05-24-2021, 07:12 PM
(05-24-2021, 07:00 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: Zubac was featured at media availability this afternoon. He said you have to pick your poison with Luka, and they kinda have to live with Luka's step-back threes "with a late contest."
Well a lot does ride on his outside shooting. He's great no matter what but if he is hitting 3s then he's almost unstoppable. I am sure they can still try some different stuff altho they tried a lot of looks game 1 and none of them really worked.
I honestly think if they want to bother Luka they should pick him up full court all game just to irritate him. He either has to expend energy getting the ball up the court of pass it up ahead and then get it back. Doing the latter wastes a little bit of time. I don't think this strategy works on a lot of quicker guards but it could work on Luka.
I saw some stat the Mavs didn't convert well when Luka got blitzed on the PnR so I expect to see more of that. I will say the irony of the Clippers is that tho they look like a Luka-stopping team on paper, in reality they don't really have a guy that can guard Luka.
Luka has guys that bother him. Simmons, Brooks, Bridges. This guys are really good at disrupting what he wants to do. PG just doesn't bother Luka at all. Maybe more Kawhi on Luka will make a difference I don't know. Seems like Luka will figure it out though.