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Luka Doncic

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He also has a quick burst with length on top of his incredible passing skills which is what gets people to bite on every misdirection.
 
Currently 7th overall in All-Star voting...

1. LeBron 1,083,000
2. Giannis 991,000
3. Kyrie 910,000
4. Curry 793,000
5. Kawhi 774,000
6. Rose 698,000
7. Doncic 680,000
8. Durant 659,000
9. Embiid 648,000
10. Davis 605,000

The last 10 rookies to make the All-Star game:

2011 - Blake Griffin
2003 - Yao Ming
1998 - Tim Duncan
1995 - Grant Hill
1993 - Shaquille O'Neal
1992 - Dikembe Mutombo
1990 - David Robinson
1986 - Patrick Ewing
1985 - Michael Jordan
1985 - Hakeem Olajuwon
 
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Lol. Fuck Lebron for losing to the Nets.

If we traded Kyrie for Doncic, we would be over the moon now. We got very, very unlucky. Nets just needed to end 5th worst...(or 2nd had we won against the Nets and as a result won the coin flip).
 
By the way, I'm still mesmerized by Dallas' home vs road differential

At home they're 16-4 (a legit top5 team in the league)
On the road they're 3-18 (worst team in the league)
 
Kid doesn't even need to get any better than he is now to be a perennial All-Star for years to come. But in all likelihood, he will become even better.

Nineteen. Years. Old.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4FETbETbyg

Notice that when he fell after being hit on that 3 pointer, three different teammates ran over to help him up. Says something really positive about how his teammates view him.
 
Notice that when he fell after being hit on that 3 pointer, three different teammates ran over to help him up. Says something really positive about how his teammates view him.

Hard to quantify leadership, but I thought it was crazy last year when (at age 18!) he established himself as the leader of a pro team. And of course, I'm not talking about leading the team in points...I mean, he was the leader. Totally unusual. Not surprised that it's happening again in the NBA; it's just the kind of person he is.
 
Is there a way to see all star voting distribution? (States/international etc)
 
Hard to quantify leadership, but I thought it was crazy last year when (at age 18!) he established himself as the leader of a pro team. And of course, I'm not talking about leading the team in points...I mean, he was the leader. Totally unusual. Not surprised that it's happening again in the NBA; it's just the kind of person he is.

And not just any pro team, Real Madrid, not Union Olimpija or even Efes Pilsen.
 
And not just any pro team, Real Madrid, not Union Olimpija or even Efes Pilsen.

Yeah...this is one of my posts from last spring. Doncic wasn't putting up empty numbers in the basketball backwaters like a lot of young Euro prospects do. He was leading a perennial powerhouse on the biggest stage outside of the NBA.

Video of the crowd:


7-point loss for Panathinaikos today was their biggest home loss this season.

I don't mean to harp on this for more than it's worth, and to be clear I do realize Doncic has played a muted role overall in these two games. But it was really encouraging to see him step up in clutch time in this atmosphere.

Previously, while he'd always talked the talk, he hadn't walked the walk in moments like this. In last year's Euroleague playoffs he was held scoreless and benched for the 4th quarter of Real's elimination loss. In last year's ACB league playoffs he was benched after just 8 minutes of play in Real's elimination loss. In the Eurobasket final he was having an underwhelming game when he tweaked his ankle in the 3rd quarter and never came back in. In the Copa Del Rey final this year he had a very rough game in an upset loss to rival Barca.

So I wasn't feeling super optimistic when, with 2:15 left, Doncic exhausted from playing the entire second half, and his team clinging to a 2-point, he went ISO at the top of the key against a pretty long and athletic defender in Payne. Frankly, I expected him to turn it over, and I expected Panathinaikos to tie the game on a transition dunk and ride that momentum to a win and a commanding 2-0 lead in the 5-game series. And I might have forgiven him for it and kept him at the top of my board (after all, the top teenage NCAA prospects folded like cheap lawn chairs in the tourney), but I would've been seriously worried about his ability to play his best in the biggest moments.

But instead of turning it over, he broke down Payne, got into the paint, and created an open corner 3 with one of his signature no-look passes. After that he dove headfirst into the seats trying to save a ball going out of bounds, came up with a fairly straightforward but critical steal on the next possession, and hit nothing but net on four straight free throws to ice the game. Looked every bit the part of a rising superstar silencing a raucous crowd of nearly 20,000.
 
Real is probably the LAL of Euroleague or something like that. Almost always in the top or for quite some eeas on the top of it (Spain and E). Additional stuff comes from the franchise name - Real, the name is global (football) and the fame spils onto the basketball court, as do stars and such.
I’m huge Barca fan btw.

I kinda hope more guys like Don come to the league, so the love for the game starts shining once more. He really PLAYS out here.

The professional bullshit from the LeEra is killing me (the lack of pure love and passion, everything is just about business).
 
Ok...Luka Doncic, or your choice of 5 other players from the last two drafts. Who you got?
 
Ok...Luka Doncic, or your choice of 5 other players from the last two drafts. Who you got?

I’ll take the guys that aren’t too slow and dominated NCAA not some crappy league in Europe
 

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