If you’ve watched the Lakers dismantling Mavericks this week, you understand why many people believe that Luke’s new team has the chance to go further than last season in the playoffs this year.
And there is only one possibility to allow it to happen.
Do not fool. This way does not go down.
The Lakers should not be seen as one of the NBA title favorites.
Thrash, who defended Western Champs with 15 points, was Luka’s team. Return to Dallas was his night, shining moment for 2025.
However, today at 15:00, effective, when the normal season is over and the lights become brighter, the Lakers Lebron’s team becomes the team. Just like all other teams, about twenty years.
So ignore everything you see at the beginning of the week.
History tells us that it may be successful to match Luke with a second star. Mavericks is a good example.
Dallas wasn’t better than 29-26 teams when Kyrie Irving played for Mavericks in February 2023. It looked great that night, and even when Luka was sitting, he won a 13 -point win in Utah.
When they first shared the court, Mavs was beaten in Sacramento. The dynamic duo merged with 55 points, but it was clear that Dallas had changes.
They had two big scorers and settings. They needed more complementary pieces.
They started to acquire them for the next 12 months. The version we saw in the NBA Finals last season had a productive central tandem, a stretch power and multiple 3 -point shooter.
Transformation took time. However, when completed, Mavs, who had kidnapped playoffs in 9-16 and 2023 with Irving, enjoyed a 50 wins and three rounds of playoff win before entering Celtics.
Lakers are moving on the same road. At least the first episode.
Like 2023 Mavs, they don’t have real big men. These two reasons are a problem.
First of all, the West is full of quality elders. Thunder has two; Rockets, ingots, scissors, Timberwolves, Grizzlies and all of the kings have one. Someone will have to protect these guys… And it will definitely not be LeBron.
Secondly, Luka needs a defensive goalkeeper. You know, a shot block hanging around the rim for being assigned to protect the drips around the chubby dude man and made a beeline for the circle.
Daniel Gafford and Değk Lively II were Godsends for Luka last season. Mark Williams may also have been this year… Until the Red Flag X-rays sent him back to Charlotte, the Lakers, UH did not leave anyone on the net.
Jarred VanderBilt was a beautiful player for the Lakers, but he couldn’t shoot and let a rival advocate go to the area in Luka and LeBron. Another bad harmony.
Like 2023 Mavericks, there are things that Lakers should do. And like 2023 Mavs, it’s not enough time to perform two months of big initiative.
As it is now built, the Lakers can play two different ways: through Luke and through LeBron. In the first, the largest player of all the time is standing around and the clocks. Second, a three -storey machine gets an in -game holiday.
No game call is suitable for winning basketball or good relationships.
In the 2017 season, Warriors had a similar problem when they crossed the top of the top Kevin Durant and brought them to the crimes. Some Durant said, orum I am not sweeping it, ”he said, for the first time he was told to çalıştır run the crime”.
Warriors won two titles in three seasons of Durant, and they failed when they were injured only in Klay Thompson and 2019 playoffs. Credit Durant, a coach Steve Kerr, who sacrificed three of them from the lowest score of his career and won a less talented title.
Should the same breath be mentioned as JJ Redick Kerr? Absolutely not yet.
And will Luka sacrifice like Durant? It is interesting to note that he was shooting as much as he did with Mavericks and threw it to more 3 points.
He had the best game when he was told to swing for fences instead of sacrifice. Probably the worst thing for Lakers.
Take a look at La next season. But this year …
They will start at the fourth lowest rates to get away from the playoffs with hardware. Obviously, it’s a better bet to lose in the first round.
