CobraCommander wrote:advent11 wrote:CobraCommander wrote:I thought the poster was implying that Luka is getting a pass for doing the same high volume, high usage on Low percentage shooting with high turn overs that these same media people hated about Westbrook...and honestly I thought that was a fair take....
Career TS:
Luka regular season: .573
Luka playoffs: .58
Westbrook regular season: .527
Westbrook playoffs: .508
Please pick from Westbrooks best years where some in the media have said those things. Westbrooks career has been a downward spiral so his career numbers must have taken a hit. Either way Luka is a volume scorer with high usage and doesn’t shoot a high % from anywhere. That’s not a criticism of him - those are facts- but but but… some of the greatest in history are just like Luka in that regard so don’t think that’s an insult and get mad at me for pointing out that. The Luka comp is harden and Luka has never shot as well as harden -
Why do you keep doing this every season? You're a smart poster and i know what you're trying to do and i get it, i don't blame you for that... but the fact that you know yourself how wrong you are and you keep going on and on with the same BS everytime.
I'll say again, people compare Luka to Harden and for some idiotic reason with Westbrook aswell. Harden, even in his prime days, was more or less a product of abusing fouls. People literally came up with memes because of that and NBA had to adjust because it was just unwatchable it was so absurd. A defender ran next to Harden when he drove to the rim and it was a foul. If he didn't shoot 20 FT's in a game, it felt incredibly unnatural. It was so extreme. But i'll still give it to him, he did manage to score in different type of scenarios, he did carry games and made his team better, no doubt about that.
Russ on the other hand, you compare his shooting to Luka. He was only
ONCE close to being at 50% eFG% and that was 49.3%, Luka in his worse season (rookie season) was already better at 49.7%. Career = 53%.
Russ TS% best year was 55%, Luka's
WORST year was, again, rookie at 54.5%
Doncic is very good in mid range and around the rim, he can struggle with 3's when he's taking so many tough shots and when he's tired. But his overal shooting efficiency still somehow holds at least above average, specially for that type of high USG% player.
I know you won't like to hear this but Luka's mid range and around the rim numbers (per career) are better than Lebron's right now. And when you couple all of that with the fact that he's doing most of his scoring in ISO scenarios (
or if you only look at % of asissted points), then you see how absolutely insane his game really is and Russ' shooting comparisons are absolutely disrespectful to Luka.
People love to mention TO's. Dude is a one man show in Dallas, again, high USG% proves that... The fact that Luka averages 4 TO's per game in his career, is actually not a lot.
