KhalilS wrote:With Luca, you'll always get a good day from 2 of THJ, JRich, DFS, Brunson, Burke, and KP/Maxi at the 4 is good enough.
What do you mean always get a good day from...
Luka is the Slovenian Russell Westbrook. He can average a triple double everyday for the next 20 years, and even if he had Bradley Beal getting 30 pts every game next to him, they still wont win much. Just look at the Wizards now. Dallas is on the same boat. Luka is getting good stats on a bad team. Something has to adjust here I would think. Ideally Westbrook needed KD to look really good. Unfortunately Dallas' version of KD re-signed in Milwaukee.
It is my theory that Luka has to take a step back and keep feeding a 1A player. The Lakers were most successful when Lebron kept feeding AD in the finals. The 87 Lakers were even more unstoppable when Kareem scores big games, not when Magic got 30 pts. These players, Lebron, Magic they're more successful when they have someone to feed the ball to. Not when they try to score 50 themselves. Luka is in the same mold. The key there is Porzingis. He is paid the max so he needs to perform like a max player. If Luka kept feeding him the ball everytime he has the POTENTIAL to score in the high 30s. The problem is with KP I think. He's not there yet, but he could get there with development. His height and shooting says he has the potential to be unguardable. Luka needs to make more plays and less step back jumpers the way Lebron feeds AD. Again, that's just my theory. Luka keeps trying to score like he's Kobe when in fact he is more Lebron. more ball movement, more plays, more mismatches. He's not Kobe. there is no need for 35 foot stepback jumpers all game at 27%. it's a learning curve, but when Luka learns to be selfless and trusts that he has teammates who can take the last shot, then that's the time he will mature and be successful.