Luka Is Out For VENGEANCE This Season...

Luka is out for vengeance this season. What if I tell you that Luka Doncic is doing something that we haven't seen in 60 years? Yeah, he's pouring in 38.3 points per game for the first 7 games thus far, most since Rick Barry and Wilt Chamberlain in the 60s. That's mind-boggling. And he's doing that on superb efficiency. 50% from the field, 43% from three-point range, and 89% from the free-throw line. All career highs for him on massive volumes. Luka is actually leading the league in attempted shots from all three zones. He's giving the term, letting it fly, a whole new dimension. In all those three years at Golden State, Donchik's got it! In his last game, Doncic racked up 42 points and 13 assists, causing Giannis to say this after the game. You know, when you have a guy like Luka, obviously it's one of the best scores to ever play this game, if not the best. Right now. Not right now. Not right now. For a two-time MVP, to speak that highly of someone is certainly worth a lot. Giannis praised his playmaking as well, and this stat is absolutely wild. Luka is generating the most points per game for his team by far. When you combine points per game and points off of assists, you get Doncic at number one with almost 60 per game. And then you have a huge gap to get to Tatum at number 2 with 47 and Jokic at number 3 with 45. Let that sink in for a moment with these highlights. Against the Raptors, Doncic put up a stat line the NBA has never seen before. 45 points, 15 boards, 6 assists, 5 steals, and 8 made threes. This was his 6th game with at least 8 threes and a purple and gold uniform, surpassing Kobe Bryant who has 5 of those for most in franchise history. Heck, he did that in less than 100 games for the Lakers. Who knows what follows. But the numbers clearly say that Luka is impacting winning more than ever. He has the highest plus-minus of plus 113 in the NBA with an average of plus 16 per game. He even had a positive plus-minus in each of the Lakers' two losses this season. For comparison, last year he was just plus 3. Doncic is leading the charge for LA, catapulting their offense to the number one spot in the league. I guess he wasn't kidding when he sent this letter to Lakers Nation right before tip-off. In return, they're showering him with MVP chants any chance they get. LukaMagic is getting a lot of love outside of his fanbase as well and by some pretty important media people too. Catch and shoot, the man is launching more threes per game than we've ever seen in the history of the league and hitting 43% of them. Yeah, that's the thing, the efficiency of it. You know, I don't do rankings, but I'll do rankings for you, Pat. I look at Luka Doncic, Tyrese Maxey, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Victor Wembanyama, Jayson Tatum, and Cade Cunningham. Those are my five or six guys that I'm looking at right now as far as MVP. But then there are others that have some unpopular opinion to say the least. I think this is the most insufferable he's ever been. I can't believe how he behaves for two and a half hours at these games. And I don't know one person who enjoys it. Like to me, it's like when you see those commercials of like Gordon Ramsay, like these reality chefs who are just screaming at everybody in the kitchen. You're like, man, it would suck to work for that guy. That's Luka now in every game. He's... Tell me what's insufferable here. Is it the killer face after the splash in the clutch? Or maybe the reaction of the bench after this crazy end one, because it sure ain't his big smile after cooking defenders. Or his behavior with the press. I want to ask you some more questions. You don't want to answer, sir? Not good. Why'd you get on deck? Yeah, he's often complaining to the refs when he doesn't get the calls, but that doesn't necessarily make him insufferable. All I see is a guy that's made a vow to his team's fanbase and is doing whatever it takes to keep it. Among all the categories mentioned above, Luka leads the league in win shares, usage and is second in turnovers as well, but that's because he's a one-man wrecking crew. Over the last five games, he's posting a ridiculous 43.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and assists on almost seven made threes per night. Those are some video game numbers. That makes Doncic only the second player in NBA history after Dame Lillard to have 35 plus points, 5 plus rebounds, 5 plus assists, and 5 plus threes in 5 straight games. Just wow. It's safe to say that Luka is having one of the greatest openings to an NBA season that we've ever witnessed. It sure impressed his coach. Just what do you make of the offensive rhythm? Feels pretty like normal. I mean, we got to witness it for a month last year and it was like supernova. You know, it was, it was loud. It feels loud right now. But enough with all the superlatives surrounding his offensive brilliance, let's talk defense. With kind of the understanding that for whatever reason you don't have the best defensive reputation. Why do you think that is? And what do you think you bring to the table? Why? I don't know. Obviously, I'm not the best defender in the NBA, but this year I really took a step forward. You know, Obviously, people are going to talk what they want to talk. The media is going to talk what they want to talk, but I know and my team knows that I'm going to do my best. I think I'm better this year and you know that helps the whole team I think. Luka thinks he's a much better defender this year, but what does JJ think about it? About it. He's been awesome on defense. I think you know even just his on-ball throughout this early stretch of games has been really good just in terms of containment. I thought he was you know we show a lot of clips defensively and we try to highlight when guys communicate, when guys are pointing, when guys are talking. We're talking. You know, he's, again, it's because he's been with us now. This is his third season with us. He knows our stuff. And so he's trying, he's out there trying to help other guys. And even Shumpert, who previously took a shot at Doncic for lousy defense, admitted on national television that the Slovenian is doing a much better job now. You can see it for yourself from these clips. He looks way more engaged on the defensive end now compared to previous seasons and that That has a lot to do with his peak physical condition. This is Luka's ninth NBA season which kind of makes me feel old but it's way overdue for him to get an MVP. He won two of the last three scoring titles and is on pace to win it for the third time again. Throughout all these years he's climbed to number three all-time in career scoring averages behind only MJ and Wilt. Doncic is lacking less than a point on average to be number one and is well above legends like KD, LeBron, Kobe and Steph. That's insane. I wanted to shed some light on Luka's vengeance tour since there were no games last night, but in my previous video all hell broke loose so you gotta check out exactly what happened. Talk to you in the next one, peace out. All hell is gonna break loose here if I don't make this basket soon. Come on!