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

[bodhisattva]

@"bodhisattva" You've given us your perspective on this before, so you might have already answered this, but given what you explained to us about how important the national teams are to Slovenia and given what you know about how Luka's Mavs career is going and how badly he likely needs a good off-season, focused on rest, recovery, conditioning and improvement in some areas, what is your personal feeling on whether or not he should participate in EuroBasket?

He should not. But I pray every day he does. If he really needs recovery and is mature enough, that he will put the work in than maybe it would be better for him to take it off. On the other hand if he is not, maybe its even worse. Eating gyros and smoking shisas in Greece instead of training with national team. Pissing off your nation and club fans in the process. Depends on the guy and his head.People forget, that he was way worse coming into previous season. It was shorter offseason, but there were no NT competitions. Even Followill mentioned this on Locked on Mavs. Maybe he would be even worse with no Olympics who knows?

Honestly, I think you guys are making his condition and form at the moment too big of a deal.
I have come to believe that he is just cruising. He figured something out. Maybe that regular season means nothing. He has another gear, you can see it when he gets pissed or in stretches, like in the Memphis game. Come playoff time, this debates will be quickly forgotten. Even his threes will start falling. Have nothing to back this up, just my feeling. Sure he is not in MVP condition, but come playoff time his numbers will be monstrous. I am the first to criticize the kid, but I have become a believer.