He had half his team’s points😭

Yeah he can do it against Italy or Georgia but can he do it against Illinois or Georgia Tech like Marvin Bagley

Slovenia nearly threw that game away after being up 16 at the beginning of the 4th

42 points on 19 shots is insane, all-time carry job in Eurobasket tournament

Surely a player of this magnitude is untouchable! Surely!

You know his teammates are shitting the bed when he only got a single assist

This was the last national team for Gallo. He played hard, sad to see him go out but at least he went out fighting!

He can hit his FTs and 3s at the same time now ?

as an italian props to slovenia, y’all deserved to win. as a laker fan i’ll hop on the train and hope you win it all now

People will disagree but Luka is the best floor raiser in basketball. He leads absolute trash teams to wins. There’s a reason why whenever Jokic scores more than 40 pts his team loses most of the time. He’s always had a better team around him than Luka ever has too.

Men’s Health Luka is different

Slovenia has now made the Quarterfinals in 7 of the last 8 Eurobaskets.

He was ballistic!

What a carry

Edit: It is worth mentioning that it was Danilo Gallinari’s last game for the national team.

I swear the Slovenian players were trying to throw the game at the end. What the hell was that? Missing every shot and FT, then at the end the guy driving and throwing the ball away. I was saying Slovenia should rest Luka this game because he looks hurt when the q2 started but I guess that’s not an option

Slovenia at eurobasket never lost with Italy.. I wouldn’t call it upset.. But Luka god mode yeah 😎

I haven’t seen a carry job like this outside of a Dota match.

Luka was disgusting all game and in the first quarter outscored Italy 22-11, doubling their whole teams score…

the two missed free throws near the end by prepelič 😭 ridiculous

Carrying trash all day long

FIRE NICO

does he FIT THE CULTURE of a winning team tho??

Fuck you nico

Imagine trading this guy at 25.

Tip my hat to Gallo.

It’s was a great run for Slovenia, I believe Germany is gonna blowout that team. I love this run for Doncic fitness.

Never a dull day huh

Luka Doncic? Luka Doncic.

Thank you Luka, thank you so much, thank you for giving me a successful hate-watching experience

That my pookie lukookie 😢

They almost choked on their lead. Italy started doubling Luka even more in the second half. He kept throwing passes to open teammates through the double, but they just could not hit their shots.

Luka had 30 points at the half.

None of his teammates had more than 4.

Regardless of Slovenia winning, I do think Luka is MVP. Slovenia would not be in this situation without him.

Sheesh.

My favourite team squaring up with my favourite player come tuesday. I love this sport.

Luka is probably having to be restrained from fighting his teammates after that ending

Simone Fontecchio was doing good for Italy. Surprised to see Gallinari too. They had me swetting bullets for Slovenia at the 4th!

All the stars have been going ham this tournament

Second leading scorer for Slovenia was Prepelic with 11 lol, was not a good game from a team shooting perspective especially in the 4th, but having a guy score 42 and grab 10 boards goes a long way!

I’m glad Luka is finally playing again. We can finally dispel the stupid gossip that dude is washed and all that nonsense.

Unbelievable that they started with a switching scheme that let Luka cook against single coverage lmao. It’s like every game a team has to tempt fate by asking the question: is Luka Doncic able to score at will? And by the time they realize the answer is almost always yes it’s too late already.

As an Italian, pain

1 assist because team ass

Upset?

That said, grazie mille Gallo ❤️

It’s must be tough to play like that every game when rocks on the road are more useful than your whole team. 42 points is impressive.

What do you mean upset?

Nice win but Germany will destroy us.

This Luka guy is pretty good

Where’s that guy in that thread about the Iceland game saying Luka shouldn’t play for Slovenia because they’re gonna lose anyway?

happy for Luka, but they will get eaten alive gy the german team.

Eh, we knew it was going to happen. Props to the team for making it a game in the end and never truly giving up.

To be honest we overachieved in the group stage. I didn’t expect us to make it 2nd. We just lack the talent, especially on offense. We simply don’t have anyone who can create advantage from the perimeter. Fontecchio can get hot but he really is a lesser version of Danilo. FIBA wise he’d be great alongside someone who can command attention, but as the first option it’s a lot of difficult baskets. Speaking of Gallinari, what a way to go out on his shield. That final quarter will stay in Italian basketball lore for a while.

Pozzecco is a funny guy so people that don’t follow the team think he’s a meme but he genuinely did a good job, I think. In the group stage we had one of the better defenses of the tournament. I understand why they attempted to stay with their switch heavy system in the 1st quarter. But they should have changed direction earlier, it ended up costing us the game.

Diouf, Niang and Pajola are a good foundation. Especially Diouf, we haven’t had a big man like that in ages. Not sure about Spagnolo, but he’s still super young. Overall I’m very happy, Luka was just too much.

3 steals you say….

and italys head coach resigned after the game lol

where do i watch eurobasket on a less than legal website yall?

Is it really an upset if you have Luka on your team

One of the greatest EuroBasket players of all time, that fat kid.

Holy shit what a chokejob we almost saw. The other guys on Slovenia couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat in the 4th. To top it all off, Prepelic missed 2 FTs when up 3 with a couple of minutes to go. Monster game by Luka but only 1 assist tells you all you need to know about his teammates unfortunately. They will most likely get stomped by Germany if we don’t see another monster game from Luka coupled with at least 1-2 of his mates having the game of their life.

He fat tho

-Nico

Nico, this is for you.

Is Italy being rated that high? The matchup favour them but upset is a bit of stretch

42 is ODEE, hang pulls

Yea luka and jokic may be the goats for olympic and international games. Solo carry gods

My early pick for 2026 League MVP

Whoever gets this guy will never trade him. What a player.

Luka DonWick

Scored half of Slovenia’s points? Was there trashtalk from the other side? He usually goes beast mode when egged

I still can’t believe he’s a Laker. Thank you, Nico!

If we had started playing in the first quarter instead of the second, or if we didn’t put 3 point guards on the court at the same time, we could have had a better chance and probably would have won.