(04-14-2023, 07:54 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: And that’s why you don’t let the players make management decisions. Is Luka gonna start recruiting now too? No. He’ll say they can make those decisions and it’s not his job. He was injured pretty badly from Feb til the end of the season. Perfect reason to shut him down.
Yeah, all the reporting and noise was about the record since Kyrie joined the team. I don't recall any of the talking heads or reports I saw talking about how much of that time was either lost to injury after Kyrie arrived, either Luka or Kyrie hurt and even worse how often were both Luka and Kyrie actually healthy for the game time?
Luka hadn't looked 100% or even 90% for quite some time to me, certainly not while Kyrie was getting acclimated to Dallas.
Yes, they could have shut Luka down on injury basis alone long enough to be higher in the draft now but still with Luka being their superstar I think he has to be willing to shut it down, and evidently, he was not.