12-25-2020, 01:52 PM
(12-25-2020, 01:11 PM)Thukydides Wrote: I didn´t get personal and won´t, although you are insulting me. Instead I argued based on facts, talked about matchups and explained my stance. I will again: Luka is the best thing that could possibly have happened to this franchise. You have no idea, how ecstatic I was after waking up in Europe to the news that Luka was going to the Mavs.
Still that doesn´t mean one can´t be critical at all anymore. If you go back to different old threads, I numerously have pointed to the issue of Luka not being in shape and its connection to our extremly poor clutch offense.
Let´s see how this thing develops this season. Maybe at some point you can come back at me with true argumentation.
It was intended to be personal, because you went very personaly against Luka, although he has no way to defend himself against some anonymous internet poster. So if you have no problem writing that Luka looks brutal, can't get by anyone which according to you shows he lacks proffesionalism, you should have no problem hearing you are a drama queen. I can totally agree he didn't have a great game. Perhaps even a bad one. But going from there to drawing huge conclusions how out of shape is someone and how he is not proffesional. Well, that is an insult in my book. You are far from arguing based on facts, you are arguing based on your assumptions.
In the same comment you said Brunson had a great game. You know what was the only difference between Luka and Brunson game? Brunson hit a couple of very tough shots and Luka didn't. So if Brunson missed those shots and Luka would hit them, your evaluation would have to be exactly reversed. Which evidently points out that you are focusing on a small sample.
You also mentioned how Luka was great in the last playoffs. Luka had 2 worse games in the playoff series. So according to your logic we should actually be pleased because "out of shape Luka" is still better than "playoff Luka" from September.
I guess you can't imagine how much effort takes Luka to generate all the offense he is asked to generate. I did play some basketball and I know how exhausting it is to drive several times in a row, let alone every single offense. The problem is not in Luka being out of shape. The problem is in a fact that Mavs offense is way too much one dimensional. Besides, Luka is 21 and he is obviously a grand master of several aspects of the game. I could easily make a claim that Luka footwork and ballhandling are at higher level than LeBron, for example. Isn't it possible to conclude that him not being a top athlete is perhaps a consequence of focusing on technical parts of the game instead of athleticism and that he still has plenty of time to develop other areas? So perhaps he is not unproffessional, just focusing on other aspects?
Just so that we not forget, what kind of stuff have you been writing around:
"Such a shame Luka didn´t have a full off-season. Still it´s just professionalism to deal with what you´re facing. If you want to be a MVP, you have to put in the extra effort. If he just had 50% of Lebron´s mindset, I´d not be worried. But it seems like he´s either too young (let´s hope so) or too dumb to realize that."
"Luka´s coming back way worse than last season doesn´t bode well"