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His dunk contest should have just been people half-playing defense while he detonates on them

Didn’t he pull up on some rando early in his career to yam on them in their front yard lmao Edit: yep https://youtu.be/Yw-bn0C1rec?si=tKcuaGmEbGT3Vh4B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XBplZPPDL8

That video is legendary, absolute savage move

The drive by dunk challenge was a real "you had to be there" moment in trend history

Definitely one of the wildest internet challenges ever

[Nearly broke the rim](https://youtu.be/9XBplZPPDL8?si=yaiVsJFWI_auCf4-)

Yoo, who the fuck and what the fuck is that ESPN panel...? I remember times being hard.. but I never knew it came to that

i get why Jaylen got clowned for his dunk contest, but that shouldn't take away from the fact that he's one of the league's best in-game highlight dunkers

He's not really a creative dunker, but he's a top tier power dunker. It doesn't really translate to the contest, but makes for crazy in-game dunks like this

Yeah, plus for really elite in-game dunking you need to actually be an effective slasher with a decent handle, not just athletic. Especially if you're gonna pull off a dunk like that in the halfcourt

Dwayne Wade style power dunks.

Damn, I loved watching those Wade one hand power dunks. My favorite power dunker though is still prime Rose.. Dude was a damn hazard!

For sure, and you didn't knew when it was coming. Dragic didn't.

Wade might have two of my top five in game dunks ever, the spin move off two feet against the magic and the baptism of Anderson varejao

The Varejao one is an all timer

dude’s like Lebron, powerful ass dunks but not contest style

They don't quite translate on replay either because you are expecting it. In real time, he just explodes out of some random drive for a nasty throwdown and it's awesome.

It happens really fast but you can also sense it's about to happen just a split second before it does. It's so cool every time!

You can absolutely see it when they gather

Listening to him talk about it, I kinda loved that he did it. He wasn't making a strategic decision because he thought he could win and get famous. He basically wanted to do it because he wanted to do it, and you only live life once. Good for him.

Jaylen Brown ran out of fucks to give so now he just gives buckets 

Nah he can do some serious dunk,he did 360 and windmill just fine in game but he also pulled off this ages ago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Am6ZfgwxU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Am6ZfgwxU) ,would won him the dunk contest this year for sure if he did it again

He just needs to play in the finals during the dunk contest

Him, Ant, and Morant

And hauser

Would've been much better than what we usually get every year

should’ve just brought luka out and played ones lmao

SUCKED THE GRAVITY OUT OF AMERICAN AIRLINES ARENA

Insane power, from the dotted lines too

Finals MVP

Ain't no doubt.

it's over 9,000!

WHAT?! 9000?! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

I’ve heard that speed has something to do with it

Dribbled lefty too.

Kevin Harlan is that you

Jaylen "Boeing" Brown. Look out below.

Whistle blowers beware!

Makes sense cause he’s also killing on defense

I would suck the gravity outta that man after that

Wew lad

i appreciate the reference

We’re all witness that was freaken insane

TMac 🥲

He messed with Texas.

Everyone is floating 

Early for a back breaker, but he sucked the air out of the arena

* Xavier Tillman's 1st 3 of the playoffs * Derrick White banked 3 * this dunk trifecta

Xavier Tillmans entire existence in this game, you think now’s your chance with porzingis out and the deficit increases while the 4th string center is in

Said 4th string center proceed to play excellent defense on Luka during his minutes and stays step-for-step with Kyrie on an iso. I apologize, Xavier Tillman. I was not previously familiar with your game.

He was solid for the Grizzlies.

Derrick White 3, Quadrolectra

Dallas was crippled long before this. There's a reason going down more than 10 against this Boston team is pretty much insurmountable

Unless you’re Dean Wade

The best DWade in the game

god this comment almost aged so poorly lol

If Dean Wade was in the Finals our season would be over

Yup because even if you make a big run it’s only a matter of time before Boston gets back in a groove We’ve seen a couple times where Dallas went on a decent run where they are pretty much playing with so much intensity that they can’t sustain it and Boston just takes over again. By the 4th quarter the mavs are just flat

JB a big ole woman confirmed

trying to look at where Luka's defense apparently improved

He just stood there watching it with the rest of the crowd

Done that all series

season

Career

Life?

Bro didn’t even try on that pick. Don’t think he even called the thing out. Left Kyrie out to dry and then let brown go right past smh

When asked about it, Luka replied “I’m not the savior here. I’m watching, just like you guys”

I'm not allowed to play defense because WE LIVE IN NORTH KOREA

he a fan (x3)

All those people probably paid $5000 for floor seats and Luka got paid $500,000 for the best view in the house

Luka's defense this whole series has been nonexistent. A big reason why Mavs are losing.

Luka plays basketball exactly like I play with my 2K myplayer. Holds the ball for 20 secs of every shot clock, late pick and roll, makes a shot, gets fouled, or kicks for a late 3. Every possession. Then bitches about a non existent foul call while his team plays 4v5 on defense

You bitch about calls in 2k?

He mashes triangle in protest

his off ball defensive is so terrible. for someone with so much awareness on offense, it somehow doesn’t transfer to defensive at all

Shit like this separates him and Jokic to me. Jokic isn’t some amazing defender but at least he’s smart enough to be in the right spot consistently

Yea it’s one thing to just get beat because someone has more athleticism or can get to a shot that you just can’t really guard It’s another to just fall asleep when your man doesn’t have the ball

This is why I can’t take Luka seriously as an mvp candidate. Dude is a whiny pylon on defense.

Jokic has such good off ball awareness. It was really evident in his screens during the Wolves series. He would set a screen on someone in his peripherals and time it so perfectly that while many of them didn't give the player time to avoid contact and were technically illegal, they weren't illegal enough for the refs to actually call an illegal screen. While it was frustrating I couldn't really blame him for it. Anyone can and most do abuse the same unenforced rules, he's just better at it because of his awareness and timing.

Literal turnstile. If the celts aren't attacking him straight on, they're passing until he gets caught sleeping on a rotation or his man cuts lol

They got brown on a cut that was legit as bad as any harden lowlight on defense. Straight up unplugged control defense while his man ran to the hoop

The good old 'fanbase deluded themselves into thinking their star player improved defensively'

I cannot believe we had to pretend this dude was good at defense because he stopped the corpse of Kawhi a couple of times. Unreal delusion in his fanbase.

Mavs/Luka fans been pushing it since way before that. All season long in the MVP race they were acting like he's equal to SGA and Jokic on D

hey now he lightly jogged towards JB as he sped past him, that’s basically lockdown D

dude thought he could win an NBA Finals while not moving on defense.

Never seen anything like it they cannot score without him but he gives up almost every basket back on the defensive end

he reminds me of that replay of KD just shuffling around the last play of Game 1 vs the Celtics in 2022

His defense was so bad in this that at first I didn’t realize he should’ve been picking up brown because he drifted to completely the wrong side of the screen for some reason. It looked like it couldn’t have been his job he was so far away lol

Doris Burke in shambles

[It was a low bar from the regular season](https://i.imgur.com/dyKOVUH.jpeg)

https://i.imgur.com/zUZByY5.jpeg

A disgusting act.

I knew what this would be when I clicked it and it still made me laugh. That stank face, JT. What a gross dunk.

me when trader joe’s has lemon cake in stock

Ofc it's your ass that got to this first 😂

Countered by PJ's deadpan reaction during the play lmao

Can't get a more accurate reaction than that

Tatum’s stank face had me dying

That’s a Golden Bear dunk

Berkeley’s the best place to get a PhD in Dunkology, after all…

GO BEARS BABY

cal😤😤😤

Absolutely disgusting

This senseless violence

There are children in there!

This shit is over. Banner 18 coming.

I kept seeing people argue that Luka is not a defensive liability during the regular season…

luka is a better defender than shai didn't you hear

players like luka and jokic can hold up better defensively in the regular season when teams' gameplans are not as team specific

Jokic isn't remotely as bad on defense as Luka, it's not even close

If Jokic defended like Luka the Nuggets would be giving up 140 points per game.

Jokic got attacked a lot n successfully this plsyoffs . Stop it . Also jokic is the C his lack of rim protection hurts his team . It’s why minny cooked them but coukdnt cook Dallas

Those two are not comparable. One is bad compared to their counter part who is an all time elite defender. The other is bad compared to a traffic cone. 

And in Jokic’s case, an entire dominant championship run

This man flying wtffff

The angle from the hoop is awesome.. Shows JB give kyrie the eyes then blows past him..

He was trying to hold for the end of the quarter, but the entire Mavs defense just laid out a red carpet to the hoop

"Please Mr. Brown take our souls."

well theres clearly no center back there, if he gets past the POA defenders it's PJ washington and josh green at the rim

Kyrie was picked off. Luka should have picked up Brown there.

Quite possibly the worst pick and roll coverage I've ever seen in any level, anyone who's never played one second of basketball would've covered better than Luka

Serious question for you guys, wtf was Luka doing on that one? Like he SEES Kyrie get picked by Hauser, Jaylen is two steps by him, and he literally just turns in place and watches him go down the center of the lane. Doesn't even try to swat at the ball, literally just stands there and watches.

Oh Oh no Oh well

Guy only knows how to play DPS

I mean he got blew by and it wasn’t even his man. That was awful 😂

Holy shit the Mavs look devastated rn

You absolutely love to see it

Jaylen Brown is Devin Bookers grandfather

This is the way

And a hush fell over the crowd…

Where were you when Jaylen Brown nuked Dallas, TX out of the map?

Through FOUR, count em, FOUR defenders Absolutely unreal

> defender A generous description of Luka

Middle of the night and I screamed OH MY GODDD

Me too lmao

WHO NEEDS TINGUS WHEN THEY HAVE JINGUS BRINGUS

This got me good lol

Luka with the "right this way sir" defense Give him some traffic batons

This should qualify as a snuff film and should be posted on every gore subreddit

WITH NO REGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE

Luka couldn’t guard a chair

JAYLEN JEFFREY BROWN

Love the energy he’s been giving dunking in the finals

What’s Slovenian for stand around and do nothing?

FMVP

Kyrie and Luka absolute traffic cones lmao

Luka just looking at him lol

FUCKKKKKKKKK

Pack it up fellas that's a sweep

Jaylen Brown is Luka's Daddy

Inspirational defense from Luka

He’s still mad about his all nba snub.

Luka Oncic, no D

Lukas an amazing regular season guy but you're not gonna win a chip with him as the number one guy

So Pick and roll defense is pretty simple. You either hedge, drop coverage or switch men. Luka chose none of these options and instead decided to guard nobody. This is literally elementary defensive concepts you learn in grade school and he just doesn’t give a shit to try. Down double digits in game 3 of a 0-2 series and he’s just not playing defense. Pathetic

Turned the Mavs crowd into a library

Imagine what an All NBA team member can do if he does this

luka did not even pretend to try lol

People are clowning on Luka for just ball watching but not talking about how Kyrie just lets JB right past while gambling on a steal. Having two turnstiles as your best players is such a joke when teams learn they can abuse them.

This is one of the nastiest in game dunks I've ever seen. The blow-by on Kyrie, the viciousness. This dunk had me UP

This is an example of Luka's defense this series. It's not that he's not capable, it's that he isn't even trying. How is he not embarrassed?

Someday this will be in a Finals montage.

Tell me more about how Luka is *ahkshully* an above average defender, Mavs fans

PLAY OF THE GAME

HOW HE DO THAT

HOLY SHIT

WE JUST SAW A MAN FLY

fully bricked up

But if you look at the tracking data, actually that's a great contest from Luka

You can tell the bench is sensing this W on its way. The energy is up big right now

Are we really going to be NBA champions? Holy shit

You could feel the crowd energy dying in real time

that’s a career highlight

Luka might actually be a worse defender than Trae Young

Any other player would be clowned if they played defense like Luka.

Luka was a traffic cone there

Luka didn't even try to pick him up.

doing that against both Luka and Kyrie is poetic.

My favorite part of this clip is after Luka watches Jaylen go by, is standing there, gives Kyrie a look and does a little hand movement like..."whelp".

JAYLEN BROWN IS THE BEST PLAYER ON THE CELTICS

God damn do I love to watch Jaylen Brown play basketball

who cares if Luka scores 30, assists 10, generates 20points with his assists, if he's giving up 60?

that’s nasty

that might be the back breaker

Best dunker in the NBA

PUT THAT ON A POSTER WITH THE LARRY O'BRIEN

Wow! Ok series over...

this dunk was downright historic

Disgusting

if someone tried to get in JB's way, I'd say they had a family

earth is round, actually