year. He looked slow and couldn't get by anyone (a persistently growing problem for him) and so he took a lot of bad shots, and not nearly enough of them went in. At no point did he ever look like he was moving right. Took a ton of bad shots as a result.
I remember being pissed because the more casual national fans weren't seeing "the good Luka" and it was going to affect their opinions of him.