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[Kenyon Martin] says ‘real basketball people’ know that Kyrie Irving is the best player on the Mavericks over Luka Doncic (streamable.com)

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[–] Earlier-Today@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yuck - no.

Kyrie's that guy who can make anyone look stupid - but not always. And while his bag is stupidly deep, if you're not fooled, he's not beating you.

That's Kyrie's weakness. He can't beat you if you're not caught out of position. That's why he can't lead a team - he can't be that scoring leader against playoff level defense that is disciplined enough to stay in front of him no matter what.

He needs somebody else taking some of the defensive focus off of him because doubles and help defense work really well against him. That's why he was in the perfect spot alongside LeBron - the defense absolutely couldn't key in on him. They knew he was dangerous, but they couldn't treat him like the primary threat.

Luka makes shots in spite of doubles and help defense.