What if the Suns drafted Luka Doncic? | 2018 NBA Re-Draft | CBS Sports HQ 

Yep. Assholes!!!

Nathan Woodfield that was his “welcome to the nba” moment 😂

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Lol

How about nope

If I couldn’t have Luka, Shai is a great consolation prize. he’s my second favorite player.

You are partially right. Phoenix and Kokoskov wanted Luka, but Luka didn't want them. To be more precise, Luka had opportunity to go to Dallas, he estimated that Dallas is best team for him, he and his manager had a way to pull that of and he had to decline every other option, including his fellows Igor, Vlade and Bogdan... No other player drafted that year had similar value as Luka because they all played with bunch of kids and Luka was proven playing with grown men - for years!!! You just can not compare that two examples. American media did a good job selling a story that Ayton is number one, which we all saw last season how that went.

when luka averages 27pts 8asists in 2-4years you'll be proven wrong!

Luka didn't really get any run in the Euro league until he was 18. There has been plenty of guys come from Europe and they're not Luka. At some point people have to give this kid some credit for how good he is. I think Ayton will be a solid player, he already is but you don't wanna get roll players with the number 1 pick.

Ayton might have had excellent numbers for a rookie big, but his skillset is NOT suited to todays NBA. Yes he will likely be a star in the league, but there hasn't really been a true superstar of his type for a long time. For a dinosaur style post up big who doesn't stretch the floor, he hasn't really shown he'll be a great defender either. Sure things like shooting and defense could improve, but he's starting from a pretty low point I'd say given his style. I think he's the type of player who will post nice numbers, but not really affect games much, and will be pretty easily game planned for in the playoffs. He's not close to as talented as Embiid IMO, who has significantly higher bball IQ, especially on defense. Doncic on the other hand has exactly the skillset required to be a superstar in today's NBA. He doesn't play much defense but neither do a number of the current top 10 players in the NBA. He has exceptional passing skills, can score from any part of the court and has the alpha dog mentality to take the ball and make plays down the stretch. His shot mechanics are actually pretty good to where i'd expect a pretty decent increase in shooting percentages across the board, especially now that he has another guy to take pressure off so he doesn't have to make so many difficult shots. He'll easily be a 25ppg+ scorer in year 2 from that alone.

Ayton is never going to have an impact to the game as Luka. He will have to work like hell to manage to be that better player, to actually mean something in the game. Ayton is a role player and always will be. Deal with it.

hahahaha how about now?

That is simply not true. You're just making stuff up. Suns didn't draft him because although both Ayton and Doncic were good, Ayton also fit positional need because good centers are harder to find than good point guards.

@@haidermoh.9937 Igor was brought as coach because one simple thing: to get Luka to Phoenix. He failed, he is out. As we all, Luka knew the draft order up front and he knew he can influence to which of the top draft teams he can go. Lukas party (himself, family, manager...) wanted that he goes to the best possible team for him, of those top 5 from the draft list. That was obviously Dallas because they where the most professional team of them all, good market, and they are proven to have will and enthusiasm to work with non american/canadian players and to respect them the right way... which we couldn't say about the rest of those teams from the top of that years draft. Luka and his manager informed suns, kings and hawks that he will not sign with them, even if they pick him. In the euro media there were news that is possible that Luka stay one more year in Spain, if he is not picked by the right team for him. There are many ways a player do not have to sign with the team that drafted them, DRAFT DOESN'T MEAN CONTRACT OBLIGATION!!! Draft is NBA inner protocol thing, it set the rule to nba teams - not players! Draft basically disallow other teams to sign a player you pick. If player that you pick doesn't want to come to your team, you have a value that doesn't do your team any good and by the time, that value mostly gets smaller. No manager want that noose around his neck, he can be fired because of that. They usually want to resolve that kind of problem ASAP. American media is one of the "best sales agencies in the world", their job is to sell you a story, in the way that is "easily digestible" to common people in the US. They easily sold you that Markelle Fultz and Ben Simmons, guys who literally can not shoot the ball are first picks on the draft!!! That some dude named Lonzo is basketball talent, that Wigins and Jabari are new Kobe and leBron, that Trae Young is the new Steph Curry, that DeAndre Ayton is the new "second coming", that Marvin Bagly have similar value then Luka... that college basketball is approx same as euroleague... for C sake they sold you that NBA champion is the same as world champion... :D and you believed them! What a bunch of crap. Suns, Kings and Hawks just didn't have any choice but to skip Luka (Suns and Kings skip, Hawks trade). That was the only solution. believe me, the whole Serbian media knew how hard Vlade and Bogdan worked to get him to the Kings. Luka did the smart thing, Dallas is indeed the best team for his development among the top 4/5 teams from the top of that year draft lottery, as we all saw last season!

and he's a bust until now

1 Survivor true.. But Luka seems to have a bigger impact. Plus clutch players are hard to come by

At best Ayton is a roll player. If you think they're still taking Ayton at 1 you're crazy. Hell Trea is probably going ahead of Ayton at this point.

We definitely know how the Sun's operate, poorly. Just look what they did this year.

@@RR-vu3ol Ayton is always trying to improve. His work ethic is insane and while I'm not going to say he's a future league MVP, he is a consistent allstar.

"The Suns would still draft Ayton if the NBA re-drafted today" You are right. Luka still didn't want to go to that crappy team. Especially now when they fired Igor.