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

[Jason Terry]

Luka’s “empty stats” were the ridiculous amount of free throw attempts he got last year. This year the refs are doing him no favors. Another “empty stat” might be some of his rebounds. He’s usually guarding the worst wing player on the other team and sometimes he cheats off to get the weak side board(or the player next to him allows him to get the board so he can start running the offense immediately). Also, an argument could be made that shooting far too many 3’s at a poor clip is a bad use of possessions that adds to his point total but doesn’t really help the team as well as a better shot would.

That’s a really critical way of looking at him though. He’s playing amazing every game it seems. No other player in the world you want over him(long term). The assists are not empty. His defense this season doesn’t show up much in the stats but has been amazing(opposite of empty stats).