Bunk Moreland said:Infection_Ag11 said:shack009 said:People are acting like, and some have even stated, that Luka is guaranteed to win at least one championship in his career.Infection_Ag11 said:shack009 said:Everybody agrees with that. But there were cracks in the foundation and people are acting blind to that.Infection_Ag11 said:Guitarsoup said:
It is wild that people are trying to pretend that Luka's conditioning and weight aren't issues post trade, when everyone was complaining about it pre-trade.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32818403/dallas-mavericks-luka-doncic-admits-having-issue-weight-conditioning
Luka himself admitted it was an issue way back in 2021 when he showed up to training camp in the 260s for the second straight year.
Here is MCSwag talking about it last year: https://texags.com/forums/52/topics/3385161/replies/67467379
Look at the decline of Luka's attempts at the rim year by year. He's not getting to the basket like he did anymore and less than 1/10th of his shots were at the rim, while his sophomore year a quarter of his shots were.
It is ok to admit that Luka had major consistent, lingering problems and also that the Mavs shouldn't have traded him for that package. And we don't all know what was happening behind the scenes that hasn't been said for something this drastic to happen.
Luka Doncic is the kind of player who you keep and fire EVERYONE else before you resort to trading.
If he's the problem, you prove it by exhausting every other option first.
The trade was ******ed. It's also weird that people have completely forgotten that there were/are real questions.
It's not that they've forgotten, it's that unless someone is arguing that is a justification for trading him it's just meaningless cope. There is no other reason for bringing it up in this context.
Pointing out reasons why that may not be the case, all of which are things we as fans of Luka and the Mavs have pointed out previously, is justified.
Of course it's copium, on some level. But it's not made up fairy tale nonsense either.
It would be shocking if he never won a title, full stop. The list of players of his caliber who go their entire career without winning a ring can be counted on one hand, and most of them are because they had the misfortune of playing in the same era as Jordan.
Kevin Durant was every bit the talent, franchise, and future that Luka is, and had he not had a once in a lifetime opportunity to leave and join a super team he likely never wins a title in his career.
That's a really long way of saying he won a title
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