Luka Doncic: A Rising MVP Candidate - Analysis & Predictions
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00:00 I'm going to give you this because Luke has been so hot.
00:03 We gave you all his numbers from the last couple of nights before.
00:05 Luka is now actually, Scotty, plus 450 to win the MVP.
00:10 He's even up from that.
00:11 He's been bet even more this morning.
00:13 Luka at plus 450, rising up the board with a bullet.
00:17 You know, I've said this to you before.
00:19 I think the league wants him to be the face of the NBA.
00:25 Jason Tatum thinks it's him.
00:28 I think it's the exact opposite.
00:30 I think it's Donchich that they want as the face of the league.
00:35 I also believe that Joker, he has a triple-double every night almost again.
00:41 He's doing this repetitively all the time.
00:43 He's having triple-doubles.
00:44 He's rattled off three in a row.
00:46 He does it with ease, and he's bored doing it.
00:48 He doesn't even care that he does it.
00:50 And the thing that I wanted to say lastly was is that Shea Gilgis, as you know,
00:55 is my favorite player to watch.
00:57 But he's like a shy kid.
00:59 He just doesn't have or project any kind of, I want to be the MVP,
01:05 even if he is.
01:06 Even if he is the MVP, they're not going to give it to him.
01:09 Because his personality is zilch.
01:12 He just absolutely goes--
01:14 he loves his teammates.
01:16 He loves winning.
01:17 He plays hard.
01:18 But he doesn't project, frankly, in my opinion at all, that he's a superstar.
01:24 Look, and you're right about this.
01:26 It shouldn't come down to a personality contest.
01:29 It's the MVP of the league.
01:32 Joker is boring.
01:34 And I think the voters and the league, he's so automatic,
01:38 and he's so good every night.
01:39 He's won it twice already.
01:41 I just don't think that they want to give it to him again
01:44 unless they absolutely have to.
01:46 I think if somebody like Luka finishes this strong,
01:50 they would love to have him as the face of the league, like you said.
01:53 We saw Joker.
01:54 He won the NBA title.
01:55 And the first thing you want to do is like, I got to stay for a parade?
01:58 I mean, I got horses back at home that I got to go running.
02:01 He wanted nothing to do with it.
02:02 So I think they'd love to get Luka in there if they could.
02:06 I thought the night that he had 70 was the night that I realized that's
02:13 who the NBA wants as the face of their league.
02:16 That's the guy right there that the NBA wants to be the MVP.
02:22 Now they just need it to all kind of come to fruition.
02:27 But I think one of the problems is that Joker does what he does every night
02:31 with such dominance.
02:33 But at the same time, Mike, Luka's doing it
02:36 with the same kind of dominance at 6' 7", puffy combs.
02:40 I mean, my man's going in there all chunky and lighting people up left
02:44 and right.
02:44 So what's the difference?
02:46 They both do it every night.
02:48 He has a triple-double.
02:49 Well, Luka has a triple-double every night.
02:51 He wants it.
02:52 If he wants to have a triple-double that night, he's going to have it.
02:56 If he doesn't feel like having a triple-double that night, what he
02:59 typically does is he'll drop 15 dimes on your head and see how you like that.
03:04 Nights that he doesn't want to score and put up a lot of shots,
03:09 you notice what he does?
03:10 He just runs the ovens and just hits guys wide open for buckets.
03:13 And he just racks up dimes.
03:15 And he's like taking the night off.
03:17 And he definitely does that.