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Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart
The "other side of this" makes the argument completely moot. The ONLY guy who needed the ball more was KP who was also terrible. If you shoot 0-5 from three, then would you keep passing that guy the ball? We clearly need to integrate KP into the system better, but passing him the ball wasn't the problem.
The rest of the guys you can't trust to save your life. Luka passing them the ball doesn't do any good if they aren't hitting their shots. Pretty much all of the B squad gets colder than the arctic at any given time, and I'm not sure what fix there is other than getting better teammates.
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I don't think it does. When your teammates aren't hitting, you need to work on getting them more confident. Can't win it on your own. Look at Kobe after Shaq left...same concern. He admitted he didn't pass the ball because his bad shot was better than his teammates good shots, at least in his mind. How did LA do during that period? They didn't win squat, often missing the playoffs. Look at Game 7. Was this issue that Luka wasn't shooting enough?? No. Same criticism was made of Harden, who also didn't ultimately win anything, despite having a fair supporting cast.
He has BY FAR the highest ball dominance of any player in the NBA, probably ever. The other high ball dominant players were around 8.5 minutes per game or so...Luka was about 11.5. FAR higher than anyone else. At best, this gets him tired at the end of games. At worst, it does that plus never lets anyone else get in rhythm.
Also, everyone needs to understand that 'getting better teammates' is likely a 3 or more year process. It's not easy to simply upgrade your roster everywhere. First, it takes time just to get the players, then some don't fit, and you need new ones...and even when you get a good mix it takes 1+ years for them to gel together. Is that really what everyone wants...3 years or so before getting anywhere?