Luke Doncic is playing a career-high 36.9 minutes per game and has an NBA season-high usage rate of 39.14% this season with the Mavericks.
Tony Anderson, Mike Sykes and Charles Curtis discuss the large number of players in the NBA they could picture winning an MVP award come season's end.WASHINGTON – Luka Doncic blamed himself for Friday’s loss to the Washington Wizards. The 23-year-old, three-time All-NBA guard blamed himself for the Dallas Mavericks’ loss to the Orlando Magic the night before.
"When everyone is going to come at you every night defensively and we’re asking him to do everything offensively, it’s going to show within 25 games, and that’s somewhere around Christmas. Everyone’s going to say he’s 23 years old, but he’s human." The Mavs need him to do a lot, but Kidd said he and his coaching staff will look at ways to reduce his offensive responsibility. His usage rate was 38.6% last season and 35% in 2020-21 so it's not like he's not used to high-volume action, but the Mavs also want to preserve Doncic for a deep playoff run.
And it’s been a long stretch of basketball for Doncic, who helped the Mavs reach the Western Conference finals last season and then helped Slovenia reach the quarterfinals of Eurobasket 2022, losing to Poland on Sept. 14 just two weeks before NBA training camps opened.
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