09-08-2022, 08:20 AM
(09-08-2022, 07:41 AM)JamesConway912 Wrote: Luka is a guaranteed All NBA 1st team performer even in his early 20s.
It’s the rest of the team that’s a lot harder to predict:
- will Hardaway be as bad as he was before the injury last year or will he show up like the previous two seasons?
- can Kleber stay healthy and not fall into a long shooting slump again?
- can Bullock keep up with his play-off performances or will he drop into a hole again like he did prior to his covid-infection last year?
- how will Wood react to his reportedly expected bench role in a contract year?
- will Dinwiddie be as up and down again as he was last season (regular season vs playoffs)? if so which phase will be longer?
With Luka you’re always gonna get elite performances, especially when it matters. It’s the rest of the squad who will make or break the season.
You need to chill with the Luka-dogging. He’s been nothing short of historically good here given his age. The rest of the organization has to do its homework too.
It is NOT "Luka-dogging."
This is my repeated point about Luka:
Luka is SO good and SO transcendent that he has more potential for growth than the whole rest of the team combined. Luka has so much potential that he could single-handedly take this team into ELITE contender status by taking his game and body to the next level. Nobody else on this team has the potential to take this team to the next level by personal improvement. Luka has that ability, NOT because he is "bad" now (something I have never, ever said), but because he has such a ridiculously high ceiling (the highest I have ever seen since MJ). To say that Luka has a ton of room to grow is NOT an attack on his current level of play at all. Not one bit. It is a commentary on his potential.