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What "broke" LM is having to stand there and watch Zach LaVine ball hog without any ability to get into the offensive flow.  Ryen Russeillo and Bill Simmons were breaking down LaVine's crunch time usage numbers recently and they were ridiculous.  He immediately gets "fixed" when Carlisle gives him a clearly defined role based on his strengths, and  Luka is drawing all the attention and distributing the ball to him with wide open looks.

I wonder what Luka's crunch time usage numbers look like?

I'm not sure but I do know Luka is at about 10 assists per 36 minutes and LaVine is 3.8.  9.

The point was, crunch time stats aren't what should be looked at esp since the point you seemed to be making was LM not being able to get into the offensive flow. I will say, this has been a knock in the past of Luka's usage throughout the game. Luka is at 37% while LaVine is at 31%. Does that make up for the extra assists? Don't know, but it at least makes up for some of them I would think. Luka puts up 20.3 fga on 32.9 minutes per game while LaVine puts up 19.4 on 34.1 minutes. Does that say something? I don't know for sure but the amount of shots per minute favors LaVine in this case.

The point is you can have high usage and still get your teammates involved in the offense, and then you can be Zach Lavine.