“Luka Doncic is Larry Bird on offense, Big Bird on defense”: Skip Bayless fires his blame cannon on the Dallas Mavericks superstar as Steph Curry and the Warriors go 3-0 up

Jeet Pukhrambam | 23/05/2022
"Luka Doncic is Larry Bird on offense, Big Bird on defense": Skip Bayless fires his blame cannon on the Dallas Mavericks superstar as Steph Curry and the Warriors go 3-0 up

Luka Doncic did everything he could. 40-11-3 with 2 steals and a block but Skip Bayless thinks he didn’t play any defense. Recency bias? 

Modern media is filled with characters that rely on salacious takes and whimsical opinions. Skip Bayless is one of them. The man thrives on takes that are almost always baseless and utterly ridiculous.

This time his words were aimed at Luka Doncic. The Mavericks superstar did have somewhat of a weird game. He had only four points in the fourth quarter.

What’s more, he was on the receiving end of a rather nasty poster dunk from Andrew Wiggins. The latter got all the praises and Luka is burdened by his own glorious game.

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Luka Doncic is Larry Bird on offense, Big Bird on defense

Skip Bayless’ takes sometimes baffles the best of us. He said Luka wasn’t a superstar at one point.

He also thinks Luka does not possess the killer instinct or the clutch gene. We doubt that one. Highly.

While there is a hint of merit to Skip’s take, it is not exactly a problem of defense. The major problem in this series would be the rebounding.

The question remains if the Mavericks can grab enough rebounds the next game and avoid a sweep. All to play for in two days’ time.

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Jeet Pukhrambam

Jeet Pukhrambam is The SportsRush's Lead Editor for Basketball. After freelancing for five years as an independent writer, Jeet created thousands of blog posts and articles. He now covers intriguing news reports and throwback stories on all things NBA. His interest in NBA started with the ascendancy of Giannis Antetokounmpo in the 2016-17 season. Since then, Jeet has managed to coalesce his knowledge of the game and his writing to create pieces that are reflective of the current state of the league. Now, he ensures that The SportsRush produces the highest quality of writing. In his free time, he enjoys playing football, cooking, traveling, and dancing to techno. Jeet takes pride in his critical thinking, music playlists, and his love for spaghetti.

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