Luka needs to lose some weight and improve his defense, Jokic had to do that to win. Still got a lot more tears to develop.

It’s not about they didn’t show, they got locked down

As a Luka fan, his complaining has become beyond tedious at this point. I had hoped it would be something he'd mature out of, but if anything, it only seems to have gotten worse.

i think what went wrong is that the mavs as a team did not show up. which leads to luka trying to will the team on his own. it's a domino effect. the mavs always give away big leads in the early stages of the game. luka tries to keep the game close, which is really tiring. when no one steps up, who else will? that makes it look like luka is to blame, but in reality, they, as a team failed. they worked well as a team during the western playoff games, but in the finals, it was just luka who has his eyes set on the trophy. all the other guys seemed to have lost their confidence. most of them are first timers on a finals game. im a mav fan btw, since dirk nowitzki era. they're gonna bounce back for sure. #WeBelieve

No knock on you, but I just don't understand how you had Mavs in 6. Boston is just a better team bro. 1 man can't beat a great team.

It should not be shocking that the best team won

I've never heard the blow by stat until this series. Has this been tracked since whenever or it just because Luka's defense so bad that they have to bring this stat? Regarding Luka, if this loss doesn't light up his butt to work on D, other young stars like SGA, Ant, etc. might get their first ring before him.

Celtics played like a 60 win team, Mavs played like a 50 win team. People underrate Celtics because the rest of the east is so bad

If the rest of the team would have done their part, i bet media would talk differently about Luka. But team talk don't get clicks.

Luka is still a top three player in basketball but you do wonder how long it might take him to get back on this stage and if he will be willing to change his game and his mentality to achieve a championship. People were also way too quick too try to argue that he was the best player in the world when Jokic lost to the Wolves the flaws with Luka now are the same flaws he’s always had the Celtics just attacked him relentlessly because they could.

Basketball is 50% defense 50% offense. You should never celebrate players who cant defend because they will get picked apart and exposed in the playoffs

Celts game plan was straightforward: wear out Luka. By the later quarters you could see how exhausted he was.

The Celtics kicked his ass.

Carrying around all that fat is only gonna make his legs age faster. He needs to lose weight and build muscle, or just fade into retirement mode.

As a Heat fan I’m sick

A traffic cone would be a more effective defender. Being stationary, at least it would get in someone's way at some point in the game.

bro really predicted mavs in 6 lol

That extended hand is offensive foul all the time. Every time he pushes defender then jump back to score

I think he was more frustrated about not being able to do certain things because of injuries, his teammates being okay to be West champions and Brown being able to do all the reaching he wants without being called, just like it was with Dort. Can he be better, sure, but he's far from the number one reason they lost.

I am glad that there is a channel like Awful coaching. It really opened up to how much bad defense there is in the nba. This entire mavs players and coaches need to step up their defense. Unacceptable out there in the freaking finals.

I think being a 1 v1 player is a problem. Luka tends to dominate the ball in order to be effective, that kills offenses.

Being a Bulls fan can't be fun these days. I feel sorry for you man :)

Definitely not a fan of this video. Yes, Luka has his flaws. Everything you say is mostly right, eventhough I think you exagarated certain points and/or the context of these points. And it is also nothing new. We know Luka complains too much, does not defend well enough (also he has proved he can in some games) and has not the best body language in the world. I personnaly think he needs help other than just trying to have a better behavior because it looks like it goes deeper than that (only my opinion of course regarding this). And maybe he has already started this process, who knows, but in any case I think it will take time and that it is not an off switch thing. Besides that, the timing to release this video is very bad in my opinion. The finals are barely over and we immediatly get a blaming Luka video. Which, for obvious timing reasons, you had all prepared to release the second Dallas would lose. We should celebrate Boston more than blaming Luka for the time being. The Celtics should have the spotlight for what they just did, the perseverance, their great season overall, etc. Had you release the same video a week later, it would not have felt the same way, definitely. I hope the will behind this video was not motivated by having clicks only, because I do like your content otherwise and think the analyses you have provided in your other videos are relevant.

Exposed? Mf was literally the best player on the floor while injured 😭😭😭😭

YOU BELIVE YOU CAN ACHIVE OR YOU COMPLAIN YOU REMAIN

Them boys not playing Boston standing on business

Anybody who isn’t a Luka glazer, knew that Boston would roll. They didn’t win 64 games for nothing. They were too deep off jump. Luka being an out of shape slob only made It a more dominant victory.

I didn't really make a prediction. But, I did think Celtics would win. They were -200 to win series. 6.5-7.0 favorites at home. And owned the Mav's in the regular season. Bit of a shoutout to Cody Houdek at Thinking Basketball for suggesting this kind of outcome was realistic. Saying we'd be shocked if we didn't look back at this series and state it should of been obvious this would happen. Edit: Shocked if they didn't win & may look back and say it should have been obvious this would happen.

Poor Luka. His deficiencies as a relatively slow plodder with stunning iso moves but lazy D was exposed by a purpose built Celtics team. Just a bad match up. Luka will be back. Modern offensive players are not defensive savants. That is for the role players, not the $$$$ superstars.

Luka is average to maybe even slightly above average on defense, but his focus and effort level there is wildly inconsistent. I know he had some injuries to his knees and chest, which probably limited a lot of what he could do, but even before those it's been an issue. He REALLY needs to control his ref complaining however, I see that as his biggest issue. Complaining about calls will just make the refs not want to call anything for you anyway. He also really needed help in this series, Kyrie was M.I.A., as was nearly every teammate he had.

Luka needed his team to make threes and free throws. They steam rolled to finals. he's really close to win it all. he needs the supporting staff to step up when they double him.

He is not Jordan. He is still not a complete player. If Jordan focused only on offense as Luka did he would average 40-50ppg, while not winning a single championship.

I do disagree with a lot of the points and numbers tho. He made some pretty great defensive plays in the clutch in the playoffs especially against Minnesota when he broke up that lob to Gobert in game 2. I was at the game 2 in la against the clippers and he locked down kawhi in the clutch. He also played really good defense in game 4 of this series and you can blame him a bit for game 3 but he still had 30 points. I also thought the game where he fouled out was a charge on brown and should’ve been overturned. I thought Luka beat him to the spot and brown extended the arm which meant Luka couldn’t get fully set so I don’t blame him for being pissed. Bottom line, is the mavs didn’t lose this series because of Luka. They lost it because their role players were terrible and kyrie was abysmal in every game at Boston. Sure, he can get better on defense, but then you need more guys who can crest and reliable hit shots. Is it really reasonable to ask a guys to score 30 and set everyone up for open shots for over 100 games of the season and play great defense in a loaded western conference? Lebron didn’t necessarily do that, Steph didn’t do that, Tim Duncan didn’t do that, Tatum and brown definetly didn’t do that and they all one championships as the best players in their teams.

Cooper Flagg will surpass Fluka Doncic when he gets drafted next year.

Luka has been exposing the NBA since he got here. He runs on Šljiva, yall know nothing about.

I knew this was C’s year. Jrue and Kristaps just put them over the top . Wish I put money in JB and C’s top of the year. When you don’t trust yourself….

Bro luka was literally out there playing his ass of when is team was full of sellers kyrie gave his promise to give Celtics a championship bro Luka needs defense

I know Luka doesnt play defense. But even if he plays D it doesnt matter the outcome would be the same. Why yall blaming Luka? His 2nd & 3rd best player averages 15ppg and 12ppg. Yall ridiculous.

No man, they lost because the Dallas role players didn’t make shots and the Boston role players didn’t. The day they made shots, game 4, they won. Remember 2011? Same thing with JJ Barea’s defense, and the team still won because people were making shots. By the way, Doncic is the first in NBA history to lead the playoffs in points, rebounds, assists, and STEALS.

Luka better get to the weight room 🏋🏿‍♂️

I don't think it's that he cares about defense. It's more he doesn't care to get into better shape. This way he doesn't need to save himself for offense as much. . Main reason for series loss is because of how much better the Celtics supporting cast is vs the Mav's. Getting little help from Kyrie only makes it more difficult. As it will mean Luka needs to do more on offense. Would have never thought he would put a 5.6/4.6 AST/TO stat line though. Overall play style reminds me of James Harden with the Rockets. Tons of effort on offense, with frequent defensive lapses. His constant complaining is annoying. Especially when it hurts them on the defensive end. I tend to think his constant compaining is substantially driven by being in a broken family & not having Dad around to learn some emotional control from.

If you truly watch the games and know the matchups you COULD have predicted the ass whooping that Dallas was about to receive. I did. Luka's style of play at the PG spot demands that he be surrounded with role players that don't initiate/create offense which leads to them standing around on the perimeter or waiting for lobs which can be negated if 3's aren't falling. Lack of ball movement equals predictable offense. Give up the rock.

Because it would take too much time to explain (and likely be futile) why you are overreacting to the present, underreacting to the past, and why that is dumb as all hell, here are the lyrics to Heat of the Moment by the band Asia; I never meant to be so bad to you One thing I said that I would never do One look from you and I would fall from grace And that would wipe the smile right from my face Do you remember when we used to dance And incidents arose from circumstance One thing led to another, we were young And we would scream together songs unsung It was the heat of the moment Telling me what my heart meant The heat of the moment showed in your eyes And now you find yourself in '83 The disco hot spots hold no charm for me You can concern yourself with bigger things You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings 'Cause it's the heat of the moment The heat of the moment The heat of the moment showed in your eyes And when your looks have gone and you're alone How many nights you sit beside the phone What were the things you wanted for yourself Teenage ambitions you remember well It was the heat of the moment Telling me what my heart meant The heat of the moment showed in your eyes The heat of the moment The heat of the moment The heat of the moment showed in your eyes The heat of the moment The heat of the moment The heat of the moment showed in your eyes

Luka ain't in the convo with Harden. Harden took the warriors with KD to 7 games while he lost to the Celtics in 5 games with the help of Scott Foster. Traffic cone on defense and scored 28 points on 26 shots. Bro choked. Without Kyrie AND Luka they wouldn't have made it. Not just Luka.

Super star calls are total nonsense.

The "East is bad" narrative has been overblown. Even if you wanna believe it, the Celtics had a 77% win rate against the West, and a 71% win rate against the East. The Celtics destroyed the West's representative. That's on the West, not the East.

the nba didnt let the wolves play the hard defence and they started to let luka do his foul baiting crap. they stopped tho against the celtics so thats that. he was never going to mwin the mavs were the most random team to be in the playoffs.

You see, this is genuine bullshit nit-picking on Luka because none of those criticisms hardly includes the full context. And Im not excusing Luka for bad performances. He does need to be better with certain things, but this take, like most discourse outside of the Mavs fanbase, is very dramatic and honestly more hating on Luka than being critical of Luka. If anyone cares to know, Luka has been dealing with knee injuries from last year from playing overseas, and he hardly ever gets to rest from the grind he puts on his body yearly. So, while injuries are part of the game, you can not deny it affects players' performances and idk but i think it's fair the to cut Luka some slack for being human, but that's probably just me. And it didn't help that Kyrie missed out like half the season where Luka had to carry the team again, where Luka played like 45mins for a stretch of games because the Mavs had no other scoring option so Luka was putting more mileage on his body so that Mavs can be above 500. And Kidd isn't good offensively as a coach to make it easier for Luka. That blow by percentage is total bullshit stats because that wasn't a thing until that circus show, ESPN, brought it up because they needed something to bash on Luka. And im being nice with that bs blow by percentage because if you think and watch Mavericks games, Kidd's defensive scheme is literally forcing guys down the middle into the center, gambling on leaving the 3 more open, which they couldn't do against Boston because they were hitting their shots so it forced the Mavs to go out more on the perimeter and switch and help more defensively so you can't entirely blame Luka because that's what he's being told to do, is lead guy down the middle! But if you still want to hate, okay, Luka isn't fast but you can't say he doesn't put effort because he enjoys playing basketball that much and again he's banged up so you can't expect an injured player to sprint all the time. Luka was limping from time to time throughout the entire playoffs, idk what else to tell you, but you can't ask one of the slower guys in the league to move faster while injured. That's stupid. And finally, with the foul baiting. That's really a pointless argument to debate because this is just how the game has involved and is being allowed to be played. I will say, and you likely think im being a bias Mavs fan, like all sports fans, idc, but i think Luka does get treated unfairly that refs don't call actual fouls on Luka because everbody views Luka as the boy who cried wolf, which is unfair because since he's naturally bigger, hardly anybody can move Luka so that causes everyone to believe he was never fouled and naturally causes anyone who was fouled be pissed off. And refs are biased and don't like to be proven wrong, so they hate anyone who challenges them.

Luka is a poor shooter, but excellent at creating space to shoot. Too bad mid-range shots are only worth 2-points.

wow very nice🧑‍💼

He did say LeBron was his favorite player and he modeled his game after him … 🤷🏾‍♂️

Luka Donut

Stop comaring him to Steph .

Adam Silver lost his damn mind putting the worthless Mavs vs Celtics smdh. I pray they don't ever go back to the NBA finals again.

Bad pick bro lol I have Celtics in 5 and the idea that Luka is by far the best player in the series is laughable. Luka is just an offensive player with mediocre defense,JT and JB weren't just on the best team they were the better players vs Luka n Dallas. People fall in love with his offense til he becomes a better all around player can't put him above guys who soundly defeated him.

1st here

he cant change. i'm done with this dude. trade him.

Luka for Lavine this off season. I called it