Mavericks’ Luka Doncic gets eye-opening Magic Johnson comparison from Monty Williams

DALLAS — Luka Doncic has enjoyed a tremendous season, yet he still is not the favorite to win the MVP award. Dallas Mavericks fans want Doncic to win the MVP and Doncic’s teammates recently wore shirts to support his MVP case. Doncic, however, has placed his focus on winning and helping his teammates improve on the floor. With the Mavericks hosting the Detroit Pistons on Friday, both head coaches had nothing but positive things to say about Doncic.

Pistons head coach Monty Williams knows Doncic’s game well after previously coaching the Phoenix Suns, who are one of Doncic and the Mavericks’ Western Conference rivals. Williams explained one area of Doncic’s game that has stood out aside from the Mavs star’s scoring prowess and dropped an eye-opening comparison.

“I mean, he’s always been unreal scoring the ball,” Williams said of Doncic. “The thing that stands out to me is his ability to play at his own pace, pass on time, on target. I think that’s something that, when you have the ball that much making those timely passes against the best defenders, the best defenses and doing it every night at a high, high level while scoring like that is unreal. That combination. And then being able to do it with another guy on the floor who can also put up 30 (Kyrie Irving) and still have those numbers and efficiency. I wouldn’t say that’s an improvement it’s just an amazing thing to be able to do every night. That’s what I see with him.”

“He’s always been able to score the ball, but the passing is just phenomenal. And the pass is always on target. You try your best to put big guys in the space to compliment your pick-and-roll coverage. You run different defenses at him, you’re just hoping that he messes up because he’s just that good. I just think he’s that unique… He reminds me of Magic in that way. Those guys are big and have great vision. Playing at their own pace, understood everybody around them. I’m not into the comparison thing, but when you think of big guards who dominated like that, that’s probably one of the reasons I didn’t get a lot of sleep when I was in the West going up against that dude a lot.”

Anytime you are compared to one of the greats like Magic Johnson, it means you are doing something right.