Building 2023: Fuego on the Forward Line

Let’s think about Luka Doncic for a second – he’s on the far end of a spectrum that is broadly accepted in basketball but often gets overlooked in soccer. On the one end, you have the one-man-offenses, the floor-raisers; any offense with Doncic can only be so bad. On the other end, you have the “3&D” players, the ceiling-raisers, rarely touching the ball outside of high-value situations to make the floor-raisers’ jobs easier by spacing the floor, stretching the defense, setting screens, etc.

The best teams have either:

a bunch of players that can do both to create a more flexible, less predictable offense (like the 16-17 Warriors or the 21-22 Celtics). A corollary: the trend in both the NFL…