Luka Doncic Discussion: Lean Mean Slovenian Extension Machine

Haven’t done the boat club yet, unfortunately. Got a two person kayak for the expansive lagoon system though. Lots of wildlife throughout the neighborhood. Used funds instead to buy my daughter her first car: 2010 Civic with only 28k miles!
The guy who runs that workout I just started has a boat stored at our neighborhood drydock, so I just need to buddy up with him until I get my own or have money for the club.

 

Good idea. Never show him up in the pushups department. Good on you as well for taking care of your daughter with a good car. For a couple years in my early 20's I drove for United Parcel. They drilled into us every day "defensive driving" and to this day I constantly repeat that to myself and adhere. Keep eyes on all your mirrors to know who's behind you how far back if you have to stop short and on both sides of you, and expect the unexpected. You've probably imparted your own version of that to her already.

 

Serbia lost to Finland and eliminated

 

Really? Joker’s team not deep enough?

 

I spotted this conversation about Cranjis and Luka a few days ago that hadn't been picked up here .... on LG. And the post today at the bottom IMO is some really important news about the new in better shape than last year Luka. If it's not cool mods can delete or I will, but everybody gets credit for what was said and it's just fans sharing Lakers news regardless of from where, like we do with X and Reddit. Since we know @audiosway has been a Luka fan and follower since his entry into the league and has been watching all these games so far it would be interesting to see if he concurs with the last post.

Inspector Gadget wrote:
Cranjis McBasketball not impressed with Luka, not sure if his opinion holds weight like it did before but it seems like his eye test isn’t seeing the things needed for Cranjis to be Impressed

Don Draper wrote:
Not impressed how?
Inspector Gadget wrote:
Look what he’s saying in his Twitter account

jodeke wrote: (this past Monday 9/1)
The specific critique:
In a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) on March 14, 2025, Tim shared that his film review of Dončić showed "some of [Luka's] worst as a passer when it came to missing reads". He noted that Dončić missed several open teammates and instead threw the ball to covered players. This suggests the analyst was specifically unimpressed with Dončić's court vision and passing execution in that particular game.

drae wrote: (Saturday 9/6)
Seems to be changing his tune
"Luka's operating differently in the pick & roll. Have you noticed?

He has a career high rate splitting the defense on ball screens!

He's split more than twice as many times in these 8 games than he had in 59 total exhibition + real games a year ago between Slovenia, DAL, & LA!

Given the go-to coverages against Luka in the NBA are switching and hedging, him slimming down and getting more juice on-ball getting downhill to beat switches and honing his split game vs hedging would be big offseason developments."

 

joker's team shot 30% from three instead of the 6000% they shoot against us. this is why i don't like single elimination tournaments. i know fans love them, but they're basically built to almost ensure the best team doesn't win. like if serbia plays finland 6 more times, they probably win all 6 of them. and psychologically, it's just so much easier to be the underdog for that one game.

whatever; i'm not crying for serbia or anything. it's just a peeve of mine.