Dallas Mavericks' Luka Doncic Snubbed From EuroBasket All-Tournament Team?

Despite putting up crazy numbers with Slovenia throughout EuroBasket 2022, Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic was left off the All-Tournament Team. Perhaps the surprising upset loss to Poland was the deciding factor.

Dalton Trigg | Sep 18, 2022

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Surprisingly, in a tournament that featured three of the best basketball players in the world in Luka Doncic, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokic, none of them even made it to the EuroBasket semifinals.

On Sunday, Spain defeated France in the EuroBasket final, 88-76, with Willy Hernangomez winning tournament MVP. The EuroBasket All-Tournament Team was announced as well. Here is the list of the five players selected:

Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece)
Lorenzo Brown (Spain)
Rudy Gobert (France)
Willy Hernangomez (Spain)
Dennis Schroder (Germany)

Although Slovenia got knocked out by Poland in a quarterfinals upset, Doncic averaged 26 points, 7.7 rebounds, 6.6 assists and two steals in seven EuroBasket games. That included a 47-point outburst against Gobert and France in the final group phase game.

Spain deserved at least one player on the All-Tournament Team given that the won the whole thing, but having two creates an opportunity for somebody to get snubbed ... and Doncic definitely got snubbed here in our opinion. If Antetokounmpo was able to make it on the All-Tournament Team despite Greece also getting knocked out in the quarterfinals, Doncic should've been there as well with the numbers he put up.

Doncic was so disappointed in Slovenia's early exit that he'd probably tell you that he didn't deserve to get one of EuroBasket's biggest honors, but as the saying goes, the numbers don't lie. Perhaps the way Doncic's disappointing ending to international play this summer will add even more motivation for his fifth season with the Dallas Mavericks, which begins one month from now.

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Published Sep 18, 2022

DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.