HALLELUKA: Luka Clinches All-NBA 1st team. 4th in 5 years

[Kammrath]

Mavs most alarming problems:

Luka sucks. 
Luka is lazy. 
Luka is a terrible shooter. 
Luka is killing the team. 
Luka's body is bottom-10 in the league. 
Luka is nothing special after all. Just a disappointing flash-in-the-pan who brings his teams down. 

A professional statistician submitting this data to support these conclusions would be laughed out of the room. 

Send Luka's fat ass back to Slovenia! Put the guys who normally play with him on the pine! Put the guys who have been playing when Luka sits out there for 48 minutes! Mavs problems solved! Seven-game on-off +/- proves it!

Get a grip.

Please get a grip yourself, the ONLY thing in your whole list that someone ACTUALLY said is the bolded one above (which I personally didn't even say). The others? Incredibly poor reading comprehension/bad interpretation of stats. Stop misrepresenting what others say.

I clearly said Luka is the most talented and best player on the team.

I clearly said I thought he was top-5 ALL TIME kind of player, and I am facing the reality that he probably isn't, a level below that which is a disappointment to me with all his talent and ability.

I clearly said I have concerns about Luka's conditioning/diet and have said so for ALL of his last three seasons.

Etc. Etc.


If you really think it is an overreaction to be concerned about the team not having success with Luka on the court this season then please give me an example of ONE player of his approximate talent that is absolute last (or close to) on his team in on/off +/-?

Trae is middle of the pack.
Brown & Tatum are at the top.
KD & Harden are middle of the pack.
LaMelo is at the top.
DeRozan is at the top (!), Vuc and LaVine middle of the pack.
Sexton is near the bottom.
Jokic is at the top.
Curry is at the top.
PG is is in the middle.
Lebron is at the top, AD in the middle, RW at the bottom.
Ja is near the bottom.
Lowry/Herro near the top, Butler in the middle.
Giannis/Jrue at the top.
DR, ANT, KAT near the top.
Embiid in the middle.
Ayton near the top, CP3/Book in the middle.
Dame in the middle.
Fox in the middle.
DM at the top, Gobert near the bottom.
Beal in the middle.

The only true comp is Russell Westbrook. Ja and Sexton are the next closest along with Gobert. 

Yes, it is only seven games (I said multiple times that is a SMALL sample size), but the numbers IN that sample are really, really bad.