ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

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We've heard a lot about Luka being able to play different styles if surrounded with appropriate talent which has always felt like a combination of wishful thinking and a chick or the egg argument.  Granted, I haven't been able to watch many Mavs games since the Kyrie trade due to some personal issues but what little I have seen has been discouraging.  Further discouraging is teammate involvement with Kyrie and without Luka.  

My Luka fandom has always been weird.  He seems like a nice enough kid and every game you watch him play, you are bound to catch a phenomenal play or two...or three.  On the flip side, his brand of offense is way too Harden-like to be interesting and he has to be the whiniest superstar ever.  And maybe that would be forgivable but it effects his teammates on defense often and towards the end of every season, he'll be on the verge of a suspension due to technical fouls.  The kid is basketball savant but far too often we absolve him from blame because of the organization he plays for or the cast assembled around him.  Sometimes that might be fair but a lot of folks treat that like a blank check.  I don't think that does him any good and is a bit insulting to him as that treats him like a finished product when he has a ton of room to mature as a hooper.  When you are the face of a franchise, part of that burden is shouldering some of the blame when your team falls short and the team has fallen woefully short this year.