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dygaction wrote:[x]?s=20[/x]
top 3 overall
However he has outplayed Joker this month of December.
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Not Luka/Kyrie but daughter buff is real. The two new dads Luka Dec 1 and Exum Dec 2. For the month of December:
Luka: 37.5p/8.9r/11.1a on 48.8/38.0/80 shooting
Exum: 15.3p/3.8r/4.5a on 60.6/53.3/84 shooting
Luka: 37.5p/8.9r/11.1a on 48.8/38.0/80 shooting
Exum: 15.3p/3.8r/4.5a on 60.6/53.3/84 shooting
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4th highest scoring game ever (tied with Wilt and David Thompson), but has to be one of the most efficient 70 pt games ever, right? Just whatever he wanted and even made his FT's tonight. Silly, just silly.
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Texas Chuck wrote:4th highest scoring game ever (tied with Wilt and David Thompson), but has to be one of the most efficient 70 pt games ever, right? Just whatever he wanted and even made his FT's tonight. Silly, just silly.
Silver's really broke the league with the rule changes. Stats post-2016 are irrelevant.
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SHAQ32 wrote:Texas Chuck wrote:4th highest scoring game ever (tied with Wilt and David Thompson), but has to be one of the most efficient 70 pt games ever, right? Just whatever he wanted and even made his FT's tonight. Silly, just silly.
Silver's really broke the league with the rule changes. Stats post-2016 are irrelevant.
I mean they are a record of what happened. It's just like with MLB and homers now and football with passing numbers. You have to re-calibrate.
But 73 on 25/33 8/13 15/16 is special in any era. Silver has nothing to do with it. But haters hate.
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Luka has to be one of the most simultaneously overrated and underrated players ever. He's overrated in that he dominates the ball and doesn't play defense for large stretches and this is reflected in his impact numbers; however, he's underrated in that his ceiling on a basketball court is perhaps only matched by one or two other players in the NBA.
There have been other players like this in terms of ceiling/basement impact, but perhaps none with the height of ceiling impact. He might be the last person I'd want to see in a playoff series just because of the potential.
There have been other players like this in terms of ceiling/basement impact, but perhaps none with the height of ceiling impact. He might be the last person I'd want to see in a playoff series just because of the potential.
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CobraCommander wrote:Pelly24 wrote:CobraCommander wrote:Conf finals if all breaks their way-
Why not- a top 75 player in Kyrie and a young gun in Luka.
If this team was Lebron and Kyrie when Lebron was Luka’s age or even KD- we would expect a lot. If Luka that Guy- why not expect this from him and Kyrie.?
Those Cavs teams seem much better constructed than this Maps team TBH. Kevin Love, even though he seemed obsolete in some ways, was a third option that could get 17/10/3 on +1 or + 2 TS% while spacing the floor. Clearly he'd be better than literally everyone else on the current Mavs by a wide margin. The Mavs don't have a legit third option scorer, and I'm not even sure they have a good fourth option scorer unless Josh Green or Hardy take a big leap. Then even with Grant Williams, Idk about their defense. LeBron was an elite defender/gap filler in a way that Luka can never be, and they still had decent wing defenders and size outside of him (that's why in 2015 they could convert to being a great defensive team).
The Mavs need to make more moves, as is I see them winning no more than 44 games.
No man- those cavs had Lebron - Lebron made the pieces work. I expect Luka to do the same. Even Kyrie and KD minus Harden or Ben expected to make noise.
A large part of Lebron "making those pieces work" was carrying them defensively. Tough to win it all without strong defense
its my last message in this thread, but I just admit, that all the people, casual and analytical minds, more or less have consencus who has the weight of a rubberized duck. And its not JaivLLLL
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Unlike Kobe, Luka didn't need to play garbage time to get his score.
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Racism is at all high on ESPN. Just look how differently they are treating those two scoring performances.
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I don't pay much attention to ESPN, though from other media I certainly saw much more hoopla regarding Embiid's 70-pt performance.
If that's what you mean (Luca not getting as much attention), I suspect it's because of WHOSE record was being broken:
Luka was breaking his own [only 13-month-old] record (he also holds 3rd-place on the Mavs all-time list).
Embiid was breaking a record of Wilt Chamberlain's that had held for 56 years.
Don't need to make this something it's not just for funsies.
If that's what you mean (Luca not getting as much attention), I suspect it's because of WHOSE record was being broken:
Luka was breaking his own [only 13-month-old] record (he also holds 3rd-place on the Mavs all-time list).
Embiid was breaking a record of Wilt Chamberlain's that had held for 56 years.
Don't need to make this something it's not just for funsies.
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