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

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I know it's way too early to start worrying about Luka long term, but MBT needs to be really careful with team building if they want Luka for life.

I agree.

He is extremely competitive. No critics to Dirk, or anyone else for that matter, but I dont see others at the moment as competitive as Luka. You dont see 20 year old that tear up jerseys if not winning. He wants to win and he will win. Not in long term, not even soon, but right now.

He will not allow the rest of the team to be assembled from bench players all his career. On this team right now there is nobody besides KP that is considered a good starter, besides Luka as well. THJ, DFS, Curry, Powell, they would be bench players for other average or good teams.

Thats all a great thing that Luka is so competitive. Its ok he didnt had the best game like almost all other games. Its a game where rest of the team was also absent, the defense completely. Where the hell was the bench???? Not only this game but many last games, the bench has been horrible. Luka got us on a  streak in 3rd i beleive it was, and got us within 10 points this game, then he got out and bench came in. Next thing you know and we are down 20.

Luka cant do it alone. And Jordan also could not. He had Pippen, Kukoc, Rodman. GSW, curry, Klay, Durant etc.

Nobody besides Luka could take on the game at the moment and carry the team. Luka needs to do it throughout the game every single game. Nobody can do that consisently, there will be a "bad" game once in a while from every superstar.
KP can do it for some streches, which eases it for the team, and anchors the defense.

Besides KP, we need one or two more players to make a consistent team that will rarely or never have bad games. Its not Lukas fault. Jordan also needed that. Its a team sport.

Ultimate competitors don´t walk back on defense and argue with the refs while their matchup scores easy layups on the other end. It´s okay that he has an off game. The way he behaved himself on the court was not acceptable. He can rip his jersey. He can be angry at himself but he cannot yell at teammates (Wright in the 1st quarter) and he cannot stop playing just because he did not get the call or even worse after he made an mistake and missed a shot or turned the ball over.
Lukas 1st half last night reminded me a lot of Rondos last game in a Mavs jersey. Good reminder that even though he is incredible advanced as a player he is still only 20 years old. Maturity might come with age (as it did for Dirk) but I would like to see a shorter leach for Luka.