You will have a hard time finding a place that writes that Luka Doncic opened the season in a disastrous way, that the basketball he has been playing since the beginning of the 2021/2022 season is stupid, ugly, ineffective, and frankly destructive for the Dallas Mavericks.
I went through about 20 top sites, blogs and podcasts, and did not find one that highlighted the fact that after nine games he is in 433rd place in the plus-minus index, out of 444 players this season, and that is when around the bottom you will find almost exclusively players from the worst teams in the league. Houston, New Orleans and Oklahoma City.
How crazy it is can be understood when you remember that Dallas is in a positive balance, 3: 6.
While she's minus 74 in the 311 minutes he's played so far (minus 11 per game), she's still good enough to win most of her games.
That Josh Gidi from the Thunder at minus 75 in 263 minutes filled it.
But Luca manages to be so negative, even in a good team - and it's already really magical.
So far he has finished with a plus-minus five times, but in two of them Dallas has won.
But then came the win over Boston, where he was good from start to finish and finished with a plus 10. And of course also with an amazing three-point win at step-back.
About that, I'm sure, you've heard.
Because the sports media is not busy telling the truth, it is busy glorifying and glorifying.
Because you need to watch videos on YouTube.
It brings views in commercials.
And it pays salaries.
So even as the whole world spilled over on Doncic's three-pointer, I could not find any commentator who said that, in fact, this shot was an infantile, silly and arrogant basketball move.
Hindus Judgment is over.
Now you can start saving a little,
The teams were level, with a few seconds left on the clock, but enough to go to the basket.
Doncic was blocked, and instead of getting in and scoring a double or squeezing an offense, he ran to the outside line and threw a three in a fall to the crowd, on guards.
True, if someone "must" take such a shot, you want it to be defective.
But he really did not have to.
He just wanted to get out the protagonist, because he too knows the truth - that even if he had missed, the game would have gone into overtime and he would have forgotten it.
It's a move with no possibility of loss for him, literally.
Yakle - genius.
Will miss - everyone will wait for the next time.
The enthusiasm for what Doncic did against Boston teaches everything there is to know about the relationship between sports media and its coverage.
This is also why you do not hear anyone say that although yes, the sharp decline this season in the numbers of almost all league stars in outside positions (including Doncic) is probably a result of the excellent refereeing changes, but what it mostly shows us is how much the refereeing Hindus Has hit the game in recent years, and some personal numbers explosion since about 2015 is a result of the league's deliberate intent, designed to ease the attacks, with the thought that it will raise ratings.
But the ratings actually went down in those years, when everyone scored more points and more easily.
And now, a lot of people welcome the changes in refereeing, which help a little to keep the defense.
So is this a sign that we're on our way to seeing basketball a little more balanced and team-oriented?
Maybe.
hopefully.
Who knows, maybe it will even spur Doncic himself to start saving a bit.