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

[Kammrath]

has Luka's diet been made public?

Over the last four years I am quite confident that it is has come out that Luka 1) has a sweet tooth and 2) loves alcohol even during the season. Dirk and Nash for instance gave up both of those things to take their game to a different level.

I think Dirk and Nash are great examples, because neither guy had a body type that would look like Dwight Howard (ripped), but you could see in their arms, faces, chins, and body clearly when they had gotten their diets in order. You can tell a lot from Luka's arms, face, and chin and how they look from year to year and from the beginning of the year to the end even. 

Here is a side by side of Luka on the first game of last season against PHX (Dec 23, 2020) and the game against BOS (Nov 6, 2021). It was pretty much consensus that Luka started last season in the worst shape of his life and he and Cuban admitted he thought they wouldn't start for another couple months. And yet this year his body looks to be in worse shape to me (definitely carrying more weight, which doesn't look like "good weight" to me) and his body looks "softer" than it ever has.




And beyond body analysis, I see Luka laboring up and down the court (and have wondered outloud if he is nursing an injury/tendinitis). I don't see him out of breath the way he was last season, but I see him a step slower. Struggling to get to the rim in the same way he has in season's past. I also see his outside shot looking poor (29% from three so far, bad like the beginning of last season when he was out of shape).