01-02-2021, 12:15 AM
(01-02-2021, 12:07 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Gotta give it to Luka. He put up 27/15/7 and still managed to make me feel he could've done more.
Mavs basically shot terrible from this game too 41/32/72 as a team. Thankfully the Heat managed to shoot even worse.
Yeah, the shooting was still cringe, but he looked infinitely more confident (swaggy, even) in the 2nd and 3rd quarters tonight than I feel like he has looked in any other game, so far. The double moves were working again, all of a sudden, leaving me feeling like he was more in rhythm and maybe a little quicker than he had been previously.
Also, I said something about this in the discord, but even though the 3-ball isn't dropping for him, I'm in the camp that believes he has to shoot them anyway. Even when he's in peak form, he doesn't have a stellar first step, so imho, the threat of that step back is integral to his success. Also, in a short sample size and possibly polluted by poor rhythm/conditioning, "better shot selection Luka" seems tentative and a little scared to me at times, and doesn't appear to impact the game in the way to which we've grown accustomed. I think I've just about decided that I prefer "reckless, heat-check Luka."