Luka Doncic with a 40 bomb against the Clippers: 43 PTS, 9 REBS, 13 ASTS
He went crazy from 3s tonight. 7⁄12 from 3, 14⁄28 from FG
Box Score: https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401809801
THANK YOU NICO YOU STUPID BASTARD
nico statue when?
By Thanksgiving I hope
MY GOAT 🥹
That lob to Hayes at the end of the game was bullying
Thank you note for taking the technical foul to push Dunn
Pretty good for an obese guy
Bron slapped out the beer can at the end of the game if you kept watching. He can’t help himself
Luka always scores a ton in the first half and just gets doubled the whole second half where the game becomes ridiculously easy for the rest of the team. Is blitzing luka really the best strategy?
Probably not, but after a while teams decide they don’t want a player to score 60 on them.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
People say it is but I genuinely don’t think it is. Like sure Luka was going crazy, but I think they needed to just let him try his own thing and as he gets more exhausted, miss some stepback 3s and stuff. I don’t know what that defense was in the 4th, they just blitzed him and it ended up with Hayes to Reaves open layups like every possesion. I think one argument is if you have amazing defenders like OKC, you can keep pressuring him and tiring him out while not allowing easy buckets on the 4v3s, but Clippers just couldn’t do that
The alternative is either playing Luka straight up (don’t do this vs Luka, lmao) or playing zone (Luka cooks zone) so…
Blitzing Luka was the best strategy when he was the sole ball handler and shot maker. The moment he had a full season with another ball handler and shot maker like Kyrie? He went to the Finals. Mavs was 13-2, I think, before Luka went down and Nico decided he wanted to set the franchise back a decade.
Now he has Reaves and Lebron. If they double, blitz or trap him, he will have at least two outlets and Luka always find the open man. Teams will have to outshoot the Lakers to beat them.
Yes, OKC demonstrated this too
Blitzing Luka probably isn’t the best strat, plus he has lebron James on his team.
Unlikely that doubling Luka on a Lebron team is a good idea.
Unfortunately, not doubling Luka, when lebron is on the team is also rather bad.
What a beautiful problem
He’s spending the rest of his career absolutely torching the Clippers isn’t he
all of his career
Simply unguardable
Too lazy to get one more rebound I guess
MAN I LOVE THIS TEAM RN
Man, still can’t believe he’s in LA. They really get everything over there, don’t they. In every sport.
IDC what y’all say it’s crazy Lukas not leading in MVP rn
I mean it depends on what you value there are 3 candidates you can make an obvious case for
Luka is clearly the highest volume offensive engine in the NBA
Jokic is clearly the highest efficiency offensive engine in the NBA
SGA has a mixture of both (2nd to Luka in volume/2nd to Jokic in efficiency) + the best record
The only other player in this tier is Giannis and the Bucks just aren’t a good team
Advanced stat wise too, SGA and Jokic are just far and away in pretty much every advanced stat possible. BPM/EPM/WS/WS48/VORP. The difference between SGA/Jokic and everyone else is pretty nuts.
There’s definitely an argument for Luka to be the MVP but SGA and Jokic have fantastic arguments.
2025-2026 Luka is this generation’s 2005-2006 Kobe. Good looking traditional box score stats, but for some reason advanced stats don’t like him as much.
Advanced stats like Luka this year, he is overall the 3rd/4th best player in the NBA according to them, but SGA and Jokic are just having absurdly efficient starts to this year. SGA is on pace for the highest EPM in history rn (but almost certainly will change)
I mean advanced stats are good for Luka and Kobe in those seasons (2006 and 2026).
But advanced stats had them ranked in the top 5 rather than number 1.
While box score Kobe and Luka both led the league in scoring
Jokic is putting up 30/13/11 on absolutely mind-blowing efficiency atm
I think as it stands, Jokic is clearly the winner as much I as like Luka and think he should have won in 23-24. I mean without looking I think he is averaging like 29/12/11 or something to Luka’s 35/9/9, but Jokic is shooting like 75%TS which is something we have never seen before, that’s Jarrett Allen efficiency for a guy getting the most insane coverages in the league, shooting 3s and all sorts of shots.
The most annoying thing with him is seeing he has like 24 in the 1st, thinking this might be a 50-60 point game, and then he ends with like 40. I guess they did double and blitz him like crazy later down the stretch
He is the most blitzed player in the league by far. The important thing is the team gets more points on those 4v3 possessions. He wants to win and doesn’t care about his individual stats over the win.
Luka is a averaging 20 ppg in the first half of games alone, its pretty bonkers. He’s like 3 ppg higher than the #2 guy.
I know but its still annoying when you just want to see some greatness, feels like the hot hand is wasted. It was annoying when Jokic had 52 in 3 quarters and ended with 55 too
He like scoreless in 4 straight minute in the 4 quarter because the clippers double him and it lead to reaves easy basket couple times
He’ll get his, LeBron and Reaves played a hell of a game which took a lot of the pressure off him early. He also spent most of the 4th just throwing dimes to everybody.
HIRE NICO!
Again!
isnt that why they fired the other front office to make room for Nico
I need a poster of Nico Harrison for my room
He sees the Clippers and just sees red man idk lmao
We’ll deal with the OKC Overlords’ pick situation when we get to it ig
Mr almost-triple-double
Fatty (Affectionately)
Find someone who loves you like Luka hates the Clippers
He said fuck that triple double
Just another day in the office for Luka
Of course he doesn’t get that 1 more rebound for a triple double lol.
Great 2nd half for the team.
It is written. He who scores most shalt miss one dime or board for it is forbidden.
90% of the time when he is at like 30 by the 1st half, I think ok maybe he gets 50-60 today, and then next thing you know he is at 40-45 by the end of the game
He could have had an easy 60. Shame he didnt go for it.
Flopped on that play
MVP and better than ****
He remembered how to shoot from 3
Can’t even get a triple double smh
MVP. That’s it.
I’m Nico we trust