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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 5339046, member: 1674"]
I would say unequivocally yes. His usage rate in the playoffs has eclipsed 40% in two of his four playoff runs. Jordan's title runs he was at 35%. Lebron's has hovered around 32-33% in the playoffs since he began winning titles and has generally been around 30% when he has actually won the title.

More importantly though, it's also just the way that he's used compared to those guys. They were both used in a lot of different ways to create offense; posting up, pick and roll, off-ball screens, off-ball cuts, etc. Dallas essentially just had Luka stand off to the side completely disengaged in the offense or gave him the ball at the top of the 3 point line and asked him to go create something. Similar in a lot of ways to Giannis' initial struggles getting Milwaukee over the hump where the offense generally just resulted in him having the ball at the top of the 3 point line and running downhill against a set defense.

Again, I don't feel super strongly that I'm correct on this; more just a thought that I've had sometimes as I watch him. And again, just because that's how he's played in the past doesn't necessarily mean it's how he wants to play moving forwards.
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