ozwizard8 wrote:Archx wrote:ozwizard8 wrote:More like injured or illness to be honest. It started from the G1. Doesnt make sense after 2 weeks of to be fatigued from first quarter of first game. Some say Mann defending good but its not that. Luka used to abuse Zubac for instance but now he cant even shake him off or get a rhytm 3pt shots
He looks fine in training, laughing and having fun. Heavy legs and long season caught up to him. Not being in shape means no real confidence in your body and yourself. His drives in to the paint, pump fakes, push offs, delayed layups and kick outs... He doesn't play like that when he's confident and rested. Also no real lift in his legs, we've seen this million times over and over. Dead legs = poor 3pt shooting, rested legs = good shooting.
what is the point here? laughing so he is not injured?
there are moves where you need to be more agile, there are moves that is taxing to right knee. Luka is avoiding those and Clippers are now defend him easier than earlier years.
fatigue wouldn't necessarily show in Q1 of game 1. it's more of a Lebron/AD thing we saw with the 4th quarter Lakers.
no lift in his legs since game 1 where he had like two weeks off. I mean if he had lift in G1 and no lift for last games I'd understand fatigue argument.
anyway, I told it here countless times; he should not attend national team every year. He also need to rejavanuate the way he eats and trains like Jokic did. Otherwise his career arc will be more similar to Melo than Lebron. (Luka is already better than prime Melo but longetivity wise, if you are not training enough, those injuries will catchup like Iverson-Melo etc.)
You mentioned illness and i said he looks perfectly fine. I have no clue what's going on in his head, no one does. It's all speculation at our part. But he doesn't look right during games and specially late game. Kyrie has to take over for him. Injury or fatigue, doesn't even matter at the end of the day, he's simply not right.