‘Luka was being TOO SENSITIVE!’ – Richard Jefferson on Doncic having a fan removed | NBA Today

‘Luka was being TOO SENSITIVE!’ – Richard Jefferson on Doncic having a fan removed | NBA Today

Rivals weekend continued across the one time to grow is that me it was head dein Booker and luk I had a moment I was like wait y y’all doing a graphics it’s pretty close face it off in Dallas Richard Jefferson I guess ring that game L making some trick shots pregame Let’s

Get Down to What last time we saw Luca smile it would keep that Luca magic at least early right Chan in the first quarter here yeah he was smiling in the first half I mean what he’s so tremendous number two overall in the NBA made threes he’s been shooting the ball

So well he was locked in he was aggressive he was passing he was there everything he had 24 points in the first half Luca for three yep that one is good as well so he was feeling himself a little bit early on here rich Let’s go

To the third quarter dein Booker and the Sun so fun when the rabbit got the gun cuz right now Devon Booker we know about the little big back and forth that they’ve had Luka comes out leads his team but this third quarter by Devin Booker was Perfection on the road

Spacing look quality shots getting qu quality looks you get quality drops right there that’s what you call a Shooters Touch look at his numbers in the third 22 points in the Third on 82% shooting but of course Kevin Durant he had to get his too little Jay from book

Oh yeah K go do his thing but this this was all about dbook and look at KD setting them up perfectly Booker finished with 46 points the Suns get the win 132 109 that’s after Luca went off in the first and let’s just say it I mean Kevin Durant Devin Booker they’re

Pretty good they’re the second Duo to each have multiple 40-point games in a Four game span the Suns they were 11th on Christmas and now one month later they’re fifth so Richard if they keep playing like this how far are the Suns going in the postseason H look I I I

Think to me they are a conference finalist Contender if you were to ask me what their ceiling is it it’s the Conference Finals to go to the NBA finals the amount of team now do I they don’t have a complete roster there are things that they have lack and they’ve

Given away a lot of their assets that would allow them to bring in new pieces to fill out their roster so they’re probably going to have to wait till the offseason in my opinion but this team can get it to a Conference Finals this team has that ability and in their first

Full year together I think that’s a compliment this may sound crazy we’re this may sound crazy but a team that has Kevin Durant Bradley Bill and Devin Booker this team feel like a sleeper in the west right like you actually could call cuz that’s not crazy no no because

You just said their ceiling is the Conference Finals so obviously you don’t have them picked to win the West no do you have them picked to win the West so you’re basically saying they a sleeper to win at all this year yeah and it shouldn’t be that way like when they

Made this trade for Bradley Bill we already knew that they were going to be topheavy but they have three of the most prolific efficient scores to ever play the game of basketball along with one one of the guys that’s considered an alltime great and one of the best in the

Game today so like it’s fair to say that they are as sleeper because if they upset or beat a Denver Nuggets or the Clippers that we have ranked the question what what’s the question how far do you think is it a sleeper to go someplace I’m saying where do you think

Their ceiling is that ceiling is the Conference Finals the conference I’m not arguing I’m not arguing with you but that’s still shouldn’t be their goal just because we said that’s their but it makes sense it makes sense I agree Conference Finals that is their potential the realistic

Potential for right now I do think they could be as sleeper to come out of the West based off of what we’ve seen in the last seven games if they keep this momentum up they have a top 10 defense but do you guys realize that this is the

Hottest what’ you say I said Thank you somebody with sense oh yeah I don’t know if I want that you know you going take that Malik you take that do I know right but do you all realize that this is probably the best shooting we’ve seen in

The offensive game in a very very long time time they’re number one in the last seven which is their win streak and field goal percentage but get this they have two of the best three-point Shooters right now you want to guess who’s number one on that list Grayson

Allen leag leading the league 49% KD career high threo percentage they’re snipers not just KD and his name but the entire roster so if they keep this up and manage their defense they have the tools matsh doesn’t want to hear this though they want to win it all they want

To win it all when when when they traded for Kevin Durant when all of a littleit want a full head of hair look the reality is I want to lose weight I mean it’s a lot of things we won life I’m good that’s absolutely true

One of us can control the hair and but I’m just saying did you think that you were going to have the same chance of growing a full head of hair as they have to go to the to to the finals when they I I was the first one to say it I was

Like look they I was like one we were talking about who was going to run Point Devin Booker answered that he was outstanding they’ done a great great job of Distributing the ball that was one the next part is they don’t have a very good they don’t have the depth they

Don’t have the bench they at times they don’t even have the size so they’re a very good team and this is the thing if they were to go to the NBA finals everybody on this panel would say suris no no we wouldn’t be surprised but we would believe that they are

Overachieving based off of what they have if they were to win a championship I would say that they are overachieving compared to the other teams in the complete roster if they were to play against the Boston Celtics with that depth that size and they were to beat

The Celtics it’s because those top three averaged 25 across and everybody else played out it was his interaction with a fan that became a point of contention after the game so our Tim McMahon reported that luuka donic asked security to eject a sunspan who was sitting two rows behind the midcourt Press section

And the comment the fan made that Drew Luca’s wrath right was you’re tired get your behind on the treadmill so following the loss he used a different word Luca took exception to being asked about this incident I know I saw you when you said about the fan you know

That was not a true all that was not the only thing he said but I knew you would be the first one to to point out something like that I’m not going to say what he said but I knew you were going to be the first one to put out something

Like that so I just saw him man just funny he always seemed to be the first one to put some bad stuff about me why did you ask for the fan to be ejected because he was cursing me the whole first half too why didn’t you ask to be

Ejected in the first half then because I never with a jack of fan they pay for tickets but I had enough you know it’s a little bit of frustration you turned your head and looked over at him after he said that that’s I mean that’s what we saw yeah that’s

Fun be the guy the better guy in the media right it’s all right okay so there’s a whole whole lot going on there our Tim McMahon just put on social media just clarifying a man like me the fan left on his own is he being too sensitive hell

Yeah he’s being too sensitive look at the end of the day you know why that fan didn’t get injected and he just left cuz they was getting their ass blown out the game was over so he’s like oh look I don’t want any heat last three minutes

Is like I’m good i’ seen saw my to see I saw my team do my do their thing and look LCA look Luca he didn’t even address a question he’s like I knew you were going to be the one that asked me those questions talking about Tim

McMahon and you’re just like look at the end of the day Luca comes from a place where they play basketball where they have flares going on it is crazy in Europe to say that an individual was cussing all day he said it might have been a little bit of frustration I heard

10 paragraphs there was one sentence that I heard and that goes it might have been oh it might have been a little bit of frustration you you know what I you know what I you know what I did on Sunday what you do did y did y’all know

What I did on Sunday what did you do I actually went to church and I went heard my good brother pass the key on and you know what was the thing for that Sunday a little bit of frustration no purpose purpose right and so Luka walking into

That Arena last night his purpose wasn’t to get that fan thrown out of the game or get into with the fan his purpose wasn’t to get into it with Tim McMahon after the game that was a distraction his purpose was to go in there and because it’s rivalry week to go at Devin

Book and get a win but the problem is is that the guy on the other end had a purpose okay and dbook and so dbook walked into his house didn’t knock on door didn’t take off his shoes went sat on his couch went turned on his TV watch

What he wanted to watch and he ordered a 46 piece wing dinner from Buffalo Wild Wings do you know the Killer part about it you know what he did he used Luca credit card cuz he door dashed he door dashed it so that that was the problem

Right Luca purpose was to get at dbook who by the way Devon Booker owns that matchup in their career he’s 10 and three against Luca dones that was did he did he turn the AC down did he turn the AC down he had the fan blowing and

Everything he wanted to do a for he missed six shots look yes I think the difference here is that there were two guys with purpose and one of the guys Deon Booker had his team with him and they have a mission right now the Suns we’ve seen what they done the last few

Games as it pertains to Luca he’s doing so much for the Dallas Mavericks I mean number two 33 points per game and scoring like he’s holding them down without Kyrie in certain circumstances last night Kyrie was y but I think we’re all like every year we come in and say

This is a guy that’s an MVP caliber guy is this is is this a team that’s going to really take them over the edge it feels like there’s this idea this Aura of comfortability where it’s like okay this distraction is an excuse It’s a deflection from what actually our team

Is we have great expectations for Luka donic and he’s doing most if not all the only thing is the intangibles staying focused we’ve seen so many games from the last last year to this year where there’s a foul call there’s I mean he’s got a mean star down 43 texts right over

The last three seasons exactly but those texts you can even see they’re T they tend to be late in game I know certain times like this was a blowout but like they’re late in game and they dictate the outcome he has to avoid those to provide the leadership but and it’s not

Just here in the league when you look at when he was playing international basketball this summer right he had a moment where he was you kicked out and and and so it’s like look when you have that amount of usage rate right for a guy you might one or two foul calls for

A player over the court when you are a guy that has that amount of usage rate yeah there might be four or five just because you’re involved in every single play but for me Luca if you’re going to let elevate your team to a championship team and I don’t think they have a

Championship roster no no no Kyrie so we’re not going to put too much stock in the game but what I heard we are yes we are as Rob Booker they went to to put a lot show with your book had help yeah but I’m saying but I’m saying K yeah book

Had help in the s that he wasn’t having to chase around a Kyrie last night and so there is there is an element of there of like look book showed up did his job uh Luca was a little frustrated and we saw how it manifested but it’s manifested in that manner multiple times

In other areas mainly with text that’s what’s worried real quick perk do you think that Luca is going to have to get this and I put the arguing with the refs the f I don’t I don’t want to put too much St into this one incident but this

Under control before he’s going to be able to get to that next level I mean I feel like we keep talking about this year after year no but no but at some point at some point real quick at some point if a person show you who they are

You got to believe them so I mean like we don’t want him to change his mindset in tenacity h i led the league in text for three straight years and he says that Proudly

On NBA Today, Richard Jefferson, Kendrick Perkins, Chiney Ogwumike and Malika Andrews react to the Phoenix Suns’ 132-109 win over the Dallas Mavericks and Luka Doncic having a fan removed from the stadium.

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