Has Luka ever not driven the bus?

Guy · Post #1 » by **Guy** » Tue May 17, 2022 11:57 pm

NBA Seasons:4
NBA Playoffs:3
Rookie of the year: 2018-19
All-Star:3 times
All-NBA First Team - Twice
2019-20, 2020-21
Most triple-doubles in Mavs history
Age:23

Career playoff stats:
32.7 PPG (.557 eFG%)
9.3 RPG
8.3 APG
1.5 BPG

The kid is now leading his team to the WCF with co-star Dinwiddie and the ferocious Mavs offense. Has Luka ever not driven the bus his entire life? I can’t think of a better trajectory towards GOAT status other than LeBron.

dmakk · Post #2 » by **dmakk** » Tue May 17, 2022 11:59 pm

His first season with the Mavs. They saw that was a mistake, and traded the rest of the starting 5.

mabundo_nagumbe · Post #3 » by **mabundo_nagumbe** » Wed May 18, 2022 12:09 am

Eurobasket 2017, Dragic drove the bus to the championship, highlighted by an epic finals performance. He had 34 by the end of 3rd quarter. Luka was the second guy back then, it was just the summer before he won everything possible in Euroleague. As the bus driver

leolozon · Post #4 » by **leolozon** » Wed May 18, 2022 12:37 am

dmakk wrote:His first season with the Mavs. They saw that was a mistake, and traded the rest of the starting 5.

The only mistake was not starting the tank sooner to keel that pick. Then again the Mavs were tied with the Grizz and the Pels and the other got the first two pick. Oh what could have been.

fteru6uhre54ew · Post #5 » by **fteru6uhre54ew** » Wed May 18, 2022 1:20 am

In youths no never he was three levels above everyone else even being much younger he controlled the games even more than now. In the 2016 and 2017 seasons with Real Madrid. in his first season he was laughable compared to how he is now the guy was just wobbly on the court he was suffering bringing the ball up the court like no one has ever seen him can't be there at that level with the speed and physicality playing againts grown mans in a serious level he did like 4 or 5 points per game that season.

I mean he was a 15 to 16 years old kid playing for the best team in Europe and one of the best rosters in the history of the Euroleague with more than half of the team being former Nba players or the best players in Europe. Funny is that he adjusted to the level starting with the defense his coach put him always defending the PG of the opposite team. In the first half of the season he was one of those players that his role is defend and rebound being in the rotation and on offense he only brings the ball up the court and he was in a corner on offense lol the teams knowing that he was a kid they were always pressuring him a lot full court and in the European basketball is much more common do that even he sprained his ankle 4 or 5 times that season to that and the guy never get out of any games he showed some flashes of his talent starting the offense late in the season but that season was to adjust to the level and be in the rotation because he wasn't at that level in the Playoffs of Euroleague versus Fenerbahce he was just throwed away of the games.

In the next season he did a good jump he had some dominations games like in the youths and now but he was already there at the level of the competition he didn't looked like a kid in his first season he wasn't a leader or something like that he was one of the best players of the team but playing for a big team you play big games and in the Playoffs and the F4 of those games he ended crying literally for pure madness that can't surpass the pressure and physicality of those games and because his coach was tough as **** with him in a good way for him the leader of that team was Llull. The next season he dominated every competition since the preseason being the leader with Llull injured,