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

[hakeemfan]

This conversation is a little too black and white for my taste. Luka needs to get better and Rick needs to help him, yes.

But hf, I don't see how you paint Luka's play as hero ball. I don't like some of his late game 3s, but he generally takes what the game gives him.

And you can't accurately describe his game by pointing at 3s you don't like. The greater (quantity) portion of his offenses centers around probing the interior of the defense.

And letting the refs take him off his game or failing to get back on D is something he has to correct for sure, but do you know that he's not working on it.

And RC is failing and not helping Luka enough? Isn't it way to early to make that call?

For myself, I'll give this more time before calling it a failure.

Look, we should discuss areas where Luka needs to improve (settling for late game 3s and not getting distracted by refs, for example), and kudos to hf for that, but I don't currently see a reason to believe that Luka and Rick aren't working to make Luka better.

Fair enough. I will wait and see. Not liking what I have seen so far.

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Selfish, inefficient players have never won anything as a lead dog in their lives.

Kobe says hi.

So you are agreeing Luka is selfish and inefficient?  Just that it might not stop him from a title?  Let’s get the next Shaq, Pau, drug free Odom too while we are going there.