Comment on Is Luka actually a championship winning player (genuine question)?
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
If anything, this series is confirmation of Luka as a player with zero help, Jason Kidd as the coach we all remember, and also the end of discussing Kyrie Irving (mid 30s now) as a guy who can lead you to a championship.
Not so sure about that after game 3. His entitled petulance defensive liability were too much I think. If anything, that he’s not quite ready (yet) was confirmed.
What’s weird though is that he’s had a prodigious career, so it was plausible that he didn’t need to go through this at his age. But here we are.
Frog@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I agree that Luka needs more help and he has been the best player for the Mavs. During the season, Kyrie can’t lead any team to a championship and he never could but he has been playing incredible basketball. I think Boston, the fans, the environment really just got to him.
Even when everyone in the Mavs play well, they will have have a hard time winning a 7 game series against Boston. Mavs defense is not great. Luka and Kyrie don’t play good defense, while everyone in the Boston line up, Tatum, Jrue, and Brown can play solid on both ends of the court. Luka is great offensively but not enough to make up for his sub defense. As for Kyrie, Brown playing better than him all around.
As for Kidd, he isn’t a better coach than Mazzulla but he also doesn’t have the players to beat out the depth of the Boston team. This Boston team is so deep. Brad Stevens has been doing an incredible job assembling this team.