“I don’t watch much NBA, sorry” Luka Doncic answers to reporter’s question about their next opponent Toronto Raptors
The (paraphrased) question: “What are your thoughts on the Raptors season so far?”
The (paraphrased) answer: “I don’t watch much NBA sorry. I know they have a good record and play physical, but we’ll see in the scouting report.”
Thank you for the first rational answer in the thread
Hate people trying to misrepresent clips to build narratives.
Even without additional context I don’t expect players to have time to watch other games during the season. This seemed completely expected.
Considering they are playing 50% of the time it makes sense. They probably only watch a selected list of players.
It’s like this everyday now on the news and social media.
Rational answer? It’s a recap of a 20 second clip.
I don’t think you understand reddit standards, with all due respect.
Luka is a fellow r/NBA member. It’s confirmed.
Why watch a game? Smart fans just watch the highlights and wait until your fave/ hated player have a good/ bad game then just suck dicks/ hate to your hearts delight.
Ad dollars are a huge part of the astronomical salaries. People don’t buy the products in the ads, they ain’t gettin’ those salaries.
They asked Adam silver about it being difficult for fans to get all the games on one streaming service and he said: well the good thing about basketball is that you can appreciate the game from the highlights.
So that’s what the league wants.
But dont forget a highlight or stats determine that this is the greatest brand of basketball we have ever witnessed.
then just suck dicks
Why would I watch highlights first? Seems like this basketball thing is getting in the way of the fun stuff!
He’s just like his fans
like sga too!
He’s planning to be on Inside the NBA
Nah players don’t be on Reddit like that. Not part of the culture. Twitter different. There a reason Booker beefed with lakeshowyo and kd argued with that jacobtheclipper dude but nobody know anyone from Reddit
Its a joke about r/nba. However twitter used to be goated before fuckmusk fucked it up
It’s still good as long as you block and mute all the political ragebait, racists, and bot accounts. Most of my Twitter feed is just NBA shit, just the way I like it
Twitter has always been trash
Twitter is definitely the funniest of the apps
Reddit literally steals jokes from Twitter whether you realize it or not
Y’all just redditors bro, it was genuinely a fucking good app but now it’s actually trash
Damn that English is beyond fugly
Twitter is at least somewhat public, Reddit is full anonymous
Yea, we don’t know which reddit account is KD’s burner.
We just treat each other like assholes on this sub. We don’t actually know if we’re talking to an NBA player/coach or not.
A month ago, I did have great suspicion, I was talking to Ja Morant’s burner.
There is beauty in that, no one respects anyone here. No one is kissing nobody’s ass, because of who you are. The only thing you have to fall on, is your own words.
Who watches NBA when you can play video games.
Play in windowed mode and have the hoops on in another tab baby
It’s almost 2026, we dual monitoring now bruh
who needs dual monitors when you have vr, and by vr i mean vibrating rods
I just have an ultrawide. More than enough space and I’m too cheap to buy a second monitor lol
Ultra wide for noobs
Bro is just another me
He does watch Real Madrid and Slovenia games tho
Overwatch just dropped a new hero. I’m suprised he isn’t on the inactive list on some trumped up charges tbh.
he’s already auditioning for a spot on Inside the NBA
Keep grinding on overwatch big don 💪
New season and character coming out soon.
I would think that’s true of most players
You go home and relax with your family or hobbies
Unless its a marquee matchup or holiday , I doubt players are watching
Rely on scouting reports, film study to get info
This is going to sound like a stupid internet flex and it’s not, and things have changed with the availability of games that didn’t exist in the 2005-2020ish era.
But during that time I was in the atmosphere of a lot of nba players for work, and my seattle base and the players I’d talk to and be around would watch games if A) Huge showdown on TNT like wade v Kobe, B-Roy v Melo, Bron v Kobe, Gil v Pierce
B) it was one of your boys playing (a lot of the above apply)
Otherwise they’d rather not watch some team in December they don’t give a shit about. League pass didn’t exist, it was no one’s job to just watch a game that you drill and practice ALL the time.
You spend time with family, you go do paintball, video games, you do anything to unplug from ‘the game’ for a bit.
That at least was my experience talking with them
Yeah it’s a grueling season I’m sure they take as much time off from basketball as they can
Although I don’t doubt this is the case, it still just feels weird to say in this way. Luka has played against the Raptors guys for years now - he knows how they play. Even if he hasn’t kept up with them this season he knows just as good as anyone what their style and key schemes look like.
He might not be wrong that he doesn’t “watch” them play but he’s still 1000x more experienced to speak to their style than the average Reddit fan who watches every game
Film study.. as in watching nba games?
I don’t think players consider film to be watching games. I also really doubt they ever watch full games of opposing teams.
Prob a lot different than grabbing a beer and watching a game. It’s work
Imagine being dumb enough to think watching a game is the same as watching film
Great reminder a lot of the people on this sub have never played organized ball
“I just work here, man”
Honestly, if I played a professional sport at that level, I probably wouldn’t watch games recreationally either. I’m already watching my own team’s film. I’m already watching my upcoming opponent’s film. I’m reading scouting reports. I’m practicing. Only time I would want to watch is playoff time if/when my team is not playing in it.
The guy is a savant when it comes down to breaking down offense. He just knows so it’s pointless.
Is it not the coaches job to watch the opponents film and come up with a gameplan lol, like what r we doing?
JJ is busy doing BDSM with Vando in his doghouse. You cant ask JJ for everything and I understand him
Wait what
You heard the man. You better trust his words prose
Igby goes down
watching film is not at all the same as watching a game.
and do you expect them to watch the film on the raptors and analyze the scouting report before they even got the chance to change after a game?
or do you think they prep for all of the other 29 teams at once in the beggining of the season or wtv lmao
At the end of this quote he says “we’ll see in the scouting report”. They jus played (and scouted for) a back2back also FLAIR UP BUM
If a player want to be able to blow up opponent’s plays/recognise very specific plays on the court they need to watch a lot of film, that’s what Lebron, Jokic, Tom Brady etc do.
i guess the sub doesn’t think luka is on that level so they don’t have that expectation
I don’t blame him, league pass is kinda expensive.
It’s a highlight league!
LP is dirt cheap compared to getting access to national tv games & your local RSN
National TV games = ~$85/month
RSN for your local team = $20/month
League Pass = $10/month
It adds up.
Who wants to think about work when they’re not at work? Makes sense to me
“I don’t think about you at all”
I get it. Like if I was an accountant for McDonald’s, I wouldn’t go looking at the spreadsheets of the accountants at Burger King either
Not off the clock at least
Neither do we bro.
Why him and Jokic get along
Now that you mention it, he doesn’t play like he’s watched a lot of film
He said it before. Rather watches euroleague than NBA
Even millionaires can’t afford these prices
Do these guys not watch film at all?
I feel like watching film being part of the job takes the fun out of watching basketball during your free time so not really a wild answer
he no luka the nba
Are raps actually getting non local media love???
He’s working during many of the games. He doesn’t have AAU or college relationship with guys on other teams. And can see why he doesn’t watch much.
I think he’s said on podcasts he prefers eurobasket
Euroleague.
“Pardon my ignorance but I only look at the boxscore of games”
It’s amazing how often I have heard people say that they don’t watch performances in their own profession. I have heard a few athletes say it, and I heard Denzel and a few others say it about movies. People at least used to try to hype up the performances of other. Somw still do.
Valid response especially if you listen to the whole quote and not just the post title.
He’s basically saying the NBA product is so poor he wont watch games (esp a non-conference opponent) in his spare time. obviously he scouts upcoming opponents just like the rest of the league.
He did not say all that. Lol
5 people didn’t watch the video and then believed this guy’s blatant lie
Here’s how low iq can be.
So Luka doesn’t watch scouting film on upcoming games?
The fact that this is the conclusion people are getting from this clip is just a testament to how shit the education system has gotten.
It seems fairly clear that hes saying he doesn’t watch games not that he doesn’t watch film. Because watching film =/= watching full blown games.
film is nba. He said he doesn’t watch much nba. Sounds like you have a reading comprehension problem. All that California money spent education to produce idiots like you.
Imagine being stupid enough to think watching a game is the same as watching film haha. Holy shit
Don’t worry, we know why you getting DV’d to hell lol
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Luka is a defensive FRAUD
fraud implies people actually thought he was a good defender tho
I’ve seen many Lakers fans use Steals to argue that he’s a good defender
While he’s not a “good” defender you guys are swinging it back too far in the other direction. He’s a passable defender who’s fine most nights. A guy like anfernee simons.. now that’s a bad defender.
I appreciate your actual nuance take but everyone here is just taking the piss since the Lakers lost. Bad loss due to bad defensive performance from the team. Caught up to them and just gotta learn from it
Simons:
I just watch him every night that’s why. First guy who came to my mind lol
Another reason why Dallas didn’t pay this man the supermax. You would NEVER hear the greats say this EVER. I’ve never heard anything like this from LeBron, Giannis, Kobe, Shaq, KD, Jordan, etc.
you’re right, Nico was a secret genius!
Let’s see who gets a ring first LAL or DAL
this some lazyass bait.
In ten years, if LA is hamstrung by Luka’s contract and haven’t won shit then the experiment failed. The fans get a little showtime Luka magic, 40 PT triple doubles, but no winning basketball. If they get a ring with Luke, I’ll stand corrected
if the Lakers get ten years of Luka for the shambling corpse of AD the trade was a smashing success, ring or no.
Lol.
You were on a good track, but why’d you bring Shaq into this? Are you Patrick Dumont?
True, Shaq may say this sort of thing. The rest would not.
Lol you do know most players don’t watch the nba on their off days right? KD’s probably one I can name that does though.