How the Mavs Looked Without Luka Doncic in Win vs OKC & Dallas Mavericks BIG Opportunity

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1. Fake fans rushing to expose themselves in the comments. If you here disrespecting the dude who CARRIED us to the finals while injured 6 months ago you need to go find another team to hatewatch

2. Thunder had no bigs, it’s big difference when teams have bigs. We will see how things go but I think Kidd should continue to rest Luka

3. Nick- Kai’s iso % is higher than Luka’s….

4. Sell Luka for as many 2025 first round picks as possible and then start tanking for cooper flag 🤣

5. kai is enough im luka guy but man kai is enough 😂

6. Heliocentric = Ballhog

7. Surrounding Luka with a bunch of 1-dimensional players with no real ball desire is different than the team they have around him now. You’ll have more of a demotivating factor if the ball doesn’t swing around as much and it will probably smooth out as the season progresses. Especially if Luka gets healthy so he’s not bricking his 3s and getting to the paint to create the space for more ball effective ball movement.

8. Everyone around me knows I’m a die hard Mavs fan.
   Is getting annoying how everyone is always picking on how fat and whiner Luka is, there’s nothing I can say, but agree.
   I love Luka, but if the front office can’t make him change those two things, I wish they would trade him for someone line Giannis

9. Careful man, saying the truth will have them label you a Luka Hater. There are basketball fans, there are Mavs fans and there are Luka fans and for the latter nothing comes before him. If you guys are talking about him been the MVP and player in the World before the season then it is only fair to judge him by those expectations for the work we have seen so far on the court. In 10 games we talk again and if things change the “grades” and perception change not about hypotheticals or past achievements but about what we see on the court.

10. LUKA IS THE PROBLEM

11. No real fan wants to trade Luka. People are just frustrated with his game because expectations are at the highest and he is not meeting them so far. Luka just needs to be better if we want that chip.

12. Thank you Nick, OKC is a team we get up for and players play different to make up for no Luka.

13. Can online users stop feeding fuel to the trolls and unfair critics, it’s a tiny minority of people who are Luka haters – and if you want him to go to another team, do you mean the ones with all the fans who have been trashing him and calling him fat and making fun of his game for years?!?!? Luka has the most support from fans of the Mavs, don’t ever get that twisted.

14. A simple stat for THIS year.

    In the Mavs wins Luka doesnt score most points

    In the Mavs loses Luka scores the most points.

    There a constant stretches during those loses where Luka shoots 3 or 4 possessions in a row again in a row. That's not winning basketball.

    Ohhh well he got us to the Finals yes he did. And guess what showed the most his defensive liability, constant complaining. For what gives you on offense the more he doesnt give. (Effort, mental toughness, leadership, defense, boxing out etc).

    Y'all give him all the praise but arent objective that he needs to change his game. This Luka of 7 years will never win a chip. Name one team that's one a chip being a one man band…….I'll wait.

15. Yall two are smooth politicians. Definitely have careers at fox news or cnn, the way yall misrepresent facts/reality with a smiling face 😂

    It wasn't simply one game (against the top seed in the west) that the Mavs TEAM performed very well and won with Luka Doncic. Yall are trying to erase the 2022 playoffs first round when Luka was too fat and injured and watched Dinwiddie and Brunson lead Dallas to a 2-1 edge over Utah as Luka watched missing those first three games. Yall are also trying to erase Luka's horrid shooting the first two rounds last playoffs when Kyrie carried Dallas vs the clippers mvp of that series then PJW mvp of the okc series where Luka kept bricking. The overall group played TEAM ball and was fluid. Iso hog ball is never the answer–nor is your supermax player not taking accountability to step up and be a leader in his attitude, behavior toward refs and teammates, his weight, checking his ego. He's been obese since 2021 when Miller and tnt, espn crews made fun of him. Doncic said in 2021 he "relaxed probably too much" but will "get back on track." He lied. Three plus years later he is still injury prone due to his weight, the beers and burritos.

    You ask most Mavs fans around victory Ave, plano, Richardson, Allen, mesquite–most fans are done with Doncic.

    TRADE LUKA FOR GIANNIS win multiple titles

16. Luka body language is blah!

17. y'all gotta chill we aint going nowhere wo luka

18. The defense was definitely better without luka

19. I do not care about cup games

20. The funny thing is, a ton of Mavericks fans around Dallas (and at the AAC) have grown tired of Luka Doncic's antics and lack of culpability. Talk to anyone about that and you may be surprised (or not). The tone at the top trickles down and without that toxic tone, a team is able to thrive as a team vs a round mound trying to showboat and hoist more bricks than a mason. I can see why Klay looks depressed out there. Doncic missed key shots, turned the ball over and had the most inexplicable and laughable blunder not guarding John Collins for his game-winning dunk then basically blaming QG and Lively vs taking full ownership. And that was against the worst team in the west. Without Luka, the mavs looked tougher and played AHEAD, won against the best team in the west. It's common sense once you tune out the Luka bias. Trade Doncic for a superstar that defends, stays in shape and has a positive attitude.

21. wouldn't read too much into that win, good win that we needed of course but we beat a thunder team without any big. we're not going anywhere without a healthy, engaged Luka

22. Basketball fans are worse than english football fans, luka has a bad start to the season and it is the end of the world😂 get a grip, i love basketball but OMG calm yourselves down.

23. Baltics under attack by Russia. Luka and joker out for that ?

24. Cause sometimes yo best player isnt your best player!

25. 🦝🦝

26. With Luka playing, even this season, it would've been a +10 pt win for Dallas. Thunder had no size, Luka shooting and distribuiting the ball against smaller lineup is just lethal. People should stop freaking out for a few games. Mavs will be fine and Luka would be once again an All-NBA player this season.

27. This guy has been playing BB since he could walk and has been an absolute anomaly.. you think that’s going to change now? He’s 25, he’s got so many more years to go. Life ebbs and flows as well as our production. If you don’t believe you shouldn’t be here. Quit playing yall. He’ll put you guys to bed any minute.

28. We def need Luka…when you don’t have your star, seems natural to play harder and differently to make up for that missing element. The momentum wouldn’t last without him. He has had a weird start, but will prevail.

29. Pg: Kyrie
    Sg: Luka
    Sf: Naji
    Pf: Pj
    C: Gaff or Lively

    We need this starting lineup fr.

30. Good at business.

31. Trade Luka. LOL! 🤣

    OMG! If Luka goes to Nuggets, Lakers or Spurs, I won't miss a single game. 🙂

32. I dont like the Ky vs Luka discourse because it creates a divide.
    I think main point proven is that Luka doesnt need to shoot as much because the team can step up
    Other point that Kyrie is clearly focused on winning
    Luka needs to get Klay going and that should be his main objective over being leading scorer. They get this to work and its over

33. Luka is a ball hog, which isn’t exactly a bad thing, but it does slow down the pace and takes other teammates out of the equation

34. Please Dallas. Run Luka out of town. Do it. See what happens to your franchise.

35. Luka is such a ball hog that he was second in the league last year in assists. So selfish of him. Do you people hear the insanity of what you are saying? The only reason he is averaging 8 assists now is because a lot of people are missing — yet again — wide open shots.

36. Luka should sit tonight, rest for the nuggets game. It’d be big if we win that game and we can win tn without him

37. He'll have an easier time just cutting his 3pt attempts to just 5-7 attempts per game. That's the only reason why this offense isn't taking off to get comfortable leads in the 1st half of games.

    Right now this season, he is attempting 10.1 threes a game.
    Kyrie – 5.6 3PT ATTEMPTS per game
    Klay- 8.4 3PT attempts per game

    For reference.

38. It’s funny all other locked on channels are no where near as great as this one

39. The mavs still needs a 7',5" center like jamarion sharp or similar. A big center can make that difference. It can be any center as long as they can compete against the bigs around the league.
    He doesn't have to start. Just have him when the need arises.

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