Luka Doncic is now 16–0 when he scores more than 45 points in a game. The next closest is Larry Bird, who went 14–2 when scoring more than 45 points.
It’s a good sign for the Lakers that they can play sloppy and have Luka not play great and still win. Luka’s teams of the past would never win a game like that.
Lots to work on though.
Watching Kessler leave and Lopez get 7 easy points in a row is rough. Kessler cannot get injury this year.
Lakers have a ways to go in figuring out there rotations and new offense. Also, Looney is such a massive drop off from Kessler it’s a problem. Everything changes when Walker leaves the court.
Anthony Edward’s pulls an Anthony Edwards. 45 points and can’t be stopped one game, 5 for 23 the next. It’s why I can’t put him in that top tier of players. The MVP candidates do it every game.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. We have many MVP voters who have openly said they don’t like Luka. The biggest national voices have made it clear that they will never vote for him. I believe anyone who publicly admits to having disdain for him should lose their vote.
Luka will never win MVP because of this. But history will expose just how ignorant these people were.
The Luka Doncic debate: On the night that a rookie declared a lack of respect for the Lakers star, and a week after GMs left him off their (top five) MVP predictions, I went deeper on this topic with Draymond Green and Austin Reaves, at @TheAthletic
nytimes.com/athletic/7713473…
You have to bet with your head not your heart. I knew SGA would get to at least 15. I placed that when he was at 2 points. No one in this league stat pads as well as him.
I’ve never seen a guy chase a record as hard as SGA has this 20 points record. He’s done this so many times. He will be firing at will the last 5 minutes for his 20 points. Bet on that.
Must be nice to be tied against one of the better teams in the league while shooting 1 for 10. You must not be very valuable to your team.
Clearly Braun is an SGA stopper.
SGA being locked up by Christian Braun. 0 for 7 would have Luka crucified. That being said I think we all know Shai will make sure he gets his 20 points no matter what.
It’s one game. But I heard hundreds of people on this app saying the Lakers defense was gonna be awful. It looked much better without all the dead weight of last year.
Fun first quarter. Lakers look good but you can see where some lineups could need some work/tweaking.










