Archx wrote:Slava wrote:ROballer wrote:...he'll still going to be considerably better than anything we call youth on our team.
I don't know man, he's peaking early and the step back jumper looks cool but I really don't see the necessary athleticism for having a high ceiling. Ingram blew by him a few times and he barely reacted in the game at Dallas.
And Luka was blowing by every LAL player as well. So what's your point? He torched Bradley, Beverly, Harris, when they played LAC. He is seeing multiple top defenders from opposing teams on a regular basis. He was double teamed vs PHX. And he still finds a way to produce big numbers. And saying a 19yo peaked at this age with baby fat on him, not even in a proper NBA shape is just utter BS.
Obviously he will have up and down games and defense is not there yet, but i guess that's just another proof that he is just a young kid trying to develop NBA game.
He’s already playing like a five year pro. And, he is. Defensively, he might have challenges going forward due to lack of lateral quickness but he reads the game well and anticipates well to compensate for it.
Offensively, I see no problems. I’ve quite frankly never seen a 19 year old play a more mature all around game. The game has already slowed down for him, it’s semmingly effortless for him to score, he calmly makes the right decisions all the time and passes well, too. He makes a ton of stuff happen, with very little fluff. Efficiently creates space with his weight and size.
In one way he’s similar to another slow ball player who had his way his whole career. Slow, overweight, relatively unathletic; still nobody could stop him because he has the smarts to play the right way and the cool in his belly to take advantage of a centimeter of space or a blink of an eye of an opening. Z Bo. I think Luka will have a much better career, though, due to offensive talents.
Both have deceptively unimpressive looking games in that it doesn’t look like they’re dominating, but both will keep reliably putting up big numbers every night.
Would I want him here? No. Defense, rebounds being why.
At first it sounded exactly why you would want him on your team including the fact that he is already one of the best clutch players in the NBA statistically and proven by eye test. 
