11-11-2021, 10:58 AM
(11-11-2021, 10:45 AM)mavsluvr Wrote: Aside from some speculation about Luka's diet, I don't think we're seeing any actionable problem being described, or any solutions proposed. Mainly, just a running data stream of stats indicating how terrible Luka's plus minus is in some respect or another. Like any other data source, we can pay as much attention to this one as we think it merits.
We may not see where these reports are leading, but this is the first season that we have been treated to breathless, MBM reports of Luka's +/-. So that is a new feature of the board that is pretty cool! Many thanks to Kamm for the effort!
I don't know the solutions. And I am not the coach or GM, so I have no power anyway. But I am a fan watching Luka and this team struggle in so many ways (despite having a 7-4 record).
I am sorry you are not a fan of the updates on Luka's lineups performances (you can put me on ignore if that helps I guess). But to me it is THE story of the early season. I have no memory of a player as great and talented as Luka having his lineups struggle so consistently for such a long stretch (we are 13.4% of the way through the season already). Luka (and Dirk before him in even a larger way) have so consistently been part of successful lineups (from the bird's eye view), that this really feels like new charted territory for us as Mavs fans. And my contention and concern has been: if this phenomenon doesn't change then I am not sure where the record ends up and I certainly don't have hopes of getting past the first round.