Luka Is Getting Angry But The Mavericks Don’t Care

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While the Mavericks were supposed to take the next step, Luka Doncic isn’t happy. In fact he’s angry and looks defeated, not as defeated as the Mavericks were when they lost to the second worst team in the NBA Hornets in back to back games with former Maverick Dennis Smith Jr talking his talk

And while the Mavericks have seemingly become even worse after adding Kyrie, the issue goes much deeper than one trade.

Yeah, the Mavericks are currently the 11th seed in the West, below .500 despite Luka averaging 33 points, 8.6 rebounds, and 8.1 assists.

They’re 6th in offense and an ugly 23rd on defense. There’s a whole lot of my turn – your turn basketball, with Kyrie standing in the corner.

Kyrie is looking even more miserable on the Mavs than he did on the Nets.

Now Luka’s said that there are things going outside of basketball. Not sure exactly what’s going on, but we can easily see the frustration in the on the court activities.

Before this season, the Mavericks were ranked the 8th best team in the NBA.

This lineup is supposed to go far?

Again, putting a lot on Luka’s shoulders. And I get it, you could say Luka is only 23, the team hasn’t had enough time to build around him. Luka’s been averaging 28 points since his second season. By 2020, Luka had already hit game winners in the playoffs and averaged a near triple double. He’s already a 4 time All-Star. Which means the Mavericks have had 3 years to a lineup around him and came up with this.

But even before the trade, the defense this season took a big step back from the year before, going from 7th to 24th. The Mavs relied on a fine balance of defense and shooting from wings like Bullock and Finney Smith, but they still didn’t have any rim protection. Javale Mcgee has only played 38 games on off dealing with injury.

Without Finney Smith, now perimeter players are doing whatever they want. They’re forced to go with offense heavy lineups leaving them with no interior defense, rim protection or shot blocking.

Sure the most recent mistake was Jalen Brunson. **Thank you by the way, really helped us out.** Now Brunson is a borderline All-star level player and his 4 year $104 million contract seems like a steal for the Knicks, but the Mavericks could have gotten him for $14 million a season in 2021. Yeah, but they wanted flexibility to have cap space to sign new people. But what people did they sign? Spencer Dinwiddie?

But that’s not even their only mistake. The Mavericks have a history of failing in building teams.

But even with this, Jason Kidd never had Luka’s attention. Remember when Luka got out of shape. No like really out of shape last season . Jason Kidd tried to tell Luka to lose weight, but he said that “it goes in one ear and out the other” but when Reggie Miller called Luka out on it, Luka acknowledged it, lost a lot of weight, and told Miller, “Understood”. Kidd thanked Reggie but

This isn’t to say that Luka isn’t at fault. Like I’ve said before, if you’re the best player on your team, you have a choice of being a leader, especially if there’s no other voice in the locker room. Complaining constantly, looking dejected, all of that is going to trickle down to other team members.

The Mavericks have landed a superstar, a generational talent, and don’t know what to do. They have made mistake after mistake and are unable to do anything and at this point, Luka is just done.