Luka Doncic is averaging over 40 ppg through 9 games
This is madness. 53 again tonight and the Lakers needed every point to barely hold on against the Blazers tonight. What a start to the season. And down to 4th in MVP voting is crazy.
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Three-team deal that includes Utah.
Defense wins championships
Yes Luka’s defense
The best defense is generational offensive talent
Mavericks however, don’t
How many rings has Luka gotten with the Lakers? How many times did he get them out the first round?
Yeah man I totally wish we had Max Christie and AD back instead of Luka, surely the Lakers would have won it all last year with them.
They wouldn’t have lost to Rudy Gobert 😂
Woke 2 will pass legislation to require Nico to wear a dunce cap any time he leaves his home for the rest of his life
39/8/8 on 65% TS in last 23 games I think. 23 or 22
I keep saying “this isn’t sustainable, we can’t just rely on Luka to have 40 points every game” and he just keeps doing it
You’re right. He decided to mix it up with 50 point games
2018⁄19 Harden was the same for me. I thought eventually the fuckery would stop but it never did.
46 games or something averaging around 39.4ppg. absolutely insane run
So impressive from a physical standpoint. He was in such elite condition that year.
Answers u with 50+.
If he lets up at all it feels like the Lakers are 2nd round team at best. If he gets injured they get swept in the first round. But if he keeps it up then they are serious contenders. Mad respect
I dont think you can pull this for 7 games against top teams. They need easy baskets. Lakers just need some wing points and then I can count them as elite contenders with Luka on his bullshit
Luka hasnt been an Ironman in his career. He cant handle this type of load . They better figure something out.
Jake laravia as a starter is crazy to me. Thats not a starter level nba player
Guy hustles hard but has stone hands. Lakers would do well if they got rid of one of their numerous guards for some size later in the season.
should trade that thybulle guy to the warriors. we have tingus pingus in exchange(still tradable despite retirement)
Porzingis has retired?
Could replace reaves with good pf
It’s not about the number. Michael Jordan averaged 32 ppg for the 92-93 Bulls who scored 105 ppg. Before tonight, Luka was averaging 38 out of the Lakers 122.
Both are around 30% of the team’s points per game. And yes the Bulls won the title that year.
Lakers arent good enough.
Laravia and thybulle ffs. These guys are 9th and 10th man types playing starters. Not even close to good enough come playoff time
Dude you’re a Kings fan
Who’s to say he can’t be the first?
HE’S AVERAGING FORTY
FORTYYYY
Fit Luka is best Luka
I thought he was in good shape last year but just got hurt
He did say just now that he got time to rest this summer after not participating in national team duties. I think that helped too.
He was in good shape last year but better shape this year+he had the first real off-season of his career
When’s the last time an already MVP-caliber player got better by…getting in shape?
Shaq
Probably the only legitimate answer.
And MJ
Numbers aside this is MVP play. He doesnt let them lose. He has to score 50 he will. Climbed back from a big early deficit and won the game. Not comparing him play wise to Kobe etc but this is how Kobe games felt. It ‘could’ happen was said ALOT during those years with our ability to win.
He saw Wemby got 52 so he had to shut it down real quick for the mvp race
Wemby’s 52/24/2/2/8 is still the game to beat this season, but he’ll need more signature performances like that to keep pace with whatever Luka is on right now
yeah, wemby’s 52 is probably the single best game this season but Luka has been the best player in the nba to start the season. He is always been an offensive savant but he is moving his feet really well on defense. Like genuine night and day difference compared to last year. Also, his advanced stats are going to match his statistical production for the first time in his career which means he might finally win an MVP
If Luka takes wembys game personally then we’re about to see an all time game out of him. Calling it now 84/19/14
Both Luka and Wemby had their “prove I’m the MVP” game last season against Shai.
Wemby: 41/24/3/1/3 on 67 TS%
Luka: 12/4/7/1/0 on 47.5 TS%
he barely played and got injured early…bad comparison
MVP is about the current season
I’ll be honest I don’t really care I was just talking shit.
Nah
Which game this year did you think was better?
Lendeborgs 0 points 6 fouls
Absolute masterpiece
Wemby could never
53 > 52 PTS. Accept it 😂
Got me there
24 rebounds tho👀👀👀
A 7’4 guy grabbing 24 rebounds thats crazy! Give him rebound mvp already
MVP isnt a single game award though so i am not sure how relevant this is
Lukas points were actually skillful. All wemby does is abuse his height
Alright let’s not get carried away
Ah right, I forgot to adjust for “skillful points”
Seriously hahaha what a dumbass argument, and I’m saying this as a Lakers fan.
If we’re gonna discount baskets for height, we should invalidate every point every player above 7 feet tall has ever scored 😭.
And if the argument is that Wemby is way taller than that, why didn’t Manute Bol, Shawn Bradley or Gheorge Mursan simply abuse their height for 50 pieces?
Well if we’re being snobs and comparing which one was more impressive i’m going Luka. That’s a legit 50 point game of just cooking
Hey too far. I’d argue he isn’t abusing it enough tho
You’re probably the same guy that said wemby needs to get into the paint and use his height more after opening night this season.
As a Luka hater this is rough
I respect your honesty.
Saw the first quarter and I was like yes! Luka stinker, finally. And he gave em 53 😭😭
Real shit. Checked box score first quarter and thought he was coming back down to earth
As a Thunder hater I have to say, I hate Ajay Mitchell. How tf is your team still alive and in the running
Lol I can see it now, the longer he keeps this up the bigger the overreaction will be once he finally gets that stinker game
Very unsuccessful hatewatching this season
Same bro I’ve been starving for a Luka stinker I want wemby to win mvp so bad but I don’t think it’s gonna happen if Luka keeps playing like this
They’re not giving Luka mvp anyways brother don’t worry. They hate him
Maybe if he cures cancer or ends the war in Ukraine
He will also have to solve the israel palestine conflict too, only then will he be given mvp
I’m starving for Luka and wemby stinkers. I know sga prob can’t win a third mvp so I’m doing it just out of hate
I respect this mentality tbh at least say it like it is
Love a spite watch
Yeah I kinda feel bad for SGA right now, and I kinda wanted him to three peat The MVP award, since nobody has done it since Larry bird. But man these injuries OKC has gotten ruined his chances.
He’s gonna have to turn into Kobe and ruin his efficiency if he wants to have a chance unfortunately.
I was super sad but I’m feeling better now that they’ve won three straight. Was rlly thinking we were cooked after the mavs and rockets losses
Luka’s game isn’t sustainable, Shai’s is. He can win another MVP if voter fatigue isn’t a factor. This high scoring outburst will fizzle out eventually.
How is Luka’s game no sustainable? I mean he avaraged most point in season for several seasons already. That seems quite sustainable to me.
If Luka has a stinker, he would have same stats as SGA on a good night 😅
I guess it is true that 30 ppg on 56%TS with 4 assists per game is sustainable, but what would be the reason to give an MVP for that?
For what it’s worth, Luka last year averaged 34 on 61%TS with 8 assists, so even Luka coming back down to earth would still be miles better than SGA this year lol
Bro doesn’t know who Luka is
Wemby is younger, he will have his time for mvp. This year it’s Luka’s mvp
Just embrace it, used to be a Curry hater mostly because of Draymond and the illegal screens, but life got better when I accepted that he’s the best shooter of all time.
At least you know he is extremely unlikely to have enough talent around him to win a title
As a sga hater it feels nice.
Best player in the world
We were robbed of a legendary playoff run with his injury 😔
No you were robbed of a legendary playoff run because of Nico
Word
Harlan saying Luka and Reaves combined for 78 like some sort of wild feat when one of the guys had 53 of those points seems kinda silly haha
I mean 25 points for Reaves is still good. He went off in the 4th.
25 points in a game isnt bad though.
NBA inflation gotta chill. Back then if you scored 25 in a game it was a big deal lol
Ar is averaging top 20 in nba and .1 away from top 15. He is averaging the same amount of ppg as joker. And people act like he is the worse player in the nba lol.
Those two guys are like 80% of their offense, god only knows what deep shit the team will be if one of them goes out for several weeks
The odds of finding out are quite high, although I do not wish that on anybody. But don’t worry, Sexton would make crazy eyes at the competitors.
I dont know. Watching the game it feels like Luka is 75% of the offense by himself, Austin is 15% and the other guys the remaining 10%
Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the NHL record for the most combined regular-season points by a brother duo with 2,861 total points.
Wayne: 2,857 regular-season points
Brent: 4 regular-season points
In a normal shooting % game where Reaves takes 20+ shots, both he and Luka could have scored 35-40. His shot was freakishly off, but the 4 steals was nice to help in other ways.
Just say you don’t know anything bro
Are you serious? Lol
I don’t think you’ve been watching
What? lol
25 point is “has been so bad”? Are you insane?
Did Reaves bang your girl?
Put a statue up of Nico outside the Crypto arena
We needed every point for this one
Not sure you can play basketball much better than this. I’m getting 2016 Steph flashbacks
He’s playing solid defense too.
This MVP race is really gonna be “Legendary scorer proves he’s a great defender” vs. “Legendary defender proves he’s a great scorer.”
It’s poetic
They’re not going to play 65. It will be Maxey.
pure delusion, at least one out of Wemby and Luka is getting 65
Impressive. Now lets see Ty Jeromes numbers through 9 games.
I still can’t believe Luka is our guy now. I was chuckling at those Luka in a Lakers jersey edits all those years ago and it actually fucking happened
He’s fucking insane. Actual Mamba Mentality
He’s also playing the best defense of his career and the efficiency is actually unbelievable while averaging 40.
If Lakers end up a top 4 seed he’s getting MVP
He’ll have a hamstring injury by the all-star break.
Weird ass thing to say
sad but true
We’ve seen great scorers go on a heater before. This is the earliest I’ve ever seen it in season. Luka is unprecedented.
Holy shit this might be better than ‘19 Harden and ‘06 Kobe
MVP
queue up the Stephen A Smith clip
When are Wemby and Luka playing against each other? That’s gonna feed families.
He’s amazing but can he sustain this? Lakers need to do more to help him
MVP front runner without a doubt
Who has him 4th for MVP? Everything I’ve seen has him 1
imagine trading him for bums