03-08-2020, 03:09 PM
I think it's an aspect of his game that he needs to work on, and I have confidence that he will.
This season we've seen Luka become an elite finisher at the rim leaving him both mid and long range to still improve from. He could also stand to work on his FTs a bit more, and even to hone the floater as well.
I'm interested in what he and the Mavs will want to work on over the course of the offseason. He's so unbelievably skilled at such a young age that he can obviously add things to his arsenal at a much more rapid than normal pace, so do you want him to focus on 1-2 things over the offseason or try and continue to expand his whole game but maybe at the cost of the gains being more modest. He's Luka though, maybe he can work on everything and be at a whole other level again next season.
If he does go the route of focusing on just 1-2 things, I think you could make an argument for any of those to work on. I personally want him to get his FT% up to 80%+ as a priority since he's a volume shooter and those are free points. After that, I think I'd take him working on his 3Pt% next. His is knocked down to an extent by the degree of difficulty of his shots, but even on the ones in "open" or "wide open" he only shoots 32.7% and 32.1% respectively per NBA.com.
Ultimately he will need a mid-range game to go to for reliable scoring when the defenses tighten up in the playoffs so he definitely needs to add it, when is certainly the question.
This season we've seen Luka become an elite finisher at the rim leaving him both mid and long range to still improve from. He could also stand to work on his FTs a bit more, and even to hone the floater as well.
I'm interested in what he and the Mavs will want to work on over the course of the offseason. He's so unbelievably skilled at such a young age that he can obviously add things to his arsenal at a much more rapid than normal pace, so do you want him to focus on 1-2 things over the offseason or try and continue to expand his whole game but maybe at the cost of the gains being more modest. He's Luka though, maybe he can work on everything and be at a whole other level again next season.
If he does go the route of focusing on just 1-2 things, I think you could make an argument for any of those to work on. I personally want him to get his FT% up to 80%+ as a priority since he's a volume shooter and those are free points. After that, I think I'd take him working on his 3Pt% next. His is knocked down to an extent by the degree of difficulty of his shots, but even on the ones in "open" or "wide open" he only shoots 32.7% and 32.1% respectively per NBA.com.
Ultimately he will need a mid-range game to go to for reliable scoring when the defenses tighten up in the playoffs so he definitely needs to add it, when is certainly the question.