Why Does Luka Get the Worst Whistle in NBA History?

[TurboCokes]

To preface, yes, I understand he complains too much. We all know it. But it's in part a chicken or the egg situation. There's an incredibly valid reason he complains...because he gets a worse whistle than a role player. In 20+ years of watching the NBA, I've never seen a star get such a horrendous whistle. There are games where role players like Jabari Smith, Kuminga, Nurkic, Clarkson, etc., are getting calls he can't get. In the same game. He's barely top 10 in the NBA in FTAs, when he should be leading it. It's got to be vexing getting mugged time after time with no call, only to watch some random role player get a call on the other end that you can't get. It's got to be vexing watching guys like Tatum, Dame, and SGA get calls on marginal contact, when you get ridden like Sea Biscuit for 40 minutes with no call. Because Luka doesn't have blow by speed, his drives are usually methodical. And time and time again, guys are blatantly hip checking, hand checking, holding, and bumping him his entire way to the basket, and it isn't called. They're bumping him on his runners/floaters, and it isn't called. Just from this past game against GS (and this is only MADE shots...he was fouled on about 4-5 missed ones with no call):

Watch on YouTube

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1:51, look how Pods has both arms on Luka the entire drive (which happens constantly).

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3:01

Other stars get at least 2+ of those called.

I don't know if it's because he complains so much, or what. But it's clear there's an agenda going on, and it's gross to watch.

[TurboCokes]

Lol, I just noticed even in the still you can see he's being blatantly held.

[Mavrelous]

Luka gets a bad whistle like Jokic and LeBron, big players who handle the ball get less calls than small players, but Luka made it much worse by causing every ref yo have a personal vendetta against him.
You reap what you sow...

[joesha1698]

I havent seen any compelling evidence that his whistle is the worst in the NBA. Personally, I think his playing style (heavy pick and roll and looking for contact) makes the refs job harder. Remember, Harden style was known to put a lot of pressure on the refs as well. Great players do not look for calls nor do they pattern their game in a way to get calls. This is just a distraction to the great ones. Luka needs to focus on playing to a standard and executing not calls.

I think the league today (because of the rules) is softer and there's less grey area for the defender. The fans aren't paying to see guys shoot free throws all game long. Luka's 73 point game last year was the turning point and the NBA really did react to that like our game has got too soft. And now a little of that grey area is coming back.

Luka has to adjust to that reality. It's really not smart for him (at his size and conditioning) to have the ball in his hands so much because there not about to give him those calls he got earlier in his career...nor are they going to give it to a lot of these guys. More reason to move the ball, play with out it, and put less wear and tear on your body and legs.

[41Dirk41]

Cry baby topic.

[famicommander]

Luka is a gigantic foul baiter. He gets more calls than he deserves. If it weren't for Embiid, Luka would be known as the worst offender in the league right now.

[Bob8]

Luka is a gigantic foul baiter. He gets more calls than he deserves. If it weren't for Embiid, Luka would be known as the worst offender in the league right now.

The biggest foul baiter in the league is averaging 7 FTA? 0.6 more than Mathurin.

[famicommander]

Luka is a gigantic foul baiter. He gets more calls than he deserves. If it weren't for Embiid, Luka would be known as the worst offender in the league right now.

The biggest foul baiter in the league is averaging 7 FTA?

He averages over 8 attempts per game for his career from the guard position with more than 42% of his career FGA being 3 pointers, and he still spends more time complaining than anyone else in the league. Meanwhile Jokic averages under 5 attempts per game playing the C position and leaving most games bleeding from multiple locations on his arms.

The idea of Luka Doncic being given an unfavorable whistle is absolutely comical to every single NBA fan outside the Mavs fanbase. Y'all shouldn't be complaining about the refs, you should be complaining that Luka is a gigantic manbaby who refuses to take the sport seriously.

Luka's treatment from the refs has been Harden-esque for his entire career.

[Bob8]

Luka is a gigantic foul baiter. He gets more calls than he deserves. If it weren't for Embiid, Luka would be known as the worst offender in the league right now.

The biggest foul baiter in the league is averaging 7 FTA?

He averages over 8 attempts per game for his career from the guard position with more than 42% of his career FGA being 3 pointers, and he still spends more time complaining than anyone else in the league. Meanwhile Jokic averages under 5 attempts per game playing the C position and leaving most games bleeding from multiple locations on his arms.

The idea of Luka Doncic being given an unfavorable whistle is absolutely comical to every single NBA fan outside the Mavs fanbase. Y'all shouldn't be complaining about the refs, you should be complaining that Luka is a gigantic manbaby who refuses to take the sport seriously.

I'm not complaining about refs, but he's averaging pretty modest 7 FTA this year. And he's not exactly typical guard with 6'8 and 250, and post game. Saying that he's the biggest foul baiter is just laughable and if you are right, he's pretty bad in doing that.

[famicommander]

The biggest foul baiter in the league is averaging 7 FTA?

He averages over 8 attempts per game for his career from the guard position with more than 42% of his career FGA being 3 pointers, and he still spends more time complaining than anyone else in the league. Meanwhile Jokic averages under 5 attempts per game playing the C position and leaving most games bleeding from multiple locations on his arms.

The idea of Luka Doncic being given an unfavorable whistle is absolutely comical to every single NBA fan outside the Mavs fanbase. Y'all shouldn't be complaining about the refs, you should be complaining that Luka is a gigantic manbaby who refuses to take the sport seriously.

I'm not complaining about refs, but he's averaging pretty modest 7 FTA. And he's not exactly typical guard with 6'8 and 250, and post game.

His career FTA per game is in line with James Harden. And that's how every single NBA fan outside of the Dallas fanbase views him. He's James Harden 2.0.

[Archx]

Luka is a gigantic foul baiter. He gets more calls than he deserves. If it weren't for Embiid, Luka would be known as the worst offender in the league right now.

The biggest foul baiter in the league is averaging 7 FTA?

He averages over 8 attempts per game for his career from the guard position with more than 42% of his career FGA being 3 pointers, and he still spends more time complaining than anyone else in the league. Meanwhile Jokic averages under 5 attempts per game playing the C position and leaving most games bleeding from multiple locations on his arms.

The idea of Luka Doncic being given an unfavorable whistle is absolutely comical to every single NBA fan outside the Mavs fanbase. Y'all shouldn't be complaining about the refs, you should be complaining that Luka is a gigantic manbaby who refuses to take the sport seriously.

Luka's treatment from the refs has been Harden-esque for his entire career.

Calm down mate, this thread was made by someone who just made a new account. Doesn't mean entire Mavs fanbase agrees with him lol.

And i suggest you check some youtube videos what kind of BS Harden was doing with refs It's not even remotely close to what kind of calls Luka has gotten before.

[Bob8]

He averages over 8 attempts per game for his career from the guard position with more than 42% of his career FGA being 3 pointers, and he still spends more time complaining than anyone else in the league. Meanwhile Jokic averages under 5 attempts per game playing the C position and leaving most games bleeding from multiple locations on his arms.

The idea of Luka Doncic being given an unfavorable whistle is absolutely comical to every single NBA fan outside the Mavs fanbase. Y'all shouldn't be complaining about the refs, you should be complaining that Luka is a gigantic manbaby who refuses to take the sport seriously.

I'm not complaining about refs, but he's averaging pretty modest 7 FTA. And he's not exactly typical guard with 6'8 and 250, and post game.

His career FTA per game is in line with James Harden. And that's how every single NBA fan outside of the Dallas fanbase views him. He's James Harden 2.0.

And what is SGA, who is averaging more FTs in last 3 years, Harden 3.0? The right question here is what's your motivation of being in Mavs board? Kinda sad, if you ask me.

[famicommander]

I'm not complaining about refs, but he's averaging pretty modest 7 FTA. And he's not exactly typical guard with 6'8 and 250, and post game.

His career FTA per game is in line with James Harden. And that's how every single NBA fan outside of the Dallas fanbase views him. He's James Harden 2.0.

And what is SGA, who is averaging more FTs in last 3 years, Harden 3.0? The right question here is what's your motivation of being in Mavs board? Kinda sad, if you ask me.

SGA is just as bad with the foulbaiting as Harden but since he actually plays defense the Harden comparison isn't quite right. He's more like Tiny Embiid.

And I came here simply to see what Mavs fans were saying about Luka's defensive gaffe(s) last night. Anytime a major play like that happens I go check the fan board for the team in question, and since that was the only game last night it brought me here. I'm certainly not above stirring ****, but it wasn't my intention in coming here. I just came to read reactions and couldn't help but respond to the ludicrous topic title.

[Bob8]

His career FTA per game is in line with James Harden. And that's how every single NBA fan outside of the Dallas fanbase views him. He's James Harden 2.0.

And what is SGA, who is averaging more FTs in last 3 years, Harden 3.0? The right question here is what's your motivation of being in Mavs board? Kinda sad, if you ask me.

SGA is just as bad with the foulbaiting as Harden but since he actually plays defense the Harden comparison isn't quite right. He's more like Tiny Embiid.

And I came here simply to see what Mavs fans were saying about Luka's defensive gaffe(s) last night. Anytime a major play like that happens I go check the fan board for the team in question, and since that was the only game last night it brought me here. I'm certainly not above stirring ****, but it wasn't my intention in coming here. I just came to read reactions and couldn't help but respond to the ludicrous topic title.

Thanks for coming and explaining hard truth. Welcome to come, when you will see something positive too. For example last playoffs run, strangely enough I didn't see you here.

[Mavrelous]

He averages over 8 attempts per game for his career from the guard position with more than 42% of his career FGA being 3 pointers, and he still spends more time complaining than anyone else in the league. Meanwhile Jokic averages under 5 attempts per game playing the C position and leaving most games bleeding from multiple locations on his arms.

The idea of Luka Doncic being given an unfavorable whistle is absolutely comical to every single NBA fan outside the Mavs fanbase. Y'all shouldn't be complaining about the refs, you should be complaining that Luka is a gigantic manbaby who refuses to take the sport seriously.

I'm not complaining about refs, but he's averaging pretty modest 7 FTA. And he's not exactly typical guard with 6'8 and 250, and post game.

His career FTA per game is in line with James Harden. And that's how every single NBA fan outside of the Dallas fanbase views him. He's James Harden 2.0.

FTr is the measure of how much players go to the line.
Harden has 51.3 career FTR, Luka 39.6, that's 30%, Jokic has 31.8, and this is skewed by Luka's 1st 2 years where he was much more agile than today, excluding them, Luka nd Jokic have very similar career FTr.

Luka is closer to Jokic in FTr, than he is to Harden, peak FT Harden had near 60% FTr, this is territory that's totally foreign to Luka, but let's discuss how every NBA fan views I'm sure you've surveyed them and saw what they think, numbers are subjective.

P.S. No one agreed with the OP, and he was called cry baby, he's already banned also, because he;s a returning banned poster, I'd appreciate not preaching to other teams board, you are welcome to discuss objectively, but we don't need you telling us how to behave, and we don't want that either.

[41Dirk41]

Luka is a gigantic foul baiter. He gets more calls than he deserves. If it weren't for Embiid, Luka would be known as the worst offender in the league right now.