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

[LukTheShadow]

Kris Dunn      +3.87
Jalen Brunson +1.99
Ben Simmons +1.10
Delon Wright  +0.57
J.J. Barea      +0.38

???

If it's so easy to get a positive DRPM, then why can't Luka do it to save his life?  lol

Watch the games. His defense is a problem. He'd better learn how to do it. The Mavs won't contend until he does. Dirk gets bashed, but he was an at least average defender around the time the Mavs won the championship.

Good one!  

I found out years ago (and not only me) that ESPN's TPM doesn't cover all type of players equally and this year with help of some guys from this forum I found out that even ESPN's injury report is not accurate.
You will have problems to cover your LD's D concerns with more earthlike stats than ESPN's RPM.
Yes, eye test can tell that Luka can oversleep some D possessions here and there, he did step away instead of contest some rim attacks, he's making more mistakes in D than in O. But so the whole team does because to learn team D takes more time then O. Those guys w/o JJB, Lee and rookies are averaging 2,92 years NBA experience and they are playing together only few months. They are young and they all have room for individual D improvement but mainly better team work on D with preventing bad player to player switches will increase chances for better individual D.
I don't share your concerns regarding LD's D neither for his life. But that doesn't mean that I don't want to see improvement in kid's D. If you're into stats I suggest you to look into TPA or NBA stats or a link published in some other thread on this forum regarding last game hustle stats to see how much Luka hurts this team with his D over some period of time.