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

[Kammrath]

but this is a team problem and citing Luka's on/off seems to gloss over everybody's culpability.

But this is ALSO a Luka problem and citing the team's on/off seems to gloss over his culpability. 



I feel like I am taking crazy pills. We should be able to look at Luka honestly and his culpability in regard to the team's performance. 

I am NOT suggesting everything is Luka's problem or that he is bad or that we should trade him (that is all straw-man garbage that refuses to engage with the data in front of us). But to ignore that he is DEAD LAST in on/off +/- at -24.4 (next worst is KP at -16.1) is like potentially ignoring a tumor in my lung and saying I just have a "whole body health issue" and I don't need to do anything about that tumor.

One more time: I do not think Luka is the whole problem by any means and I think he is the most talented and important player on the team (and he is my favorite player on the team on top of it all!). But it is very concerning that the team is performing so incredibly poorly when he plays while performing quite well when he sits. This could change very rapidly over the next series of games (and I hope it does!). In fact he led the team in +/- last game at +10. I pray it is a new trend moving forward. We need Luka at his best (as a team player) for this team to really go places.