'I love this kid' - Tracy McGrady blown away by Luka Doncic's heroics in Mavs vs. Blazers | The Jump 

chefawkes You are correct.The only time the eastern euro players got intimidated by NBA players was their disadvantage having to play against the Dream Teams.

@@harooncopeland8983 he meant Eastern.

@@commandomkd5267 he meant Balkans.

You mean west

They are definitely more skilled on average, particularly over the last decade. Although, one reason they also succeed is because the NBA is soft now. I love the Euro players, but their play-style is heavily favored with the modern NBA. A lot of them play very weak.

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first form lmaooo

you'd better watch it early...kristap will be reinjured soon after he takes the court...he gives me that Greg Oden/Grant Hill vibe...

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@@negative949 Lol pur medical team isn't like the Knicks, the Mavs has one of the greatest medical team in the league

@Allen Reynolds Soft? Riiiight just because he's white he is automatically soft right....keep the stereotypes coming

Rated Zigs And KP wont have to play as hard as on the Knicks team. There’s all ways a chance for re-injury but his role on the Mavs will be a lot less stressful to his body and knees so I don’t think he’ll get injured that quickly.

It's sad to know it but you're right. And it's also difficult to score in Europe when you play against Eastern players.

Austin Hicks relax idiot he’s speaking facts

It's easier to score because he has higher quality teammates.

@@Ncloud That doesn't really apply for Luka. He creates most of his shots himself. He doesn't get incredible dishes and open looks.

I use to say NDA in plave of NBA.....because: Non Defense at All

Definitely the shirt

Jay Kelly her shirt for sure

The shirt and the Bulls are worse right?

She the riddler

@@KepherdY2K I thought it was a Riddler shirt too lol

Look at the numbers dummy teams and players took more FTs in the 90s than they do now

Howard Davis bro what ?

@@howarddavis3517 Context. In the 90's the game was played in the paint and around it, not on the perimeter. The 90's was due to post heavy plays, drives and midrange shooting on iso's low paced. So its logical they shot more free throws. The paint was crowded as fuck and EVERY TEAM had a paint protector. If they were reffed like the NBA is now, lol, bball wouldve been dead.

@@Dotsetc and more physical

That may be true about the rules, but the defensive athletic talent in the NBA is off the charts compared to Euroleague. I think there are other reasons Luka likes scoring in the NBA like faster pace, more ball movement, more athletic teammates, and a more robust coaching staff.

well then everyone should be averaging 20+points their first year

If that's true then why do NBA bums go to euroleague and revive their careers as stars there lmao. Defense today in the league has problems for sure but it's still far better than any other leagues defensively and if we compare today's D to previous NBA eras, they actually get stops at a similar rate to 80s and 90s teams, adjusted for pace. 80s teams have even given up just as many points for multiple years playing at a similar pace.

@@chipskylark1235 That usually only works for skilled but undersized or not athletic NBA players but they are a minority. Most of the american players who come to Europe fail. Actually, there are way more european players who succeed in NBA than american players who succed in Euroleague.

@@tomeullabres5288 the thing is NBA players that go there, go after the NBA kicks them out and their bodies can't handle the game as much. Legit euroleague MVPs have been mediocre players here or at best role players for a long time. Anthony parker, Rodriguez, de Colo, Bjelica ECT. I do believe Navarro, Fernandez, Llull, Teodosic, prigioni all could have been solid to good players but those are legit MVP Calibur players there. If the NBA and euroleague merged right now the new league would be a majority American and NBA players. The euro players already in the NBA would obviously stay but it wouldn't be that many euroleague players that get to stay.

@@chipskylark1235 Euroleague has raised its level a lot in recent years. Of course, not everybody is Luka but there are a lot of great players. Anyway, the reason Luka says that scoring its easier in the NBA it's because of the rules and the size of the court. In Europe deffensive 3 seconds don't exist and the court is smaller. These 2 things help a lot on defense and referees allow harder defense in Europe.

Cringe comment

shane davis and have him shooting 40% too lmao

@@emelianenkofedor3478 or blake griffin His shooting trainor

Yall know that is one of the things tmac does when he ain't on the show right lmao so much disrespect on tmac in here. Disrespectful but funny

Right? Not even that Ben can't shoot (and he can't), but Ben doesn't even take shots. He barely shoots the ball at all. Lebron shot the ball a lot during his first two years, but he just wasn't making them as often as you would have liked. But hey, he was a rookie/sophomore. That's normal. Not even a close comparison.

Check that Spurs vs Cavs series. They was leaving bron wide open. He couldn't shoot either. Ppl just went with it because he LeBron. Can't do it unless u try it.

@@jsarge6136 exactly , he wasnt good at it then , but since he actually took them he could get at Streaky and eventually became a good shooter . I also think lebron was more athletic when it comes to driving and exploding so he needed a shot even less imo

@@McNightTV I agree. Ben ain't even a better shooter than Josh Smith. He was diet LeBron 🤣🤣

the problem with ben simmons is that he's ambidextrous to the point that it becomes a double-edged sword for him. he becomes an excellent ball-handler, he can drive right or to the left with ease and finish with the right and left with confidence. his post work is good too because he can finish with both hands but at the same time, because his ambidexterity is embedded in him, it becomes his habit to use both of his hands while shooting. sometimes he'll use left, sometimes he'll use right by instinct which makes his natural jumpshot really inconsistent. he really needs to rebuild his jumpshot by scratch but that would mean a lot of airballs, frustration, etc.

WNBA doesn't get enough coverage. So much talent gets so little respect.

J Silva doesn't get coverage because most girls don't care and the NBA is 10000x times more talented and athletic

@@MALW-ic2rh I figured the sarcasm would be evident, WNBA shouldn't even exist. In all of its existence it has yet to have one profitable season. The NBA donates money to this "Company" so women can also love their dream of being pro basketball players. Women want equality but only when its convenient. And WNBA players actually bitch about how much more NBA player get paid. They literally make less than $0, they cost money but they bitch about how their pay is too low cause sexism yet Men are the ones donating money so they don't have to get real jobs and can pretend their "pro" athletes.

Yeah true lol.

The NBA is a joke

Also how to get easy fouls

Harden been doing it since okc

Is that salt your throwing ?

Its easy to be more clutch than lebron but does he has lebrons power ? If u want to compare them both

Paul Yummy LMAO fuckin morons overhyped on this next Kyler Korver

Espn just want to see a white man be better than a black man, they not even making the playoffs deangelo Russell way rookie year was way better

Paul Yummy no

@@mr.g7685 it really not did u know lebron has more clutch shots than Kobe and mj lol yall just hate on him

Very similar other than their shot . Simmons passes well better than bron rn bounds well and amazing blinding for a pg and is similar in his finishing at the rim to lehron .thing is he can't shoot and well that makes a huge difference .but otherwise extremely similar

Facts Lebron could actually hit a 3 and he was wayyyyy more athletic I don't know what bron's vert was his rookie year but he had bounce when he was young and this all coming from a bron hater

gautam gautamsuresh I think that when lebron was in his rookie seson he was a better scorer and could close out games because he had abetter scoring ability

And???,

@@gautamgautamsuresh1218 simmons is not a better passer..numbers lie. If lebron only scored 14 a game instead of 27 he would averafe 12 assists easy

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Major L and I'm not even a sixers fan, you just want attention

@@lefloppysucks3-6jasonterry80 where's the lie and I didn't ask if you're a 6ers fan.

@@Thuromc what lie and did I ask you to respond to me ?? NO

Thuro F.A.R. Not yet... but probably in a year or so

@G23Farrakhan52 didn't Dirk beat wade,bosh and James? you racist fool

Luka doncic and kendrick perkins wont make the playoffs.

They will never finish top 3 in the west

@ismail adam JJ Barea, Peja and Cardinal were black. Dirk was the reason they even got to that far. He was the main reason they won the championship. Stop hating

@ismail adam Yeah mostly because the NBA is 80% black... kinda like how an all black team cant win the stanley cup.

Bandwagon fan. Mavs 4 lyfe

nobody needs that kinda support

Yeah

mike anp with all of those great genes he alone should have his team with more W’s 🤦🏿‍♂️

if he was an american or chinese, he would be a starter in an all star game

Kobe is overrated

Ron F. Fox and Devin woulda been nasty

All of them.

And the picked Bender..

@@JonathanWoodall What is so fascinating is that Kings didn't land a big time free agent yet they have a better record than the Lakers and a lot better than the Suns. As good as Devin as a shooter/scorer, he doesn't really affect the game so much coz he's not a leader yet and he's not a 2 way player. Suns already have a cornerstone Booker and Ayton as a projected All Star yet Kings led by Fox and Hield are up there to make the playoffs. Bagley is putting up big numbers too.

Ron F. Considering Lebron missed 18 games or so, you can’t compare the kings record to the lakers.. if they had Lebron they would’ve won at least 3/4 of those games arguably

@Death Rider Boyz Yeah... every time I see 3 plays in a row just running towards the basket with barely no opposition I just turn the match off... and it happens quite often. I don´t mean to foul more often, but to help in defense, close the hallways and not just sacrifice good basketball for high pace

If it's so much harder to score there why do old exiled NBA players go there and become MVP or MVp canidate level players lmao. Anthony Randolph is a big player out there and he got kicked out the NBA lmao. Look up the history of euroleague MVPs. The defense isn't better it's just more physical and looks better vs weaker comp.

Because defense is based mostly on effort and basketball iq which the Europeans have, but offense is helped by athleticism which comes statistically from a greater amount of people playing and TBF more black people, plus all the best European players get recruited by the NBA

@@izaakwedgwood9153 but nba players who's athleticism is fading go to euroleague and have career resurgances and some become MVP candidates. Playing harder doesn't always equate to better D. It is a factor but I can try my hardest to guard LeBron and another can try 50% and we'd both be as effective lmao. If the defense in the euroleague was better we'd see stronger defenders come out of Europe, US players that go there struggle more, or more euro stars come here and have an easier time scoring. Outside of Luka, none of that is true.

@@chipskylark1235 so kristaps and Giannis don't exist then, and it is still true that there are 100 million Americans that grew up playing basketball and a hell of a lot less Europeans, what with football being so dominant, which does lead smaller less athletic players being part of teams, which is why guys with fading athleticism get better, because they're near the top for it again

People actually thought Lebron took too many jumpers in his rookie season. They do have a point since he only shot 41% FGs. So Lebron was a bad comparison.

Wow, 63 3pt shots. And I remember LeBron originally wasn't a great 3pt shooter too but he still hit almost 1 a game.

@Shawn Kemp Bucks have the best record and are #2 in 3PA. I don't know how you can call the Warriors inconsistent when Curry is 45% from 3pt and Klay is 40%. Also, most of Durant's game winners were 3pts, not inside shots.

And curry made 402 in a season that’s crazy

68 3pts is not a lot for a starting player, that's less than 1 a game...what are you talking about lol

Why wouldn't he smile? He's getting paid to do what he loves.

Agreed. Check his plus/minus every game and you'll see most of the time he has a negative plus/minus

Booker is a stat guy but he's not a winning leader. But they also have a bad head coach.

@@irvingbeltran309 yeah because they basically being blown out every game look at his team he needs help he's averaging career highs especially in assist he doing everything he can to help them hes not overrated hes a good player on a bad team with a horrible front office

He scored 70 and still lost

@August my statement has nothing to do with potential

"For your team to get to a finals"

Not my team

Chris Martin It was probably more cuz of who was defending him but she obviously doesn't watch basketball cuz those things happen

Real Madrid beat Thunder in 2016

@@bpcurry4143 Sweet !

Nope it's about time to learn some real facts Luka come to Spain at 14 to Real Madrid BUT he start playing with big guys as pro when he was 16. NOT 13,14,15 !!

@@altergreenhorn I know. I read that. I just said 13 because it would pique peoples interest.

@Brazilian Atlantis You don't know English and I will go to Brazil and kick your ass.

He signed a 5 year extension making him a helluva rich guy.

I don´t know man... great players make their team better and can carry them. Great players can prevent loosing... For me it starts to feel like Booker just has really great but empty stats. I´m not sure if this kid can make a good team better, or a mediocer team good... Therefore I dont think it matters if he stays or leave. Maybe hes the luckiest guy in the world because he got this huge deal because everywhere else he wouldn´t look so special.

JustLooseMe I call BS on that. Only like 4-5 players are good enough to really carry there team to relevance and even then, those teams aren’t the Suns. Basketball is a team sport remember?

@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodsm4708 yeah... I´m on the same page but... on Paper the team is better than 20 Wins per season... I was on the Booker bandwagon. But I dunno man. Something seems of with this team and with Booker. Look at guys like Doncic, Trae Young, Fox, Mitchell, heck even Ingram, Kuzma etc. etc. if theese guys play good their team wins or at least compete for wins. But Booker and the suns get destroyed from everyone and it doesn´t matter if he has a 30 point game or not. Yes it is the lack of team effort and all this but after 3 1/2 Seasons it feels weird to see him play well and gets crushed every time. It doesn´t look like tanking or something like that. It looks like theyre incapable of focusing on the game. And Booker can´t wake anybody up so he just does his thing and he looks great because no team in the NBA takes the suns serious. No team feels threatend by the suns so they are like "yeah have him his points, we don´t care, we´ll win anyway." I don´t know if there is some truth in what I say. It´s just a feeling thats growing over the last years.

Mitchell was good last year tho

LeeTravius Mckay AD

blake griffin as a rookie he was selected as an all star with 22,5ppg and 12,1 REB

He's better than LeBron

ismail adam if a lot of people did that they’d be the best

ismail adam I’m just saying that’s a big if... no shit.. there’s a reason they aren’t good shooters.. Westbrook, any center in the league would be one of the best or even best if they could shoot..

ismail adam Luka is already one of the most clutch players in the league. He can overtake games and win them for you. I haven’t seen that from Ben. So how is he a far better player than Luka? He might be slightly better because of his defense but there ain’t that big of a difference as you are saying

ismail adam I’m pretty sure the 76ers would take Luka over Ben... you don’t understand that magic played in an era where 3pt shooting wasn’t used like it is today.. Ben needs to step up and make shots for his team to win games.. luka is 2 years younger than Simmons and much more skilled... I’d easily take Luka over Simmons..

ismail adam bro Ben Simmons has more potential but saying that he’s currently much better than Luka makes absolutely no sense. Ben can’t shoot and that’s really an essential part of basketball that he is completely lacking.

He doesn’t play like Kobe, but he has the Mamba mentality and is super clutch like kobe.

I'd honestly love to see that lol no bullshit

yea cant wait for them dominate to the g-league 😂😂

😂 my Celtics look close to being there soon if we don't get our shit together lol

lol can't be much worse

marvdatboi trae young is averaging the same amount of points with more assist at the most difficult position

@@lahnex27 no he isn't

LeThanos James what’s the stats bro

LeThanos James WOOOOW luka averaging 4 more points omg he so much better then Trae young right foh 😂😂

Trae is decent. But the draft pick isn't going to be as good as they thought it would be.

He is isn't overrated because we already knew he couldn't shoot. Lonzo was overrated because we thought he could shoot.

Simmons is a crazy good basketball player, with a big flaw in his game, give him 2 years and he will probably have semi decent shot.

😂

Neil Tom Tingcon not funny anymore....

Evan James cut that bullshit off your face

Evan James amen!

@@oc4515 nigga lookin like V for Vendetta

Evan James they need a woman on the show. That’s how she got the job.

@@123nich Grow up.

yeah he averages the most turnovers in the league. can't make shots. not clutch. no defense. once he got his money, he dont give 2 fucks

overrated is Simmons who made an allstar in the east, and in the west, mitchell, doncic, derozan and booker are better. Devins team is oone of the worse in the league dude.

@@futuropasado the worse your team is, the higher your on/off rating should be. its a comparison between a player and his teammates. playing on a bad team should only make it better, but his still sucks because hes a terrible defender.