Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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LeBron, Luka's childhood hero, is perhaps the only player in the league, even at his age, to whom Luka would countenance deferring. Maybe Jokic.

Luka had no problems sharing the ball with Kyrie. No problems sharing the ball with Brunson and Dinwiddie when they made the WCF run. 

The arguing with the refs, the lolly gagging on defense I can still live with. To me his biggest issue has always been shot hunting that 3. It absolutely drove me crazy. Plus it killed the offensive flow on those possessions.  Folks used to say initially how he needed that to get space to drive. I used to feel he needed a midrange game. Then I realized he has a fabulous mid range game. He can also absolutely bully anyone smaller down low.  There is zero reason for him to take a bad 3. 

The problem is he has games like he had against the Suns and Wolves where he delivered knock out blows with the 3. Then he makes some wild 3 and everyone goes crazy talking about Luka Magic. No one thinks that maybe if he played more to his strengths he wouldn’t need so many bad shots and needing any magic at the end. 

That was one thing that I kept hoping he would change and finally see the light. He never did. 

Not Steph’s fault but he really deluded an entire generation of kids to believe that they could play the way he did.