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

[ItsGoTime]

But that's what I'm trying to point out. At this point it's up to his teammates to score off of his passes, not for Luka to pass more. He's 3rd (17.2) in the league in potential assists. The only two higher are CP3 (19.4) and Harden (18.5). CP3 has the exact same passes made per game as Luka (57.1 vs 57.4).

Luka is already making smart deliberate passes and is up there with the best in terms of setting people up. And that's with him seeing the most double teams in the league. If everyone made their shots, teams can't reliably double Luka. Thus it would increase his FG% because he's getting much better looks. That is without him touching his FG attempts.

I addressed the potential assist thing in my initial post. Pass less to the open man at the 3pt line and more to the open man at the rim. Collapse the defense and get the higher % shot. Bam, less potential assists and more assists. This is still a personnel issue cause it is hardly a given that Powell converts under the rim (over the rim he does well because he doesn’t have to hold the ball for more than a second), but I digress. Basically if you’re mostly attempting to get your assists from a 3, you should expect more potential assists!


Another thing, he’s played with most of these guys since entering the league. If he makes the right play every time, how is it that he has so many potential assists?