Luka Doncic is one of the clear protagonists of the weeks leading up to the start of a new NBA campaign. A new attempt in Dallas alongside Kyrie Irving, the dream of a championship ring and that special return to his home, Madrid, mark a talent confirmed at the top of the sport, but who must battle for titles. Something he considers paramount. “I will always prefer a ring to an MVP,” he said after his Mavericks‘ game against Real Madrid at the WiZink Center.
It is the doubt centered on the Slovenian, who last season averaged 32.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 8 assists per night in a Mavs that were much of the course among the best in the West, but ended up disappointing when they signed Irving: four wins, 12 losses and out of postseason. Doncic, from the top to doubts about his legacy in Texas.
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Is he the best in the world?
That’s the open discussion. Doncic is indisputable, a differential talent for everything he can provoke in front of the rim. In a debatable team, on the contrary. This is the opinion of almost all authoritative voices. The last one is one of the key pieces of Luka within his career, Pablo Laso. “Being the best player in the world is very difficult because, in the end, you will always be judged by the victories of your team. You can’t be the best player in the world without winning games, because you don’t play for yourself,” explained the Bayern Munich coach and Doncic‘s former coach at Madrid in a press conference.
Laso knows Doncic like nobody else. He gave him the alternative in Real Madrid that April 30, 2015 in Goya. The Slovenian stepped on the parquet and launched a triple that went in. “He put it in, looked at us like “I do this for a living,” laughed and went down to defend as if nothing had happened,” Rudy Fernandez, Real Madrid captain and Luka‘s close friend, recently recalled. Laso coached that team and was preparing Doncic for what he became later. A total MVP and leader of Real Madrid that ended up winning Liga Endesa at the Buesa against Baskonia and Euroleague against Fenerbahce in Belgrade.
“It doesn’t happen in tennis. Basketball is a team sport and Luka, for me, I don’t know if he is the best but he is one of the best,” Laso analyzed comparing individual sports with a team sport. “But it speaks very well of him. I am very happy for the affection he receives and his tributes. And he is one of the best,” the coach added.
An extraordinary speech about a guy he knows to perfection. “To be the best… we can sit down, have a beer and talk forever about who is the best,” he closed. Luka is left to prove, again, with the Mavs alongside Kyrie Irving renewed and confident in a team that disappointed last season.
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