Luka Doncic Discussion: Lean Mean Slovenian Machine

"fully" is tough, but from about the midpoint of last season (iirc) up until the latter part of the playoffs, he was in as good a condition as he needs to be, imo. he got hurt and played through it in the finals (and played pretty well, really). and he really hasn't been right since.

i'll be curious to see if he decides/is able to come back in slightly better condition next year. he should be motivated, and as long as he doesn't sustain further injury this year, he should have a chance to show up ready to go.

that said, he's got basically a career-long harden habit of easing his way into seasons, and maybe we just have to live with it.

yeah, i've been saying it since the trade. it's a lot to expect us to just become a title contender in a couple months. but given some time, we have the principal pieces and some flexibility to build. we should be in the thick of it all year next year, barring injury, of course.

 

Going to need a 50 piece from AR

 

I'm impressed at the progress you've made. All it took was add a LUKA and you've morphed into glass half full OX.

 

It’s common sense.

 

I feel like like Luka is questionable every game and ends up playing.

 

olynk sure tends to hurt a lot of players. He doesn't come out as a thug but after he yoked out Kevin Loves' shoulder don't trust that guy

 

Luka gets hit a lot. Teams get rough with him and the refs have always let it fly. Not sure if it's his size or what. Hopefully in LA he'll start getting more calls. Dallas never gets calls. Most of that had to do with Cuban ALWAYS complaining.

 

I think hes still a few weeks away from being in shape. only has moved well in a few games like Denver (plus the back needs to heal)

 

He needs to get in shape pretty soon, the season is almost over. Hell of a talent regardless.

 

the comment on the video is funny to me, as...he basically looks the same, physically. he's moving better because he's not hurt in those clips, lol. but if it's meant to be commentary on his conditioning, just pause some of them and look at recent game footage with us. that's the same guy, just dunking.

 

Fat Albert could dunk, and so can Lufa. But he dunks his doughnuts in whole milk instead of going to the rim and doing traditional boring dunking.

 

Dagger to my right eyeball we didn’t get THAT guy!

 

I don't think it's permanent or anything but it's not just the dunking, his first step doesn't have the same burst yet. I expect we won't see this for a more weeks. Feels like a Jamal Murray situation

 

right, he's said the same thing. it's because he's still not 100% from the calf injury, not because he's too heavy. he's plenty heavy in a lot of those clips.

 

Can't forget this one either. Like I said, he gets hit a lot and the refs ignore it. I tried to put the tweet in there but it wasn't working.

 

Because he’s not healthy.

Also I don’t know what that guy in the video is talking about Luka was his first step? He’s not Ja Morant or someone that relies on athleticism. He gets by people because of his basketball IQ, his handles, he knows how to manipulate defenses, etc.

Yes he wasn’t getting by guys against Boston, but we’ve seen him be more successful as the games have went on as far as getting to the basket and defeating his defender.

 

Luka Doncic is averaging 31.2 ppg, 45.6 FG%, 41.0 3PT FG%, 8.8 assists, and 6.2 rebounds in his last five games.

I actually did the math on these numbers. He’s not healthy as we can see from the last game and just overall whether it’s the calf of the back injury it is clear Luka is not 100 percent healthy, yet he’s still putting up great numbers. I’m not worried about him.