Luka was limping around the entire game. He legit looks hurt.

Bro right now they’re hunting Luka which is a good move because he has a sore achilles. He’s out there fighting through it. He’s not elite for sure but he’s serviceable on defense when healthy.

You cant say he didn’t play defense when your watching 10 minute highlights. Do you understand how stupid that sounds. Not to mention he’s visibly not 100% but he play’s because the games are that important

He was limping the entire game. Still hustled it out. I'm not saying he great, but as much as an offensive load he has every game, the defense can't be more better. Especially this year with less ref complaining and staying in position. Highlights gonna show when luka plays bad on defense cuz it shows the opponents baskets and they often hunt luka. Still they only scored 103. This ain't trae young levels of bad

Luka is injured since the start of the season,and still is good defender, and great at steals✌️

He actually has been playing really good defense for him.

Luka had a sore Achilles, bruised thigh, and at one point they wrapped up more tape over his bandages because he was bleeding through his wraps on his knees lol. Despite that and the entire Kings strategy being to hunt him down he played 41 minutes and had more good defensive possessions than bad. Idk I enjoy watching your reactions bc you normally are pretty observant, but you were missing critical context here. And Luka remains statistically a + defender lol, objectively he's not a bad defender.

Be careful about commenting on defense when reacting to highlights. Highlights only show made buckets, so it’s a poor representation of the way the defense looked for a whole game. Plus, Luka is playing hurt so context is important. That’s why the whole comment section is going after your defense take 🤷🏾‍♂️

Luka made plays on defense tonight that you didn't see because you didn't watch the game.

I'm not saying luka is an elite defender, but he's also dealing with an Achilles injury and had a bloody knee. So dude played through some shit

Luka is an average to good defender this year. Statistically he is a defensive + on EPM. He’s top 10 in steals. If you go since the trade, when they finally got him a dominant big man in his prime along with another great wing defender, mavs have been a top 5 defense. You realize you can’t eval defense by watching highlights right

Luka is injured, really injured. Hate these coments about his defense, even with injury and limping dude puts up best numbers possible and defending!

Mavs are looking so strong since the trade 😱

Luka had multiple defensive stops today especially in clutch time you’d haft to watch the game before saying he played bad off of the highlights lol

Come on man. Do your homework. Luka is injured but played through it. The man is a warrior!!

Dawg Luka was in pain this entire game they don’t show the plays where he hits the ground, it’s getting mad annoying

Luka has an achilles injury (not torn). He was questionable for the game and played the entire game injured.

Watch full games not just highlights, this shows nothing!

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this kid is professional luka hater for no reason. worry about your lakers buddy

Luka's playing hurt, my guy. But sure, keep highlighting literally every defensive mistake he ever makes. He's the only one who makes defensive mistakes, I guess.

Yeah you bring it out a lot but watching highlights and stats to criticize someone's defense is different than watching the whole game play by play and criticize his defense Yeah Luka is not a great defender, he's serviceable at best when he's engage, in this game if you know the context the game plan is to attack Luka and switch him every time, why? Because Luka is not a 100%, the achilles is still sore and at one time his knee start bleeding, any good coach will plan ahead with that intel, on offense Kings attack him all the time and on D they hard double him the whole game As someone who watch the game i can appreciate the stride he improved his D and give him some slack during games where you can clearly see he's not a 100%, he can have sat this game but he knows the importance of this game and still contribute to winning

Luka was bleeding from his knee 🤦‍♂️ and still managed

Luka was injured and he still delivered

He was playing defense throughout the game and he’s ranked 7th in steals

Luka had a sore Achilles. His left leg was bleeding during the game. He was slow on defense tonight yes even slower 😂

Joker supposedly isn’t a defender and he’s ur favorite teams daddy 🤷

Kyrie balling while fasting is so impressive

He has injured Achilles there's only so much anyone can do with that especially on defense

Luka has an Achilles problem and also banged his knee up last night. I'm shocked he was able to gut it out and play 41 minutes. His scoring has been down the last couple games because of it and I wouldn't be surprised to see him not play against the Rockets their next game.

luka is not an elite defender but a way better one than what people give him credit for. his offense is so nuclear and has a literal team built around him to do the dirty work lol also he’s the highest usage player in the league so why would he be trying to guard the other teams main scorer while handling the ball on the other side of the court 😂

Luka playing injured, he limped around the whole game. Achilles soarness

Unfortunately, this is what a casual fan like you doing bad to the league. Judging a players performance without really knowing the whole context. I know Luka is not the best on defense but when he's healthy he's serviceable on defense he's average to good when healthy. You cannot fully evaluate a players performance especially on defense by just watching the highlights . You watching this not knowing the full context on what really happened and feeding this information to casual basketball fans like you the narrative of "LUKA IS A CONE ON DEFENSE" put a bad reputation to the player. FYI Luka has been on the injury list for quiet sometime now (really since the Thunder game which he did not play). You making a video posting online and emphasizing on each and every play on how bad Luka was on defense while you not watching the whole game is kinda ironic. Luka was bleeding on both knees and playing thru Achilles injury and hamstring injury. Please watch the whole game next time then you can give your judgement but when you are just reacting on highlights you don't have the right to judge anyone

Awesome video as always. Love the energy! By no means am I saying he's an elite on-ball defender, but he gets into lanes and gets steals and tons of deflections. He's 7th in the league in steals. He is also dealing with an Achilles injury so he's obviously a bit slow sliding and backing up. The play you highlighted where he was in no mans land in the key. They were in a 2-3 zone and he was stuck in the middle and looked confused where to go./help. lol Keep up the great content!

Your so hard on Luka on these 10 mins highlights videos but when nobodies are getting cooked your out there throwing these local ass announcer lines 😂

Ripping on an injured Luka over and over for his defense is ridiculous. Especially after the Mavs just went into Sacto and took two straight. Something your Lakers could only dream of. And right now that's who LA would have to beat just to get into the playoffs. You better hope that changes.

I think that comment wasn't implying that Luka was a good defender bro, I think its just giving props to him still trying to play defense while being injured

His leg was whole ass bleeding out there man. He was trying his best and he was deflecting passes out there.

Luka was injured, gritty performance yesterday

I believe Jones Jr explosiveness makes his play style close to kyrie’s playstyle in my opinion.

Luka is always limping lmao

Well he have improved on defense over the last few games

Its called higlights. On every single play someone is getting scored on. Kinda cringe that you have to pause it every time that someone happens to be Luka. Especially when hes playing trough 3 different leg injuries ^^.

Luka was basically playing on 1 leg. To me, it's when he guts out games like this (a missed ft, missed 3- pointer, and rebound away from a 30 pt triple double!) that he solidifies his case for the MVP. This was a game the Mavs had to have and Luka was not close to 100% (and yes, 1-legged Luka is NOT a good defender).

"The gameplan is to go at Luka" lmao how many times we gotta tell you Luka is a good defender. Don't listen to talking heads on TV that tell you otherwise

Dude you know Luka not 100 percent

Luka hurt my dude. He was hopping around on one leg which is why he’s not closing out. He’s not a good defender healthy but he’s wayy worse on one leg

NBA highlights might as well be called defensive lowlights. Luka’s actually hurt so maybe cut him some slack on this one. He’s adequate on defense when he’s locked in. Given what he does on offense, that’s more than fine.

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Bro is gonna ride that one dude that said luka is a elite defender and use it to justify his hate for Lula forever... Move on bro, nobody saying anything, not only were trying to judge Luka's defense by watching damn 10 min highlights of made buckets, but luka was also hurt and even left the game at some point, but he was still there and playing. You are not the unbiased bball fan you think you are. You are a hater.

I will come to Luka's defense for his defense this one time.. Dude honestly should not have been playing with 2 injured legs including an Achilles.

Luka playing on a Achilles soreness

Luka can charge into Malik monk hurt him and still get to shoot freethrows. Dude shot more freethrows then the entire kings team.

He’s not slow. He’s injured!

You need to find another highlight channel. This didn’t show Harrison Barnes basically throwing away the game at the end by missing the pass and the ball going back court

You watch a very minute sample of the game....(mainly just offensive highlights) and determine that Luka got NO defensive hustle whatsoever. ok He is targeted the entire game dude. Not saying he's a great defender but...he makes more plays than you are giving credit for, considering his overall game.

Of course every person gets scored on because it says “HIGHLIGHTS” on the title of the video. I suggest you watch the whole game because Luka played well defense-wise despite the injuries. He was also blitzed so many times during this game. Moreover, I like your reactions to these games but never assume Luka played bad defense just because you’re just watching a 10-minute clip.

Watch the game not the highlights he plays defense and he was playing injured with messing up his right knee

Harrison Barnes put on his mavs jersey one last time

Luka got hurt before the last game

He is not an elite defender who can harass and play physicality. Thats why Luka is always the target in defense everytime the play runs to him cause he is slow but that doesn't mean Luka don't try to play defense. Let's not pretend that most of opponents plays attacks Luka, and Luka managed to stop some of those plays.

Yall kill me thinking luka gone be or should be super extraordinary on defense the guy is an alltime offensive wizard as long as his teammates can get stops get the ball and give it to luka is all we need at this point

Bro, everyone gets scored on. Like, what are you even talking about? You're just watching buckets for 10 minutes. Almost all highlights include some sort of defensive mistake because there are almost NO MISSED SHOTS. You're not seeing any great defence if all you do is watch buckets. You highlighted a comment from a guy who watched the game and telling him he's full of shit. How can you watch 10 minutes of highlights and tell someone who watched the whole game that they don't know what they're talking about?

luka no def? really? you don't watch? i know, you just see highlights! you just "think" he no def!

In general, I like watching your channel, but you really need to lay off the Luka doesn't play any defense takes. As someone who actually watches every game, it's obvious that you don't. All these "Luka fans" are coming at you bc you have a clear bias and you are leaning on an old narrative. Luka is NOT elite at defense, but he is far from a cone which is what you make him sound like by constantly picking on him while only watching highlights. Highlights don't normally show the good defensive stops, which is why you probably think he only just gets blown by every play. Again this isn't personal, but as a Mavs fan, these takes are cringe. You act like he is Davis Bertans or Trae Young. Luka is playing the best defense of his career this year, and others have noticed as well (including the stats). As long as Luka is healthy and locked in, I'm not worried about his defense.

Men, what you need is yo see the entire game, or simple, where's Luka in steals? If you need to see Luka blocking every posesión, welll, go and play 2K

Dude before you say stuff d your research, Luka was hurt. You clearly not seeing what’s going on

Luka isn’t 100% he’s been questionable for a few games because of an Achilles issue and he was bleedin this game

why my comment got 0 likes and 0 comments?

How can u do a review with selective highlights and say he wasn’t playing defense lol…if you watch the whole game you would see lol..

luka is limping and injured

Bruh talking about luka let’s talk about the lakers wat are they doing no excuses

Watch the games bro before talking

He mad the Lakers suck

I liked your reactions because I can tell you appreciate good basketball. Random dude who says Luka is a good defender Is wrong but you don't gotta keep bring it up. Luka is ass as a off ball defender. He is a good on ball defender depending on the match up. He's also a good post defender. I will say it again, if Luka is the help, offensive player scoring 10/10 but you can't hunt him expecting to win anymore. Kings tried it and lost 2 straight.

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Maybe you should watch the game and try to understand who is covering whom and stop with your stupid bias!

U talk big about bias and u only watch fucking highlights dude

Sounds like a hater frl

These luka fans are so full of crap it's hilarious

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He was hurt.