About a month ago, a user asked LeBron James who was his favorite player under the age of 25. The Lakers player responded enthusiastically : « LUKA. He’s my favorite player!! » In the last episode of his talk show“The Shop”, in addition to his dream of owning an NBA team in Las Vegas, he said more about Luka Doncic.
What makes the 23-year-old Slovenian so special is first of all ” her size. By that I mean it is gigantic. A playmaker of 2m03, he weighs 102 kilos. He controls the ball. And more importantly, his vision. That’s why I adore him. »
A vision so developed, like that of LeBron James, which has allowed him to average 8 assists since the start of his career. It’s a little more than the Lakers player, who was rather around 6 caviars per game in his first four seasons but not playing a playmaker.
The “King” does well to recall the physical dimension of the triple All-Star, much taller and stronger than the main leaders who played in the playoffs, for example (Stephen Curry, Chris Paul, Ja Morant, Jrue Holiday, Kyle Lowry, etc.) . But this physical advantage is not everything.
« He can control a game, he don’t even have to shootcontinue LeBron James. He can literally pick the ball up ten times in a row and get to his zone every time, just because of his pace. One of the keys according to him is his reading of the pick-and-roll and his ability to analyze how opposing defenders will cover him.
« He knows he can handle it ’cause he got that shoulder (to get in touch) and that when he gets in front of the third line of defense, if he slows down and uses his pivot foot, not even jumping, just using the euro-step, one-two, that guy passes every time . »
All the genius of Luka Doncic, able to walk through any defense in the league while playing at his own pace, summed up in a few words.
| Luka Doncic | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saison | Team | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Fte | Int | Bp | Ct | Pts |
| 2018-19 | DAL | 72 | 32 | 42.7 | 32.7 | 71.3 | 1.2 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 6.0 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 21.2 |
| 2019-20 | DAL | 61 | 34 | 46.3 | 31.6 | 75.8 | 1.3 | 8.1 | 9.4 | 8.8 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 4.3 | 0.2 | 28.8 |
| 2020-21 | DAL | 66 | 34 | 47.9 | 35.0 | 73.0 | 0.8 | 7.2 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 27.7 |
| 2021-22 | DAL | 65 | 35 | 45.7 | 35.3 | 74.4 | 0.9 | 8.3 | 9.1 | 8.7 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 4.5 | 0.6 | 28.4 |
| Total | 264 | 34 | 45.7 | 33.7 | 73.7 | 1.0 | 7.5 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 26.4 | |
