05-31-2021, 10:47 PM
(05-31-2021, 10:03 PM)ballsrchr Wrote: How so? If you're talking about when Luka goes all offense I believe he does that because he's getting no viable support from the rest of the team.
When you have a generational type player--and they are fairly rare--the team needs to be built around that player. This means that everyone on the team needs to mesh with HIM...not necessarily the other way around. Of course it helps if that player--Luka--is an intelligent and personable person and the coaches know how to get the best out of him...while keeping the inflated egos under check. Or...it may be the other way around: that Luka needs to know how to get the best out of his coaches--and the rest of the team. But that's asking a lot from such a young man.
My meandering point being that Luka is the heart of the team. Everybody else is supporting cast. Some of them can be GREAT supporting cast...but supporting cast they are...
Yeah I agree that he's not getting enough support. We need to improve the team.
Luka's great but the slight concern is that he dictates how everyone else gets their shots. It's how he wants to give it to them and not necessarily what may be best for that player. Basically almost all the shots he creates are open shots off what he's doing to draw the defense in and not him running the offense and getting guys shot. It's the Lebron versus Chris Paul approach. Luka is waaaaaaaay too much Lebron right now with how the offense is being ran right now. Like the entire offense is let Luka break it down and open shots will come off that.
Lebron has won 4 titles that way. But I'm not entirely sure that's the best approach. He had a flukey one with Bogut injury/Draymond suspension and he's had elite all star talent next to him in all of them. The narrative was at the end of Miami and at times in the 2nd stint in Cleveland "Lebron needs help"... And he had a ton of it. I've long wondered if Lebron played a slightly different style if he had won more titles. Plus asking Luka to be like Lebron over his entire career is a huge ask.
Point being... With the style Luka and the Mavs are playing atm, better talent may not result in better results.