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Luka Doncic: Elite Defender? (alien.top)
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Nekias Duncan on latest episode of The Dunker Spot delivers some startling news:

"So far this season [Luka] has defended the most ISO’s in the league this year. 46. On those possessions in which the team tries to attack Luka in isolation, they’re generation 0.83 points per possession. Which is an elite number defensively."

How long before Luka can shrug off the terrible defender allegations?

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[–] Blothorn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

It’s surprisingly normal for players with a reputation as bad defenders to have good iso defense numbers because far more players try to hunt matchups than can actually do so efficiently.

In any event, I’ve never seen iso defense given as the primary reason for considering Luka a bad defender—it’s transition and off-ball defense, which aren’t well measured by primary-defender stats because the usual fault is not being in position to be the defender in the first place.