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

[Dundalis]

Didn't we trade for Kyrie to lower Luka's usage rate? Luka can be the PG when Kyrie sits. It's just a small sacrifice he needs to make playing with another superstar. 

We've seen Luka punish guys easily on the post. With less dribbling too. 

No doubt they'll figure it out soon. Offense won't be a problem anyway, it's the overall defense.

The problem is Kyrie doesn't want to, nor has he proven in the past to be at his best when he's a teams primary playmaker (Boston). He's always been best as the scoring guard who serves as the ancillary playmaker. Kyrie will play more on ball than he has so far, but he's not Brunson or Dinwiddie in terms of his TOP and DPP rates. His TOP was exactly the same as Dinwiddie's despite not playing with anyone near as ball dominant as Luka on the Nets, and his dribbles per possession was way less. Kyrie is nowhere near as ball dominant as everyone has been saying, and in fact he's been more effective the less he's taken on primary playmaking duties.

That being said, I totally understand wanting the offensive tempo to be more like when Luka isn't ball handling. But Kyrie will continue to actively give the ball up IMO, which has been the main factor in driving the ball movement, which will consistently have the ball ending up in Luka's hands relatively early in the shot clock, since almost no one else seems to know what to do with the ball when they don't have a wide open shot (apart from THJ, Wood and Green when he isn't being overly passive)