penbeast0 wrote:Special_Puppy wrote:Dame and Luka are extremely underrated candidates. Absolutely absurd on-ball gravity
By absurd, do you mean better than:
Jordan
LeBron
Curry
Oscar
West
Remember, it's top 5 of all time and that's not even including bigs who I tend to have at the top.
I would think Luka is definitely ahead of West and probably Oscar, no? Far and away the most blitzed player in the league. He's creating Curry level 4 on 3's by simply accepting the double, backing up and hitting the top of the key. And that's without the attention he draws in a PNR or when he gets into the paint which is all the time. But Luka has led the league I believe 4 years running in percentage of chances(and quantity obviously) created for teammates that are considered open or wide open. And by pretty significant margins. He's sucking so much defense to him.
It's certainly too soon to talk about him in a top 5 of all-time, but there probably haven't been many singular seasons where a player had as much gravity as Luka did this year. He's a logical mention.
Harder for me to see Dame as a serious player in the conversation.