The LeBron James All-NBA (2nd) and Luka Doncic - 24-25 Thread

[IG2]

At no point in the game did the Lakers ever look like they belonged on the same court as GS. They simply don't have the the size, the athleticism and the chemistry needed to hang with them. If they met in the playoffs it wouldn't go beyond 5 games.

GS is a legit contender and if not for OKC, they'd be coming out of the West.

[dcstanley]

Seemed like every possession (that wasn't a Podz three) ended with Luka on Curry or Reaves on Kuminga/Butler in the post.

This team has a lot of low hanging fruit for teams to attack.

[Tracymcgoaty]

At no point in the game did the Lakers ever look like they belonged on the same court as GS. They simply don't have the the size, the athleticism and the chemistry needed to hang with them. If they met in the playoffs it wouldn't go beyond 5 games.

GS is a legit contender and if not for OKC, they'd be coming out of the West.

This is hyperbole to the **** extreme.

Golden state shot 45% from three

our role players outside of Rui couldn't hit wide open shots.

Luka had his worst game as a laker.

And Golden state won by 7pts. As horrendous as we looked.

[Mos_Heat]

Doncic just doesn't look dominant offensively for the most part. Yes Lebron can be more active on the boards, but if Luka isn't a top 5 player they aren't making past 2nd round

[IG2]

Doncic just doesn't look dominant offensively for the most part. Yes Lebron can be more active on the boards, but if Luka isn't a top 5 player they aren't making past 2nd round

He's back to looking painfully slow out there. I thought he had turned the corner, but guess not. So with the lack of driving game he's relegated to taking a lot of jump shots. Not exactly a high % game.

[The-Power]

At no point in the game did the Lakers ever look like they belonged on the same court as GS. They simply don't have the the size, [...]

That's funny, because I thought the size of the starting 5 really threatens the Warriors, especially when they keep playing with that small unit. Not sure there are any other starting 5s that pose more problems for the Warriors due to size than the Lakers. Maybe Denver but even they have players that Curry and Podz can be expected to guard fairly well whereas the match-ups with the Lakers are a lot trickier to figure out for GSW.

The issue, I think, is what comes off the bench. Pretty much anyone coming off the bench can be guarded reasonably well by one of our smaller players and/or can be helped off of which then alleviates some of the advantages. The Lakers can still hunt mismatches but it's easier for the Warriors to counter that. If these two teams met in the playoffs I'd guess that the Lakers starting 5 outscores the Warriors starting 5. The question is what happens with other line-up combinations.

[Mavrelous]

Doncic just doesn't look dominant offensively for the most part. Yes Lebron can be more active on the boards, but if Luka isn't a top 5 player they aren't making past 2nd round

GS, and Draymond Green specifically, give Luka fits, Looney, like Al Horford, is one of the centers Luka is useless when isolating.
GS has always been a bad matchup to Luka led teams, Mavs beat them usually either w/o Luka, or in a shootout, not in a surgical half court game.
I like Lakers chances against anyone except OKC and GSW, but they aren't beating these 2.
LeBron is actually good against them, but Luka just pulled them too much down to be able to win.

[PistolPeteJR]

Doncic just doesn't look dominant offensively for the most part. Yes Lebron can be more active on the boards, but if Luka isn't a top 5 player they aren't making past 2nd round

GS, and Draymond Green specifically, give Luka fits, Looney, like Al Horford, is one of the centers Luka is useless when isolating.
GS has always been a bad matchup to Luka led teams, Mavs beat them usually either w/o Luka, or in a shootout, not in a surgical half court game.
I like Lakers chances against anyone except OKC and GSW, but they aren't beating these 2.
LeBron is actually good against them, but Luka just pulled them too much down to be able to win.

OKC I can see. GSW I'm not too sure. It took a career game for Podz and the worst game in a LAL uniform by Luka for the Lakers to lose by 7 points. On top of that, LAL was generating phenomenal looks for most of the game and outside of Rui, all of their role players stunk it up big time. Meanwhile, you've got Draymond going 2-4 from distance. While Reaves went otherworldly from deep, going 9-for-16, Luka went 0-for-6 and he was just an absolute disaster in general. LeBron read that Luka just wasn't it and allowed it in the entire first half before deciding to amp it up in the third quarter, and we saw the big difference that made.

In short, Podz shooting the lights out + Luka and role players playing their worst games in a long time = 7-point LAL loss? If you're a Laker, you're not panicking here at all. Between Luka (35% this season), Dorian (40% this season), Vincent (37% this season), they shot 1-for-16 from deep, and most were tremendous looks. That's not happening often in a 7-game series.

[thebigbird]

Honestly I’m sick of Luka at this point. It’s been two months and he’s still far, lazy, shooting 40% from the field, and getting torched on defense. Just not a fan of his game at all.

[Ian Scuffling]

Doncic just doesn't look dominant offensively for the most part. Yes Lebron can be more active on the boards, but if Luka isn't a top 5 player they aren't making past 2nd round

He's back to looking painfully slow out there. I thought he had turned the corner, but guess not. So with the lack of driving game he's relegated to taking a lot of jump shots. Not exactly a high % game.

Well, he is 40 years old, coming off of a groin injury, so none of that should be surprising. Hopefully, and I realize that's a big hope, he can power through the recovery time and get back to how he was pre-injury. The Lakers lost last night because their bench sucked. I mean it was bad.

[Mos_Heat]

Doncic just doesn't look dominant offensively for the most part. Yes Lebron can be more active on the boards, but if Luka isn't a top 5 player they aren't making past 2nd round

GS, and Draymond Green specifically, give Luka fits, Looney, like Al Horford, is one of the centers Luka is useless when isolating.
GS has always been a bad matchup to Luka led teams, Mavs beat them usually either w/o Luka, or in a shootout, not in a surgical half court game.
I like Lakers chances against anyone except OKC and GSW, but they aren't beating these 2.
LeBron is actually good against them, but Luka just pulled them too much down to be able to win.

That's sounds like Anthony Davis tbh. I hope you're wrong

[IG2]

Doncic just doesn't look dominant offensively for the most part. Yes Lebron can be more active on the boards, but if Luka isn't a top 5 player they aren't making past 2nd round

He's back to looking painfully slow out there. I thought he had turned the corner, but guess not. So with the lack of driving game he's relegated to taking a lot of jump shots. Not exactly a high % game.

Well, he is 40 years old, coming off of a groin injury, so none of that should be surprising. Hopefully, and I realize that's a big hope, he can power through the recovery time and get back to how he was pre-injury. The Lakers lost last night because their bench sucked. I mean it was bad.

I was referring to Doncic. LeBron actually looked good last night.

[Ian Scuffling]

He's back to looking painfully slow out there. I thought he had turned the corner, but guess not. So with the lack of driving game he's relegated to taking a lot of jump shots. Not exactly a high % game.

Well, he is 40 years old, coming off of a groin injury, so none of that should be surprising. Hopefully, and I realize that's a big hope, he can power through the recovery time and get back to how he was pre-injury. The Lakers lost last night because their bench sucked. I mean it was bad.

I was referring to Doncic. LeBron actually looked good last night.

My bad. Yeah, not sure Doncic's issue.

[AmIWrongDude]

I hate it because I really like Luka but the foul baiting makes me sick and the thing I hate about it more than the free throws is that he has really good looks at layups and floaters all the time but chooses to try to draw a foul instead of scoring

[trickshot]

Doncic just doesn't look dominant offensively for the most part. Yes Lebron can be more active on the boards, but if Luka isn't a top 5 player they aren't making past 2nd round

GS, and Draymond Green specifically, give Luka fits, Looney, like Al Horford, is one of the centers Luka is useless when isolating.
GS has always been a bad matchup to Luka led teams, Mavs beat them usually either w/o Luka, or in a shootout, not in a surgical half court game.
I like Lakers chances against anyone except OKC and GSW, but they aren't beating these 2.
LeBron is actually good against them, but Luka just pulled them too much down to be able to win.

That's the good thing about their pairing. Lebron has no problem with Celtics ad Warriors, Luka has no problems with Denver. Luka just needs to become more effective when Lebron is in control.

Luka also needs to add a postgame to fall back on. Luka backing down any guard is an instant defensive scramble.

[Fadeaway_J]

Forget Steph, they can't even handle Jose Alvarado.

JJ did his best, but the defensive smoke and mirrors have definitely worn off.

[Ainosterhaspie]

Watching the New Orleans feed and wow are the Pelicans announcers homer announcers.

[trickshot]

Protect the 3rd seed at all costs. Let Den and GS duke it out in the first round.

[Tracymcgoaty]

Awful game but im happy Luka had a monster second half. Important for him.

But we suck right now. Struggling for 3.5 quarters agaisnt the F-Squad Pels.

[Ainosterhaspie]

25ppg streak probably dead. Needs to average 30 ppg last 6 games to keep it alive.