The navy sings against the new white-washed floor. This is my favorite piece of Mavs art in ages: Maxi Kleber and Christian Wood must be ready at all times. Last season, he even started throwing straight backward overhead passes to pick-and-pop bigs. He understands how every up-fake, pivot, and half-spin freaks help defenders into thinking they should swarm - and which passes any slight rotation might expose. The threat of those shots unlocks Doncic's generational passing. His high-arching step-back is borderline unblockable, and he has hit 50% from floater range over the past two seasons - and a LeBron James-esque 73% at the rim last season. (He took sadistic pleasure brutalizing Patrick Beverley in the 2021 playoffs.) Send help, and he picks you apart.Įven against like-sized defenders and traditional coverages, Doncic is a three-steps-ahead genius burrowing inside. Switch, and he mashes them in the post with smirking cruelty. He's at his most predatory dragging smaller defenders into pick-and-rolls. He can make all the passes blindfolded.ĭoncic's size and comfort in the middle of the paint - the dead zone for some ball handlers - open up endless possibilities. The typical spread pick-and-roll pairs ball handler and rim-runner Doncic can do that with any of Dallas' bigs. The Mavs' offense is one-dimensional - Luka Doncic walks ball up, runs two-man game - but that dimension contains multitudes. That is the smile of someone who knows he has you. 30-11 on Tuesday, and you can read about the rankings formula there. Here we go: The top 10 in our 2022-2023 League Pass Rankings! We revealed Nos.
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