Kenyon Martin on Luka Doncic's defense: 'He can't guard a camera stand' / News - Basketnews.com

Martin said that Doncic is not even the best player on the Mavericks to be ranked fourth overall in the ESPN Top 100 list. The former All-Star forward declared that Kyrie would not let Luka touch the ball if they played one-on-one and he got the ball first due to Luka's poor defense.

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The recent ESPN Top 100 ranking has amassed a wide variety of opinions, mostly criticizing the list. One of the fiercest critics of it is former NBA All-Star forward Kenyon Martin.

Luka Doncic

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After first going on a lengthy rant about it in terms of rookies being ranked relatively high, Martin now turned to Luka Doncic, who was listed fourth.

Namely, Martin believes that Doncic's teammate, Kyrie Irving, is the better player on the Dallas Mavericks team.

"He's the fourth-best player in the NBA compared to the bull**it list from another day and in the MVP conversation. In my opinion, he's not the best player on his basketball team," he said on Gilbert Arenas' show Gil's Arena.

"Guarantee, you line them up, let them play ones (one-on-one)... You line him up against Kyrie, listen, he might not touch the ball. If you give Kyrie the ball first, Luka won't touch the ball. Luka can't guard this goddamn camera stand," Martin declared.

Despite the comment, the former New Jersey Nets star admitted that Doncic is great, but his greatness is currently only defined by stats, he said.

"Is Luka good? Absolutely. He's good for his team. That's the thing with real basketball people - if your numbers don't equate to something, they're just numbers, and I look at who you are and what you're doing. I look at Kyrie, and 's**t, give me 11'," he concluded, citing Kyrie's jersey number.

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