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• RE: HALLELUKA: All Things Doncic | 1st Team ALL-NBA

  Kammrath > Yesterday, 06:58 AM

  (Yesterday, 02:24 AM)sefant Wrote: If anything he can change his diet, and change his eating habits once and for all. Because every time he rests/has a minor injury, he is somehow putting on pounds. After the calf injury, he looked a bit more heavy imo. 
  
  He needs to make his shape a round year thing and never get out of shape. If you don't go out of shape, its way easier to get into shape. I am wondering if his condition problems are workout related or eating/drinking related.

  
  
  Yep.

• RE: HALLELUKA: All Things Doncic | 1st Team ALL-NBA

  ThisIStheYear > Yesterday, 08:42 AM

  Luka definitely treats the NBA like one of multiple obligations, like he’s a tennis or golf player, instead of like his main job. I don’t know if that says something about him or about the gradually declining importance of the NBA relative to international ball.  Note: it’s not that the NBA is declining in absolute terms, it’s ascending. But, international basketball has been ascending faster, catching up with the US league.  It is what it is. Luka may not be able to use the off-season to get better at three point or free throw shooting, which he really needs to do. But he can still get in shape.

• RE: HALLELUKA: All Things Doncic | 1st Team ALL-NBA

  MaxiThreeba > Yesterday, 10:00 AM

  Took Dirk a while to take a step back from the international grind.  He did so in the summers of 2009 and 2010:
  
  Dirk opts out 2009
  Dirk opts out 2010
  
  I remember the international grind from those Dirk years and what a big deal it was when he finally pushed pause there.  I also know how important getting the German team qualified was to Dirk and he did just that in 2012…and how cool to see him being the German team into the stadium at the opening ceremonies. 
  
  I don’t think Luka’s international summers are going away anytime soon.  I didn’t know the World Cup qualifiers were this summer in addition to Eurobasket and foolishly thought he would have some more time to really train and dial in to prepare for next season 
  
  He plays with a bunch of dudes that look like they down a 12 pack and smoke a pack of Marlboro reds before they take the court.  Hopefully the Mavs have a plan for not letting last summer happen again.

• RE: HALLELUKA: All Things Doncic | 1st Team ALL-NBA

  michaeltex > Yesterday, 10:07 AM

  (Yesterday, 08:42 AM)ThisIStheYear Wrote: Luka definitely treats the NBA like one of multiple obligations, like he’s a tennis or golf player, instead of like his main job. I don’t know if that says something about him or about the gradually declining importance of the NBA relative to international ball.  Note: it’s not that the NBA is declining in absolute terms, it’s ascending. But, international basketball has been ascending faster, catching up with the US league.  It is what it is. Luka may not be able to use the off-season to get better at three point or free throw shooting, which he really needs to do. But he can still get in shape.

  I agree with the getting in shape comments. I also agree it will be difficult to train physically while playing competitively.
  
  Also, the international schedule is shifted so that NBA players can participate while honoring their league contract obligations, witness all the qualifications and tournaments happening during the off season. 
  
  That said, Luka has to be highly visible in Slovenia (whose entire population is less than Dallas) and I can't imagine the crap he would get if he didn't play on the national team. Especially in defense of a previous title. 
  
  What I would like to see is for DAL to support the face of the franchise by getting him some offseason assistance with diet and nutrition while maybe finding ways to help him train for physical improvement. Provide him with an offseason staff so he can both play internationally and prepare for the next NBA grind.

• RE: HALLELUKA: All Things Doncic | 1st Team ALL-NBA

  sefant > Yesterday, 11:07 AM

  (Yesterday, 10:07 AM)michaeltex Wrote: I agree with the getting in shape comments. I also agree it will be difficult to train physically while playing competitively.
  
  Also, the international schedule is shifted so that NBA players can participate while honoring their league contract obligations, witness all the qualifications and tournaments happening during the off season. 
  
  That said, Luka has to be highly visible in Slovenia (whose entire population is less than Dallas) and I can't imagine the crap he would get if he didn't play on the national team. Especially in defense of a previous title. 
  
  What I would like to see is for DAL to support the face of the franchise by getting him some offseason assistance with diet and nutrition while maybe finding ways to help him train for physical improvement. Provide him with an offseason staff so he can both play internationally and prepare for the next NBA grind.

  
  
  
  Cuban should throw a few mill at her to build something like that for the Mavs. (Turn on english sub titles)
  
  Basically offer them a variety of healthy food, and the player don't want that unhealthy stuff anymore. They learn what good food is, learn about nutrition. Its literally a fool proof concept.
  
  This is how i would treat nutrition for a NBA team, if i was the owner. Its hilarious how unprofessional the NBA is in that regard. Looks like a comedy show compared to european soccer clubs.
  
  I bet NBA franchises could get 10-20 % out of many players if you take over their entire nutrition and push every player into the right direction. And not praying every player hiring their own nutritioninst and eating healthy.
  
  No shit a 18-25 yr old don't know what proper nutrition is for the most part. You can literally study those things for years.

• RE: HALLELUKA: All Things Doncic | 1st Team ALL-NBA

  ThisIStheYear > Yesterday, 04:46 PM

  (Yesterday, 10:07 AM)michaeltex Wrote: That said, Luka has to be highly visible in Slovenia (whose entire population is less than Dallas) and I can't imagine the crap he would get if he didn't play on the national team. Especially in defense of a previous title. 

  
  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.

• RE: HALLELUKA: All Things Doncic | 1st Team ALL-NBA

  burekemde > Today, 02:47 AM

  (Yesterday, 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.
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