[Callie Caplan] Rick Carlisle on Luka Doncic playing tonight vs. Pacers after NBA rescinded his technical foul suspension: “He gets hit on virtually every play. I’ve seen it close up. … I’m leading the league in technical fouls for coaches, so I empathize with disagreements with officials.”
Rick Carlisle on Luka Doncic playing tonight vs. Pacers after NBA rescinded his technical foul suspension: "He gets hit on virtually every play. I’ve seen it close up. … I’m leading the league in technical fouls for coaches, so I empathize with disagreements with officials."
— Callie Caplan (@CallieCaplan) March 27, 2023
by MAVS_COM1CAL
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Thank you Rick
Rick will probably take a technical for Luka before Kidd ever does. 🤦🏾♂️
The top comments are that Rick as the Pacers coach had stood up for Luka more than Kidd ever has.
I can’t disagree
Looks like Rick is watching our team more closely than our own coach, who also claims he is watching.
Still does not change the fact that Luka this year is clearly distracted, he looks miserable on the court.
From a fan/basketball perspective, if Luka got every single call, games would be unwatchable, literally unwatchable. He still is a top 3 FT shooter (volume).
The best coach the Mavericks ever had
If Rick learned to chill out a bit and be more personable (and even kind) I’d want him back in a heartbeat.
Don’t know what you got till it’s gone….
Fuck I miss RC
All superstars get hit . It’s not an excuse to whine on every play.
People acting like Carlisle was/is huge dick/asshole just delusional. Was he a tough/hard character, sure but thats it. Imo Kidd even much more worse in that area. Dude is probably nr 1 passive agressive coach/manager i have seen in NBA. In fact other than Ergin Ataman (coach of Efes) i cant remember more passive agressive coach.
I was ready to go a different direction from Rick but man this season has made me really appreciate him. He’s a professional
Luka will regret getting Rick fired.
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You want a coach and GM that cater to the modern prima donna superstar? Then you deserve JKidd and Nico.
Can he coach both teams?
I want Rick back so bad. Fuck Jason Kidd
This is super dumb. Luka is almost TOP of the league in dribbling, this isn’t because he’s an ISO slasher type it’s because he backs down in the paint and shimmys around to get in a position where he is pretty much guaranteed to draw contact every play. Harden did this and the NBA changed the rules and now refs won’t call this sort of conjured form of shooting foul very often at all. Yea IMO it’s a dumb way of handling it, but Luka is 3rd in the NBA in free throw attempts this season just below Embiid and Giannis who legitimately get hacked at the rim
RICKY COME BACK
YOU CAN BLAME IT ALL ON ME
And to think that Luka ran him out of town lol
Can’t tell if commiseration or Rick sowing chaos like when he whole-heartedly endorsed Kidd as the next head coach.
The early 20s Fire Rick youth movement. We thought we had it all figured out. We were just kids.
“Call a fucking timeout now!”
– Luka to Rick earlier this year vs the Pacers, after which Rick proceeded to absolutely dick down the Mavs
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Well said, Rick…
This is what people who say Luka whines to ref dont get.
Dudes getting clobbered and many times they don’t call it, yet when Luka does something very minor they give him a technical. Its ridiculous.
Luka should be averaging as many fouls as Embid or more. Im convinced he gets fouled more than Embid does.
Kidd can’t even hold Carlisle’s jock.
So HacktheLuka is the norm
Rick coaching this team with the addition of kyrie is a going to playoffs easily, would Rick vote aye when the kyrie trade comes through? I don’t know but the man is famous for making teams make the playoffs!
He’s trolling y’all. All these idiots like, ‘yeah, Kidd should stick up for him too!’ smh. Carlisle knows as well as anyone Luka needs to shut up and get back on d
Luka actually is a hoe and nobody can defend it