Luka drags his national team on his own: now that he is also lost, he is ready to silence the criticism even in the NBA. Because the companions of Slovenia …
Who will say it more now, “with Doncic you don’t win?”. Luka in Riga forces Italy to pack, sends us home showing a performance of 42 points and 10 rebounds, despite the mediocre support cast of its Slovenia. Doncic beats us alone or almost, in the round of 16 in/outside. He didn’t want to anyone in a direct elimination match … that’s why. Pozzecco put him against him, in defense, half a team. From Thompson to Fontecchio, from Gallinari to Niang, the one who has done better, but paying the bill with five fouls. Nobody managed to stop him. Luka marks 22 points in the first quarter, even Jordanesco for basketball omnipotence, and then the four free shots that in the final, with the blues returned to -1 and the whole pressure on them, raise the head of Slovenia when his teammates began to look at the ground, terrified of the comeback suffered. Luka Magic now has an obstacle Germany in front, a Himalayas to be climbed with that neighborhood with its own shirt, but in the meantime this masterpiece marks the European 2025. An unforgettable performance, an instant classic. Unfortunately against the wrong opponent.
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He immediately put things in clear, Luka. From the ball to two. He took the ball in his hand and began to score, without stopping. From three points, in penetration to the basket, from the bezel. He knew that whoever surrounded him needed courage, knew that Italy was superior to his Slovenia, as a corality. And not a little. And therefore it dropped the “spauracchio” card. He made a basket again and again. Always. “Impossible” shots even, with the opponent on, from the city center, in Latvia. Ciuff, the retina that moves. Always and anyway. Italy found itself below 18 points after the first 10 ‘of the game, 29-11. 22 points of the 29 of Slovenia brought the signature of Luka. Twenty -two, try to think about it. Stuff to be imagined that the game is bewitched, that there is no way, against that there, against the native of Ljubljana. But Italy made the good Formichina, she returned under one passenger at a time, one basket at a time. Thanks to Luka’s tiredness, also painful, but with his grimaces you never know where the theater ends and where the problem begins. Malfidates. In any case, Luka with the Azzurri who returned below began to face the doubling of marking by dispensement of potential assists, granting meters of freedom to its spiiers. The result? Good bricks to build skyscrapers, not to drive the blues back. If so he found them under and by TV we almost made our mouths, to the Rimontone; The Italy of Pozzecco has no bright stars like him, however he has heart. Luka’s Ajde (“let’s go” in Slovenian) are resounded in the Timeouts, tried to encourage everyone, to encourage others. Nothing to do. At that point Luka stopped time and opposing recovery. Forced the fouls, marked the free. He started his own, he played strength, and closed the accounts. Inexorable, ruthless. Very champion.
In the eye of the cyclone
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The fate of the greats of sport is to always be the center of attention, for better or for worse. Exalted and criticized. Adored and detested. Always observed, every moment. Doncic won a lot with Real Madrid, and a European, the first and only triumph of his national team, with the Slovenia as a Bottega’s boy from Goran Dragic. Overseas has dragged the Dallas Maverks to the NBA Finals against any technical logic, yet it is always the target of a flood of criticism. And not only on social media. “He holds the ball too much”, “does not defend enough”, “is overweight”, “he will make the end of (James) Harden as missed successes”. They told him everything, naive. The Texans sent him away last February, downloaded as an advanced goods, yet Luka is only 26 years old: the best, tells the registry, has yet to come. Dallas’s justification was “does not train well, it does not life as an athlete”. They could not mention anything on the technical and competitive level or on that of the results for which they attacked it extra field. Doncic found himself in Los Angeles, the Lakers, fell on his feet by team and global market for his brand. The deductible has already taken, despite the fact that it was that of Lebron, so far. He did the deck in the summer: he dedicated himself to the physicist, he has lost weight, put on muscles, increased the athletic estate, the only truly contestable limit. The results are seen. Slovenia is little, in addition to him, but with the number 77 in the team his companions know that no game is lost at the start. Never. Who has the courage to reproach him again, now?
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