There's a lot of Lucaslander on NBA Twitter right now. The discourse bubble is doing a lot of reevaluation, I think, of Luca's strengths and weaknesses. If you can win with him, is he hard in? This is probably coming off of the heels of him being fat last year and all that discourse about him not being what he once was. Did Nico Harrison make a smart decision selling off of him when he did? That's kind of been in the air a lot, right? Saw this tweet. Said, not going to lie, the Luca career really evaluation and overreaction is all due to SGA's rise. It's sad, but you never really see superstars get lapped this badly. SGA is so much better than Luca that people are asking why Luca hasn't done more. The truth is that nothing has changed with Luca. Okay, he said Lapis badly.

That's where he lost me.

Luca just went to the finals the year prior. Luca just beat OKC the year prior in like six games, I believe? Yeah, but I mean, see, I feel like that. Lapis is crazy. That's overstated. But yeah, that is a good point. That's the argument everybody in the comments is talking about is the gap, how big a thing

that gap is? And I guess I brought this up to say this, maybe he's been dramatic, right? And maybe obviously Luca is still a tier one player. I think it's pretty easy to say you'd rather have SGA for certain reasons linked to play style. And it is also interesting that I think he's right that Luca is getting slanted because of SGA. if SGA wasn't doing this and didn't become one of the best players in the world winning a championship as a guard, I don't think we see nearly as much Lucas slander. I think we'd probably give Luca way more of a pass for last year. Okay, probably, I think like with Luca honestly, I do think it's, I think the biggest thing is not even like the chip.

I think the biggest thing is the lack of MVP.

Yeah, that doesn't help either.

I think, I think that's the, that's the biggest one because obviously you get into playoff

scenarios and playoffs situations, and you can have series like a PJ Washington going crazy.

You can have these really weird things that happen for seven games

that kind of puts your team over the edge.

The regular season is, okay, you're that guy.

Let's go out and see you do it.

And so for somebody who's been first team all NBA since his second season

and who is racking up all of these other accolades,

why don't you have the

MVP when you are putting up these numbers and you have never done it for an entire year?

Very true.

And so I think from that perspective, I can see where you look at at Luca and say like, yeah,

he's getting lapped.

100%. Because SGA actually has done it and we've been waiting for you to do it and you still haven't done it exactly you're describing the exact I think I think you're taking the other view of it from me by minimizing it where I think that's like a very real psychological thing is that I think the people that see lapped and they take exception to it like a Luca fan will say like dude what are you talking about there's still peers I think Luke is even better actually because of XYZ well I think that's probably tied to people having the early perception that when they came into the league in the first however many years of their career Luca was better Luca's in a different tier this is not a conversation he's one the best players of all time at 21. Shea is an interesting player getting compared to Deerrin Fox,

getting compared to Darius Garland. So now that Shea has kind of catapulted that conversation and been moved up to his peer to even better and more accomplished, a lot of people are going to continue to feel like that's just us overrating SGA. Yeah, the distance traveled is bigger for SGA than it was for Lufu.

And that creates a psychological divide that some people are probably holding on us overrating SGA. Yeah, the distance traveled is bigger for SGA than it was for Lufu.

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