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

[bodhisattva]

The making yourself known is a knife that cuts two ways.  If you are too meager you might not get noticed but if you complain at every non-call, you might get ignored.  Luka is definitely trending towards the latter.  Add in a pinch of bias generated from years of Cuban feuding with the league and Referees Association and a pinch of being treated like the Shaq of PGs and you've got the perfect storm of not getting the calls you should.  He can definitely work on the first problem and the other two problems should solve themselves once (maybe if is better here) he's become the face of the league.

I know. The question is if he knows. I wish, someone who he respects and listens to, would just sit him down and explain this to him. He would be way better off if he would just stfu and let himself be beaten hard for 10, 15, 30 games. After that i think, he would learn for what kind of contact he will get a call and for which he will not. Maybe even refs would see it. But i think this is where the problem lies. It goes against his spoiled and entitled nature (not as a human being, but on a basketball court). I think he just cannot accept when things don't go his way. He is young, so maybe after 25, 26 it will go away. Someone should just tell him that all that yelling makes him look like a little girl.