Luka at me, I'm the captain now - Dallas Mavericks 2019/20 Thread

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Harrison Barnes is such a selfish player. Blatant that dude only cares about getting his. Just gets his shots up and doesn't care to make the extra pass or find the open guy. He's one of our better players, but still. He stunts Luka's growth with a lot of possessions where he's going to put it up no matter what.

Wes Matthews can get all the way the fukk out of here.

DSJ looking a lot better recently than he did to start the year.

Deandre playing some of his best ball in recent years. Knows his role and plays it well.
Barnes game is to get buckets so I'm not sure why you're surprised. Lukas growth isn't suffering, Barnes gets the ball in catch and shoot and iso situations.

DSJ playing off the ball however is suffering, you see a night tonight where the ball is taken away from Luka, O goes thru DSJ and it's 9 dimes. When they do the same with Luka it's forced. He doesn't make plays that aren't drawn.

Wes balls and Deandre ain't shyt: contests shots like he has 5 fouls and stays giving up offensive rebounds.
 

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Barnes game is to get buckets so I'm not sure why you're surprised. Lukas growth isn't suffering, Barnes gets the ball in catch and shoot and iso situations.

DSJ playing off the ball however is suffering, you see a night tonight where the ball is taken away from Luka, O goes thru DSJ and it's 9 dimes. When they do the same with Luka it's forced. He doesn't make plays that aren't drawn.

Wes balls and Deandre ain't shyt: contests shots like he has 5 fouls and stays giving up offensive rebounds.
Cause he's a role player, not an iso ball superstar.

Only reason dude is on our squad is because he choked so hard at knocking down open shots in the 16 Finals.

He's not a guy you run your offense through. Barely has any handle and is not a playmaker. He's a ball stopper. It's basically Caron Butler again. Barnes gets the ball in more than just iso or catch and shoot situations, he just turns those situations into FGAs for himself. Carries himself like the alpha male of this team and the de facto scorer but he's getting outscored by a tubby European rookie boy.

Agreed on Luka. For some reason, when Luka gets the ball, everybody just stands around on the perimeter and watches. DeAndre will come to set the high screen and they'll run the PnR, but that's it. There seem to be few to zero offensive sets with Luka. Plenty for JJ and Dennis, though.
 

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they had a discussion on 105.3 the fan today about whether luka was your 2nd favorite maverick of all-time.

i swear there is nothing more annoying in this city than these post-dirk/nash maverick fans. :snoop:
Who is your second favorite Mavs player of all time? Roy Tarpley (RIP)?
 

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they had a discussion on 105.3 the fan today about whether luka was your 2nd favorite maverick of all-time.

i swear there is nothing more annoying in this city than these post-dirk/nash maverick fans. :snoop:
Yea the Luka love is very annoying. I want him to do well because he's on our squad but these white boys low key making me want to hate him
 

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I agree that the media to an extent and especially the new/cac fans are so quick to conveniently disregard other greats in order to elevate Luka.

At the same time, the biggest knock on the Mavs for the last couple of decades has been poor drafting and inability to develop young talent.

They finally broke through and got, what looks to be, a franchise cornerstone in Luka. I'm not mad at people being excited about breh. shyt, I know I am.

But Finley >>> Luka until he makes a couple ASGs and is a leading scorer in a playoff series or two.
 

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Finley
Terry
Nash
Corey Brewer
Cedric Ceballos
Adrian Griffen
Robert Pack
Dominique Jones
Raef LaFrentz
Trae Young
Luka Doncic

In that order


Put some respeck on the GOAT Maverick Greg Buckner. I actually ran into him in Philly when he played for the Sixers. Breh was real chill. Laid back regular dude.

Funny enough later on the next day I saw him walking out the hotel with two bad ass chicks and he was like :steviej: dapped him up and I was like :myman: and kept it moving.
 

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I agree that the media to an extent and especially the new/cac fans are so quick to conveniently disregard other greats in order to elevate Luka.

At the same time, the biggest knock on the Mavs for the last couple of decades has been poor drafting and inability to develop young talent.

They finally broke through and got, what looks to be, a franchise cornerstone in Luka. I'm not mad at people being excited about breh. shyt, I know I am.

But Finley >>> Luka until he makes a couple ASGs and is a leading scorer in a playoff series or two.


To keep it a buck Rolando Blackman >>>> Luka. Breh was chopping up Jordan in his prime :damn:

 
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