Luka Doncic with a triple double at half- 26/11/11 on 80% TS
Full Statline- 26 PTS, 11 REB, 11 AST, 9⁄13 FG also +26
Dominant
https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401810543
His assists have been crisp as hell.
The best passing game of his I’ve ever seen
Imagine if he had teammates who were good at shooting and catching lobs. He makes Jaxson Hayes look unstoppable around the rim.
Hayes def looks like he got a pep to his vertical this season. Rob, please don’t waste Hayes’ athletic prime!
Jaxon seems like a decent lob catcher. Ayton on the other hand..
Auton at least is better than Hayes when Luka finds him in the paint and out of the protected area
Honestly only peak for peak.
Sometimes DA will see a single defender in his way and just look confused and lost where Hayes would just turn, walk right around them and slam the ball.
When Hayes is better than DA, DA looks unplayable and Hayes looks more than serviceable in his stead.
The frustrating thing is when he is playing with conviction, Ayton has really nice touch around the rim, a good postup game, and a pretty solid middie jumper if given space and/or in rhythm. Dude actually looks like a legit finesse center on a good day. But, seems to me that he’s (like many big men) prone to not being engaged if not getting early touches.
I watched a few Lakers games and I legit don’t think I’ve seen Ayton back someone in a post up
People get this confused. He may not be a good basketball player but he is absolutely one of the highest jumpers for his height. Reminds me of young Dwight Powell. Not the best player by any means but he would set a good screen and roll to the rim always ready for a pass.
Luka with a great pick and roll threat is just insane, I still dont get how the Celtics completely took away the pick and roll in that finals. Some amazing game planning I’m sure.
They took away the lob and left the corner 3 open, Mav’s couldn’t make shit though.
This. The mistake idiots like Nico make is thinking the Celtics won because Luka couldn’t defend. The Mavs defense against the Celtics that series was fine. The Celtics took away all the outlet 3’s.
The answer was always more shooting, not more defense, which is why Nico went and got Klay. So it was a problem they were in the process of fixing when, for reasons I think were ironically about keeping his job, Nico traded Luka ahead of the supermax he was worried would ruin his and JKidd’s plan of ascension within the front office. Once Luka got that supermax, he would get the juice to push his weight around, and that meant no more Nico.
That said you really can’t discredit Tatum for doing an amazing job on PnR that whole series either lol
put some respekt on the name of jax the Slovenian (to be)
Dude imagine him with Derrick lively and gafford
That no look lob🔥
THEY THEY PUT HIM IN CADE CONVOS ALL YALL DID THAT
r/nba is certified stupid
Yeah I was saying in my comments he was in a slump earlier in the year. Had to remind people he’s an absolute demon.
The dumbest takes in history lmao
The more popular this subreddit got, the dumber it became. It’s nuclear levels of stupid now.
most of them dont watch the game
Remember how just a week before Davis got injured there was talk about how it wasn’t such a bad trade because Luka doesn’t play great defense?
Fucking lol. That dude has 14 other players in a fucking hiking pack and he’s climbing Mt. Everest with them.
Streets forgot he dragged Reggie Bullock and Finney-Smith to the West Finals 3 years back.
And it’s only 3 years if you consider that ‘26 is only 30 days old. Shit was recent as fuck, and Luka wasn’t even fully healthy for it.
I know we’ve been rivals forever but that trade fucking changed me, I can’t hate any Mavs fans anymore, y’all got your throats ripped out because of one egomaniac.
Yeah, I pretty much lost all sports hate that night. Never felt a sports feeling more helpless than a front office in blatant sabotage mode.
I’ve never seen that before, like there have been some wild ass trades before but I always felt like there was some calculus to them.
Mavs just picked up the phone and shipped a player they could have gotten 3x more for, arguably the most valuable player in the League outside of Wemby and maybe Jokic, and they said nah who needs to shop around for a better deal?
“Nico was right” couldn’t tell you how many times I saw this during that time lmao
Yeah dude that was one of the weirdest funhouse mirrors I’ve ever been a part of on Reddit. Even IF AD could stay healthy that’s still the worst trade ever because he was worth at MINIMUM 4 FRPs + a good player and probably more than that.
Reddit just loves to be a contrarian with the hot takes.
He should’ve had at least a PG level package plus extras, the kind that sets up your draft capital for the next half decade
This sub is full of miserable little haters
It’s reddit. I don’t want to pretend like the good old days existed, but this website has become way more toxic especially since reddit forced a lot of the good moderators out.
When he was still playing miles better than Cade
Can’t believe so many bums thought they were equal or that Cade is better. Cade is not anywhere close to Luka’s level.
Every single season some fans see their guy have a good month and think they can shove shit down our throats that they’ve lapped Luka because “two sides of ball”. Shai is the only one who can say he did it
What he say fuck me for?
Add Luka to the “everyone is better than X, until it’s time to be better than X club”.
Something something free throws they say
Just a lurker but people were fucking ADAMANT that Cade was better than Luka. It’s the dumbest people that go hardest asserting their opinion
Yeah what the fuck
This guy casually gets a statline 90% of nba players dream about in 18 minutes 😭
Sloppy fat boy special
WHO THE FUCK FED THIS BOY GODDAMMIT
But is he better than Cade and Ant tho?
No serious person has actually been arguing this, have they
Check out the hot takes in December and halfway through January
Anyone who thinks this is either diehard Piston/Wolves fans or just delulu
Nah just media heads that hate luka
Bro people were acting like he was a bum in December it was crazy
They have. They don’t like that a (relatively) unathletic, white, European player can be one of the best in the league.
yea cause jokic gets so much hate around here lol
stop w that race baiting nonsense. luka had a terrible stretch in december by his standards which i assume caused that
Wizards defensive special
Tank City baby!
Y’all really got this mf for AD man.
That’s nuts.
Humbled.
Not top 5 btw
He’s no Jaylen Brown that’s for sure
not everyone can average 29 on 53%ts
Cade clears fr
Worse than steph this season according to someone
This sub vastly overrates Steph at this point in his career
TY NICO
You sure you wouldn’t trade this for 29 games of AD?
I rather have Max Christie
Max > Luka
It’s not even that the Wizards are playing bad defense, he’s just that good
he has 3 on him and still scores 😭
They gotta back off and let him go for 80 in the second half smh
They’re also ass on defense, but yes lol
Scoring over their entire rotation + coaching staff balances that out just a bit
Nah dude the Wizards are pretty ass
Ok legitimately what the fuck
I have never seen a player dominate the court this way, every play everybody had to just back off and watch him cook lmao
You’ve never seen wizard games?
Who else did this to the Wizards this season?
Was just joking about us being bad. But D Mitch, Cade, and maxey this season
I hear what you’re saying, but those players definitely didn’t do what Luka just did.
They probably did it through 4 quarters, not in 2.
Washed and fat
Relatable
Never not laughing at this
That guy is pretty good
His passing has been insane
Yeah. But I think he wouldn’t fetch much on the trade market. Best to trade him for an injury prone player and some scraps while you still can.
He iight
Nobody has been better in 2026 than Luka
Wait actually you’re not wrong
Eh make sure he drops from the MVP ladder, just to be safe
Gotta drop a hyper efficient 73 in a close win to ensure he goes down in the MVP ladder.
How does that even happen lol
it actually did happen.
Well it’s because scoring is so easy in the nba that anyone can drop 70 - Kendrick Perkins, probably
Jalen Johnson with the lockdown down D that night
He’s gonna drop like 77-14-16 next game on like 77% TS and ppl on twitter are still gonna talk about how he’s barely top 10
Well we actually have to beat good teams. Luka has been the only one showing up consistently to start the year. Everyone else been letting him down against the better teams.
A couple consistent 3nD guys next to him and he’d be cooking every game
Put him on a roster like dallas, in place of let’s say AD… that is a championship contender right there
I remember I said he has a good chance at winning player of the month for January and I got pushback from people because their record wasn’t the greatest lol.
Reminder that Cade apparently surpassed this guy because of a mediocre month
Days like these are why I’m a Mavs fan.
Nah last night was a great time to be a Mavs fan. They’re in good hands.
Man is locked in.
He’s been in sublime form recently.
I know it’s the Wizards, but this is insane.
Imagine Lukas averages if he played in the east and got to just go off on teams like the Wizards all the time.
It’s kinda wild that the 3 best players all play in the West
He’s toying with this team.
East teams get to play against them 4 times, I’m jealous
I mean you get the Jazz and Pelicans 4 times
You dare compare the Pelicans and Jazz to this? I’ve watched every game we played against those teams, they actually looked like NBA teams
in all fairness, its the second night of a back to back and we have no backup center
I can’t believe the raptors lost to this team
They own my team unfortunately
I still can’t believe this guy was traded at age 25.
Dumbest fuck up in history of sports
But he was a lil chubster
Conferences should be disbanded just based off the fact that the East gets to play this JV ass Wizards team 3-4 times a year
He’s been the best player in the league for a few weeks now. Jokic injured but otherwise he’s just been game in and game out the best player. Great to see after he shot below fucking 30% from three for like 2 months.
The playmaking has went up a level recently.
Everything’s improved. Efficiency, lower number of turnovers. Nobody paid attention but even last game against Cleveland, he started 0/4 and then went 12⁄16 after as the only source of offense all game.
Nah man cades better he plays defence!!!!!!!!!!11!1!!
Argued with pistons fans on here that think they can force their guys into convos he don’t belong in because “there’s actually two sides of the ball”
Don’t get me wrong, Cade is still an amazing top 10 player, but there’s levels to this shit that goes beyond defence
Mfs act like Luka is a league worst defender because he has some ugly lowlights lmao
Why’s everyone saying this, did a controversial ranking get published somewhere or something
Wizards are pretty fucking terrible holy shit
NOT TRUE THEYRE REALLY GOOD
They did go 2-0 against Denver last season if that makes you feel any better.
They have been better than recent years tbf, but are still tanking.
MVP
Don’t think this has ever been done before. Unreal. GOD BLESS YOU NICO
Didn’t jokic get 2 triple doubles in a game? One in each half
Not 25+ points in one half. The crew said no one has don’t it in history.
YES HE DID it was Luka Dončić in 2023 LOL
Well technically I’m right. No one else has done it in history lol
It has been done before actually. From what I googled the only other player to have a 25 point triple double half is Luka Doncic.
Dave McMenamin said the only other player to do it in the play by play era is Luka in 2023.
25pts triple double in 1st half has been done before in 2023 although it was by Luka himself, lol!
There was a 29-10-10 triple double posted at halftime in december 2023. Guess who posted it.
Second time Luka has done it
Nico gave up draft capital to trade Luka
He’d be the easy MVP favorite if it wasn’t for the absolute baller jesus Cade Cunningham
Hes pretty good, almost Cade like
Not getting a 40/20/20 tonight would actually be disappointing
He’ll probably rest the entire 4th so I don’t think he will get it.
Yeah Jokic got his 30/20/20 because of a clutch KD buzzer beater to send it to OT
Not if he doesn’t play much of the 4th
I think it’s safe to say his ankle is okay 😭
He is playing against a high school team, but it’s still just nuts
Wizards beat Blazers and had close games with the Hornets, Clippers, and Nuggets recently so they’re not complete trash.
Had a better record for the month than OKC did recently. This is how you know people are casuals and only watch 2⁄3 teams
Not taking that away but today they absolutely are
The way this sub has been talking about how he’s peaked in 23-24
NBA subreddit holding a photo of Mavs Luka: why can’t I find a player like 23-24 Luka Doncic
25-26 Luka: I’m literally the guy in the pic
NBA subreddit: no
Apparently he’s not even top 5
Unreal half from him. Everything is clicking for him, aside from his free throws lol.
Sit him down next half lol
“Nico was right” LOL
Everyone who said that Cade was better than Luka & they would take Cade right now over Luka..
They should be permanently banned from here.. lmao..
this is genuinely one of the best performances i’ve ever watched live
Thank you Nico!
racists on reddit said cade was better. also giannis isnt better. top 3 at least. foh with that top 5 bs
That was one of the most all around dominant stretches I have seen from a player in a long time. It’s peak magic mixed with peak Kobe minus the dunks.
I hurt myself today…
NICOOOOOO
“But Jaylen is better!”
PRAVI MVP
Wake me up when he drops 49 🥱
He already has this season tho.
RemindMe! 2 hours
He’s really gunning for that MVP
After this game Luka will still somehow fall in MVP rankings
This is my fucking MVP. Magic 🪄
youll never convince me SGA is better than Luka, and im Canadian.
This guy is kinda good
Yo chat is luka top 10?
i can see him being better than coop one day if he can keep this up
Ngl hes actually him again if he can keep this efficency up against good teams as well this mvp race is heating up.
This performance will probably drop him to number 4 in MVP standings
if i’m lebron, im not leaving this
blackmail rob to trade the farm for an elite defensive big and wing
He saw the Cade comparisons lol
Everyone keep forgetting how good this dude is
How can yall watch this and not think he should be front runner for mvp. Please watch the highlights over the half.
A week off of people telling me a 41 year old LeBron was better.
Yeah but Flaggs better right? /s
Forever grateful Nico
Cades averages in 18 minutes
How bad are the Bucks?
Look I get he’s not a good defender.. But this dude is one of the greatest offensive players of all time.
cant wait to matchup with this Lakers squad in the 1st round
He could have easily had more than 15 assists.
Sit him for the remainder of the game so folks can talk about his “low” scoring
LUKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
He probably saw the MVP ladder. lol
But guys his blow-by %
BBQ CHICKEN
Guess I’m tuning into the game 🤣 that’s fucking insane
Lol silly stuff. When Luka is on dude is literally an offensive savant.
Luka in flow state is seriously in contention for best player ever
One things he’s gonna do is fuck up a trash team
What a game, 6th best player in the league for a reason