He should totally just quit basketball honestly, he’s made enough money, just quit while you’re ahead y’know. Focus on his Overwatch career.

/s obviously

I was like aww thid guys just cares about his health until I seen your flair im watching youuuu

Why are you faking fear for a team you would obviously kill even if they were at full strength lol

Tbh I think he should do that, not out of stress but this is a very high risk low reward situation.

He plays against a grueling okc defense that’s gotten the best of them by a lot all year long. Then has to play the wcf, then likely has to play Boston.

Just shut him down now before you lose all next year

Might as well have SGA and friends sit out the series. With all these injuries it would be a shame if they got injured.

Yea the Thunder need any edge they can get. Real low talent, poorly coached team with no depth.

You can just face your daddy in the WCF

Hey Rui has a solid shot on him though

The defensive scheme was to give open corner threes instead of giving up points to Luka and the centers. The Centers still feasted and PJ and DJJ hit their shots so the Thunder lost.

Rui Hachimura is a significantly significantly better shooter than PJ or DJJ. If he’s getting left wide like they were, he would average 20 easily. The thing is LA does not have the centers to force any type of aggressive scheme like this + Hartenstein is there now.

It’s so demoralising when it’s a random role player like PJ though, Luka was playing like Luka but PJ was playing like Klay.

I like how you mentioned 5 and 6 but not these two.

Game 1 Luka- 19/6/9 on ⁶⁄₁₉, 4 Tov

Game 4 Luka- 18/12/10 on ⁶⁄₂₀, 7 Tov

Luka averaged 24 lol. He was far from our biggest problem that series.

Luka didn’t bury them tho

I mean he literally scored less than his season average points in games 5 and 6 (and games 1 and 2 and 3 and 4) so they did a pretty good job against Luka.

We buried ourselves. Luka was not responsible for Thunder shooting 42%/25%

He didn’t, but you probably haven’t watched basketball since 2007

He averaged 24 points per game for the series. His second lowest PPG for a series in his career is 29.

He has 52 assists and 27 turnovers.
SGA had 44 assists and 12 turnovers for comparison.

He made 7 more 3PM than SGA on 26 more attempts.

Why would almost 3 years ago on a completely different team be more representative than a couple of weeks ago when OKC manhandled him?

Im not saying pj’s is a better player. You didnt watch that series or you’d understand. Pj made a fuck ton of corner 3s at the right moment every time. Was demoralizing

Ironic to make the education joke when you’re being this obtuse lol

Chuck the %’s in there and compare their lines to their regular season stats and it might clear it up for you.

What are you going on about

The better team will win

Even if he did come back no lakers fan should be worried lmao. They were down 3-0 ffs. Houston has been disappointing with kd and without him majority of this series

I hate that your 100% right I don’t even have a defense for this

I doubt it… if he’s targeting Luka the whole time, how will he get shots in on Reaves and LeBron?

If Dort hurts Luka, silvers gonna shadow realm him

Last time Luka played OKC in a series (with Dort on him the whole time) while being healthy he averaged 24 points over the 6 games. That’s 5 points less than his 2nd lowest scoring playoff series of his career (29 against Celtics in the Finals) .

He’s played 55 playoff games and 3 of his lowest 7 scoring games were from that series. His best scoring game of the series would be ranked ²⁷⁄₅₅.

Since that series he’s played OKC 5 times with these statlines.

16/11/5 on 46%TS with 4 steals and 6 turnovers.
30/7/6 on 68%TS with 2 steals and 2 turnovers.
23/3/5 on 63%TS with 3 turnovers.
19/7/7 on 41%TS with 2 steals and 4 turnovers.
12/4/6 on 47%TS with 1 steal and 6 turnovers. (Injured after 26 mins playtime).

1 great game. 1 ok game. 3 awful game. The awful games he scored:

16 points on 15FGA and 5FTA.
19 points on 20FGA and 7FTA.
12 points on 10FGA and 6FTA.

He has a rough time against Dort.

Yeah why would we not put our best defender on their best shooter 🤣

Y’all are wild in here with these narratives. Downvote away

Idk why sports subs do this. None of these players are gonna sit if they can play. They believe they can actually win no matter what people think lol

those sources were not from the front office, the buss brothers were let go then did the interview

All in favor say “aye”

lol Hamstrings have a high probability of re aggravation was the point. But fine then, let him come back n risk his career in a guaranteed losing effort lol

No

Yet somehow not the worst conspiracy theory I’ve seen on Reddit the past 3 days.

I said not worth the risk. Not to give up

Smartest nba reader

Just like the 2025 championship

No shit. Just shitposting. Luka seemed to exaggerate the limp in 2024 everytime the Mavs were down or things weren’t going his way. Go beat the rockets first. Can’t wait to see you guys next round

Lakers, I know