Skinny Luka Doncic is on REVENGE TOUR after “embarrassing” 2025 Lakers season with LeBron James
Jason explains why even after an embarrassing season last year for Luka Doncic, the Los Angeles Lakers star comes in at No. 2 on his player rankings list. He explains why he expects a bounce-back season, why the partnership with LeBron James can flourish, and why he’s ahead of OKC Thunder MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
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People act like the loss to the wolves was so bad. The lakers didnt have a center, and no answer for gobert, randle and reid. Nobody was expecting the lakers to get far but act like its crazy they lost. The hate is just weird.
Im sure he’ll have a very fun regular season. And we’ll never hear the end of it from Lakers fans.
It was an embarrassing season for Luka but still ranked him higher than SGA lol what a joke
Hey Jason, why don't you marry the guy? You sound deeply in love, absolutely deliriously obsessed, to the point of pure delusion!
Jason work his ass to analyze basketball when other ppl are just criticizing and complaining thank you for the great content for basketball heads you are the best in the business right now
Definetly has the celling to be mvp,but SGA and Jok are on far better teams,so it will be extremly hard
Are we still calling him "skinny" Luka? 🤣
Genuine question, Jason: What’s different about Luka’s shape going into this season vs his shape going into 2023-24? I’m a Mavs fan (also a Luka fan) and I remember him being skinny by his standards, so I went and watched the first game of the year that season against the Spurs. I think he looked similarly skinny then. So what’s different about this year that makes it the best shape of his career? My worry is that he won’t keep it all the way through the season (same thing happened in 2023-24; in the playoffs you can tell he gained some weight throughout the season). I just think we’ve been through this before with Luka’s conditioning — granted, it could be totally different after the embarrassment of being traded. As always thanks for the analysis.
LeBron media blaming Luka is sooo funny 😀
Dallas had strong defenses in 2022 and 2024 after the all star breaks. In 2022 the Mavs had no rim protection to help him and the team still had a good defense. While he can be horrible on defense at times, he has also shown that he can function in a high level defense.
How tf was it embarrassing please let me kno sumbody
I never met a Jason I liked. This Jason guy seems douchy as well.
Lukas numbers are amazing & defense is horrible, he’s ball dominant. I can’t put my finger on it but he can’t seem to dominate as far as rings in nba. His team mates don’t feel included. Just not a recipe for success
Even as a laker guy, I can’t get down with this ranking
And so is other stars look fir REVENGE TOUR!!!
So, no excuses……don't wanna hear any of them.
It’s the way you people analyze basketball that got Luka traded.
What were the circumstances that made Luka have to average 34-9-9? Were those factors still the same last season or were the Mavs significantly better that Luka didn’t need to do all that anymore? Didn’t the Mavs win 14 in 17 games that Luka was healthy for? You’ll speak about his efficiency, guess what, he missed the entire preseason due to an injury. Of course he wasn’t going to start off efficient.
Luka needs to take accountability for letting himself go and gaining pounds while injured, but expecting him to average 34 on that Dallas team and Lakers team with elite scorers in Bron and AR is wickedness. Because you’ll be the same person complaining why he’s so heliocentric with all the tools he has around him.
Its a popularity contest if you have Luka over Shai! Those who study the game should know better!