is there any player in the NBA more unstoppable than Luca Donuch when he's on a heater it's been a struggle so far our defensive league to stop this man Don steps back puts it in Luca Donic cooking early Donic fires away connects on another Luka Donic 14 points in the first six minutes Watson who defended Steph Curry so well Donuch puts it in Luca Donic erupted in just the first quarter alone Luca Donuch just reminded the entire NBA world why the Dallas Mavericks were in the finals last year why he is unguardable and why Nico
Harrison will always be hated in Dallas because how many other players can go off for 21 points three assists and three boards in just the first quarter helping the Lakers score their most points in a single quarter of the season Because that's right whilst Luca will kill you as a scorer if your game plan is to then double him he's going to kill you as a passer And that's exactly what happened all in the span of 12 minutes And just to demonstrate how great Luca's gravity and playmaking is let me not even show you the
passes that ended in assists How about the passes that don't result in assists for Luca Donic like on this play where he gets into the paint MPJ helps off Reeves So Luca kicks it to AR who penetrates the paint and with the defense collapsed Dorian is wide open for three or as he would say buck naked open And again on this play where Vincent sets the screen for Luca and watch Luca wait for the double to come to him before finding Vincent who swings to Dalton over to Finny Smith and it's another wide open three
And this is why Luca Donuch is unguardable Because in a quarter where he had 21 points and was dominating every single matchup in isolation when the Nuggets decided to double team him he ended with three assists and created numerous wideopen buckets that don't even count as assists And after a slow start to his career as a Laker Luca is back to looking like Luca averaging just under 31 points nine assists and over eight boards a game over his last 10 games And this should be a warning to the entire NBA because in a game where
LeBron James sat watching from the sidelines it was the play of Luca Donic and also Austin Reeves that showcased this Lakers team has a legit big three And I'm not talking about those fraudulent big threes over in Phoenix or over in Philadelphia No I'm talking about three guys who can score create shoot and playmake at an elite level I mean good luck against this He's doing a dance out on top trying to work Mamu a little bit underneath Edwards But before I tell you why this Lakers team is a matchup nightmare for every NBA team
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in the first quarter Denver might have thought they had a chance to cut back into the lead with him on the bench But that's when Austin Reeves became the number one option on the floor And if you're not familiar with Austin Reeves when he's the number one option he's an all-star That's it I'm not about to tell you he's good or he's nearly an all-star when Austin Reeves is playing as the number one option he is an allstar And we are seeing this on a nightly basis because with Luca on the bench Reeves got to
work like here with the switch onto Westbrook Look at the quick left to right crossover and then the hard euro past Brown for the layup or this time isolated against MPJ And this is just too easy for Reeves with the crossover and the ability to stop on a dime rising up for the jumper And it happened again in the third quarter because with Denver slowly getting their way back into the game and bringing the Lakers lead down to 13 points Reeves went on to hit a three with a lucky bounce but a three nonetheless before
pushing the pace in transition getting Watson to jump on the fake and dropping it in All before he then showcased his playmaking again pushing the pace this time hanging and dropping it off to Finny Smith causing Michael Malone to call a timeout And when you have three guys on the same team capable of giving you 25 and 10 capable of going on their own 100 runs and capable of causing coaches to call time outs that's when you become a serious threat in the Western Conference But just getting back to Luca this is the Luca Donuch
we have become accustomed to And the first major warning was sent last week because in a game against Milwaukee where the Lakers lost I don't care about the loss I cared about Luca Donuch going off for 45 points punishing mismatches and making shots that don't even seem real In the corner this is when he's at his best when he's improvising Oh my goodness He's at his best Stop it Stop it And a big reason for his scoring being backed over 30 points a game is his three-point shooting When you see the variety of Luca's scoring
bag and his size his finishing his mid-range it's easy to forget that at the core of his scoring is his shooting And after struggling to get his legs under him his first five or six games in LA he's back to shooting at a terrific percentage on major volume And that's where you get the kind of heat checks we saw in the game against Denver or against Milwaukee where he's just walking into threes that you only see Steph Curry and Damen Lillard dare to walk into on a consistent basis But that's what makes him so unguardable
And when you combine that with his inside game that's what makes him so great in the playoffs because he can beat you in so many different ways And now you are seeing that in purple and gold Well it's kind of yellow now Can we bring back the gold side note Anyways oh have I mentioned the other piece to this Lakers puzzle LeBron James yeah in a game with no Jamal Murray and no Nicolic this was obviously not the best version of the Nuggets but it wasn't the best version of the Lakers either because we need
to remember before the injury LeBron James wasn't playing well He wasn't just good or really really good for his age No he was one of the three or four best players in the NBA Forget about the age part Nicola Joic Shais Alexander and then LeBron was up there with any other name you could mention And I should clarify this wasn't a short stretch of games After starting the season kind of slowly and people thinking he might have been washed LeBron was averaging just under 27 points a game over eight assists and over eight boards on
shooting splits of 54,478 Those are ridiculous numbers And I don't know about you guys but I almost forgot that this team still has Rui Hatchima to return who's been incredibly efficient the last two seasons and was showing improvement on defense as well Having him as your fourth option alongside two superstars and an all-star level player he's going to have so many open looks It's going to be ridiculous And you could say that about every single player on this roster Not just the role players but Luca Donuch LeBron James Austin Reeves Every single player on this
roster is going to get shots that they've never gotten in their lives because of how talented the three best options are on this team And when you have three guys like that plus a willing defense and a good coach you've got a chance at doing anything And this version of Luca Donic is reminding the world just how good he is Now if you made it all the way to the end of the video and want to see more content like this consider subscribing Dropping a like on the video would be cool Most importantly have a
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