(05-27-2022, 04:46 PM)ThisIStheYear Wrote: Yep. Completely agree. He has to play. I would too. He is Slovenian basketball. I guess there’s a lot worse ways an NBA player could spend an off-season than playing a lot of basketball.
This is what many posters here and other places dont seem to understand. By playing basketball in offseason he becomes better skills wise, and also experience wise. Yes this prevents him in getting to the gym and work on his body, but this does, and it has, made him become better skills wise, this couldnt be more clear. So many skills he has added since he entered the league. We were beaten in terms of skills and scheme from GSW as overall their team is just more skilled if you take away Luka and Brunson. This is the key in modern game, having more skill than your opponent. Luka should keep focusing on improving his skillset.
Im not saying that having more muscles is not good for Luka. But its limited how much a player can improve over a course of an offseason, and people disregard that Luka has improved skills wise each and single offseason, and the way he has improved is as much you can even dream about. He has improved so much that he is consensus top 3 player in the NBA, and arguably the best. Giannis maybe better right now, but the speed with Luka is improving his skillset, this is going to be his next decade or even more.