Why Luka Will Never Change
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2024
- Luka Doncic's weight has always been a concern, especially after this year's finals loss to the Boston Celtics. The media was absolutely flaming him for his lack of effort in defence and said he needs to get in better shape. Today we'll dive into why Luka will never do that.
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Luka isnt fat, never was. There is also more to athleticism then just jumping. Luka can stop on a dime out of full speed. Thats extremely athletic. He can switch speed and direction effortlessly and noone can really defend him in 1 on 1 situations. And like you said he is probably one of the strongest players in the league if it comes to lower body strengh. He has tree trunks for legs and can move basically everybody in post up situations. But he is still agile enough to outplay the view players (mostly bigs) with his face up game, who are as strong as he is.
That combination is lethal. Cause defenders are either to weak or to slow to defend him. There are 2, maybe 3 guys out there who can really bother him. And even they cant stop him consistently, noone can. I also think his defense isnt half as bad as people make it out to be. Yes, he will never be a really good defender. But the problem is just his offensive load. He has shown in spurts that he can defend. But he just does not have the energy to do it for an entire game.
So yeah, maybe his conditioning should be better. Problem is, over a season when you basically play everey other day, there is no real time to keep the conditioning up completely. So even if he could run a marathon before the season starts, his conditioning will get worse over a season. At some point you have to take some plays off. Every extremely high usage guy has to. Even Embiid. Or why do you think his body consistently breaks down later in the season? Jokic for example has a way smaller offensive load to carry. Jokic has a usage rate over 30 exactly once. in 2021/22 when Murray/Porter missed the entire season. Luka never had a usage under 30 his entire career, never under 36 since his rookie season. That workload is just to much to play full effort defense on every posession as well. No matter how good your conditioning is.
Bruh 😂what?!? Wrote all that to be completely wrong!! Dude is far from athletic and stopping on a dime isn’t that great bro. Anyone can do that 😂
@@cvgodd1432 If so, then why isnt everyone doing it?
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Yeah, that's why everybody is doing it right 🤔
Try to slander someone's comment just to write down the silliest comment I have read in a long time.
Anyone can stop on a dime🤦🏻
Luka is fat. He's also an athlete.
The argument is that he'd be an even better athlete if he wasn't fat.
Stop deep throating Luka. You blind fans might as well be Luka haters, and essentially want him to end up killing his joints earlier.
He was fat half through the season, he was slimmer earlier in the season. You have eyes, use them.
He was noticeablely fat in 2nd half of 2023 when they made the kyrie trade.. he had a literal double chin... that is FAT.
im surprise that a video of this high quality did not get any views! As a new mav fan, I think luka definitely benefited from having a heavier build to bully his way against those defense. However, there is no doubt that the heavier build also brought down other aspect of his game, like stamina and conditioning. I don't think Luka needs to loose weight because that is giving up his advantages on floor, but better conditioning i.e. more "muscle" weight would probably help with his stamina and make him less injury prone. I hope with the addition like Klay would free him from heavy offensive load so he can have the stamina to last four quarters under his best condition and have the extra tank to focus on his defense, and I also hope that with better condition he can keep going throughout the season with less injury to finally get what he deserves, whether it is the personal achievement like MVP or a champ for the team
100% agree and thanks for the support
Luka had a great all around defensive year before he got injured right before the playoffs. Statistically he was the 9th best ISO Defender and legitimately top 2-3 best PG defender all season long. You can tell it just got too much that he had to take painkiller injections before each game, he needed to conserve energy more than ever too to facilitate and score so he had to rely on team defense but Boston was just too good. If Dallas had faced a team like the 2023 heat and not a literal superteam they would’ve won but they lost so the narrative shifted again and just blamed it all on Lukas defense when his literal teammates couldn’t make shots to save their lives and choked!
Stop it bro. Dude a cone and one of the worst defenders in the league by far!!!!’ He gets a lot of steals because he gets picked on so much. So yea he might get 3 steals in a game but the other 12 times it’s a blow by. Mavs fans still being delusional and dumb 😂
@@cvgodd1432 get that hate out yo heart and quit yapping just to hate, statistically and eye test wise he is an above avg defender and is a top tier pg defender cause there aint many lockdown pg defenders out there also hes the best guard post defender. I challenge you to watch full random 5 reg season games this season and tell me he still doesnt try defense this season, you cant have a 20 games stretch being the #1 defense with your starplayer not trying on defense. Majority of yall blacks just hate on luka just to hate cause he’s white, so ironic from a group of people who cry racism everytime. Even black analysts regularly slander luka & jokic and rarely gives credit when theyre doing good. Just keep on your narrative, eventually people will realize what yall are doing!
@@cvgodd1432kid why are you so clueless? Are you even able to read? Who is talking about steals? Advanced stats say he's a neutral defender at very least.
Eye test will tell you Luka is nowhere near top 3 in PG defenders. Lol.
Literally all defensive stats are dogshit.. with the only relevant one being the defensive team rating, as even the individual defensive rating is shit.
I think Luka having a heavy built gives him a strong center which help him generate powerful passes at a faster rate and at odd angles aside from being unmovable by physical defense. A lot of people look at his PPG and call him a ball hog but Luka's playmaking and passing are actually his best skills.
I'd say his scoring is his best skills but his playmaking is def up there
They call him a ball hog, but don't use the same standard with other players who hold the ball a lot themselves.
Funny you say that, when he passes the best when he's at a leaner weight. Lol.
@@YurSta-fu8gx you pulled that out of your ass
Balkans are just naturally built like that, we all gain 20 pounds in our mid 20s and enter the no-neck period of our life circle.
Great video
Thanks g
Great video. Its just like you said. Conditioning has to improve, but also he has to start playing less. He plays 38mins per game... Jokic, Embiid play way less. And after the season, this 2-3minute more per game, adds up.
overall great video but jokic cannot be an elite defender and offensive threat for 48 straight minutes he absolutely needs his rest
Yeah but he doesn't get gassed as much as Luka does
@@TooMuchAura1that’s cause he doesn’t do as much
Luka is having the same problem D rose was having. his knees are hurting due to his weight and he's constantly re-injuring it because of that. he never had this knee injury when he was skinny.
He banged his knee against another player's knee, barely missed any games, and you're comparing him to DRose?!?😅😅😅
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You missing one thing all these 'critics' dream of skinny Luka so he's not nearly as effective or dominant.
Honestly I think they just don't know shit about him
There's a couple of massive misconceptions people have that all combine into this oversimplified "hes fat" idiocy, its understandable from the average viewer but the "analysts" saying it repeatedly is just sad.
1. People think lean and ripped is somehow "stronger" when its not, look up strongmen and how they look compared to bodybuilders, they'll outlift them by miles, they are much stronger and superior athletes in general.
2. People don't consider strength "athletic" for some reason, the aforementioned strongmen are world class athletes in their own field of athletics. Luka has amazing strength to the point where he can even defend centers at times and his ability to come to a stop immediately is also amazing.
3. People think defense is all about being athletic when its anything but. A high basketball IQ and consistent effort will always beat a lower IQ and less effort. Obviously being athletic helps on defense, the all time great defenders were very athletic in terms of jumping/running but they all had the IQ and effort as well. Luka had several games where he was playing amazing defense in spite of being injured (even less athletic than usual) all playoffs. In game 3 vs Boston he played badly on defense and got attacked for it, game 4 he played fantastic defense and people just conveniently forget it.
And when he has looked bad on D it's typically against smaller faster players who blow by him. But he's a big guy and yet he is not given the same grace as other big players
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Yeah and even in those cases he's still impactful on defense cause they can just go with the gameplan of having him send the smaller guards towards the bigs if they're gonna blow by him anyways.
His strength is crazy high, man plays point guard and can out muscle every position consistently aside from centers...
@@DebasedAnon I think the reality of it is that he is so good that other fanbases and media feel threatened, so they look for ways to take him down a peg. The Mavs historically have not had the biggest fanbase (compared to Lakers, Knicks, Heat, Bulls, Celtics), and it seems like today's media don't care about being biased as much as yester-year's. And I get this instinct to hate. I was a Detroit Pistons fan back when Jordan was coming up--I hated that guy, while still recognizing the greatness.
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I think another thing is the fact that they all crapped all over him and were proven completely wrong.
With Giannis and Jokić they didn't attack them anywhere near as much because they didn't have the expectations Luka had and they took a few seasons to become superstars, Luka on the other hand was considered by many to be one of the greatest European prospects of all time and the media all piled on going "hes unathletic and he'll be trash" only to be proven monumentally wrong.
I think that stun their egos to a certain degree which amplifies the hate towards him as well.
@@DebasedAnon yeah, that makes a lot of sense too. I imagine the fact that the owner of the team is Mark Cuban, who trashed refereeing for years and can be a polarizing figure, has played a role too--at least with Luka complaining that clear fouls against him don't get called when the ref is standing there and clearly sees it. I also imagine media hatred of Kyrie also plays a role. This whole past season and off-season has been one long exercise in gaslighting Mavs fans, imo.
Luka is looking fit as fucc today during mavs Media Day today.
LeGoon is wild
I don’t think the correlation between his weight and performance when comparing his rookie year to his second year is good evidence of your claim that he plays better with more weight than not. Most players are expected to improve after their rookie seasons. But to your other points, I do agree that his added weight has benefits for his game. I enjoyed the video; nicely done 👍
He's build like a tractor like majority of Balkans. strong as hell.
Luka is fine he just needs slight improvement on his conditioning. If he went skinny he would lose a litte of his game. He needs a nice balance. Joker carries a smidge of extra weight but legit that man seems to have really good conditioning for such a big man.
when youre heavy, your knees will break
I think he does need to put in more work in the gym at the very least, the stronger your muscles are the the less likely you are to get injured. If done properly, putting on muscle makes you less injure prone, this is scientifically proven. He doesn't need to become a super jacked bodybuilder or a 0% bodyfat model, he just needs to be more fit. Even if he stayed the same weight, having more muscle and less fat would still be a net positive.
Y'all Luka stans are real something, aren't ya.
shush bro u a weirdo, u got a whole playlist for women in stockings 💀
As if Luka listens to any of this nonsense
Maybe he and Nikola should start taking steroids and testosterones. Than he wouldn't be able to get fat.
As Pedja Stojaković said later about what he he discovered when he got a call to go to do doping test: "We went there and just signed that we took a test. They were all on doping."
They all made adjustments
no defense!
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Put me on ur banner twin
Bro stop it. 😂 Luka a better defender than Tatum?! 😂😂😂 y’all take these stats with a grain of salt bro. That’s why they always say stats are fools gold! 😂 like wolves having a better defensive rating then Celtics. Well Celtics had like 50 20 pt leads this season so they let their bench play a lot and vs weaker teams. So that drops your rating! Wolves played their starters way more than Celtics did. See how that works mavs fans? Stop going by stats when you compare teams! Use your eyes and stop being biased! If Luka was a good defender I’d have no problem saying that. It’s just not true! He’s awful on defense and looked so lost in the finals when he didn’t have the ball! Euro players are just massive defensive liabilities! Look at Sasha on the kings who I think got cut. Best shooter in Europe and dominated that league. Got to nba and can’t play because his defense is so bad! I might’ve got his name wrong but I think y’all know who I’m talking about.
I mean if your argument is "I see he is bad at defense therefore I am correct" then do you, I guess. I look at Tatum and I see someone who gets carried by, and isn't even the third best player on his team.
EPM adjusts for all of that and they say he's a moderate plus defensively. But it's not like anyone can attempt to disprove what you say your eyeballs see just like you can't prove or disprove me saying Tatum wasn't worth the max contract because I see so and I say so.
I should PROBABLY also mention that this video literally says the opposite and that Luka isn't a better defender than Tatum. See how he said his defensive rating was "better" than the league average at 115? Think MAYBE that means you want your numbers to be lower on defense?
I did not say that lmao. For defensive rating the lower the better
You do realise Boston plays in the Eastern conference against teams that probably couldn't win in the G league right. That's why their numbers are so high. They get to play most games against the likes of Detroit, Charlotte, Chicago, Atlanta, Indiana, Brooklyn, Washington and so on.
2/3 of the Eastern teams don't even make it to winning 50% of the games they play in the season, let alone win 50 games in the season.
And then they go and play in the PO against teams that have their best players out with injury.
Get Boston to play in the West and witness how their numbers drop like a landslide.
@@swhoshing6237god you are also stupid. Yea Tatum is a better defender. No he’s not an elite defender. No G league teams would not come anywhere close to beating any team in the east
I already have a girlfriend that I am trying to take care of he has a wife and a child I wish I was in his position but I will be someday that's a guarantee and that's a fact but I won't say when I already have a post up game and a jump shot I can already defend
Bro please don’t compare Luka to Jordan or Bron in their primes. Ppl are too obsessed with offense, defense matters too.
He isn't fat. Of course not. But that gut isn't what gives him an advantage in strength, be serious. He's stronger, but could be greater with better body composition and stamina.
BBL Luka is too much bruh 😂
This video is just dumb and AI, do not watch.
The only thing dumb here is your comment and you probably needed AI help to post this comment. What a troll
youre just talking for the sake of talking 💀