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[amitt5504]

I **** with Luka. He just behind the bigs and KD. Ain’t a knock on him

#StarBoy

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

If anything, put Luka at 3, idc. I'm not putting him below the bigs though

 

[WASHED KING]

osh kosh bosh Google history is NUTS I already know it.

All kinds of Big...........

 

[HIM]

@N41D said Ja'nem going down 0-2 tonight, though.

-foe

They are.

Officer Beverley reporting to duty.

 

[amitt5504]

If anything, put Luka at 3, idc. I'm not putting him below the bigs though

Until Luka make it out the 1st round he below the bigs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[addict4sneakers]

throws grenade

IS LUKA BETTER THAN JAYSON TATUM???

 

[darthska]

I'm not seeing what you all see with LD-DL (Luka Don-Disabled List).

-foe

 

[HIM]

Luka blowing that 2-0 lead last year is definitely a stain on his resume. But you gotta remember he had one of the worst coaches in the league in White Doc.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

osh kosh bosh Google history is NUTS I already know it.

All kinds of Big...........

again, im saying something totally obvious.
and you guys are hyperventilating and acting like it some strange observation.

and i'm not the one who mentioned the names of specific male pornographic actors.
how they knew that name i dunno

I guess it's because of the quality of their acting.

 

[darthska]

throws grenade

IS LUKA BETTER THAN JAYSON TATUM???

-foe

 

[danikerhino]

Giannis by his damb self

Durant and Luka
Jokic and Embiid

Curry is the interesting one. idk how to frame him at this stage of his career but he still somewhere up there

Durant and LBJ is still above Giannis for me. Giannis is mixed in with the Embiid, Jokic, Curry group for me. I want to include Kawhi in the mix too, but I don't know his status or condition at all so I'm taking him out of any lists.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Until Luka make it out the 1st round he below the bigs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So if he were to beat this ****** *** Jazz team you'd give him more credit?

What we doing here breh

Holding it against him that he played LAC twice as a 20 and 21 year old.. which last year he pushed LAC to 7 games and scored 46 points in game 7...

ok y'all keep holding on to the first round thing tight lol

 

[moe200069]

didn't read argument but clint, bev, and gordon dont make the warriors roster and lou does? how so

true. i’d replace lou with capela because the warriors are hurting for size

but gordon would be a redundancy with the warriors’ current guard depth. also, gp2 does what pat bev does just as well, if not better

 

[WASHED KING]

throws grenade

IS LUKA BETTER THAN JAYSON TATUM???

Yes....same reason Lamelo is better than Ant.

 

[clyde the glide]

that actually isn't a rule that is written down anywhere.
unwritten rules are not actually rules a no one has to follow them.

the thing that we know for sure is that it's a regular season award.
so it's totally reasonable to ignore analysis that takes potential playoff performance into account.

because it's a regular season award.


If you read what I wrote, it's less about the playoff performance and more about how his style of play impacted his teammates.
if the argument is "my teammates are terrible so i deserve the MVP"

but your style of play is contributing to them being terrible,
the MVP argument falls apart.

that's not the dynamic with jokic.

Who said anything about rules? It's most valuable player not most burdened/impressive player. Most valuable meaning most valuable to their teams success since this is still a team sport after all. How valuable can you be when your team isn't a real contender. The award is more of a team award than most realize. Aside from the best of the best most guys needed just the right situations to win it. There are two guys who fit the criteria way more than jokic does this season.

It's not reasonable to ignore any relevant info but than again we can see from regular season alone that jokic can't dominate the defensive side the way the two better candidates can. As we're seeing now it's questionable whether we can even call him solid on that side.

"My teammates are terrible so I deserve MVP" is the only case for jokic right now. You hit the nail on the head regarding his defense so I'm confused how u can overlook that and still think that's his award. Yea I'm not calling him an all out stat padder like Russ was but that's still not nearly enough to warrant consideration over embiid/giannis for the trophy.

 

[wavycrocket]

Is Tony Brothers still rocking da hair kit? He came to the bubble with the fresh installation. Looking different

 

[amitt5504]

So if he were to beat this ****ty *** Jazz team you'd give him more credit?

What we doing here breh

Holding it against him that he played LAC twice as a 20 and 21 year old.. which last year he pushed LAC to 7 games and scored 46 points in game 7...

ok y'all keep holding on to the first round thing tight lol

Yes

You know the agenda lol

 

[danikerhino]

Luka is above Tatum for me. He's more consistently putting up better numbers year to year.

 

[tay1]

Luka is above Tatum for me. He's more consistently putting up better numbers year to year.

Luka doesn't have a Jaylen Brown next to him.

 

[mrswagtastic]

Tobias is an elite defender

On the real Tobi been very solid on defense.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

throws grenade

IS LUKA BETTER THAN JAYSON TATUM???

Tatum has entered the territory

Luka's playmaking elevates him above though. Let me see what B Sox take is

 

[IATT]

So we shouldn't talk about racism because
some exceptional people have overcome racial stereotypes?

Maybe I just find those things funny

Also, looks can be deceiving first teamer Devon allen just got signed by the eagles

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Not mad at Luka at 3. People kinda questioned his leadership and his attitude with Kristaps and Carlisle leaving. He proved that he was right and he grew up some.

 

[danikerhino]

Luka doesn't have a Jaylen Brown next to him.

True, but he's still performing better in my eyes. I still see Luka putting up high numbers if he had a partner in crime close to his talent/skill-level.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

How valuable can you be when your team isn't a real contender.

easy because it's about value in the regular season.
contender or non contender is outside of the scope of a regular season award

It's not reasonable to ignore any relevant info but than again we can see from regular season alone that jokic can't dominate the defensive side the way the two better candidates can. As we're seeing now it's questionable whether we can even call him solid on that side.

it's not relevant information to a regular season award.

"My teammates are terrible so I deserve MVP" is the only case for jokic right now. You hit the nail on the head regarding his defense so I'm confused how u can overlook that and still think that's his award. Yea I'm not calling him an all out stat padder like Russ was but that's still not nearly enough to warrant consideration over embiid/giannis for the trophy.

His defense is solid...in the regular season.

Gannis and Embiid both took a step back defensively this year....in the regular season.