Can Luka Overcome Challenges and Lead His Team to NBA Glory?
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00:00Matt, Luka Doncic will look back and say, that shouldn't have happened.
00:06I shouldn't have picked up my sixth foul in that game.
00:10Now we see this in the past, Matt, and here's kind of the moving forward question for me
00:14with this is that, you know, I remember LeBron James losing in championships, learning from
00:19that, coming back and winning championships.
00:21I think Michael Jordan in the Eastern Conference Finals talked about that going up against
00:26Detroit.
00:27This has happened throughout the history of the NBA, where star players initially struggle
00:31in the bright moment and then they come back and then they win.
00:34Do you think that this can happen for Luka?
00:36Is that sort of where we're at on the trajectory of his career?
00:39Yeah, it certainly can.
00:41I mean, he's good enough.
00:42He's a legit top five, probably top three player, you know, might be number one pretty
00:47soon if he's not already.
00:49He's right there.
00:50Put it that way.
00:51The thing is, I don't know how good his Dallas team is, obviously.
00:57They were great last series.
00:59They look good.
01:00But how much of that was the Timberwolves just not playing well, not being ready for
01:04the moment, similar to what you're saying, where they had to get over that hump and they
01:08had to take some bruises and some scars before they could eventually get there, Anthony Edwards
01:13specifically.
01:14But, you know, so this is a very solid team.
01:17They're in the NBA Finals.
01:19Luka is just, you know, a quintessential star player who can lead a team.
01:24But I do think they need to fill in around him a little better.
01:27And, you know, look, they have good role players who really came through the last two rounds,
01:31aren't coming through as much, but that's because they're up against an elite defense.
01:34They were up against an elite defense the last two rounds, to be fair.
01:38But, you know, this is raised and the team they're playing has experience, has gone through
01:44the scars, has lost in a finals, has lost in a conference finals.
01:47So there you go.
01:48That's probably the difference.
01:50So this is going to help.
01:51There's no question about that, but it's still going to be a long road to the top when
01:57the league is as stacked as it is right now.
01:59The West is as stacked as it is, and it doesn't look like this Boston team is going anywhere
02:03for at least the next season, maybe beyond.